Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1893-10-19

that skilled photographers have mad,
US maps and charts of the rivers anC
lakes and seas, and shown us some
thing OF the work of the Eternal Goo
in the water worlds. Thank God tina
the great Virginian, Lieutenant Maury
lived to give US THE Physical Geo
| graphy of the Sea" and that men o.
| genius have gone forth to study the so
called weeds that wrapped about
Jonah's head and have found them tc
be coronals of beauty, and when the tide
receded, these scientists have waded
down and picked mp 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
Profs. Emerson and Gray finding them
along Boston Harbor, and Prof. Gibbs
gathering them from Charleston Har-
Dor, and for all the other triumphs OF
algology, or the science of seaweed.
Why confine 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 not marshalled, every root and
frond and cell and color and movement
and habit OF oceanic vegetation crying
out; God Cod 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 firma-
ment from tho waters which were un-
der 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'"
There is great comfort that rolls
over upon us from this study of the so-
called weed, and that is the demon
strated doctrine of a particular provi-
dence. When find that the Lord pro
vides in the so-called sea weed the pas
turage of the thronged marine world,
SO that not a fin or scale in all the
oceanic aquarium suffers, need con-
clude He will feed us, and if He suits
the Alga to the animal life of the deep,
He will provide the food for our physi-
cal and spiritual needs. And if He
clothes the flowers of the deep with
of robes 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, 20, we of little faith!'' And
what fills me with unspeakable delight
is that this God of depths and heights
of ocean and continent may, through
Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed
means be yours and mine to help, to
cheer. to pardon, to save, TO empara-
disc. What matters who in earth or
he'll is against us, II He is for us? Om-
Impotence to defend us. omnipresence
to companion us. and infinite love to
anfold and uplift and enrapture us. And
when God does small things SO well,
seemingly taking as much care with
the coil of sea weed as the outbranch-
ing of a Lebanon cedar, and with the
color of vegetable growth which is
hidden fathoms out Of sight as He does
with the solferino and purple of a sum
ner sunset, we will be determined to
10 well all we are called to do, though
no one see or appreciate us. Mighty
iodl Roll in upon our admiration and
holy apprecia ton more of the wonders
IF this submarine world! My joy is
that after we are quit of all earthly |
we may come back to this |
world and explore what we cannot now |
iully investigate. IL we shall have
power to soar into the atmospheric |
without fatigue think we shall have |
power to dive into the aqueous without |
peril, and that the pictured and tessel-
ated sea-hoor will be accessible as
low is to the traveller the floor of the
ilhambra, and all the gardens of the
leep will then swing open to us their
rates as now to the tourist Chatsworth
pens on public days its cascades and
tatuary and conservatories for our en-
rance at doth not yet appear what
We shall be" You cannot make me
believe that God hath spread out all
hat garniture of the deep merely for
he polyps and crustacea to look at.
And If the unintelligent creatures of
he Mediterranean and the Atlantic
,cean, He surrounds with such beauti-
al grasses of the deep. what Heaven
We may expect for on. uplifted and
ansomed souls when we are unclaimed
f the flesh and rise to realms beatitic.
" the flora of that ''sea of glass min
led with fire. have no power TO
peak, but shall always be glad that,
rhen the prophet of the text, flung
yer the gunwales of the Mediterra-
can ship, descended into the boiling
ca, that which he supposed to be
reeds wrapped about his head were
OF weeds but flowers. And am ] not
light in this glance at the botany OF
he Bible in adding to Luke's mint
Mise and cummin. and Matthew tares.
nd Johns vine, and Solomon's cluster
campfire. and Jeremiah's balm.
nd Jobs bulrush. and Isaiah's tere-
NTH, and Hosea's thistle, and EzelSiels
edar, and THE hyssop that springeth