Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1893-10-11

are not weeds They are immortal
flowers. Down in the deep sea OF woe.
but flowers When society and the
church of God come TO appreciate their
eternal value. thare win be more c l.
Braces and more Van Meters and more
Angels of Mercy spending their for
tunes and their lives in the rescue
Hear It, Oh ye philanthropic and Chris
tian and merciful souls; not weeds. bat
flowers 1 adjure you as friends OF all
Newsboys' Lodging houses. of all In
dustrial schools, of all Home for Friend
less Girls. and for the many reforrna-
tories and humane associations now on
foot How much they have already 40
complished- Out of what wretched-
ness, into what good homes
OF 81. 600 of these picked up out of
the streets and sent into country homes
only twelve children turned out badly.
In the last thirty years n number that
no man can number of the Migrants
have been lifted into respectability and
usefulness and Christian life. Many
of them have homes of their own
Though ragged boys once and street
girls. now at the head of prosperous
families, honored on earth and to be
glorious in Heaven. Some of them
have been governors of states Some
of them are ministers of the Gospel
In all departments of life those who
were thought 70 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." Ny hearers, / inn
plead you for the newsboys 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 behind.
When the paper is three cents once in q
while give them FIVE. 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 good home, to New YORK
newsboys' loding house; "Boys we
should show ourselves that we are no
fools, that we can become as respect
able as any of the countrymen, for
Franklin. and Webster, and Clay were
poor boys once, and even George Law
aud Vanderbilt and Astor. And now,
boys, stand up and let them see You
have got the real stuff in you. Como
out here and make respectable and hon
orable men, so they can say: There.
that boy was once a newsboy.'" Ny
hearers, join the Christian philanthro-
pists who are changing organ-grinders
and boot-blacks 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
III. l.. L. l. =.
weeds but flowers
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 am led thereby to further
examine this submarine world, am
compelled TO exclaim: What wonder
full God we have! am glad that, by
diving-ben 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. East
er 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 il
possible TO navigate under the sea al
most as well as on the surface, and un-
less God in His mercy banishes war
from the earth whole fleets of armed
ships will yet far down under the water
move on 10 blow up the agrosies that
float the surface.
May such submarine ships be used for
laying open the wonders OF Gods work.
ings in the great deep and never for
human devastation! Oh, the marvels
of the water world These so-called sea
weeds 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 under
meath the waves are all covered with
fora and fauna Sunlzen Alps and APP
ennines 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, AL sunleen. and now
covered with the growths Of the sea, as
it once was covered with growths OF
the land.