Milford chronicle., 1893-10-06

o say, mere that boy was once anewsboy.' ?
0 Ny hearers, join the Christian philanthu
S pists who are changing organ grinders an
3 bootblacks and newsboys and street arab
{ and cigar girls into those who shall be king
and queens unto God forever It Is hiq
time that Jonah finds out that that whicl
: is about him is not weeds, but flowers.
a WONDERFUL GOD.
As l examine this red aiga which wa
about the recreant prophet down in tn,
Mediterranean depths wien in the word.
OF my text he cried olt, THE weeds wer,
wrapped about my he..i, and 1 am lee
7 thereby to further eXlmine this subma
rlne world, l am compelled TO exclaim
What wonderful God we havei am
glad that BY diving bell, and Brooks deer
sea sounding apparatus, and ever improv.
ing machinery we are permitted to walk
the hoor Of the ocean and report the won
ders wrought by the great God
Study these gardens Of the sea. Easier
and easier shall the profounds of the ocean
become to US, and more and more its opu-
| lence Of color and plant unroll, especially
I as "Villeroy's submarine boat'' has been
constructed making it possible to navigate
under the 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 the
water move on TO blow up theargosies that
hoab the surface. May such submarine
ships be used for laying open the wonders
OF Gods Workings in the great deep and
never Tor human devastation Oh the mar
yels Of the water world
These so called seaweeds are the pasture
fields and the forage of the innumerable
animals Of the deep. Not one specie Of
them can be spared from the economy Of
nature. Valleys and mountains and plants
miles underneath the waves are all covered
with fora and fauna. Sunken Alps and
Apennines and Himalayas Of Atlantic
and Pacific oceans. A continent that once
connected ErJpe and America, so that in !
the ages past men came on foot across
from whepsVEnglsnd is to where we now
stand, ga gsunken, and now covered with
the groBths Of the sen, as IL once was COW
cred with the growths of the land.
England and Ireland once all one piece Of
land, but now much of it so far sunken as
to make a channel, and ireland has become
an island The islands for the most part
are only the foreheads Of sunken conti-
nents. The sea conquering the land all
along the coasts and crumbling the hemis-
pheres, wider and wider become the sub
photographers have made us mans and
charts of the rivers and lakes and seas and
shown us something of the work Of the
eternal God in the water worlds
Thank God that the great Virginiap.
Lieutenant ldaury, lived TO give us ''The
Physical Geography of the Sea" and that
men OF genius have gone forth to study the
% called weeds that wrapped about Jonah's
read and have found them TO be coronals
i beauty, and when tb aSde receded these
cientists have wadeJA - y 5-s,eked up
ivinely H2ietured IL ~ Of tbe 6cse1 'if, fl;.
aturalists Pikeand Hooper and Walters
them from the beach Of Long
'land sound, and DIR. Blodgett preserving
lem from the shores of Key West. and / Y
Emerson and Gray finding them
long Boston harb0r, and Professor Gibbs
lthering them from Charleston harbor. b
i'd for all the other triumphs Of algology. c
the science of seaweed.
EVIDENCE OF TIE SEAS. u
Why conhne ourselves to the old and
illustrations of the wonder work d
s. OF God when there are at least five
eat seas full Of illustrations as yet not
arshaled, every root aud frond and cell Ic
d color and movement and habit of oce- ~
ic vegetation crying out; "Godl Godl IN
2 made us He clothed us. He adorned cd
He was the God of our ancestors
ar back to the first sea growth. when Id
ID divided the waters which were above sn
2 armament from the waters which were
der the ornament, and shall be the God
our descendants clear down to the dav
en the sea shall give up its dead we OF
We heard his command. and we have thl
eyed, Praise the Lord, dragons and all cas-
PSI" ia
here is a great comfort that rolls over
1n us from this study of the so called tfu
weed, and that is the demonstrated doc mac
le of particular Providence. When I Una
! that the Lord provides in the so called wa
weed the pasturage for the thronged ~
rine world, so that not a fin or scale in On
that oceanic aquarium suffers need. I slOl
clude he will feed us, and q he suits 20
alg@ to the animal life of the deep he so so
provide the food for our physical and suD
'itual needs. And if he clothes the 5loi e
'ers Of the deep with richness Of robe eAls
looks bright rs fallen rainbows bv lluu
and at night makes the underworld s.ia
, as though the sea were on fire, surely 70 q
7ill olothe you, 50 ye Of little faithr' man
nd what fills me with unspeakable de r
{ is that this God of depths and heights. eva,
Is Christ, the diyinely appointed means. ~
ours and mine, to help, to cheer, to par
to save, to imparadise What mat useu
who in earth or hell is against us If he cen
Z US? Omnipotence to defend US, ON the
esence to companion us and infinite III
to infold and uplift and enrapture us. DR..
ID when God does small things so well. writ
ingly taking as much care with the been
# a seaweed as the outbranching Of a 1t br
non cedar, and with the color of a IN,
able growth which is hidden fathoms ,,la,,,
I sight as he does with the solferino ine, /
'arple of a summer sunset, we will be tbe
mined to do welr all we are called. to brace
hough no one see or appreciate US. Nh.
ty Godl Roll in upon our admiration 80 "a,
oily appreciation more Of the wonders T., d;
S submarine world ~ NJ -
REVELATIONS AFTER DEATH az
joy is that after we are quit of all
" hindrances we may come back to Ma
7orld and explore what we cannot now tow
investigate. If we shall have power q sm
ar into the atmospheric without IA slip {
think we shall have power to dive the h'
he aqueous without peril, and that A "
ctured and tessellated sea floor will says t
accessible as now is to the traveller from
or Of the Alhambra, and all the gar be ma
4 Jhe deep viii then swing open to us ern gC
gates as now to the tourist Chats vyb
opens on public days its cascades Los q
tatuary and Conservatives for our Nv n !,
ice. 1T doth not yet appear what we a bsn1
be" You cannot make me believe disoat
cd hath spread out all that garniture
deep merely for the polyps and crus- ~ "a y
% look at. Dulte
if the unintellgent creatures Of the 11e1Nle
,rranean and the Atlantic ocean he non Llolie.
nds with such beautiful grasses Of Ioau
p, what heaven we may expect for anu Os
lifted and ransomed souls when we The
,hained Of the flesh and rise to realms Ralph
J. OF the fora Of that sea of glass trips
d with fire. I have no power to memol
but I shall always be glad that when profita
oDhet Of the text. flung over the any on
les Of the Mediterranean ship, de- s2r paa
into the boiling sea, that which he --i---
ed to be weeds wrapped about his
ere not weeds, but flowers.