Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-24
THE CURSE OF MANKIND.
Some People VIII Not Stop expending
Their Energy.
They Say They VIII Soon Reach Their
Ideal. But Very Few Ever Quit Work I'm
Timc-Dr. Taimage Uses Pomology
for an Interesting Sermon.

1t is Wednesday morning in Para
ee. The birds did not sing their
R|ening piece, nor the fish take their
rst swim until the following Friday.
The solar and lunar lights did not
break through the thick chaotic fog
CT the worlds manufacture until
Thursday. Before that there was
light, but is was electric light or phos-
phorescent light, not the light of sun
or moon. But the botanical and pomo-
logical productions came on Wednes-
day-arst the flowers, and then the
fruits. The veil of fog is lifted, and
there stand the orchards. Watch the
sudden maturity of the fruit! In our
time pear trees must have two
years before they bear fruit, and
peach trees three years and
apple trees five years; but here. in
stantly, a complete orchard springs
into life. all the branches bearing fruit.
The insectile forces, which have been
DING their worst 10 destroy the fruits
or 5000 years, had not yet begun their
Invasion. The curculio had not yet
stung the plum, nor the caterpillar
hurt the apple. nor had the phylloxera
plague, which devastated the vineyards
n America and France, assaulted the
trapes, nor the borer perforated the
Mood, nor the aphides ruined the cher
~, nor the grub puncturcd the nectar
line, nor the blight struck the pear.
There stood the first orchard, with a
perfection OF rind and an eNQuisitcness
of color, and "A lusciousncss OF taste,
and an afiluence of production which il
may take thousands of years more Of
study OF the science of fruits To repro
duce.
Why was the orchard created two
days before the fish and birds, and
three days before the cattle? Among
other things. To impress the world
with lesson it is too stupid To- learn
that fruit diet is healthier than meat
diet, and that the former must precede
the latter. The reason there are in
the world so many of the imbrutcd and
sensual is that they have not improved
by the mighty, unnoticcd fact that the
orchards of Paradise preceded the
herds, and aviarics. and fish ponds
Oh, those fruit-bearing trees on the
banks of the Euphrates, and the
Gihon. and the Hiddcllcl. | wonder
not that the ancient Romans, ig-
norant of our God, adored Pomona, the
Goddess of Fruits, and that all the syl-
van deities were said TO worship her
and that groves were set apart as her
temples. You have thanked God for
bread thousand times. Have you
thanked him for the fruits which he
,+nade the first course OF food in the
menu of the worlds table? The acids
of those fruits TO keep the worlds table
from being insipid and their sweets TO
keep it from being too sour?
At this autunnal season how the
oI..- & D.. ,rI, h
removed, that the crimson, or pink, or
saffron, on the yellow. or brown may
line better appear, while the aromatIcs
fill the air with invitation and rcmin-
scence. As you pass through the or
lizards on these autumnal days and
ooS up through the arms of the trees
alden with fruit you hear humping on
the ground that which is fully ripe.
and, throwing your arms around the
trunk, you give a shake that sends
down a shower of gold and fire on all
sides OF you. Pile up in baskets and
barrels and bins and on shelves
and tables the Divine supply. But
4 these orchards have been under the
assault of at least go centuries-the
storm, the droughts the winters the
insectivora. What must the first
orchard have BEEN And yet it is the
explorers evidence that on the site of
that orchard there is not an apricot. or
apple, or an oiive-nothing but des-
ert and desolation. There is not
! enough to forage the explorers horse,
\ much less TO feed his own hunger. In
other words. that first orchard is "A
lost orchard. How did the pro-
4 prietor and the proprietress of
q all that INSTRUMENTATION OF fruit
age let the rich splcndor slip their
l possession? IT was as now most OF the
4 orchards are lost: namely. 10y wanting
more. Access they had to all the fig
y trees, apricotS. walnuts, almonds, ap-
pies-bushels on bushels and were
forbidden the use Of only one tree in
the orchard. Not satisfied with all but
one. they reached for that and lost the
whole orchard Go right down through
TIE 'husine IS marts OF The great cities
and Erd among tas wcighcrs and
clerks and subOrdinates men who once
commanded the commercial world.
They had .vnolc orchard of successes.
but they wanted just one thing more
Dne mor- house. or one more country
seat, or one more store, or one more rail
road or one more million. They
clutched for that and lost all they had
a whole orchard. There are business
men all around us worried nearly 20
death. The doctor tells them they
ought To- stop. Insomnia or indigcs-
ton or aching at the base of the brain
or ungovernablc nerves tell them they
ought TO stop. They really have
enough for themselves and their
families. Talk with them about their
Overwork and urge more pru-
denee and longer rest. and they say.
Eyes, you are right; after ] have ac-
com rlished one more thing that have
on my mind ! will hand over my bust
ness TO my sons and 90 90 Europe and
quit the kind Of exhausting life / have
been living for the last 30 years. Some
morning you open your paper and.
looking at the death column, Won find
he suddenly departed this life. ln try
ing TO win just ore more tree be lost
the whole orchard.
Yonder is n man with many style, OF
innocent entertainment and amusc-