The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-10-04

that skilled photographers have made
US maps and charts Of the rivers and |
lakes and seas, and shown us some
thing of the work of the Eternal God |
in the water worlds, Thank God that |
the great Virginian, Lieutenant Maury,
lived to give US Tho Physical Geo
graphy 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 up divinely pictured
leaves of the ocean, the naturalists,
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
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 confne ourselves 10 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! Godl 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 hrma-
ment from the 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 deepa'" ,..
There Ii great comfort that rolls
over upon US from this study of the 30
called weed, and that is the demon
strated doctrine Of particular provi-
dence. When find that the Lord pro-
vides In the so-called sea weed the pas
turage of tho thronged marine world,
so that not fin or scale In all the
oceanic aquarium suffers, need con-
clude He will feed us, and II He suits
the Alg@ TO the animal life Of the deep,
He will provide the food for our physi-
cal and spiritual needs. And II He
clothes the flowers of the deep with
richness of robes that looks bright as
fallen rainbows by day, and ut night
makes the underworld look as though
the sea were on fire, surely He viii
clothe you, 30, ye of little faithp' 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, 10 save, to empara-
disc. What matters who In earth or
} hell Is against us, II He is for usP Om-
impotence to defend us, omnipresence
TO companion us, and infinite love to
, enfold and uplift and enrapture us And
l when God does small things 30 well
seemingly taking rs much care WITT
. the coil OF sea weed as the outbranch
4 ing of a Lebanon cedar, and with the
t color of vegetable growth which II
G hidden fathoms out of sight as He doe'
' with the solferino and purple OF q sum
Q mer sunset, we will be determined Il
= do we'll all we are called to do, though
o no one see or appreciate us Might.
r God Roll In upon our admiration ant
!, holy appreoiat ton more of the wonder
}, Of this submarine world! My JOY !
g that after we arc quit Of all earthl.
: hindrances we may come back to thi
n world and explore what we cannot nov
e fully investigate. II we shall hav
II power to soar into the atmospheri
n without fatigue think we shall hav
r. power to dive into the aqueous withou
n peril, and that the pictured and tessel
1. lated sea-hoor will be accessible a
10 now is TO the traveller the floor OF tn
=: Alhambra, and all the gardens OF tn
S deep will then swing open to US thei
s. gates as now to the tourist Chatswort
g opens on public days It's cascades an
id statuary and conservatories for our en-
ir trance. at doth not yet appear wha
id we shall be-" You cannot make m
n believe that God hath spread out a
vt that garniture Of the deep merely 10
1T the polyps and orustacea TO look at.
And IL the unintelligent creatures
III the Mediterranean and the Atlanti
IN ocean, He surrounds with such beaut
IN full grasses Of the deep, what Heave
te we may expect for our uplifted an
ransoned souls when we are unchaine
\ of the flesh and rise to realms beatifi
u OF the fora of that sea Of glass mil
VI gled with fire." have no power
lg speak, but shall always be glad tina
" when the prophet Of the text, fun
!" over the gunwales Of the Mediterrj
10 mean ship, descended into the boilin
u sea, that which he supposed TO
=, weeds wrapped about his head wei
5a not weeds but flowers. And am l NJ
40 right in this glance at the botany I
II the Bible in adding to Luke's min
- anise and cummin, and Matthews tare
=. and Johns vine, and Solomon's clust'
- OF campfire, and Jeremiah's balr
~ - and Jobs bulrush, and Isaiah's ter
W binth, and Hosea thistle, and Ezekiel
.. o. cedar, and 'the hyssop that springet
~ out of the WALL" and the Rose
" of Sharon and the Lily Of the Valley
- and the frankincense and myrhh al
M cassia which the astrologers brougl
% % TO the manger, at least one stalk OF d
- Alqe Of the Mediterranean. And no
81 make the marine doxology Of Dav
~ nv peroration, for II was written abo
~, FORTY or fifty miles from the pla
'"A vhara tho acene OF the text was @