Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-10-07

the waters which were under The firmar
ment and shall be the God of our descend
ants clear down to the day when the sea
shall give up its dead. WehaYe heard his
command, and we have obeyed, Praise
the Lord, dragons and all deeps.'"
DAvD's MARINE DoXoLoGY.
There is agreat comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the 80 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, Iconclude hewillfeed
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, surelyhe will clothe
you, 20 We Of little faith!"
And what fills me with unspeakable
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 he'll is against us If he is for US?
Omnipotence to defend US, omnipresence
to companion us and infinite love'to en-
fold 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 out
branching 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 sum-
mer sunset, we will be determined to do
we'll all we are called to do, though no
one see or appreciate us. Mighty Godl
Roll in upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more of the wonders of this
submarine world. 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 fatigue think we
shall have power to dive into the aque-
Gus without peril, and that the pictured
and tessellated sea floor will be as &C
cessible as now is to the traveller the
floor of the ALEXANDRIA, and all the gar.
dens of the deep will then swing open to
us their gates as now to tho tourist
Chatsworth opens on public days lie
cascades and statuary and conservatories
for our entrance. "It doth not yet ap-
pear 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 erustacea to look at,
And if the unintelligent creatures Of
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
ocean he surrounds with such beautiful
grasses of the deep, what heaven we,
may expect for our uplifted and ram
somed soulswhen we. are unclaimed Of
lsthe flesh and rise to realms beatifcI OF
lsstthes Hora 9sea of glass mingled,
with fire. nave no peWertos speak but
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wales Of the Medi terranean ship, de-:
scended into the boiling sea, that which
he supposed to be weeds wrapped
his head were not weeds, but flowers.
And am I not right in this glance at
the botany of the Bible in adding to
Luke's mint, anise and cumin, and
Matthew's tares, and Johns vine, and
Solomon's cluster of campfire, and Jer-
emiah's balm, and Jobs bulrllsh, and
Isaiah's terebinth, and Hosea's thistle,
and Ezekiel's cedar, and "the hyssop that
springeth out of the WALL" and the "rose
Of Sharon and lily of the valley" and
the frankincense and myrrh and cassia
which the astrologers brought to the
manger at least one stalk Of the alga Of
the Mediterranean.
And now make the marine doxology
Of David my peroration, for it was writ
ten about 40 or 80 miles from the place
where the scene Of the text was enacted.
.The sea is his, and he made 1t, and his
hands formed the dry land. Oh, come,
let us worship and bow down; let us
kneel before the Lord, our Maker. For
he Is our God, and we are the people of
his pasture" Amen.