The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-05


the forage OF the innumerscie animals OF tns
deep. Not one species OF them can he spared
from the economy OF nature. Valleys nno
mountains and plants miles underneath tine
waves are all covered with hors and iauns.
Sunken Alps and Apennines and HimaisyM
OF Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent
that once connected Europe and America, SO
that In the ages past men came on foot
across from where England IL TO where We
now stand. all sunken and now covered with
the growths OF the sea as once was coverej
with erowths OF the land.
England and Ireland once all one picce OF
land, but now much OF II SO lar sunkcn as 70
make n channel. and Ireland has become an
island. The islands, for the most part. are
only the foreheads OF sunken continents.
The sea conquering the land all along the
coasts and crumbling the hemlspheres wider
and wider become the subaqueous 90.
minions. Thank God thar skilled by
drographers have made Ms maps and chars
of the rivers and lakes an seas and saown
US something OF the work OF the eternal Goa
IN the water world.
Thank God that the great Virginian. LEU,
tenant Maury. lived to give US THE Pnys'ca,
Geography OF the Sea-" and that men o.
genius have gone forth TO study the so-cal'od
weeds that wrapped about Jonahs head snd
havr found them to be coronais OF beauty,
and when the tide receded these scientists
have walden down and picked up divine.y
Pike and Hooper and Walters, gathering
them from the beach Of Long Island sount.
and DR.. Blodgett preserving them from the
shore. Of Key West. and Professors Emerson
and uray finding them along Boston har1o-.
and Professor Gibbs gathering them rom
Charleston hnrbor, and for all the othef
ir.umphs OF algology. or the science Oh SCI
weed.
Why conane ourselves TO the old and hack
neyei illustrations OF the wonder working.
a. Col. when there are nj least i've great
s-As full OF illustrations ~ vet not inarshAle' ,
every root and lrond and cell and coor anu
movement and habit OF oceanic vegetation
crying out "God God He made MS. hH
clothed us. He adorned MS. He was the
God ~ our ancestors clear back to the hrss
sea growth, when God divided the waters
which were above the Ornament from the
waters which were under the flrnament ana
shall he the God OF our descendants clear
down to the day when the sea shall give M
its dead. We have heard HIS eoanlni, ani
We nave oceyci, Praise the lord. dragons
and all deeps.'"
There is q great comfort that rolls over
upon us from this stuiy OF the so-called sca'
weed. and that IL thr demonstrated doctrine
of particular providence. When nnd
that toe Lord provides IN tho so-called sea-
weed the pgsturayr Tor ths thronged marine
world. so that not iin or sc.lle in all th''
will iced Ms, and " lie suits the alga 10 the
animal life OF the deep He will provide the
food for our phvs.cht AMI spiritual n-Hus.
And ~ He clothes the flowers OF the Gccr
with richness OF rohe thar looks bright as
fallen rainbows by day. AMI ~ night mske-
the underworld look as though the ss1 wsre
ON fire. surely He will clo;he you, 80 80 oI
little iaithr
And what nlls mo with unspeakable do
a}ht is that this God o. depths and holghts,
o; ocean and of continent. NAV, throuc'i
Jesus Christ, the divinely appointed means,
be yours and mine. TO help, TO cheer. "a
pardon. 20 save. to imparadise. WnnI
matters who In earth or hell is against us u
He for us? Omnipotence 10 defend us,
"nniprescncr to companion us and infinite
love TO entod and uplit and enrapture us.
Ant wnen God does small thin2s so well,
seemingly taxing ~ much care with the cot
OF n spaweel as the outbranching of q
Lebanon cedar. ani with the color oi vec'
rtable growth which II hidden fathoms oui
o; sight ~ He does with the solierino and
purple OF "a summer sunset, We wilibe deter
mined to do we'll all we are sailed to 10
though no one see or appreciate us. Might,
God Roll in upon our admiration and hoi'
appreciation more OF the wonders OF thi,
suOmar,ne world. My Joy Is that after We
are quit OF all earthly hindrances we may
come back TO this world and explore VIVA
We cannot now fully investigate.
IL we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without fatigue think we shal
have power TO dive into the aqueous withou
peril. and that the pictured and tesseliaIe,
sea floor will be as accessible "A now is TO ;h'
traveller the floor OF the Alhhmbra. and al
the gardens OF the deep will then swirI
open To us their gates as now TO the touris
Cuatsworth opens on public days its cascade
and siatuary and conservatories for our On
trance. at doth not yet appear what WI
| shall be-" You cannot make me believe tina
| God hath spread out all that garniture o
the deep merely for the polyps and crustace;
| to look ut.
And II the unintelligent creatures OF IN,
Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean He sur
rounds with such beautiful grasses OF TIA,
deep, what heaven we may expect for on
| upifted and ransOmed souls when we arr
unclaimed OF the flesh and rise to realms
beatinc! OF the hora OF that "sea OF glas'
mingled with fire." have no powerto speaS
but | shall always he glad that, when thu
| prophet OF the text. flung over the gunwale
| OF the Mediterranean ship. descended int
the boiling sea, that which he supposed TO ID
weeds wrapped about his head were no
| weeds but flowers.
And am not right In this glance at tn
botany o! the Bible ia adding to LuSes mint
anise and cumin, ard Matthews tares, an'
Johns vine, and Solomon's cluster OF cam
phire, and JeTemiah's balm, and job bul
rush. and Isaiah's tsrebinth. and Hosea
thistle, and Ezekiel's cedar, and 'the hysso
that springeth out OF tho wall" and III
rose OF sharon and lily OF the valley" an
the frankincense and myrrn and cassi
which the astroogers brought 10 the man
ger NJ least one stalk of the alaga Of IN
Mediterranean.
And now make the marine doxoiogy o
David my peroration, for It was writer
about forty or finy miles from the plac
wnere the scene OF the text was enacted
''The sea Is His, and He made IL, and HI
hands formed the dry land. Oh come, IL
us worship and how down let ms kneel be
lore the Lord, our Maker. For lie is ou
God. and We are the people OF His pasture.
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