Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-10-02

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
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 onah's head and have found them
to be ccronals 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 !:
"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 frma-
ment and shall be the God of our descend
ants clear down to the day when the sea
shall give up it's dead. We have heard his
command, and we have obeyed, Praise
the Lord, dragons and all deeps.'"
DAvID'S MARINE DOXOLoGY.
There is q great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so called
seaweed, and that is the demonstrated
doctrine of a particular providenC :.
When I find that the Lord provides in
the so called seaweed the pasturage for
the thronged marine world, so that not
a fin or scale in all that oceanic aqua
rum suffers need, I 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 dc p
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, 80 ye 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 hell 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 a sum
mer sunset, we will be determined to do
well all we are called to do, though no
one see or appreciate u.s. Mighty God!
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 l think we
shall have power to dive into the aque-
GUS without peril, and that the pictured
and tessellatcd sea floor will be as &C
cesslblc as now is to the traveller the
floor Of the Alham bra, and all the gar
dens of the deep will then swing open to
us their gates as now to the tourist
Chatsworth opens on public days its
cascades and statuary and Conservatives
for our entrance. sit doth not yet APP
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 crustacea 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 ran
somed souls when we are unclaimed of
the flesh and rise to realms beatific! OF
the fora Of that ''sea of glass mingled
with fire." have no power to speak, but
I shall always be glad that, when the
prophet Of the text, flung over the gun
wales of the Mediterranean ship, de-
scended into the boiling sea, that which
he supposed to be weeds wrapped aoout
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 .ss campfire, and Jer-
emiah's balm, and Jobs bulrush, and
Isaiah's terebinth, and Hosea's thistle,
and Eznlziel,s cedar. and ssthe hvssnn that