The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-10-06


Indebtedness, into what good honest
OF $1,000 of these picked up out of the
streets and sent into country homes
only IL children turned out badly.
In the last 80 years number that no
man can number of the Migrants have
been lifted into responsibility and
usefulness and Christian life. Many
of them have homes Of their own.
Though ragged boys once and street
girls, now at the head of prosperous
families, honored ON earth and to be
glorious in heaven. Some of them have
been governors of states. Some of them
ARE ministers of the gospel In all de-
partments of life those who We're
thought to be weeds have turned out to
be flowers. One of those rescued lads
from the streets Of our cities wrote to
another, saying: II have heard you are
studying for the ministry. SO am l."
My hearers, ! implead You for the
newsboys of the streets, many of them
the brightest children of the city, but
with no chance, Do not step on their
bare feet. Do not, when they steal a ride,
cut behind. When the paper is cents,
once in awhile give them a 8 cent piece
and tell them to keep the change. like
the ring of the letter the newsboy sent
back from Indiana, where he had been
sent to good home, to New York
newsboys' lodging house: "Boys, we
should show ourselves that we are nc
fools, that we can become as respectab
as any Of the countrymen, for Franklin
and Webster and Clay were poor hoy 5
once, and even George Law and Van
derbilt and Aston. And now, boys,
stand up and let them see you have
got the real stuff in you, Come Out
here and make respectable and honor.
able men, so they can say, There; that
boy was once newsboy.'" My hear
ers, join the Christian philanthropist3
who are changing organ grinders an,
bootblacks and hewsboys and street
arabs and cigar girls into those who shall
be kings and queens unto God forever.
1t is high time that Jonah finds out that
that which IS about him is not weeds,
but flowers.
CoRoNAI.S OF BEAUTY.
As examine this red alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths, when, in the words
of my text, lie cried out, 1.-THE weeds
We're wrapped about my head" and am
led thereby to further examine this sub
marine world, lam compelledt to exclaim
What a wonderful God we have! lam
glad that, by diving bell, and Brooks
deep sea sounding apparatus" and ever
improving machinery, we are permitted
to walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great God
Study these gardensof the sea- Easier
and easier shall the profounds of the
ocean become to us, and more and more
its opulence of color and plant unroll,
especially as "Villeroy's submarine
boat" has been constructed, making it
possible to navigate under the sea al
most as well as ON the surface of the
sea, and unless God in his mercy ban
isles war from the earth whole fleets of
armed ships will yet far down under the
water move ON to blow up the argosies
that float the surface. May such sub
marine ships be used for laying open the
wonders of Gods workings in the great
deep and never for human devastation!
Oh, the 1narvels of the water world!
These so called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals of the deep. Not one species of
them can be spared from the economy of
nature. Valleys and mountains and
plants miles underneath the waves are
all covered with flora and fauna. Sunken
Alps and Apennines and Himalayas of
Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent
that once connected Europe and Ameri-
ca, so that in the ages past men came on
foot across from where England is 10
where we now stand, all sunken and
now covered with the growths of the
sea as it once was covered with growths
of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece
of land, but now much of it so far sunk
en- as to make a channel, and Ireland hal
become an island. The islands, for tn,
most part, are only the foreheads O
sunken continents. The sea conquerins
the land all along the coasts and crum
bling the hemispheres, wider and wide,
become the subaqueous dominions
Thank God that skilled photographer
have made us maps and charts of tn,
rivers and lakes and seas and shown u
something of the work of the eterna
God in the water worlds.
Thank God that the great Virginian
Lieutenant Maury, lived to give us 9Th
PHYSICAL Geography of the Sea-" an,
that men of genius have gone forth t.
study the SO called weeds that wrappc,
about ,Jonah's head and have found then
to be coronals of beauty. and when tn
tide receded these scientists have wade,
down and picked up divinely picture,
leaves of the ocean. the naturalists, Pix
and Hooper and Walters. gathering then
from the beach of Long Island sound
and DR.. Blodgett preserving them from
the shores of Key West. and Professor
Emerson and GRAY finding them alon
Boston harbor. and Professor Glib
gathering them from Charleston barbor
and for all the other triumpbs of algol
ogv. or the science of seaweed
WHY confne ourselves TO the old an,