Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-02

brightest children Of the city, but with no
chance Do not stop on their bare feet
Do not. when they steal ride, cut behind.
When the paper Il . ccnts, once In
while give them a 5 cent piece and tell
them to keep the change. l like the ring
OF the letter the newsboy sent back from
Indiana, whore he had been sent TO a good
home. to u New York newsboys' lodging
house; Boys, we should show ourselves
that we are no fools; that we can become
as respectable as any Of the cogntrymen,
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 SEQ you have rot the
real stuff in you. Come out here and mako
respectable and honorable men, so they can
say, There, that boy was once anewsboyn
Ny hearers, Join the Christian philanthro-
pists who are changing organ grinders aud
bootblacks and newsboyg and street arabs
and cigar girls into those who shall be kings
and queens unto God forever. IL Is high
time that Jonah finds out that that which
Is about him is not weeds, but flowers
a WONDERFUL GOD.
Az examine this red algA which was
about the recreant prophet down in tho
Mediterranean depths When In the words
of my text he cried out, 1.-THE weeds wero
wrapped about my head, and | am led
thereby 10 further examine this subma-
rine world, am compelled 10 exclaim,
What wonderful God we hnvel l nm
glad that by diving bell. and Brooks deep
sea sounding apparatus" and ever improv-
ing machinery we arc permitted TO walk
the floor of the ocean aud report the won
ders wrought by tho great God
Study these gardens Of the sea. Easier
and easier shall the profounds OF tho ocean
become to US, and more and more its opu.
lence OF color and plant unroll, especially
as "Villeroy's submarine boat has been
constructed making it possible TO navigate
under tho 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 tho
water move on 70 blow up the argosles thas
float the surface May such submarine
ships he used for laying opon the wonders
of Gods workings in the great deep and
never for human devastation Oh, the mar.
vols OF the water world
These so called seaweeds arc the pasture
fields and the forage OF tho iunumerabla
animals Of tho deep, Not one specie Of
them can be spared from the economy Of
nature. Valleys and mountains and plants
miles underneath the waves arc all covered
with flora and fauna. Sunken Alps and
Apenninos and Himalayas of Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. A continent that oncl
connected Europe aud America, so that IN
the ages past men came on foot across
from where England is to where we now
stand, all sunkep, and now covered with
the Growths OF the sca as It once was COW
cred with the growths Of the land
England and Ireland once all one piece OF
land, but now much of it 30 far sunken az
10 make u channel, and Ireland has become
IN island. The islands for the most part
arc only the foreheads Of sunken CONT
neuts, The sea conquering tho land all
along the coasts and crumbling the hofais
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 tho
eternal God In the water worlds.
Thank God that the great Virginian
Lieutenant Meury, lived to give us "The
Physical Geography OF the Sea- and that
men OF genius have gone forth to study tile
30 called weeds that wrapped about Jonah'a
head and have found them to be coronals
Of beauty, and when the tide reccded these
scientists have waded down and picked M
divinely pictured leaves Of the ocean, tho
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 nnd Gray finding them
along Boston harbor, and Professor Gibbs
gathering them from Charleston hArbor,
and for all the other triumphs OF algology,
or the science OF seaweed.
EVIDENCE oP TEE aEAs.
Why contine ourselves 10 the old and
hacl;neyed illustrations OF tho wonder work.
ings Of God when there are Mt least 1--WE
great seas fun OF illustrations as yet not
marshaled, every root and frond and cell
and color and movement and habit OF oce-
Gnic vegetation crying out; God Cod
He made us, He clothed us. He adorned
us He WIS the God OF our ancestors
clear back 60 the first sea growth, whAn
God divided the waters which wero 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
deepsl"
There Is q great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study Of the so called
seAweed. and that Is the demonstrated doc
trine OF particular Providence When !
find that the Lord provides in the 80 called
seaweed tho pasturago for the thronged
marine world, so that not FIN or scale in
all that oceanic aquarium suffers need,
conclude he will feed us, and II he suits
the align to the animal life Of the deep he
will provide the food for our physical aud
spiritual needs. And II be clothes tho
flowers of the deep with richness OF robe
! that looks bright rs fallen rainbows by
day and at night makes the underworld
look as though the sea were on fire, surely
he will clothe you, 10 ye Of little faithir
And what fills me with unspeakable do
light is that this God Of depths and heights,
OF ocean and OF continent, may through
| Jesus Christ. the diyinely appointed means,
be yours and mine, TO help, TO chear, to par
don, 70 save, 70 lmparadise What mat
tiers who in earth or hell is against us II he
is for usf Omnipotenee TO defend ms. ON
nipresencc to companion us and infinite
love to Unfold and uplift aud eurhpture us
And when God does small things 30 we'll,
seemingly taking as much care with the
| coil Of a seRweed as tho outhranohing OF q
I Lebanon cedar. and with the color Of a
vegetable growth which 10 hidden fathoms
out OF sight as he does with the solferino
and purple OF summer sunset, we will be
determined TO do well all we arc called to
7 10 thAt.ah f1ss.