The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-02

make respectable and honorable men. SO
. they can say. There. that boy was once
newsb0y My hearers join the Christ
ian phuauthrOpists who are changing
urgan-vriudCrs and boot blacks and news
boys and streettarabs and cigar girls into
those who shall be kings and queens unto
God forever. II is high time that Jonah
finds out that that which is about him is
. not weeds but flowers.
ASH examine this Red Alga which was
. about the rccrcaut prophet down in the
. Mediterranean depths, when in the words
. of my text, he cried out: THE weeds
I We're wrapped about my head. and / am
. led thereby to further examine this sub
marine world. 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
improving 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 Easier
| and easier shall the profounds of the
ocean become to US and the more and
more its Opulence of color and plant I'M
roll, especially as "Villeroys Submarine
/ Boat has been constructed, making it
possible to navigate under the sea almost
as well as on the surface of the sea, and
unless God in his mercy banishes war
from the earth, whole fleets of armed
SHIPS Will AGL. ldT QOWu uUueE bHt WdJDI.
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 marvelS Of
the water world These so-called sea
weeds are the pasture fields and the for
age of the innumcrable animals of the
deep. Not one species of them can be
spared from the economy of nature Val
fsl1r mt loo
underneath the waves are all covered
with fora and fauna. Sunkeu Alps and
Apenuincs and Himalayas of Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. A continent that
once connected Europe and America, so
that in ages past men came on foot across
from where England is to where we now
stand all sunken, and now covered with
grOwthS of the sea, as it once was COW
cred with growthS of the land. England
and Ireland once all one piece of land, but
now much of ii 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 hemispheres, wider and wider be-
come 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 some
thing of the work of the Eternal God in
the watcr-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 wrapped about Jonahs head and
have found them to be cOronals of beauty,
and when the tide receded, these scien-
lists have waded down and picked up
Divine pictured leaves of the ocean, the
naturalists, Pike and Hooper and Walters,
gathering them from the beach of Long
Island Sound, and DR.. Blodgett preserv-
ing them from the shores of Key West,
and PrOfs. EmmersOn and Gray finding
them along Boston harbor, and
Prof Gibbs gathering them from
Charleston harbOr, and for all the other
triumphs of Algogoly, or the science of
sea-weed. Why contine ourselves to the
old and hackneyed illustrations of the
wonder workings of God, when there are
at least five great seas full of illustra-
tions as yet not marshalled, every root
and frond and cell and color and move
ment and habit of oceanic vegetation cry
ing out: "God Cod 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 were 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 deeps.n
There is a great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so-called
sea weed and that is the demonstrated
doctrine of a particular Providence.
When / find that the Lord provides in
the SO-called sea weed the pasturage for
the thronged marine world, so that not a
fin or scale in all that oceanic aquarium
suffers need, | conclude he will feed us,
and if he suits the Algn to the animal
life of the deep, he win 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 we're on fire, surely he viii clothe
you. "Oh, We of little faith!" And what
fills me with unSpeakabe delight is that
this God of depths and heights, of ocean
and Of continent, may, through
Jesus Christ, the Divineiy ap-
pointed means, be yours and mine, to
help, to cheer, to pardon, to save, to en-
paradise. What matters who in earth or
hell is against US, if He is for us? ON
impotence to defend us, Omnipreseuce to
companion us, and Infinite love to enfold
ana upllIU ana enrdpJure us. And when
God does small things so well, seemingly
taking as much care with the coil of
sea-weed as the out-branching of a Leb-
anon Cedar, and with the color of a vege-
table 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 admira-
ton and holy appreciation more of the
wonders of this submarine world!
My JOY is 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 atmOs-
pheric without fatigue | think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous with
out peril, and that the pictured and tes-
sellated sea floor viii be as accessible as
now is to the traveller the floor of the Al
hambra, and all the gardens 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. 1T 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 polyphs and crustacea to
look at.
And if the uninteligcnt creatures of
the Med II tpr,9neau and the Atlantic accom-