Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1893-10-03

Lee ny nb1ecs cbsrs 81 thoe whs
bad trends Who L11o krsn burisi ii go
O. IN car great An,<rfcoa kakes. Which
q ~ brouxhs ap e ~ AflAntsc snasl
has ne had andre a k<ead thns sep
uichsrs<f We had ths ns>i<ss horror q
thinking thas thy 1870 drnisd proper
rssslnx pl&os. We - 90 u they had
hsed % oez1s s&hers end lad then al
piredi What an sllevin<ton q cur troubls
Il woald have besn - pas them Ia sons
beanrlfai family pioe. wbrrs ne coald
hare planted fo~<rs hn1 trees ever
then~ Why. cd a b@<ser for thern
than Ne eould have done f<x them. They
v>re he's down into bso1ltifui gardens.
Before they had reached ~ toffom they
had sariznis sbou1 tkeir brow.
Ia more elsf<xofe cd sdsrned place
than ne could have nGusdsl them they
vers pat away ia ~ L1zs slusnber
Hear II. motkers ard h<hcrs u sailor
boys whose chip went down In cur lat
August harrieansi TheFe are no GreeL-
woods or Lanrsl Hills % Mount Auburns
20 beautiful GA TIE lapd a. there are
banned and terrace1 snd scooped and
hang IN the depths u ~ sea Tee bod
ies Of our fonbdered and snnken friends
are girdlsd and canopied and bonsed
with snch gloriss - s1tend no other
Metropolis
They were swamped IN afeboafs. OF
they struck on ooodwIn sands or Deal
beach or the Skerri<s. sud were never
heard q. or dissppenre1 With the City of
Boston, or the Wiz = Havre. or the
Cymbris o. were run down in . fishing
smack that put oeofson newfoundland.
But dismiss your rrrviOus gloom about
the horrors Of ocsQn snsonbmenf-
TIE MIST Akks o. yoSAL
when sevasfop<1 w.s besieged IN the
Anglo-Freneh war. Prince Mentehikof.
commanding the Russian navy. saw that
the only WY to keep the English out Of
the harhor was u sznh al Of the Russian
ships Of war in the ros>lstead. and so 100
vessels sank. When. after the war was
over. our American engineer. Gowan. de-
sosnded 70 the depths h . diving bell, it
was an impressive spectacle.
On, hundred hurried shipz, But IL il
that way nearly al acroz the Atlantic
ocean. shins snnk po< bx command Of
admirals. but by TIE Command Of cy-
clones. But they al had sublime
burial. and ths srrroundiner amid
which thew sl.ep the LAT s,eeu are more
imposing than the Tai Mahai. the maui
soisum' with walls incruxted with pre-
eiouz stone. ana built by abe great mo-
ruI OF India over his empress. Your
departed ones were buried In the gar
dens Of the sea. fenced of by hedges Of
corslline.
The greatest oh~eouies ever known on
the land were those Of Moses, where no
one but God WAS present. The sublime
report 81 that entombment is in the
book OF Deuteronomy. which says that
the Lord buried him. and Of those who
have gone down 10 slunber in the deep
the same may be said. The Lord buried
them As Christ was buried IN a gar
den. so your shipwreeked friends and
tho<s who could not survive till they
reached port were put down amid mi
the midst Of the garden
there was a sepulcher.-
Ia has always been n mystery what was
the particular mode by which George G..
Goodman. the pulpit orator Of the Meth
o|ii-t church and the chaplain Of the
congress. left this life after
emharkine for England ON the steamship
President. March n. ls4f. Tae shin
never arrived in port No one ever
siznaied her. and ON both sides of the
ocean IL has for 80 years been questioned
what became Of her. But this know
about Cookmsn--that whether Il was
iceberg or confsxraf,on midsea or col
Iirot he had more anrlsnds ON his ocean
tomb than II. expiring ON Land. each Of
his million frienis had mt n bouquet
on his casket. In the midst Of the garden
was his -~uulcher.
But that brings me 10 notice the mis-
homer In this Jonahitic expression Of
the text The uronhet NOT only made n
mistake bv irving 10 20 20 Tarshish
wh., Cod told him IN srp 10 Ninexeh
but he made a mistake when he STYLED
a. weeds these growths that enwrapued
him ON IN. dav he ank. A weed u
that 4. u~eless. II il some
thing Won throw out from the garden.
L. /. something that chokes the wheat.
IA "a snrnething "a DO grubled out from
among the cotton. II Is something IN
slightly 70 the eye. II Il an invader Of
the vegetable or floral world.
Bu, this growth thai sprang up from
IN. depth a the Mediterranean or
eoated on IL. surface WAS among the
most beautiful things that God ever
make. Twas wstrr pl.nt known a
a., al col,r.i 49,. sni ~, ,ve..t "a all