The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1893-10-06


the gospel In all departments OF life
those who were thought to be weeds
have turned out TO DE flowers My
hearers, implead you for the news
boys of the street, many OF them the
brightest children of the city. but no
chance. Do not step on their bare feet.
Do not, when they steal ride. cut be-
hind. When the paper is three cents
once in while give them hve-cent
piece and tell them to keep the change.
My hearers, join the Christian philan-
thropists 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. 1t is high time that
Jonah finds out that which is about
him is not weeds but flowers.
As l examine this Red Alga which
was about the recreant prophet down
the words of my text. he cried out:
THE weeds were wrapped about my
head and am led thereby to further
examine this submarine world, l am
compelled to exclaim. what wonder
full God we have. I am glad that, by
divingben and Brooks Deep Sea-
Sounding Apparatus" and ever-improv-
ing machinery, we are permitted to
walk the floor of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great God.
Study these gardens of the sea-
Easier and easier shall the profouuds
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 construct
ed. making it possible to navigate
under the sea almost as we'll as on
the surface of the sea. and unless
God in His mercy banishes war
from the earth 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 sub
marine ships be used for laying open
the wonders of Gods workings in the
great deep and never for human devas-
tation! Oh, the marvels of the water
world. These so-called seaweeds are
the pasture fields and the forage of the
innumerable animals of the deep. Not
one species of them can be spared from
the economy of nature. Valleys and
mountains and plants miles underneath
the waves are all covered with flora
and fauna. Sunken Alps and Apen-
mines and Himalayas of Atlantic and
Pacific 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 growths of the sea, as it
once was covered with growths of
the land. England and Ireland
once all one piece of land, but now
much of it is so far sunken as
to make channel, and Ireland has be-
come an island. The islands. for the
most part, are only the foreheads of
sunken continents. The sea conquer
ing the lard all along the coasts and
crumbling the heInispheres, wider and
wider become the sub-aqueous domin-
ions. Thank God that skilled hydro
graphers 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 wa1ed
down and picked up divinely-pictured
leaves of the ocean. Why contine our
selves to the old and hackneyed illus
trdtions of the woodworking of God,
when there are at least five great seas
full of illustrations as yet not mar
shaled, every root and from and cell
and color and movement and habit of
oceanic vegetation crying out: God.
God. He made US. He clothed us. He
adorned US. He was the God of our
ancestors clear back to the first sea-
growth. when God divided the waters
which were above the armament from
the waters which were under the firm
ameu., and shall be the God of our
descendants clear down to the day
when the sea shall give up its dead.
There is great comfort that rolls
over upon US from this study of the So
called sea-weed, and that is the demon
strated doctrine of particular provi-
dence When l find that the Lord pro-
vides in the so-called sea-weed the pas
turage for the thronged marine world,
so that not fin or scale in all that
oceanic aquarium suffers need, | con-
clude he will feed us and if he suits
the Alga to the animal life of the deep.
he will provide the food for our physi-
cal and spiritual needs.
And if the unintelligent creatures of
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
ocean He surrounds with such beauti
full grasses of the deep what heaven
we may expect for our uplifted and
ransomed souls when we are I'M
chained of the flesh and rise to realms
beatific. OF the fora of that sea of
glass mingled with fire" l have no
power to speak. but ! shall always be
glad that when the prophet of the
text, flung over the gunwales of
the Mediterranean ship descended
into the boiling sea, that which
he supposed to be weeds wrapped
about his head We're not weeds
but flowers And am l not right IN