The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1893-10-28

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pists 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 that which
is about him is not weeds, but flowers.
A WONDERFUL GOD.
AS l 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 l am led
thereby to further examine this subma-
rine world, l am compelled to exclaim,
| What a wonderful God we have l am
glad that by diving BELL and Brooks deep
sea sounding apparatus" and ever improv-
ing machinery we are permitted to walk
the floor of the ocean and report the won
ders 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 opu-
lence of color and plant unroll, especially
as "Nilleroy's submarine boat has been
constructed making it possible to navigate
under the sea almost as well as on the sur
| face 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 submarine
ships be used for laying open the wonders
Of Gods workings in the great deep and
never for human devastation oh, the mar
wells of the water world
These so called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage Of the innumerable
animals of the deep. Not one specie of
them can be spared from the economy of
nature. Valleys and mountains and plants
a IA he. \
with fora and fauna Sunken Alps and
Apennines 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
the growths of the sea, as it once was COW
cred with the growths of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece of
land, but now much of it SO far sunken as
to make channel, and Ireland has become
an island. The islands for the most part
are only the foreheads of sunken CONT
nents The sea conquering the land all
along the coasts and crumbling the hemis-
pheres, wider and wider become the sub
aqueous 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,
Lieutenant Maury, lived to give us 1.-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 DIR. 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 algology,
or the science of seaweed.
EVIDENCE OF THE SEAS.
Why confine ourselves to the old and
hackneyed Illustrations of the wonder work
| ings 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 oce-
anic vegetation crying out: 'Godl Godl
He made u.s. 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 We're above
the armament from the waters 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
deepsr"
There is great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study Of the SO called
seaweed, and that is the demonstrated doc
trine of a 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 aquarium suffers need, !
conclude he will feed us, and if he suits
the alge 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 ye of little faithp'
And what fills me with unspeakable de
light 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 par
don, to save, TO imparadse. What mat
tiers who in earth or hell is against us if he
is for us? Omnipotence to defend us, ON
nipresence to companion us and infinite
love to Unfold and uplift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so well,
seemingly taking as much care with the
coil of a seaweed as the outbranching of
Lebanon CEDAR and with the color of a
vegetable growth which is hidden fathoms
out of sight as he does with the solferino
and purple of a summer sunset, we will be
determined to do well all we are called to
do though no one see or appreciate us.
Mighty God! Roll in upon our admiration
and holy appreciation more of the wonders
of this submarine world!
REVELATIONS AFTER DEATH
My joy is that after we are quit of all
earthly hindrances we may come back To
this world and explore what we cannot now
fully investigate. If we shall have power
to soar into the atmospheric without fa-
tigue, / think we shall have power to dive
into the aqueous without peril, and that
the pictured and tessellated sea floor will
be as accessible as now is to the traveller
the floor of the Alhambra, and all the gar
dens of the deep will then swing open to us
their gates as now to the tourist Chats
worth opens on public days its cascades
and statuary and Conservatives for our
entrance. at doth not yet appear what we
shall be-" You cannot make me believe
that God hath spread out all that garniture
of the deep merely for the polyps and crus-
tacea to look at.
And if the unintelligent creatures of the
Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean he
surrounds with such beautiful grasses of