The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-05
GARDENS or THE SEA.
.,v DIR. rALMAan BREACHES
\. an. ocean Fauna. Lessons That Can
ns Learned from the Mighty Deep.

.rb. Botany OF the Bibl- or. Col Anon,
a.. rIowers," IL fesci cinsting su ,iect. I hold
nv hand BOOK which brought from
r.,ss,ins. bound IN olive WOO I. an w,thn
.,s pressed flowers which have not "nv
.,,,nsl their color, but their aroma. Flow
y. nom Bethlehem, flower, from Jerusr
- fovers ron Gethsemans. flowers ron
yannt OF olives. flowers from Bethany, flow
~ rom sloan. flowers from tho valley o. Je
,o.bnphst, red ansmones an Wild migno
.sse buttercups, daisies. cyclamen'. ramo
mge buehells, ferns. moses. grasses and
rsalth Of fora that keep ms ;asc;nstei bv
IN. hour, aud svery time 1 opsn 4 IL IL y new
location. IL Is the New Testament o. the
s,Lls But my text leads rs into another
,,,lm OF the Botanical kingdom.
Having spoken to YOU In conrse OF sNr
-, about "Goi Eyrryw,rre -op '"rd,
..,opomv OF the Bible; or. Go Among "a
s,,rs |" "rhe Ornitholo ~ %, the Bible or.
81 Anon, the Birds y ''1he Ichthyoio..v
oitbe Bible; or, Col Among this fishes !"
.Srhe Nlinsralogy Of the Bible or. Goi Anon;
,ts Amethysts !" "Tho Concho.ogy OF ths
pbr or, Col Among the shells = "Tn,
Entomology OF the Bible or, Col Among ths
rsnturies"-I speak now 10 you about "Tns
potsny OF the Bible; or, God IN the Gardens
the sea-" Although purpOscly take this
rorniug for consideration the least oDservsi
.nd least appreciated OF all the botanical
rroiucts OF the world. we s1all nnl the con-
Ermplaton very absorbing.
I'M all our theological ssmin1rics where va
rsse ministers there ought to b. professors
h give lessons in natural history Physical
.,en,e ought TO be taught side Uy side w,tn
r,r.ation. II Is the same God VINO inspires
H. page OF the natural world as the page o.
ete S-rptural world. What q freshening uD
!, would be to our sermons to press into
lem even a fragment oi Mediterranean see-
veei! We should have fewer sermons
.w;uly dry II we initiated our blessed ord,
nnl in our discourse, like Him, We would
d a lily bloom, or n crow fly, or hen
l,,ol her chickens, or a crystal OF salt dasl
VI the preservstive qualities OF religion.
The trouble Is that In many si our theo-
ra,ral seminaries men who ars so dry them
ives they never could get people to come
nsl hear them preach are now trying to
tsa,h Young men how to preach, and tn"
sqleni Is put between two great presses OF
doymatic theology and squeezed until there
!. no life left in hin. Give the poor victim
4, lrss, one lesson on the botany OF the Bible.
That was an awful plunge that the recreant
rrophpt Jonah made when. dropped over the
runyaes OF the Mediterranean ship, he sank
nspy iathoms down into tempsstuous sea.
p1,h before and after the monster OF the deep
tvallowed him. he was entangled in seaweed.
The ungles o. the deep threw their cordage
n dyseetation around him. Some ofthis sea-
well was anchored to the bottom OF the
,uil0wed by the great sea monster. so that
while the prophet was at the bottom OF tho
deep after he was horribly imprisoned he
eouid eNrlaim and did exclnim in the words
o,my text, "The weeds were wrapped about
uyheal."
Josnah was the first 20 record that there
are growth. upon the bottom OF the sea as
v.ll as upon land. TIL. first picture ever
owned was handful OF seaweeds pressed on
,ucp and called them s'the shorn locks
d Neptun-." These products of the deep.
tAsthsr brown or green or yellow or pur-
BE or rad or intershot OF many colors. are
most fascinating. They are distributed all
over the depths and from Arctic to Antarctic
Thai God thinks well OF them / conclude
tVn the fact that he has made 60O0 species
them. Sometimes these water plants
A., 400 or 700 feet long, and they cable
Ne sea. One specimen has a growth OF
1900 feet.
On the northwest shore OF our country is q
raueel with leave. thirty or forty feet long,
snil which the sea otter makes his home,
resting himself on the buoyanry OF the leaf
lli stem. The thickest jungles OF the trop-
rs are not more full OF vegetation than the
depths OF the sea. There are forests down
there and vast prairies all aboom, and God
walks there as he walked in the Garden o.
Eden 'in the cool OF the day" On. what
advancement, this subaqueous world on
birthplace Is palace OF crystal. The cradle
that rocks Il il the storm Its grave is asar-
cophagus OF beryl aud sapphire. There /:
10 night down there.
There are creatures OF God on the bottom
Of the sea so constructed that. strewn all
aong. they make armament besprent vita
STAR, consultations and galaxies OF impos
ing luster. The sea feather is lampligh,er
The gymnotus i5<2n electrician. and he II
,ur,harged with 0. 'tricity ana makes th'
deep bright with the lightning Of the sea
The gorgonia flashes like jewels. There arr
sea anemones ablaze with light. There ar,
the stlrlsh and the moonlsh, so called Oe
esuss they 30 powerfully suggest stellar AM
lunar illumination.
o. these midnight anterns OF the oceaJ
csyerns these professions of fame over tn
waite foor OF the deep these illumination
D three miles down under the sea; thr-
gorgeously upholstered castles of the A
mighty In the underworld The author o
I. ite text felt the pull OF tho hidden vegetation
! Of tue Mediterranean, whether or not he ap
, rroc,stel its oeeutv. ms Ll cried out. ora
Wee 10 ,vera ,xr.nned ahout my head Z"