Connecticut western news., 1893-10-05


 another, saying: II have heard you are studying for the ministry. So am l."
 My hearers, 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 ride, cut behind. When the paper Is cents, once in awhile give them cent piece and tell them to keep the change. 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 Van derbilt and Astor. And now, boys, stand up and let them see you have got the real stuff in you. Come out here and make respectable and honor able men, so they can say, There; that boy was once a newsboy." My hear CTS, join the Christian philanthropists 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. It is high time that Jonah finds out that that which is about him is not weeds, but flowers.
 CORONAI.S OF BEAUTY. - AS examine this red alga which was about the recreant prophet down in the Mediterranean depths. .when. in the words ~F 4o,-f hn .i1,1 hn xxynn ndn were wrapped about my head" and I am led thereby to further examine this sub marine world, l am compelled to exclaim, What wonderful God we havei I 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 report 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 it's opulence of color and plant unroll, especially as "Villeroy's submarine boat" has been constructed, making it possible to navigate under the sea al most as we'll as on the surface of the sea, and unless God in his mercy ban
 
 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 devastationl Oh, the marvels of the water worldi | 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 Apennines and Himalayas of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent that once connected Europe and Ameri- | ca, 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 growths | of the land. -.a England and Ireland once all one piece of land, but now much of it so far sunk | en as to make 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 crum- bling the hemispheres, wider and wider become the subaqueous dominions. Thank God that skilled photographers have made us maps and charts of the l 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, Lieutenant 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 the shores of Key West, and Professors Emerson and Gray finding them along | Boston harbor, and Professor Gibbs | gathering them from Charleston harbor. and for all the other triumphs of algol- | ogy, or the science of seaweed.
 Why confne 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 cut i:
 "Godl 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 frma- ment and shall be the God of our descend
 ants 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.'" | DAvID's MARINE DoxoLoGY.
 There is agreat comfort that rolls over
 upon us from this study of the so called
 seaweed, and that is the demonstrated
 doctrine of particular providence.
 When find that the Lord provides in
 the so called seaweed the pasturage for
 the thronged marine world, so that not
 fin or scale in all that oceanic aqua rum suffers need, conclude he will feed
 us, and if he suits the alga to the ami
 nal 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, 70 ye of little faithl'
 And what fills me with unspeaka ble
 delight is that this God of depths and
 heights, of ocean and of continent,
 may, through Jesus Christ, the divinely
 appointed means, be yours and mine, to
 help, to cheer, to pardon, to save, to
 imparadise. What matters who in
 earth or hell is against us if he is for usp
 Omnipotence to defend us, omnipresence
 to companion us and infinite love to en-