Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-02

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they will answer: 81 don't live no.
where" They will sleep tonight In
~ash-barrels, or under outdoor st airs, or
on the wharf, kicked and bruised q
hungry. Who cares for themP Once
in a while a city missionary or a tract
distributor or a teacher OF ragged
schools will rescue one OF them, but for
most people they are only weeds. Yet,
Jonah did not more completely mis-
represent the Red Alg@ about his head
in the Mediterranean than most people
m~isjudge these poor and forlorn and
dying
CHILDREN OF THE STREET.
They are not weeds. They are immor-
tai flowers. Down in the deep sea OF
woe, but flowers. When society and
the church of God come to appreciate
their eternal value, there will be more
C. L. Braces and more Van Meters and
more Angels of Mercy spending their
fortunes and their lives i'd the rescue.
Hear it, Oh,ye philanthropic and Chris
tian and mercifnl souls, not weeds, but
flowers. l adjure you as the friends OF
all Newsboys' Lodging Houses, OF all
Industrial Schools of all Homes for
FriendleSs Girls, and for the many re-
.fOrmstOries and humane associations
now on foot. How much they have al
ready accomplished. Out OF what
wretchedness, into what good homes.
OF twenty-one thousand OF these picked
up out of the streets and sentinto coun-
try homes. only twelve children turned
out badly. In the last thirty years a
number that no man can number OF the
Migrants have been lifted into respecta-
bility and usefulness and a Christian
life. Many Of them have homes OF their
own.
although ragged boys nee and street
girls, DOW at the head OF prosperous
families, honOred on earth and TO be
glorious in heaven. Some Of them nave
been Governors Of States. Some Of
them are ministers of the Gospel. III
all departments OF life those who were
thought 40 be weeds have turned out TO
be flowers. One Of those rescued lads
from the streets of our cities wrote TO
saving: 81 have heard you
are Studying for the ministry; so am l."
My hearers, l implead you for the news
bows Of the streets, many OF them the
brightest children Of the city, but no
chance. Do not step on their bare feet.
Do not, when they steal a ride, cut be-
hind. When the paper Is three cents,
once in a while give them a tive-cent
piece, and tell them to keep the change.
l like the ring of the letter the news
boy sem back from Indiana, where he
had been sent to a good home, TO d New
York Newsboys' Lodging House:
BOYS, we should show ourselves that
we, who are now fools, that we can be-
come as respectable Jas any OF the
countrymen, for Franklin and Web
ster 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. Come out here and make
respectable and honorable men, so they
can say: There, that boy was once q
%newsboy.'" My hearers, join the
Christian philanthropists, 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 finds out that
that which is about him IS not weeds
but flowers.
AS examine this Red Alga which
was about the r%ecreant prophet down
in the Mediterranean depths, when, in
the words of my text, he cried out:
The weeds we're wrapped about my
head" and l am led thereby TO further
examine this submarine world, l am
compelled TO exclaim, What a wonder
full God we have! l I'm glad that, by
diving-bell aud Brooks Deep Sea
Sounding Apparatus and e~ver-improY-
ing machinery, we are permitted to
the floor Of the ocean and report
the wonders wrough hit 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 opulence OF color and plant un-
roll, especially as VillerOy's Submarine
Boat" has been constructed, making 1t
possible TO navigate under the sea al
most as well as on the surface OF the
sea, and unless God in his mercy BAN
ishes war from the earth, whole fleets
of armed ships will yet far down under
water move on to blow up the arRosies
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 deVas-
Oh, the marvels of the water
world These so-Called sea-wides 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 Him
slayas 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
rrowths OF the sea, as it once was COW
cred with growths OF the land. Eng
land and Ireland once all one piece or
land, but now much of it so far sunken
as 10 make a channel, and Ireland has
become an island. The islands, for the
most part, are only the %foreheads OF
continents. The sea conquer
ing the land all along the coasts, and
crumbling the hemisphereS, wider and
wider become the sub-sQueous domiE-
ions.
Thank God that skilled hydragraph-
ors 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
',The Physical Geography Of the Sea-"
and that men Of genius have gone forth
to study the so-called weeds that wrap
- So,,bss baad and have found