Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1893-10-05

prosperous rsmuIrs, nonOrvu On ezrtn ana
TO be glorious In heaven Some OF them
have been governors Of states Some OF
them are ministers Of the gospel. In all
OF life those who were thought |
to be weeds have turned out 10 be flowers.
One OF those rescued lads from the streets /
Of our cities wrote to another saying; Il
have heard you are studying for the minis
try. So anil"
Ny hearers. implead you for the news
boys 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 ride, cut behind. !
When the paper is 8 cents, opce in a |
while give them 5 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 no fools; that we can become
as respectable as any of the countrymen,
for Franklin and Webster and Clay were
poor boys once. and even George Law and
Vanderbilt and Astor. And now, boys,
stand up and let them see you have got the
respectable and honorable men, SO they can
say, There, that boy was once anewsboy.
Ny hearers, join the Christian philanthro-
pists who are changing organ grinders and
bootblacks and newsboys and street arabs
and cigar girls into those who shall be kings
and queens unto God forever. It high
time that Jonah finds out that that which
is about him is not weeds, but flowers
A WONDERFUL GOD.
As examine this red alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths when. in the words
of my text be cried out, 1.-THE weeds were
wrapped about my head" and am led
thereby to further examine this subma-
rine world, l am compelled to exclaim,
What q wonderful God we havel / am
glad that by diving bell, and Brooks deep
sea sounding apparatus" and ever improv-
ing machinery we are permitted to walk
the floor of the ocean and report the won
ders wrought by the great God.
| Study these gardens of the sea. Easier
and easier shall the profounds of the ocean
become to us, and more and more its opu-
| lence of color and plant unroll, especially
as "Villeroy's submarine boat" has been
constructed making it possible to navigate
| under the sea almost as well as on the sur
face of the sea, and unless God ip his mercy
banishes war from the earth whole fleets
| of armed ships will yet far down under the
water move on to blow up theargosies that
| float the surface. May such submarine
ships be used for laying open the wonders
of Gods workings in the great deep and
| never for human devastation! Oh, the mar
vels of the water worldi
These SO called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals of the deep. Not one specie Of
them can be spared from the economy oi
nature. Valleys and mountains and plants
miles underneath the waves are all covered
with fora and fauna. Sunken Alps and
Apennines and Himalayas of Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. A continent that onct
connected Europe and America, SO that il
the ages past men came on foot acros;
from where England is to where we nov
stand, all sunken, and now covered with
1 the growths of the sea, as it once was GOV
cred with the growths of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece o
land, but now much of it so far sunken a
to make channel, and Ireland has becom,
an island. The islands for the most par
are only the foreheads of sunken CONT
nents. The sea conquering the land al
along the coasts and crumbling the hemis
pheres, wider and wider become the sub
aqueous dominions Thank God that skillet
photographers have made us maps ant
charts of the rivers and lakes and seas an,
Z shown us something of the work of tn
eternal God in the water worlds.
Al Thank God that the great Virginiar
Lieutenant Maury, lived to give us '"sTh
Physical Geography of the Sea-" and tina
men of genius have gone forth to study tn
so called weeds that wrapped about Jonah
head and have found them to be coronal
of beauty, and when the tide receded thes
scientists have waded down and picked Vi
J divinely pictured leaves of the ocean, th
: naturalists Pike and Hooper and Walter
: gathering them from the beach of Lon
Island sound, and DR.. Blodgett preserving
. them from the shores of Key West, an
! Professors Emerson and Gray finding then
! along Boston harbor, and Professor Gibh
gathering them from Charleston harbol
and for all the other triumphs of algology
or the science of seaweed.
II EVIDENCE OF THE SEAS
: Why contine ourselves to the old an
: hackneyed illustrations of the wonder worl
; ings of God when there are at least fiy
:, great seas full of illustrations as yetnc
marshaled, every root and frond and ce
: and color and movement and habit of oc
i anic vegetation crying out: ''Godi Goo
, He made us. He clothed us. He adorne
y us. He was the God of our ancestor
clear back to the first sea growth, whe
!. God divided the waters which were aboy
= the armament from the waters which wei
: under the armament, and shall be the Go
of our descendants clear down to the da
I when the sea shall give up its dead. "
have heard his command, and we ha,
e obeyed, Praise the Lord, dragons and a
deepsp"
n There is great comfort that rolls ov,
i upon us from this study of the so calle
N seaweed, and that is the demonstrated do
"a trine of a particular Providence. When
Il find that the Lord provides in the so calle
Il seaweed the pasturage for the thronge
70 marine woyld. SO that not a fin or scalei
,s all that oceanic aquarium suffers need,
20 conclude he will feed us, and if he sui
the alg@ to the animal life of the deep
ls will provide the food for our physical an
n spiritual needs And if he clothes Il
n flowers of the deep with richness of rol
h that looks bright as fallen rainbows |
is day and at night makes the underwood
" look as though the sea were on fire, sure
i he will clothe you, 20 ye of little faithl"
And what fills me with unspeakable
light is that this God of depths and height
i'd of ocean and of continent, may throus
er Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed mean
ID be yours and mine, to help, to cheer, to pa
IN don, to save, to imparadise. What ma
re- tiers who in earth or hell is against us if
81 is for usi Omnipotence to defend us, or
,u nipresence to companion us and infini
va love to infold and uplift and enrapture U
sbl And when God does small things SO we
be seemingly taking as much care with Il
=. ccil of saa1reed a 6 the ont thranchino of