Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-17
EYES FRUIT PICKING
HOW HER CURIOSITY RUINED THE
HUMAN RACE.

Rev. DR.. Talmage breaches a Picturesque |
Sermon on the Calamity In Paradise. |
Eating Fruit That Does Not Belong to
Us-Fatal Charms.
NEW YORK, June 13.-A new interpre-
tation of the calamity in paradise is given
by DR.. Talmnge in this sermon, which is
laden with practical lessons. The text is
Genesis Iii, 8, "And when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food and that it
was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be
desired to make one wise, she took of the
fruit thereof, and did eat, and give also un
to her husband with her, and he did eat.
1t is the first Saturday afternoon in the
worlds existence. Every since sunrise
Adam has been watching the brilliant
pageantry of wings and scales and clouds.
In his first lessons in zoology and ornithol-
ogy and ichthyology ho has noticed that
the robins fly the air in twOs and that the
fish swim the water in twos and that the
lions walk the fields in twos and in the
warm redolence of that Saturday after
noon he falls off into slumber, and as if
by allegory to teach all ages that the great
est of earthly blessings is sound sleep, this
paradisaical somnolence ends with the dis
covery on the part of Adam of CORE.
spending intelligence just landed on a
new planet. OF the mother of all the liv-
ing speak-Eye, the first, the fairest and
tho best.
A Beautiful Garden.
make me q garden. inlay the paths
with mountain moss, and / border them
with pearls from Ceylon and diamonds
from Golconda. Here and there are foun-
tains tossing in the sunlight and ponds
that ripple under the padding of the
swans l gather me lilies from the ANA
zon and orange groves from the tropics
and tamarinds from Goyaz. There are
woodbine and honeysuckle climbing over
the wall and starred spaniels sprawling
themselves on the grass. l invite amid
these trees the larks, and the brown
thrushes, and the robins, and all the bright
est birds Of heaven, and they stir the air
with infinite chirp and carol. And yet the
place is q desert filed with darkness and
death as compared with the residence of
the woman Of the text, the subject OF my
story. Never since have such skies looked
down through such leaves into such
waters! Never has river wave had such
curve and sheen and bank as adorned the
Pison, the Haviiah, the Gihon, and the
Hiddekel, even the pebbles being bdelliun
and onyx stones! What fruits, with nc
curculio to sting the rind! What flowers
with no slug to gnaw the root! What at
| mosphere, with 10 frost to chill and witt
no heat to consumed Bright colors tangled
| in the grass. Perfume in the air. Music
| in the sky Great scenes of gladness ant
love and joy.
Right there under bower of leaf ant
vine and shrub occurred the first marriage
| Adam took the hand of this immaculate
daughter of God and pronounced the cere
mony when he said, "Bone of my bon
and flesh Of my flesh" A forbidden tre
stood in the midst of that exquisite park
Eve, sauntering out one day alone, looks u
at the tree and sees the beautiful fruit an,
wonders if it is sweet and wonders If it i
sour and standing there says: 81 think
will just put my hand upon the fruit. 1
will do no damage to the tree. l will no
take the fruit to cat, but will just tax
| it down to examine it,. She examine
the fruit She said, "I do not think ther
can be any harm in my just breaking tn
rind of it, She put the fruit to her teeth
she tasted, she allowed Adam also to tast
the fruit, the door of the world opened
and tho monster sin entered. Let th
heavens gather blackness, and the wind
sigh on the bosom Of the hills. and cavern
and desert, and earth, and sky join in on
long, deep, he'll rending howl, "The worl
is lost!"
Beasts that before were harmless an
full of play put forth claw and sting an
tooth and tusk. Birds whet their bcal
for prey. Clouds troop in the sky. Shar
thorns shoot up through the soft gras!
hastings ON the leaves. All the chords {
that great harmony are snapped. Upo
the brightest home this world ever sa
our first parents turned their backs and le
forth on path of sorrow the brokenhear
ed myriads of ruined race.
Ruin In Curiosity.
Do you not see in the first place tt
danger of q poorly regulated inquisitiv
ness? She wanted to know how the fru
tasted. She found out, hut 5000 yea
have deplored that unhoalthful curiosit
Healthful curiosity has done a great de
for letters, for art, for science and for r
ligion. 1t has gone down into the deptl
of the earth with the geologist and sec
the first chapter of Genesis written in ii
book of nature, illustrated with engraVir
on rock, and it stood with the antiquaria
while he blew the trumpet of resurrectiC
over buried Herculaneum and Pompei
until from their sepulcher there came l
| ahpc md hpnfG
Healthful curiosity has enlarged the tel
scopio vision of the astronomer until worl
hidden in the distant heavens have troop
forth and have joined the choir praisil
the Lord. Planet weighed against plan
and widest comet lassooed with reple
dent law. Healthful curiosity has go
down and found the tracks of the etern
God in the polypi and the startish und
the sea and tho majesty of the great Jeh
yah cncamped under tho gorgeous CT
tains of the dahlia. 1t has studied t
! spots on the sun, and the larva in bee
leaf, and the light under a firehy's win
and the terrible eye glance of a cond
pitching from Chimborazo. 1t has studi
the myriads of animalcul@ that make
the phosphorescence in a ships wake, al
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consultations and galaxies that blaze
in the march of God. Healthful curiosi
has stood by the inventor until forces tn
were hidden for ages came to wheels, a
levers and shafts and shuttles-forces th
fly the air, or swim the sea, or cleave
mountain until the earth jars and rot
and rings and crackles and booms wi
strange mechanism, and ships with nj
trils Of hot steam and yokes of fire drt
the continents together.
1 say nothing against healthful Gu
osity. May it have other Leyden ja
and other electric batteries, and other v
taic piles, and other magnifying glass
with which to storm the barred castles
the natural world until it shall surrenC