Milford chronicle., 1893-10-06
Al THE TABERNACLE. i
Or. TALMAeE DlscoURsEs ON THE
GARDENS OF THE SEA.

The Maryels Of the Deep Aaord Furths
Proof of Gods Infinite Power and Wi
doIn-Jonah'ss Submarine Disooveries-.
New Field For Investigation.
BROOKLYN, Oct. LIN his sermon tbi
forenoon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle. as 4
many other discourses, Rev T. De Wit
Ialmage took his hearers and reader
through an untried region of thought an,
found subject for most practical gospel
zation In THE Garden Of the Sea-" Th
text selected was Jonah ii, 8, "The weed
were wrapped about my head"
The Botany Of the Bible; or, God amone
the Flowers" isa fascinating subject. 1 hold
IN my hand book which brought from
Palestine, bound in olive wood, and within
it are pressed flowers, which have not only
. retained their color, but their aroma.
. Flowers from Bethlehem, flowers from
/. Jerusalem, flowers from Gethsemane.
flowers from Mount of Olives, flowers from
Bethany, flowers from Sloan, flowers
from the valley Of Jehoshaphat, red anem-
ones and wild mignonette, buttercups, dali
sizes, cyclamens, camomile, bluebells, ferns,
MOSES, grasses and a wealth Of fora that
keeps me fascinated by the hour, and every
time open it it is a new revelation. It
] - AAA1 @flfh ANoAttiAtAA OA LuE nElQa. I1IE
( my text leads us into another realm Of the
botanical kingdom.
/ Having spoken to you in a course Of SER
mons about God everywhere-on 1.-THE AS
tronomy of the Bible; or, God Among the
Stars" 1.-THE Ornithology of the Bible; or.
God Among the Birds" 1.-The Ichthyology
of the Bible; or, God Among the Fishes"
The Mineralogy Of the Bible; or, God
Among the Amethysts;" THE Conohology
of the Bible; or, God Among the Shells;''
"The Chronology of the Bible; or, God
Among the Centuries'-I speak now to you
about THE Botany of the Bible; or, God
In the Gardens of the Sea"
BOTANY OF THE BIBLE.
Although purposely take this morning
for consideration the least observed and
least appreciated Of all the botanical prod 1
ucts of the world, we shall find the contem- /
plation very absorbing In all our theolog- I
ical seminaries where we make ministers I
there ought to be professors to give lessons /
In natural history. Physical science ought I
to be taught side by side with revelation.
1t is the same God who inspires the page Of
the natural world as the page Of the Scrip
tural world
What freshening up it would be to our
sermons to press into them even frag-
A4ANAAv VI A4lGAlNCALalcdu dEdWEEQl w bBnOulu
have fewer sermons awfully dry if we imi-
tated our blessed Lord, and in our dis
sdnfsts, Ike Ike him, we would let a LIS.
bloom, or a croS.fy, or a hen..hFsod her
or a crystal of salt flash out the
lreservative qualities Of religion. The trou-
Die is that in many of our theological sem
naries men who are so dry themselves
hey never could get people to come and
them T1rnnnh 80
-Oung men how to preach, and the student
) put between two great presses Of dog
natic theology and squeezed until there IS
% life left in him. Give the poor victim {
t least one lesson on the botany of the
bible. r
That was an awful plunge that the re- a
reant prophet Jonah made when, dropped q
yer the gunwales of the Mediterranean v
zip, he sank many fathoms down into A
sea- Both before and after q
le monster of the deep swallowed him. he t.
as entangled in seaweed. The iungles "
the deep threw their cordage of vegeta- /,
on around him. Some Of this seaweed a
as anchored to the bottom Of the waterv 4
,ysm, and some of it was afioat and swal- I
wed by the great sea monster, so that Sc
hile the prophet was at the bottom Of the Oh
ep after he was horribly imprisoned ei
could exclaim and did exclaim in the II
ords of my text, 1.-THE weeds were wrap re
d about my head" te
JoNAH's SUBMARINE DISCOVERIES. w
Jonah was the first to record that there az
Q growths upon the bottom Of the sea as or
III as upon land. The first picture ever
ned was a handful of seaweeds pressed on on
age, ana called them the shorn locks an
Neptune" These products of the deem. sci
ether brown or green or yellow or purple. SCI
red or intershot of many colors, are most to
cinating They are distributed all over hi,
depths and from Arctic to Antarctic. he
at God thinks well of them conclude bri
m the fact that he has made {, 200 species WI
them. Sometimes these water plants Pc
400 or 700 feet long, and they cable the eel
One specimen has a growth of 1,50O sir
T. the
IN the northwest shore of our country is mig
eaweed with leaves 80 or 40 feet long. or
id which the sea otter makes his home, W
ting himself on the buoyancy of the leaf the
stem. The thickest jungles of the chi
pics are not more full of vegetation can
n the depths of the sea. There are for
down there, and vast prairies all A
,om, and God walks there as he walked by
be garden Of Eden "in the cool of the stoi
b" Oh, what enhancement, this sub sale
eous worldl Oh, the God given won wh'
of the seaweedl Its birthplace is a gon
ICE Of crystal. The cradle that rocks it chill
lie storm. Its grave is a sarcophagus of live
j and sapphire. There is no night now
n there ban
lere are creatures of God on the bottom wha
be sea so constructed that strewn all VIII
g they make a armament besprent with city
;, consultations and galaxies of impos- teac
uster The sea feather is a lamplight- ther
The gymnotus is an electrician, and he weeG
ircharged with electricity and makes Y,
leep bright with the lightning of the repr
The gorgonia flashes like jewels. There the
ca anemones ablaze with light. There iudo
he starish and moonfsh, these called chile
use they 50 powerfully suggest stellar They
unar illumination. deep
these midnight lanterns of the ocean ETY. a
ms; these professions Of flame over the ciate
E floor of the deep; these illuminations C. L
miles down under the sea; these gor- more
sly upholstered castles fthe Almighty tune.
; underworld The author Of the text He
le pull of the hidden vegetation of the tian
whether or not he appreci- howe
It's beauty, as he cried out, 'sThe weeds news
wrapped about my head" schoo
THE sEPULcHER OF THE SEA. and
my subject cheer all those who had
Is VINO nave Deen buried at sea or in u
Teat American lakes. Which Of us oney
,indred or friend fms s.9 eennlaheraS n, ~ Of21
ld The useless horror IF tb;nl-irs, tLst and S,
we're denied nroner restine,rlacs W. dren I
" Oh, if they had lived to come IN
: and had then expiredl What an man man
alton Of our trouble it would have llited
0 put them in some beautiful family ana a
where we could have planted flowers hones
ees over them" Why, God did bet once
them than we could have done for prospe
They were let down into beautiful 20 De
IS. Before they had reached the bot nave
hey had garlands about their brow. gneln
re elaborate and adorned place than us}ar. g'.l
lid have afforded them they were One Of
ay for the last slumber. Of our
it, mothers and fathers Of sailor have a
whose ship went down in our last try. s