Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-10-06

demonstrated. doctrine OF n particular
Providence When | find that the
Lord provides in the so-called sea-
weed The pasturage for thronged
marine world, so that not fin or
scale in all that oceanic aquarium suf-
fers need / conclude he will feed us,
and if he suits the algie to the animal
life of the deep, he will provide the
food for our physical and spiritual
needs. And if he clothes the
flowers of the dep with rich
ness OF robe that looks bright
as fallen rainbows by day and at
night makes the underworld look as
ihough the sea were on fire, surely he
will clothe you: "Oh We of little
faith" And what fills me with un-
speakable delight is that this God of
depths and heights, of can and of
continent, may, through Jesus Christ,
the divinely al pointed means be yours
and niue, to help, 10 cheer. 10 pardon,
to save, to emparadise. What matters
who in earth or hell is against us, If
he l. for us2 Omnipotence to defend
us, omniprssence to companion Us, and
infinite love to enfold and uplift and
enrapture us. And when God does
small things so well seemingly taking
as mu, h are with the coil of sea-
weed as the outbranching of a Lebanon
cedar, aud with the co or of a vegetable
gro tn which is hidden fathoms out of
sight as he does with the solferinO and
purple of summer sunset, we will be
determined 10 do we'll all we are called
to do, though no one see or appreciate
us Mighty God! Roll in upon
our admiration and oily apprecia-
IF n xynnHnra nf this m h.
marine world! My Joy is that after
we are quit of all earthly hindrances
we may come back to this world and
explore what we cannot now fully in
vestigate. If we shall have power %
soar into the atmospheric without IA
tigue think we shall have power to
dive into the aqueou, without per<,
ham bra, and all the gardens of the
deep will then swing open to us their
gat as now TO the tourist Chatswor
opens on public days its cascades and
statuary and Conservatories for our
entrance. at doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" \ on cannot make
me believe that God hath spread out
all that garniture of the deep merely
for the polyphs and crustacea to look
at
And if the unintelligent creatures Of
the MCdi erranean ana the A lintic
ocean, he sur ounds with such beau
tiful grasses of the deep, what a
heaven we may expect for our up
lifted and .nsomed souls when we
are unclaimed of &c flesh and rise to
realms beatfic. OF the fora of that
Sea of Gla,s mingled with fire." |
have No power to speak, but ! shall
Away. be glad that when the prophet
OF the text, fl ng over the gunwales of
the Mediterrane IN ship, descended
in the boiling sea, that which he
supposed TO be weeds wrapped alb ut
his head were not weeds but flowers.
And am / not ght this g ance at
the botany of the bible in ad-
ding to Luke's mint, anise aud
cummin. and Matthews tares and
Johns vim, and Solomon's cluster
of campfire. and Jeremiahs balm,
and Jobs bulrush, and Isaiah's tere-
bnth, and Hosea's thistle, and Eze-
kiels cedar, and 1.-THE hyssop that
springeth out of the wall" and the
Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the
Valley" and the frankincense and
myrrh and cassia which the astrolo-
gers brought to the manger, at least
one stalk of the Alge of the Mediter-
ranean. And now ] make the marine
doxology of David my peroration, for
it was written out. forty or fifty
miles from the place where the scene
Of the text was enacted. 1.-THE sea is
his and he made it! and his hands
formed the dry land. O, come, let us
worship and bow down; let us kneel
before the Lord our Maker. For he is
our God and we are the people of his
pasture Amen.