Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-10-13

| shores OF Key West, and Professors Emerson
| and Gray finding them along Boston haroor,
| and Professor Gibbs gathering them from
| Charleston harbor. and for all the otner
| tr'umpbs of algology, or the science ol s7a-
| weed.
| Why confne ourselves to the old an hack
neyed illustrations OF the wonder workings
| OF God, when there are at least nVe gre'st
seas full OF illustrations yet not marshaieu,
every root and frond and cell and color ana
movement and habit OF oceanic vegetation
crying out "God God He made us. lie
clothed us. He adorned us. He was the
God of our ancestors clear back TO the first
sea growth. when God divided the waters
which were above the armament from tne
waters which were under the armament and
shall be the God OF our descendants clear
down to the day when rho sea shall give u2
It's dead. We have heard His command. aud
we have obeyej. rraiss the LORD, Dragons
and all deeps.'"
There is a great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this siuiy of the so-cailed sea-
weed, and that is the demonstrated doctrine
OF a particular providence. When l find
that the Lord provides in the so-called sea-
weed the pasturage or the thronged marine
world. so that not fin or scale in all thar
oceanic aquarium suffers need, conclude he
will feed US. and if He suits the alSa to the
animal life OF the deep He viii provide the
food for our physical an sp ritual neeGs.
And If He cloths the flowers OF the deep
with richness OF robe that looks bright as
fallen rainboTs by day, and at night makes
the underworld look as though the sea were
on fire. surely He will clothe you, 80 ye OF
little iaith!"
And what nlls me with unspcaHable de-
light is that this Col OF depths aud heights.
OF ocean and of continent. may, through
Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed means,
be yours and mine, to help, TO cheer, 10
pardon, to save, to imparadise wat
matters who in earth or hell is against us IL
He for us? Omnipotence to defend us,
omnipresence to companion US and infinite
love to enfold and uplift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so well,
seemingly taking as much care with the coll
of seaweed as the outbranching OF
Lebanon cedar, and with the color OF veg
etable growth which is hidden fathoms out
OF sight as He does with the solerino and
purple of summer sunset. we will be deter
mined to do we'll all we are called to do,
though no one see or appreciate Us. Mighty
God Roll in upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more of the wonders OF this
submarine world. Ny 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 investigate.
II we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without fatigue ! think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous without
peril. and that the pictured and tessellated
sea floor will be as accessible as now istothe
traveller the floor OF the Alhambra, and all
the gardens OF the deep will then swiEg
open to us their gates as now to the tourist
Chatsworth opens on public days its cascades
and statuary and conservatories for our en-
trance. sit doth not yet appear what we
shall be-" You cannot make me believe that
God hath spread out all that garniture OF
the deep merely Tor the polyps and crust:cea
to look at
And IL the unintelllgent creatures of the
Mediterranean an the Atlantic 'ean He sur
rounds with such beautiful srasses OF tne
deep, what a.haaven VS. me- expect Tor our
upliitei aud ransomed souls when we are
unclaimed of the flesh and rise to realms
beatifc OF the fora of that 'sea OF glass
mingled with fire." have no poweri speak,
but l shall always be- glad that, when the
prophet OF the text. flung over the gunwaies
of the Mediterranean ship, descended into
the boiling sea, that which be supposed TO %
weeds wrapped about his head were moi
weeds, but flowers.
And am not right in this glance Mt the
botany of the Bible in adding 10 Lukes mint,
anise and cumin, ard Matthew's tarPs, ant
Johns vine, and Solomon's cluster of cam
phire, and Jeremiah's balm, and Jobs bu- |
rush. and Isaiah's terebinth and Hosea's |
thistle and Ezekiel's cedar, and ''the hyssop
that springeth out of the wall. and the |
"rose OF Sharon and lily of the valley" and
the frankincense and myrrh and cassia
which the astrologers brought to the map
ger at least one stalk OF the aiaga OF to |
Mediterranean.
And nowI make the marine doxology OF
David my peroration, for it was written |
about forty or fifty miles from the place |
where the scene OF the text was enact ed
THE sea is His, and He made it, and His |
hands formed the dry land. Oh, come. let |
MS worship and bow down let us kneel be-
lore the Lord, our Maker. For He is our
God. and we are the people Of His PASTURE
Amen.