Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-03-01

noon, Rev. DIR. Taimare PREACHED IN
unusually attractive and elclpcLt Cos
rel sermon TO a crowded atiSieIieS'
who listened with rapt interest The
xficct was The Lightning OF the
Sea- the text selected being Job, Xii,
g.. HE maketh 4 path 20 shine after
him"
II for the next thousand years minis
tiers Of religion should preach from this
Bible there viii yet be texts uneN-
rounded. and unexplained, and unap-
presfated. WHAT little has been said
ccrcernin- this chapter in job from
which nv text IL taken. bears on the
controversy as TO what vas really d
levsatiIan described as disturbing the
sea. What creature il was ! know not
Some say il was q whale. Some say
IL was a crocodile. My own opinion
Is IL was a sea monster now extinct
No Creature now floating in MediteT-
ranean or Atlantic waters corresponds
20 Jobs description
What most interests me is shat as
II moved on through the deep IL left
the waters flashing and reSplendent.
In the words Of the text. He maketh
a path 20 shine after him What was
that illumined path; IL was p~hosphor-
essence. You find IL in the wake Of a
ship in the night. Phosphorescence is
the lightning of the sea That this fig
ure OF speech is correct in distributing
its appearance I am certified by an In
.cident After crossing the Atlantic the
first time and writing from Basic,
Switzerland, 10 an American magazine
en- account OF my voyage. in which
nothing more fascinated me than the
phcsphoreScence In the ships wake, L
called the lightning Of the SEQ Return
ing 20 my hotel | found a book OF John
Ruskin, and the first sentence my eyes
fell upon was his description of phos-
~phoreScence, In which he called ii The
lightning Of the sea- Down 10 the
pcstofice / FASTENED TO get the manu-
script and with great labor and some
expense got possession of the maya
zine article and put quotation marks
around that sentence, although IL
was as original with me as with John
Ruskfn. l suppose that nine-tenths of
you living % nea the sea coast have
watched this marine appearance called
phosphoreScence. and 4 hope that the
other one-tenth may some day be so
happy as 10 witness il. IL is the wave
OF the sea diamo7ded; ii is the infiOrcs-
cence Of the pillows: the waves OF the
sea crsmS0ned, as was the deep after
the sea fight OF Lepanio; the wave Of
the sea On fire. There are times when
from horizon 10 horizon the entire
ocean seems in confiagra1ion with this
strange splendor, as il changes every
moment 10 tanner and more dazzling
color on all sides or you. lou sit look
Anu grg- sH1 ,,er I'll - H. -. -
ocean steamer watching and waiting
70 see what new thing the God Of beau
~ VIII do with the Atlantic. II Is
the ocean in TRANSPORTATION; IL is the
marine world casting it's garments Of
glory In the pathway OF the Almighty
as he walks the deep; il is an inverted
ornament with all It's stars gone down
with IL. No picture can present IL, for
photographers caniera can not be sue
cessfully tained to catch IL, and before
it the hand of the painter drops its
pencil oyerawed and powerless. This
phOsphorescence Is the appearance of
myriads OF the animal kingdom rising.
falling, playing, flashing, living. dying.
These luminous animalcules for nearly
100 years have been the study of ma
turalists and the fascination and sol
.emnizatiop Of all who have brain
enough TO think. Now, God. who puts
IN his Bible nothing trivial or useless,
calls the attention Of Job. the greatest
scie mist of his day. to this phosphorcs-
cence, and as the leyiathan II the
deep sweeps past, points out the fact
that 'he maketh a path TO shine after
him"
Is that true of us now, and will liz
be true of us when we are gone? VIII
there be subsequent light or darknessf
VIII there be a trail of gloom or good
cheerf Can any n between now and
the next 100 years say of Is truthfully
as the text says of the leyiathan OF the
deep, lie maketh a path 10 shine after
himg' For we are moving on. While
VIC Hv in the same house. and trans.
act business I'm the same store, and
write on the same table, and chiSel In
The same studio, and thresh in the same
barn, n worship In the same church.
we are in motion. and are in many re-
spects moving ~, and we are not
where we We're ten years ago, nor
where we viii beTten years hence.
Moving on! Look ~ the fumily record,
or the almanac, or into the mirror,
and see III any one of you is where
you Were. All In motion. Other feet
may trip. and stumble, and halt, but
the feet of not one m for the last
sixty centuries has tripped, or STUN
ibled. or halted Moving on! Society
moving on. The world moving on!
Heaven moving on. The universe NOV
Ing on, Time moving on, Eternity NOV
Ing on. Therefor. II is absurd 10 think
that we ourselves can stop. rs we must
move with the rest. Are we like the
creatures of the text. making our path
10 shine after us? IL may be a pecul-
lar question. but my text suggests IL.
What influence will we leave In this
world, after we have gone through Ii?
None. answers hundreds of voices,
W are lot n OF the immortals.
Fifty years after We are out of the
world il will be as though we never
inhabited H." You are wrong In saying
that. ] pass down through the audi
ence and up through these galleries.
and l EN- looking for some one who
will have no Influence I'm this world
l0O years from now, But | have found
the man who has the least influence.
end | inquire into his history and 4
find that by a Yes or n no he decided
some ones eternity. In time OF tenn
tafion he gave an affirmative or a ne
gative to some temptation which anoth.