Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-12-24

enrApiurcd b-fore its anatomy. Oh It's
beauty. and the adapiedness.
The Lord. by placing the ish in the Sec
ond course 81 the menu la paradise, max
ing IL precsde beast and bird. Indicated TO
the world the importance Of the fish as
an article Of human food. We mix IN a
fantastic food that kills the most OF US be-
fore thirty years % age. Custards and
whipped sillabubs aud Roman punches and
chicken salads at midnight are a gauntlet
that few have strength To run. We put on
many a tombstone epitaphs saying that
the one beneath died Of patriotic service,
or from exhaustion in religious work,
when nothing killed the poor fellow but
lobster eating az a party four hours alter
he ought TO have been sound asleep In bed.
No man or woman ever amounted to any,
thing who was brought up on uouting
island or angel cake. The world must turn
back to parAdisaic diet il Il is to get para
disaic morals and paradisaic health. The
human race to-day needs more phosphorus,
and the fish is charged and sufcharged
with phosphorus. Phosphorus that which
shines In the dark without burnirgl What
made the twelve Apostles such stalwart
men that they could endure ANYTHING and
achieve everything Next TO divine inspir-
alton, II was because they were nearly all
fishermen and lived on fish and a few plain
condiments. Paul, though not brought up
Of necessity have adopted the diet Of the
population among whom he lived, and You
see the phosphorus in his daring plea be-
fore Felix, and the phosphorus in his bold
est of all utterances before the wiseacrcs
on Mars Hill, and the phosphorus as he
went without fright to his behraiing. and
the phosphorus you see in the lives Of all
the apostles. who moved right on undaunted
10 certain martyrdom, whether to be de-
capitated or flung Off precipices or hung in
crucihxton. Phosphorus, shining in the
dark without burning! No man or woman
that ever lived was independent of ques-
lions OF diet. Napoleon lost one of his
great battles through an attack ofindiges-
tion. The cook in kitchen, or encamp-
ment, has decided many of the great bat
ties.
The fools who become inndels because
they cannot understand the engulfment of
the recreant Jonah in n sea monster might
have saved their souls by studying little
natural history. "0h," says some one
that story of Jonah was only fable"
Say others, ut was interpolated by some
writer of later times" Others say, 1T was
a reproduction OF the story OF Hercules de
voured and then restored from the mon
ster." But my reply is that history tells
us that there were monsters large enough
to whelm ships. The extinct ichthyosaurus
Of other ages was thirty feet long. and as
late as the sixth century OF the Christian
era. up and down the Mediterranean, there
iloated monsters compared with which
modern whale was sardine or herring.
The shark has again and again been found
to have swallowed man entire. A fisher
man on the coast of Turkey found q sea
monster which contained woman and
purse Of gold. / have seen in museums sea
monsters large enough to take down n
prophet. But | have "a better reason for
believing the Old Testament account, and
that is that Christ said ii was true and
type of His own resurrection, and l sup
pose He ought to know. In Matthew xii,
40, Jesus Christ says: For as Jonas was
three days and three nights in the whales
belly, so shall the Son Of Man be three days
and three nights in the heart ofthe earth"
And that settles it for me and for any man
who does not believe Christ dupe and an
imposter.
God help us amid the Gospel Fisheries,
whether we employ hook or net for the
day cometh when We shall see how much
depended on our fidelity. Christ himself
declared: "The kingdom Of heaven is ike
unto a net that was cast into the sea and
gathered of every kind, which, whenit was
full, they drew to shore, and sat down and
gathered the good in the vessels, but cast
the bad away; so shall it be at the end OF
the world, the angels shall come forth and
separate the wicked from the Just" Yes
the fishermen think 1t best to keep The use
tul and worthless Of the haul In the same
not until 1t is drawn upon the beach, and
then the division takes place, and II 1t is on
Long Island coast, the moss-bunkers ar5
thrown out and the blueash and shad pre-
served; or, II it is on the shore of Galilee.
the fish classified as siluroids are hurled
back into the water or thrown up the bank
rs unclean, while the perch and the carp
and the barbel are put in pals to be car
ried home for use. so in the church on
earth and the saints and the hypocrits, the
generous and the mean, the chaste and the
unciean, are kept In the same membership
but at death the division will be made, and
the good will be gathered into heaven and
the bad, however many holy communions
they may have celebrated and how many
rhetorical prayers they may have offered,
and however many years their names NAV
have been on the church rolls, will be cast
away. God forbid that any of us should be
among the least away" But may we do
our work, whether small or great as thor
oughly as did that renowned fisherman,
Rev. DR.. George W. Bethune, who spent his
summer rest angling in the waters around
the Thousand Islands and beating at their
own craft those who piled it all the year,
and who, the rest of HIS time gloriously
preached Christ to the people of Philadel-
phia or Brooklyn, and ordering for his own
obsequies: Lay me out in my pulpit
gowns and bands, with my own pocket
Bible in my right hand. Bury me with my
mother, my father and my grandmother.
Isabella Graham. Sing also the hymn |
composed years ago:
Jesus, Thou Prince OF Life,
Thy chosen cannot die.
Like Thee they conquer in the strife,
m. II. i'll s..h