The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-10-04

those who were 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: Il
have heard you are studying for the
ministry. So am L.
My hearers, l 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 3
cents, once in while give them a cent
piece and tell them TO keep the change.
l like the ring of the letter the newsboy
sent back from Indiana, where he had
been sent TO a good home, TO a 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 Wander
bilt and Astor. And now, boys, stand
up and let them see you have got the
real stuff i'm you. Come out here and
make respectable and honorable men, so
they can say, There, that boy was once
a newsboy.'"
My hearers, join the Christian philan-
thropists who are changing organ grind
ers and bootblacks and newsboys 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
n 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 he cried out, THE weeds were
wrapped about my head" and 1 am led
thereby to further examine this subma-
rine world. l am compelled to exclaim,
What a wonderful God we have! 1 am
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 re-
port the wonders 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 Opulence of color and plant unroll,
especially as "VillerOy's submarine boat
has been constructed making 1t possible
to navigate under the sea almost as we'll
as on the surface OF the sea, and unless
God i'm his mercy banishes war from the
earth the 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 submarine ships be
used for laying open the wonders OF
Gods workings in the great deep and
never for human devastation! Oh, the
marvels Of the water world
These so-called seaweeds are the pas
ture fields and the forage Of the in
Vulnerable animals of the deep. Not one
specie of them can be spared from the
economy of nature. Valleys and noun
tains and plants miles underneath the
waves are all covered with flora and
fauna. Sunken Alps and Apennines and
81 So
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 sunken, and now covered with
the growths of the sea, as it once was
covered with the growths of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece
Of land but nov much of IL so far sunk
en- as TO make a channel and Ireland has
become an island. The islands for the
most part are only the foreheads of
sunken continents. The sea cOnquering
the land all along the coasts and crumb-
ling the hemispheres, wider and wider
become the subaqueous dOminions
Thank God that skilled photographers
have made us maps and charts of the
rivers and lakes and seas and shown us
something Of the work Of the eternal
God in the water worlds.
Thank God that the great Virginian,
Lieut.. Maury, lived TO give us The
Physical Geography Of the Sea, and that
men of genius have gone forth to study
the so-called weeds that wrapped about
Jonah's head and have found them to
be cOrOnals of beauty and when the tide
receded these scientists have waded down
and picked up divinely pictured leaves Of
the ocean, the naturalists Pike and
Hooper and Walters gathering them
from the beach of Long Island sound,
and DR.. Blodgett preserving them from
Emerson and Gray finding them along
Boston harbor, and Prof. Gibbs gather
ing them from Charleston harbor. and
for all other triumphs of algOlogy, or the
science Of seaweed.
Evidence of the Seas.
Why confine ourselves to the old and
hackneyed illustrations of the wonder
workings of God when there are at least
five great seas full of illustrations as yet
not marshaled. every root and frond and
cell and color and movement and habit
of oceanic vegetation crying out: Cod!
God! He made us. He clothed us. He
adorned us. He was the God OF our an
cestors clear back to the first sea growth.
when God divided the waters which
were above the armament from the wa
tiers which were under the armament
and shall be the God Of our descendants
clear down to the day when the sea shall
give up its dead. We have heard His
command, and we have obeyed, Praise
the Lord, dragons and all deeps!
There is a great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so-called
seaweed, and that is the demonstrated
doctrine of a particular Providence.
When 1 find that the Lord provides in
the sO-called seaweed the pasturage for
the thronged marine world, so that not
a fin or scale in all that oceanic acqua-
rum suffers need, I conclude He will
feed us, and If He suits the algae to the
animal life of the deep He will provide
the food for our physical and spiritual
needs. And If He clothes the flowers Of
the deep with richness of robe that looks
bright as fallen rainbows by day and
at night makes the underworld look as
though the sea were on fire, surely He
will clothe you, 20 We of little faithr'
And what fills me with unspeakable
delight is that this God of depths and
heights OF ocean and of continent, may
through Jesus Christ, the divinely APP
pointed means, be yours and mine, to
help, 10 cheer. to pardon, to save, 10 i'm
paradise. What matters who in earth
or hell is against us IL He Is for us? Om-
impotence to defend US. omnipresence to
companion us and infinite love to enfold
and upiift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so
well, seemingly taking as much care with
the coil OF a seaweed as the outbranch-
ing OF a Lebanon cedar, and with the
color of a vegetable rrowth which Is
hidden fethoms out of -ight as He does
with the solferino and purple of a sum-
mer sunset, we will be determined to do