Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-10-18

nlintons. Thank Col that skilled hv-
drographcrs have made Us maps and charts
otthe rivers and lakes AMI seas and shown
rs something Of the worE OF tho eternal Cos
N the water world.
ThaS,l God that tho great Virginian. Lieu
tenan, Maury, lived TO give US ''The Physical
6eography OF tho Sea-" and that men of
genius have gone forth TO study the so-caiIed
weeds that wrapped about Jonah's head and
nave found them 70 be corona's of beauty.
and when the tide receded these scientists
have waded down and picked up diyine!y
pictured leaves ofthc ocean, the naturalists
Pike and Hooper and Walters, gathering
them from tho hCach OF Long Island Sound,
and DIR. Bio ige't preserving them from the
shores OF hey West. and Professors Emerson
aud Gray finding them along Boston harhor
and Professor Gibbs gathering them from
Charleston harbor, and for all the other
riumpas OF aigology, or the science OF sea-
weed.
Why confne ourselves to the old AMI hack
neyed Illustrations of the wonder workings
| OF God, whea there are at least five great
seas full OF Illustrations as yet not marshaled,
every root and frond and cell and color and
movement and habit OF oceanic vegetation
crying out "God God He made US. He
clothed US. He adorned u.s. 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 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 owe,
upon US from this study Of the so-called sea
weed, and that is the demonstrated doctrine
| Of particular providence. When 1 And
that the Lord provides in the so-called sea-
weed the pasturage for the thronged marine
world. so that not fin or scale in all that
oceanic aquarium suffers need, conclude He
| viii feed US, and if He suits the alga to the
animal life of the deep He will provide the
lood for our physical and spiritual needs.
And If He clothes the flowers of the deep
with richness of robe that looks bright as
!allen rainbows by day, and at night makes
he underworld look as though the sea were
on fire, surely He will clOthe you, 80 ye Of
title faith ~
And what fills me with unspeakable de
dght is that this God OF depths and heights,
OF ocean and of continent, may, through
Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed means,
be yours and mine, to help, to cheer, to
pardon, 10 save, to imparadise. What
matters who in earth or he'll is against us II
He S for US? 0mnipotence to defend US,
IOmnipresenco to companion US and Infinite
love TO enfold and upliit and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so well,
seemingly taking as much care with the coil
of a ssaweed as the outbrGnching OF 3
Lebanon cedar, and with the color of q veg
etable growth which is hidden fathoms out
OF sight as He does with the solferino and
purple OF a summer sunset, we will be dett =
mined to do well all we are called to do,
Though no one see or appreciate Us. Mighty
God! Roll in upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more OF the wonders of this
Submarine world. My Joy is that after we
are quit OF all earthly hindrances We may
come back TO this word and explore what
we cannot now fully investigate.
| If we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without fatigue l think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous without
peril. and that the pictured and tessellate ell
sea floor will be as accessible as now is to the
traveller the gSor of the Alhambra, and all
the gardens OF the deep will then swing
open TO US their gates as now to the tourist
CaAtsworth opens on public days It's cascades
lanI statuary and conseryltOries for our en-
trance. ''lt doth not yet appear what we
shall be-" You cannot make me believe that
lfod hath spread out all that garniturs OF
the deep merely for the polyps and crustacei
! o look at.
And if the unintelligsnt creatures of the
| Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean He sur
rounds with such beautiful grasses OF the
deep, what heaven we may expect for oul
upliftei and ransomed souls wnen we are
unclaimed of the flesh and rise TO realms
beatiflcl OF the fora of that ''sea OF glass
mingled with fire." 1 have no power to speak
but I shall always be glad that, when the
prophet OF the text, flung over the gunwales
of the Mediterranean ship, descended into
the boiling sea, that which he supposed to be
weeds wrapped about his head were no
| weeds, but flowers.
And am not right in this glance at the
botany OF the Bible in adding to Luke's mint
anise and cumin, ard Matthew's tarrs, and
. Johns vine, and SO!omOn's cluster of cam
phire, and Jeremiah's balm. and Jon's bur
rush, and Isaa4's terspinth. and Hosea
thistle, and EzeEie's cedar, AM ''the hyssoI
: that springeth ogc of the wall" and tn,
/ 'rose of Sharon ald lily of the valley" anC
the frankincenss and myrrh and cassi;
which the astroloSers brought to the man
yer at least one stalk of the alaga Of th'
, Mediterranean.
And now 1 make the marine doxo!oSy o
. David my peroration. for it was written
i about forty or fifty miles from the pIac'
! where the scene of the text was enacted
1.-THE sea is His, and He made it, and Hi
hands formed the dry land. Oh, come, le
{ us worship and bow down let us kneel be
a fore the Lord, our Maker. For He is ou
! God, and We are the people OF His pasture.
: Amen.