Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1893-10-12
kicked and bruised and hungry. Who

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cares for them? Once in a while Il city
missionary or tract distributor or
teacher of ragged schools win rescue
one of them, but for most people they
are only weeds. Yet. Jonah did no
more completely misreprcscnt the Red
Alga about his head in the. Meditcr-
ranean than most people misjudge these
poor and forlorn and dying children of
the street. They are not weeds. They
are immortal flowers. Down in the
deep of sea of woe, but flowers. When
society and the church Of God come TO
appreciate their eternal value there will
be more C. l.. Braces and more Van
Meters and more angels of mercy
spending their fortunes and their lives
in the rescue. Hear it, oh, We philan-
thropic and Christian and merciful
souls; not weeds, but flowers. / adj
jure you as the friends Of all news
boys lodging houses, Of all industrial
schools, of all homes for friendless
girls, and for the many reformatorles
and humane associations now on foot.
How much have they already accom-
plishcd. Out of what wretchedncss,
into what wretchedness. into what good
homes. OF y, 200 of these picked up
out Of the street and sent into country
homes, only twelve children turned out
badly. In the last thirty years num-
Der Of the Migrants have been lifted
into responsibility and usefulness and a
Christian life. Many of them have
homes Of their own. Though ragged
boys once and street girls. now at the
head of prosperous families, honored
on earth and to be glorious in heaven.
Some of them have been governors OF
states. Some of them are ministers of
the Gospel. In all departments of life
those who were thought to be weeds
have turned out to be flowers One Of
those rescued lads from the streets
wrote to another, saying: Il have
heard you are studying for the minis
try; so am l." My hearers, l implore
you for the newsboys Of the streets,
many of them the brightest children Of
the city, but no chance. Do not step on
their bare feet. Do not. when they
per is three cents. once in a While give
them Il tive-cent piece, and tell them to
keep the change.
AS 1 examine this red alga which
was about the recrcant prophet down lit
the Mediterranean depths, when. in the
words of my text, he cried out: 1.-The
weeds We're wrapped about my head
and am led thereby to further eNanl-
inc this submarine world, l am com
PEELED to exclaim. What Il wonderful
God we have. I am glad that, by
diving-bcll and Brooks DenD-Sea
. Sounding Apparatus" and cver-ilnprov-
, ing machinery. we are permitted to
walk the floor Of the ocean and report
the wonders wrought by the great
God.
There is Il great comfort that rolls
over upon us from this study Of the
so called Sea-weed. and that is the
demonstrated doctrine Of Il particular
Providence. When find that the Lord
provides in the So-called Sea-Wced the
pasturage for the throngcd marine
world, so that not Il fin or scale in all
that oceanic aquarium suffers need, /
conclude he Will feed us. and if lie
suits the Algae to the animal 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
rs fallen rainhows by day and at night
makes the under world look as though
the sea We're on fire, surely he will
clothe you, "Oh. ye of little faith"'
And what fills me with unSpeakable
+ delight 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. to save,
! to emparadise. What matters who III
, earth or hell is against us, if he is for
us? OmnipOtence to defend us. Omni-
presence to companion us. and infinite
!, love to enfold and uplift and enrapture
A,,1 Il ,,11
so well, seemingly taking as much care
with the coil OF Il sea- weed as the out
,, branching of a Lebanon cedar. and
:. with the color OF a vegetable growth,
which is hidden fathomS out Of sight
us he does With the solferino and pur,
pie of summer sunset we will be
,, determined to do we'll 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 hindrance we may come back
to this world and explore what we
, cannot now fully investigate. If we
, shall have power to soar in the atmos,
pheric without fatigue / think we
shall have power to dive into the
aqueous without peril. and that the pic.
tured and teSSellated sea floor will be
. as accessible as now is to the traveller
the floor Of the Alhambra, and all the
gardens Of the deep will then swing
; open to lis their gates as now to the
!, tourist Chatsworth opens on public
days its cascades and statuary and con.
servatories for our entrance 1T doth
not yet appear what we shall be-
You cannot make me believe that God
hath spread out I'LL that garniture OF
the deep merely for the polypus and
crustacea to look at.
And if the unintelligent creatures OF
5 the Mediterranean and the Atlantic
g ocean he surrounds with such beautiful
grasses Of the deep what a heaven we
may expect for our uplifted and ran
l somed souls when we are unclaimed
l Of the flesh and rise to realms beatific
Of the fora Of that Sea of glass min
gled with fire. 1 have no power tc
I speak, but I shall always be glad that
, when the prophet of the text, flung