Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12

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Walton Of our trouble It would have
been to put them in some beautiful
family plot, where we could have plant
ed flowers and trees over them" Why,
God did better for them than we could
have done for them. They were let
down into beautiful gardens Before
lands about their brow. In more elab--
crate and adorned place than we could
have afforded them they were put
away for the last sleep. Hear 1t,
mothers and fathers of sailor boys
whose ship went down in our last ALL
gust hurricane! There are no Green
woods or Laurel Hills or Mount Au-
burns so beautiful on the land as there
are banked and terraced and scooped
and hung in the depths of the sea. Inc
bodies Of our foundered anu sunken
friends are girdled and canopicd and
housed with such glOries as attend no
other Metropolis
They were swamped in life-boats, or
they struck on Goodwin Sands or Deal
Beach or the Skerries and We're never
heard Of. or disappeared with the City
of Boston or the Vile de Havre or the
| Cymbria, or were run down in a fish
ing smack that put out from Newfound-
land. But dismiss your previous gloom
about the horrors Of ocean entomp-
ment.
When Scbastopol was beseiged in the
Anglo-French war, Prince Mentschl-
koff. commanding the Russian navy
saw that the only way to keep tne
English out of the harbor was to SINK
all the Russian ships Of war III the
roadsted, and so one hundred vessels
sank. When, after the war was over
our American engineer, Gowan, de-
scended to the depths in Il divlns-pell,
it was an impressive spectacle. one
hundred buried ships! But it is that
way nearly all across the 'Atlantlc
ocean. Ships sunk, not by commano u
of admirals. but by the command ol
cyclones But they all had sublime Dur
ial and the surroundings amid Whlch
they sleep the last sleep are more lm-
posing than the Tai NIahal, the matso-
leum with walls encl'ustcd with pre-
cious stones. and built by the great
mooul of India over his empress. Your
departed ones were buried in the gar
dens of the sea, fenced off by hed9es
of coralinc. The greatest obsequles
ever known on the land were those Oh
Noses where no one but Goa was
nrosent. The sublime report or that ell
tombment is in the Book of Dcuterono,
nv which SAYS that the Lord burled
him and of those who have gone down
10 sl,,mbcr in the deep, the same may
hn said. 'The Lord buried them. AS
christ was buried in Il garden, SO your
shinwrcckcd friends. and those VINO
could not survive till they reached por'
worc MT down amid iridescence-l
tho midst of the garden there Was d
snnulchrc." 1t has always been hlys
tory what was the particular mode ny
which George G.. Goodman. the pulpl.
orator. of tho Methodist chlilrh anu
tho chanlain of the American congress-
loft this life after cmbarkins 1of Eng
land on the steamship President, Marcn
II. 1871. That ship never arrived III
mort No one ever Signaled hcr. anu ol
hoth sides Of the ocean it has TOR I'LL!
veors been questioned what became o'
hor Rut this ] know about Goodman
that whether it was iceberg, or con
a,rr,tion mid sea. or collision. he hao
morc rarands on his ocean TOMB ali'il
If oxnirinw on land. each OF ms llllliioi
friends had put IL bouquet on MS c;'sNe.
Tn thc midst of the garden was hE
sepulchre. .;o, +,,o mis-
nomor in this Jonahitic expression o.
the text. The prophet not only mi'ut :,
,nictn1;e by trying to go to IafsliiSi
Whom God told him to go. to Nlneveli
Inf he made a mistake when he S'sit.
ns woods these growths that ell"f'lppe !.
linn on the day he sank. A weed l.
Something YOU throw out from ihe "a 1
don # is something that chokes u.
wheat II is something to be sr'lppe.
ont from among the cotton II IS SUN.
hing unsightly to the eye. 1t Is al II,
,,,dnr of the vegetable or floral WORM
Rnt this growth that Sprang up iron
+1,o dnnth of the Mediterranean VI
Ho,tcd on it's surface. was among li'
most beautiful things that Goo ever
makes It was Il water plant klo"i
&C tho red-colored Alsa. and no Wee'
ot an If comes from the loom OF Ill
finite beauty. 1t is planted by heaven
1v love If is the star of Il sunken nrina
nant It is "a lamp which the LORD KIN
11od # is Il cord by which TO nlne
whole sheayes of practical Su%Ses,lon
II is , noem. all whose cantos are runs
NV Divine goodness. Yet we all hlah.
t,,o mistake that Jonah made III reSal'
to it, and call it a weed. The wes e,l
are wrapped about my mead. AL
that is the trouble on the land as Oh
the sea. We call those weeds 'llat ;i'
flowers. Pitched up on the beach o.
society are children without home WIN
ont opportunity for anything but SIN
seemingly without God. IheS are
washed up helpless They are callee
rapamuftins They are spoken Oh Il:
the rakings of the world. They arc
waits. They are street Arabs lhes
are tlotsam and jets;.m Of the social sea
They are something to be left alone o.
something to be trod on, or something
to give up to decay. Nothing ou
weeds. They are up the rckety starr
of that garnet. They are down IN I'M
cellar of that tenement house. Inc!
swelter in summers when they see no
one blade of green grass. and shlver II
winters that allow them not one warn
coat or shawl or shoe. Such the CT!
missionary found in one OF our cit!
: rookeries. and when the poor woman
, was asked if she sent her children e