Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1893-10-07

most part, are only the foreheads of
snnl,en continents. The sea conquering
the land all along the coasts and crum-
hing the hemispheres, wider and wider
become the subaqueous domlnions.
Thank God that skilled photographers
have male 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.
Than. God that the great Virgipian, |
Lieutenant Efaury, lived TO give us The |
Physical Geography of the Sea-" and
that men of genius have gone forth to
str,,y the so called weeds that wrapped
about Jonah's head end have found them
20 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 DR.. 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,
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ogy. 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 yet
not marshaled, every root and frond
and cell and color and movement and
habit of oceanic vegetation crying cu':
"GodI 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 firma-
ment and shall be the God of our descend
ants clear down to the day when the sea
shall give up its dead. We ehave heard his
command, and we have obeyed, Praise
the Lord dragons and all deeps.'"
DAvID's MARINE DoXoLoGY.
There is great comfort tat rolls over
upon US from this study of the SO called
seaweed, and that is the demonstrated
doctrine of particular providence.
When find that the Lord provides in
: the SO called seaweed the pasturage for
the thronged marine world so that not
: fin or scale in all that oceanic aqua
rum suffers need. conclude he will feed
+! us, and if he suits the alga to the ami
3 NAL life Of the deep he will provide the
food for our physical and spiritual needs.
And if he clothes the flowers of the deep
. with richness Of robe that looks bright
9 as fallen rainbows by day, and at night
] makes the underworld look as though
7 the sea were on fire, surely he will clothe
. you, 30 ye of little faithl'
{ And what fills me with unspeakable
8 delight is that this God Of depths an6
e heights, of ocean and of continent
g may, through Jesus Christ, the divinely
n appointed means, be yours and mine, tC
: help, to cheer, to pardon, to save, K
g imparadise. What matters who "
o earth or hell is against us if he is for us
IS Omnipotence to defend us, omnipresenc
o to companion us and infinite love to en-
e fold and uplift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things s
le well, seemingly taking as much car
N with the coil of seaweed as the out
1t branching Of Lebanon cedar, and wit
If the color of vegetable growth which ]
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8, with the solferino and purple of sun
ce mer sunset, we will be determined to d
fe well all we are called to do, though n
nt one see or appreciate us. Mighty Coo
an Roll in upon our admiration and hol
rk appreciation more of the wonders Of tn
We submarine world My JOY is that aftt
40 we are quit of all earthly hindrances W
ne may come back TO tins world and explol
in what we cannot now fully investigate.
Us If we shall have power to soar into I'll
n atmospheric without fatigue l think v
70, shall have power to dive into the aqu
We Gus without peril, and that the picture
mt and tessellated SEA floor will be as q
Dr. cessible as now is TO the traveller Il
Iat floor OF the Alhambra, and all the ga
ar dens Of the deep Will then swing open
SITS us their gates as now to the tour
nd Chatsworth opens on public days !
Aet cascades and statuary and conservatori
all for our entrance. "It doth not yet a
er. pear what we shall be-" You cam
lat make me believe that God hath sprei
ls, out all that garniture Of the deep mere
for the polyps and crustacea TO look at
And If the unintelligent creatures
Tas the Mediterranean and the Atlant
he ocean he surrounds with such beautif
-ds grasses of the deep, what a heaven '
Ids may expect for our uplifted and ra
am somed souls when we are unclaimed
lb- the flesh and rise 10 realms beatihcl
IN, the fora of that ''sea Of glass mingl
am with iire," have no power 10 speak, b
ks | shall always DO glad that, when I
yer prophet Of the text, flung over the 81
ted wales Of the Mediterranean ship,
ori scended into the boiling Sea, that whi
Cd he supposed TO DO weeds wrapped aOc
ieT his head were not weeds, but flowers
the Aud am not right in this glance
ore the botany Of the Bible in adding
oil, Luke's mint, anise and cumin, a
inc Matthews tares, aud Johns vine, a
|, It Solornon's cluster Of campfire, and J
al emiah's balm, and Jobs bulrush, a
the Isaiah's terebinth. and HOsea's this
an and Ezel1el's cedar. and ''the hyssop q
3 Of springeth out Of the wall, and the ''r
the Of sharon and lily Of the valley" q
sizes the frankincense and myrrh and cai
ub- which the astrologers brought TO
the manger at least one stalk Of the alga