Milford chronicle., 1893-10-06

a. the harbor was to sink all Of the Russia
ships Of war in the roadstead, and so Ii
- vessels sank. When, after the war wa
A over, our American engineer, Gowan, d,
soended to the depths in a diving bell.
was an impressive spectacle.
IS SUBLIME BURIAL.
"a One hundred buried shipsl But it is tina
1t way nearly all across the Atlantic ocean
's Ships sunk not by command Of admirals
d but by the command Of cyclones. But the
l. all had sublime burial, and the surround
q ings amid which they sleep the last sleer
s are more imposing than the Tai Mahai
the mausOleum with walls incrusted with
precious stones and built by the great mo
4 gul OF India over his empress Your de
2 parted ones were buried in the gardens OF
a the sea, fenced off by hedges of coralline.
The greatest obsequies ever known on
the land were those Of Moses, where no one
but God was present. The sublime report
, Of that entombment IS in the book of Deu-
teronomy, which says that the Lord buried
J him, and Of those who have gone down to
= slumber in the deep the same may be
said-''The Lord buried them" As Christ
was buried IN a garden, so your shipwreck-
ed friends and those who could not survive
till they reached port were put down amid
iridescence-'ln the midst of the garden
there was sepulcher"
1t has always been a mystery what was
the particular mode by which George G.
Cookman, the pulpit orator Of the Metho-
dist church and the chaplain of the Ameri-
can congress, left this life after enlbarking
Tor England on the steamship President
March II, 1871. That ship never arrived in
port. No one ever signaled her, and on
both sides of the ocean it has for so years
/ been questioned what became Of her. But
/ this l know about Cookman-that whether
( it was iceberg or eonaagration midsea or
collision he had more garlands on his ocean
tomb than if, expiring on land. each of his
million friends had put bouquet on his
easket. In the midst of the garden was his |
sepulcher.
JONAH's MISTAKES.
But that brings me to notice the misno- 4
mer in this Jonahitic expression of the
text. The prophet not only made a mis-
take by trying to go to Tarshish when God
told him to go to Nineveh, but he made a
mistake when he styled as weeds these
growths that enwrapped him on the dav
he sank. A weed is something that is use
less. 1t is something you throw out from
the garden. 1t is something that chokes the
wheat. It is something to be grubbed out
from among the cotton 1t is something
unsightly to the eye. It is an invader Of
the vegetable or floral world. But this
growth which sprang up from the depth Of
the Mediterranean or foated on its sur
face was aP4ong the most beautiful things
tbet Goattacf makes.
ItNT7Hs Ien3ater plant known as the red
colorets Soll and no weed at all. It comes ]
from the eoll ~ hm Of infinite beauty. 1t is {
planted bv Heavenly love. 1t is the star Of a
sunken firmanent. ms 4 4 nm mn q which the
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whole sheaves of practical suggestion. It q
is poem all whose cantos are runy by u
divine goodness. Yet we all make the mis- g
take that Jonah made in regard to it and L
call 1t weed. THE weeds were wrapped O
about my head" Ali that is the trouble T
1n the land as on the sea- We call those a
weeds that are flowers. q
Picked up on the beach of society are al
children without home, without oppor- Of
unity for anything but sin, seemingly
Without God. They are washed up help
ess. They are called ragamuf1ins. They hi
re spoken of as the rakings of the world In
They are waits. They are street arabs. @
hey are hOtsam and jetsam of the social m
ca They are something to be left alone, an
I something to betrod on, or something to an
i've up to decay Nothing but weeds. II
hey are up the rickety stairs Of that gar us
snement house. They swelter in summers GC
hen they see not one blade of green grass. th
nd shiyer in winters that allow them not un
ne warm coat or shawl or shoe. of
Such the city missionary found in one Of WI
II city rookeries, and when the poor yyom- ha
/ was asked if she sent her children to OBJ
hool she replied: mo, sir, 1 never did de-
nd 'em to school. I know it, they ought q
learn, but I couldn't. I try to shame up
m sometimes Gt is my husband, sir. but sea
drinks and then beats me-look at that tri1
uise on my face-and 1 tell him to see fin
hat is comm to his children. There's sea
'ggy, goes seilin fruit every night in those ma
liars in Water street, and they're hells. all
. She's learnin all sorts of bad words con
ere and don't get back till 12 O'Clock at the
sht. If 1t wasn't for her earnin a shillin vii
two in them places, should starve. Oh. spi
wish they was out of the city. Yes, it is fov
2 truth. 1 would rather have all my tha
ildren dead than on the street, but l day
1T help it." lool
SAVED DY DEATH. he :
Another one Of those poor women, found A
a reformatory association, recited her Hgb
ry Of want and woe and looked up and of Z
i, Il felt so hard to lose the children TesI
en- they died, but now I'm glad they're be v
le" Ask any one of a thousand such don.
ldren on the streets, ''Where do YOU ters
y" and they will answer, II don't live is 70
ghere" They will sleep tonight in ash nipr
rels, or under outdoor stairs, or on the love
arf kicked and bruised and hungry. Al
10 cares for them? Once in awhile a seem
missionary or tract distributor or coil
her Of ragged schools will rescue one of I.eba
~ but for most people they are only vegei
ds. out g
ct Jonah did not more completely mis- and /
esent the red alga about his head in deter
Mediterranean than most people mis- do t
&c these poor and forlorn and diving Mich
dren Of the street. They are not weeds. and I
y are immortal fowers-down in the oftbi
sea of woe, but flowers. When soci-
and the church of God come to appre- Nv
: their eternal value, there will be more earth
D. Braces and more Van Meters and this Y
e angels Of mercy spending their for fully
S and their lives in the rescue to So
ar it, o, ye philanthropic and Chris tique
and merciful souls-not weeds, but into
Frs. adJure you as the friends Of all the pi
'Ooys lodslng houses, OF an industrial be as
Dls, Of all homes for friendless girls the Il,
for the many reformatories and hui dens
associations now on foot. How much Ll-.l, .lislr
have already accomplished Out Of vi vi ~
wretchedness, into what good honest -t-. alie I
900 of these picked up out Of the streets 1S
ent into country homes, only 70 chill ss.li stt =
turned out badly ~ .iiag ~ y
the last 80 years a number that no elIll ~ .ile
can number Of the vagrants have been '''Ssa ~
into respeotability and usefulness ,rSAiis ~
Christian life Many Of them have l..,.ll.' ulsul.
ord st,.a+ - olsu lssSu Doys the de-
srons fsiiiss 80, 5,+o,5 liom q. w nsau our up
sslo,io1,s ~ I,-', e ~ ~ - s'il are un
bse1, -.a-..-s - ,9ol.ie u on beatif
are r5inistar of t $500 T i'oiIs M 9i minglt
.roents ~ n = ~ - 81. speak
weeds have turned out to be flowers el,,,-l srs y
f those rescued lads from the streets na,,,,. :.
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