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

the sea shall give up its dead. We have
heard his command and we have o0eyed:
: Praise the Lord, dragons n all
deeps.'"
There is a great comfort that rolls
over upon us from this study OF the So
called sea-weed, and that Is the demon
strated doctrine Of q particular Provl-
denee. When 1 find that the LORD
provides In tina so-called sea-Weeo 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 il he suits
the Alge to the animal life OF the deep,
he will provide the food for our pnysi-
cal and spiritual needs. And II ne
clothes the flowers Of the deep with
richness Of robe that looks bright as
fallen ~rainbows by day, and at night
makes the under world look as though
the sea were on fire, surely he Will
clothe you: "0h, ye OF little 1alth!
And what fills me with un~speakaole de-
light is that this God OF depths and
heights, of ocean and Of continent,
may, through Jesus Christ, the Dlvlnely
appointed means, be yours and mine' 10
help, TO cheer, to pardon, to save 10
emparadise What matters who In
earth or hell is against US, II de IS tor
us? Omnipotence to defend US, Omnl-
presence to companion US, and lnhnit
love to enfold and uplift and enrapture
us. And when God does small things
so we'll, seemingly taking as much care
with the coil of the sea-weed as the
o~utbranching of a Lebanon cedar, ana
with the color OF a vegetable growth
which is hidden tathoms out OF sight
as he does with the solferino and
PURPLE OF A SUMNER 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 q admiration and holy apprecla-
ton more OF the wonders Of this suoma-
rine world! My Joy is that after we are
Quit OF all earthly h%in1rances 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 hln we
shall have power to dive into the aque-
Gus without peril, and that the pictured
and t%esSellated sea-lOor will be as acces-
sible as now is TO the traveller the door
of the Alhambra, and all the gardens 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. cit doth not yet appear
what we shall be-" You cannot make
me believe that God hath spread out all
the garniture of the deep merely for the
polyphs and crustacea TO look at.
And If the unintelligent creatures OF
the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
Ocean, He surrounds with such beauti-
full grasses OF the deep, what a heaven
we may expect for our uplifted and ran
somed souls when we are unclaimed OF
the flesh aud rise TO realms beatlhc. vi
the flora Of that ''Sea Of Glass mingled
with fire" l have no power to speak, but
| shall always be glad that, when the
prophet of the text, flung over the gun
wales OF the Mediterranean ship, de-
sceuded into the boiling sea, that which
he supposed to be weeds wrapped about
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, anize and cummin, and Matthew's
tares, and Johns vine, and Solomon's
cluster of campfire, and Jeremiah'S
balm, and Jobs bulrush, and Isaiah's
t|erebinth, and Hosea's thistle, and
Ezekiel's cedar, and "the byssop that
springeth out Of the wall" and the
Rose of Sharon and the Lily Of the
Valley" and the frankincense and
myrrh and cassia which the astrologers
brought to the manger, at least one
stalk of the AlQ9 OF the Mediterranean
And new | make the marine d~oxology
Of David my peroration, for 1t was writ
ten about forty or fifty miles from the
place where the scene Of the text was
enacted. The sea is his and he made
it! and his hands formed the dry land.
O, come and let us worship aud bow
down; let us kneel before the Lord our
Maker. For he is our God, and we are
the people Of his pasture" Amen.