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

dhh lOiAOA II ahd A'6 Va viz
street They are not weeds. They
are immortal flowers. Down in the
deep sea of woe, but flowers When
society and the church of God come to
appreciate their eternal value, there
will be more G. l.. Braces and more
Van Meters and more Angels of Mercy
spending their fortunes and their lives
in the rescue. Hear it, Oh, We philan-
thropic and Christian and merciful
souls: not weeds. but flowers | adj
jure you as the friends of all news
boys lodging h uses, of all Industrial
schools, of all homes for friendlesi
girls, and for the many reformatories
and humane associations now on foot
How much they have already accom-
p ished. Out of what wrctchedness,
into what good homes. OF twenty
one thousand of these picked up out
of he streets and sent into country
homes, only twelve children turned
on badly. In the last thirty years a
number that no man can number of
the Migrants have been fled into re-
specta billy and usefulness and n
Cpristisn life. Many of them have
homes their own. Though ragged
boys once and street girls. now at the
head of prosperous families, rnored
on ca tn and to be glorious in heaven.
Some of them have been governors of
states. Some of them are ministers of
the gosnel. In al departments of life
those who were thought to be weeds
| have turned out to be flowers One of
those rescued lads from the reefs of
our ties wrote to another, saying:
II have heard you are studying for
| the ministry; so am /. My hearers.
| I irnYNlna1 for Tho no Of
| the streets, many of them the bright
est CHI ldren of the city, but no chance.
Do not step on their bare feet. Do
not. when they cal ride, cut be-
hind. When the paper is cents, once
| in a while give them cent piece,
and tell them TO keep the change.
| like the ring of the letter the news
boy sent back from Indiana, where he
| had been sent TO good home, TO
| New York Newsb VS. Lodging House,:
Boys, we should show ourselves that
! we are no fools, that we can become
as respectable as any of the country
men. for franklin and Webster a d
| Clay were poor boys once, and even
| George Law and Vanderbilt and Astor.
Come out here and make respecta BILE
and homo able men, so they can say:
| There, that boy was once a news
boy >" My hearers, join the Christian
I philanthropists who are changing
orga1-grinders and boot b acks and
newsboys and street Arabs and cigar
| & rls 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 IL not weeds but
| fl )wers.
AS | examine this Red Alga which
was a out the recreant prophet down in
the Mediterranean depths, when, in
! the words of my text, he cried out:
The weeds were wrapped about my
! head and am led thereby to further
examine this submarine world / am
compe led to exclaim, What a wonder
full God we have l am glad that, by
! diving bell and Brooks deep sea
sounding apparatus" aud ever improv-
| ing machinery, we are permitted to
walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the gr at God.
Study these gardens of 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 "Nilleroy's
submarine boat" has been con-
structed. making it possible to navi-
gate under the sea almos as well as on
! tie surface of the sea and un ess
! God in his mercy banisnes war from
| the earth, who fleets of armed ships
will yet far down un er the water
move on to blow up the argosies that
! float the surface. May such subma-
rine ships be used for laying open the
wonde of God S workings in the great
deep an never for human devastation!
| Oh, the marvels of the water world!
! These so-called seaweeds are the past
ure fields and the forage of the in
hume abe animals of the deep. Not
( one species of them can be spared
! from the economy of nature. Valleys
and mountains and plants miles un-
derneath the waves are all covered
with fora and fauna. Snnken Alps
and Apennines, and Himalayas of
! Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A
! continent that once connected
! Europe and America, so that in
/ the ages past men came on foot
across from where England is to where
we now stand, all sunlken, 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
/ so far sunken as to make n channel,
! and ireland has become an island.
The islands, for the most part are
only tue foreheads of su ken CONT
mems. The sea conquering the land
all along the coasts, and crumbling
tn hemispheres, wider and wider be-
come the sub-aqueous dominions.
Thank God that skilled photographers
have made us maps and charts of the
rivers and lakes aud seas, and shown
us something of the work of the eter-
nal God in the water-worlds Thank
God that the great Virginian, Lieut..
Maury, lived to give us 81 he Physical
Geography of the Sea-" and that men
of genius have gone forth to study the
so called we-ds that wrapped about
Jonahs mead and have found them to
be coronals of beauty, and when the
: tide receded, thes scientists have
waded down and picked up
Divinely pictured leaves of the ocean,
the naiurallsts Pike an Hooper and
Walters, gathering them from the
beach of Long island sound, and DR..
klodgett preserving them from the
sh res of Key est, and Pro essors
Emerson and Gray finding them along
Boston harbor, and Prof Gibbs gath
ering them from Charleston harbor,
aud for all the other triumphS of AL
! 90 Opv or the Science of Sea- Weed