Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-10-05

Of2l 600 of these picked up out of the streets
and sent into country homes, only IL chill
dren turned out badly.
In the last 80 years n number that no
man can number of the Migrants have been
lifted into responsibility and usefulness
and a Christian life. Many of them have
homes of their own-though ragged boys
once and street girls, now at the head of
prosperous families, honorcd on earth and
~ be glorious in heaven. Some of them
have been governors of states. Some of
them are ministers of the gospel. In all
departments of life those who were thought
to be weeds have turned ont to be flowers
One of those rescued lads from the streets
Of our cities wrote to another saying: II
have heard you are studying for the minis
try. SO am ]"
Ny hearers, implead you for the news
boys of the streets, many Of them the
brightest children of the city, but with no
,hance. Do not step on their bare feet.
Do not, when they steal ride, cut behind.
When the paper is 3 cents, once in
while give them a ) cent piece and tell
them to keep the change. | like the ring
nf the letter the newsboy sent back from
Indiana, where he had been sent to a good
home to a New York newsboys' lodging
thas we are no fools; that we can become
as respectable as any Of the countrymen,
for Franklin and Webster and Clay were
poor boys once. and even George Law and
Vanderbilt and Aston. 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 VS. once anewsboy.'"
My hearers. join the Christian philanthro.
pists who are changing organ grinders and
bootblacks and newsboys and street arabs
and cigar girls into those who shall he 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.
WONDERFUL GOD.
AS | examine this red alga which was
about the recreant prophet down in the
Mediterranean depths when in the words
of my text he cried out, The weeds were
wrapped about my head" and | am led
thereby to further examine this subma-
rine world, | am compelled to exclaim,
What a wonderful God we have! | am
glad that by diving bell, and Brooks deep
sea sounding apparatus" and ever improv-
ing machinery we are permitted to walk
the floor of the ocean and report the won
ders wrought 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 opu-
lence of color and plant unroll, especially
as "Nilleroy's submarine boat has been
constructed making it possible to navigate
under the sea almost as well as on the sur
face of the sea, and unless God in his mercy
banishes war from the earth whole fleets
of armed ships will yet far down under the
water 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 mar
wells of the water world,
These SO called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals of the deep. Not one specie 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 Himalayas 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 growths of the sea, as it once was COW
England and Ireland once all one piccs of
land, but now much of it so far sui, 6en AS
to make a channel, and Ireland has l,ec-, me
an island. The islands for the most part
are only the foreheads of sunken CONT
nents. The sea conquerng the land all
along the coasts and crumbling the hemis-
pheres, wider and wider become 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 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 wrapped about Jonah's
head and have found them to be coronals
OF beauty, and when the tide receded these
scientists have waded down and picked ND
dlvinely pictured leaves of the ocean. the
Pike and Hooper and Walters
gathering them from the beach of Long
Island sound, and DIR. Blodgett preserving
them from the shores of Key West. and
Professors Emerson and Gray finding them
along Boston harbor, and Professor Gibbs
gathering them from Charleston harbor.
and for all the other triunphs of algology,
Or the science of seaweed
EVIDENCE OF THE SEAS.
Why coniine ourselves to the old and
illustrations of the wonder work
ings of God when there are at least five
great seas full of illustrations as vet not
every root and frond and cell
and color and movement and habit of oce-
anic vegetation crying out: God! God!
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 armament from the waters which were
under the armament, and shall be the God
of our descendants clear down to the dav
when the sea shall give up its dead. We
have heard his command, and we have
obeyed, Praise the Lord, dragons aud all
deepsN"
There is great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study Of the so called
seaweed, and that is the demonstrated doe
trine of II particular Providence When |
find that the Lord provides in the so called
teaweed the pasturage for the thronged
marine world, so that not a fin or scale in
NIL that oceanic aquarium suffers need |