Connecticut western news., 1897-11-18
,IER1I1TN THE BIBLE.
II M "A RV. UR. srALMAoE ON GOD IN NA-
 TYRE.

of the Bibis-The Country yersus the City.
 Copyrfght, 1897, by American Press Asso-
 efation.1
 WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.-Dr. Talmage finds the divine hand in all the domin- ions of the natural world, and this ser mon presents religion in it's most radi- ant atsractiveness. The text is Genesis i, II, "The fruit tree yielding fruit aft CT his kind. " ......
 It is Wednesday morning in paradise. The birds did not sing their opening piece, nor the fish take their first swim rntil the following Friday. The solar and lunar lights did not break through the thick, chaotic fog of the worlds manufacture until Thursday. Before that there was light, but it was electric light or phosphorescent light, not the light of sun or moon. But the botanic. al and pomological productions came on Wednesday-frst 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 ou1 J fore they bear fruit, and peach trees three years, and apple trees five years, Dat here instantly a complete orchard springs into life, all the branches bear ing fruit. The insectile forces, which have been doing their worst to destroy the fruits for 6, 900 years, had not yet begun their invasion. The curculio had not yet stung the plum, nor the cater pillar hurt the apple, nor had the phyl 1otera plague, which has devastated the vineyards of America and France, as- sailed the grapes, nor the borer perforat- i, cd the wood, nor the aphides ruined the cherry, nor the grub punetured the nec- tarine, nor the blight struck the pear. There stood the first orchard, with perfection of rind, and an exquisiteness of color, and lusciousness of taste and an affiuence of production which it may take thousands of years more of study of the science of fruits to repro duce.
 The Orehnrds.
 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 les . son it ii too stupid to learn-that fruit diet ia healthier than meat diet, and that the former must precede the latter. The reason there are in the world so many of the imbruted and sensual is that they have not improved by the mighty, unnoticed fact that the or ehards of paradise preceded the herds and aviaFies and fish ponds. Oh, those fruit bearing trees on the banks of the Euphrates and the Gihon and the Hid askell l wonder not that the ancient Romans, ignorant of our God, adOred Pomona, the goddess of fruits, and that all the sylvan deities were said to wor- ship 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 made the first course of food in the menu of the worlds table? The acids of those fruits to keep the world 8 table from be- ing insipid, and their sweets to keep it from being too sour?
 At this autumnal season how the or .shards breathe and glow, the leaves re- moved, that the crimson, or pink, or saffron, or the yellow, or brown may the better appear, while the aromatics all the air with invitation and reminis- aence. AS you pass through the orchard on those autumnal days and look up through the arms of the trees laden with fruit you hear humping on the ground that which is fully ripe, and, throwing your arms around the trunk, you give 8 shake that sends down shower of gold and fro on all sides of you. Pile up ill baskets and barrels and bins and on shelves and tables the divine supply. But these orchards have been under the ssnault Of at least 80 centuries-the storm, the droughts, the winters, the insectivorA What must the first orchard have bsen? And yet it is the explorers evidence that on the site of that orchard there is not an apricot, or an apple, or an olive-nothing but desert and deso- 1Ation. There is not enough to forage the explorer horse, mach less to feed his own hunger. In other words. that first orchard is lost orchard. How did the proprietor and the proprietress of all that intercOlumniation of fruitage let the rich splendor slip their posses GoH2 It was as now most of the or chartfs are lost--namely, by wanting more. Access they had to sll the fig trees, apricots, walnuts, almonds, ap- ples-bushels on bushels-and were for hidden the use of only one tree i'll the orchard. Not satisfied with all but one, they reached for that and lost the whole orchard
 Go right down through the business mzrts of the great cities and find among the Weighers and clerks and snhordi- nAtes mea wh0 once commanded the commercial world. They had a whole orchard of successes, but they wanted jast one more thing-one more house or 0BA moro country seat or one more store or one more railroad or one more million. They clutched for that and lost all they had gained. For one more tree they lost . whole orchard. There are business Reu all sronnd us worried nearly tx death. The doctor tells them they ought to stop. Insomnia or indigestion or ach inK at the base of the brain or ungoyern ahis nerves tell them they ought to stop They really have enongh for themselves and their families. Talk with then about their overwork and urge nor, prudence and longer rest, and they say .-'Yes, you arc right. After I have ac complished one more thing that l hav' on my mind will hand over my busi ness to my sons and go to Europe ant quit the kind of exhausting life l hav been living for the last 30 years. Som morning you open your paper, and, look ing at the death column, you find h.
 suddenly departed this life. In tryinl
 te win inst one more tree. he lost tn
 whOie orchard.
 Forbidden Fruit.
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