Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-19


BEooKrYN, February 1s.-In the
ar00klyn Tabernacle this forenoon,
Rev. Or. Talmags preached an unusu-
ally attractive and eloquent Gospel SER
mon 90 @ crowded audience who lis
tened with rapt interest. The subject
was The Lightning OF the Sea, g" the
teXt selected being Job 1882. "He
maketh a path 90 shine after him"
Il FOR the next thousand years minis
ters OF religion SHOULD preach from this
Bible there viii yet be texts uueX-
pounded, and unexplained, and unap-
preciated. What little has been said
concerning this chapter To- JOB from
which my text Is taken, bears on the
controversy as 90 what was really the
levi0than described as disturbing the
sea. What creature 90 was know not.
Some say 10 was a whale. Some say 10
was q crocodile. Ny own opinion is 10
was sea-monSter now extinct No
creature now floating in Mediterranean
or Atlantic waters corresponds 20 Jobs
description.
What most interests me &C. that as 90
moved on through the deep Q lelt the
waters flashing and reSp.endent. In
the words of the text: "He ma6eth a
path Co shine after Him." What was
that ilIumined path? 10 was phosphor-
escence. You fnd 10 in the wake OF a
ship in the night, especially atterrough
weather. PbOsphCresceuCe Isl Che light
ning OF the sea. Tnat this figure of
speech is correct iu describing IT'S ap-
pearance I am certified by an incident.
After crossing the Atlantic the FIRST
tins and writing from Basic, Sw.ller-
land 90 sra American an account OF my
voyage, in which nothing more iasciu-
ated ma than the pbosphorescence To-
the ships wake, I called 10 The Light
OF the Sea.
RETURNING TO MY HOTEL
I found a book Of John Ruskin, and
the first sentence my eyes fell upon was
his description of phOsphorescence, 10
which he called 10 N'The Lightning OF
the Sea-" Down 90 the Dostomce / has
tened TO get the manuscript, aud win
great labor and some expense got pos
session OF The magazine article and put
quotation marks around that one sem
renee, although 10 was as original with
me as with John Bus6in. j suppose
that nine-te1ths OF you living so near
the ssa-cOast have watched this MARINE
appearance called phosp h0rcscence, amp
4 hope that the other One-teutn may
some day be so happy as 90 witness it.
It is the waves OF the Sea diamo1dad; 10
is the inforesceuce OF the pillows; the
waves of the sea cr'ms0no1, as was the
deep after the sea fight of Lspauto; the
waves of the sea on fire. There arc
times when from horizon to horizon the
entire ocean seems ia condagrati0n
with this strange sp,endOT 10 changes
every moment t0 tanner or more dazzling
color on al sides Of you. You SD, look
ing over the t2iirail OF the Yacht or
ocean steamer watching and waiting Co
see what new thing the God or beauty
will do with the AJantc. TO IS tho
ocean 60 transigWation; 30 is the MAJ
r'ne world cast. q it's garments of glory
ir-the pa 49, foi the Almighty as be
49, Use deep; TO is an Inverted tru7-
ment with an iJs stars gone down With
10. 40 picture can present 10 Tor pho
tOgrapber's camera cannot be success
fully trained 90 catch TO-, and before it
the hand OF the painter drops It's pencil
overawod and p0Werless. This pnos-
phoresconce is the appearance OF myra-
ids of the ANNA! kingdom rising, iali-
ing, playing, flashing, living, dying,
These luminous animaicules for nearly
one hundred and iity years have been
the study OF naturaiists and The iasc.na-
lion and solemnizatI0n OF an who have
BRAIN ENOUGH TO THINK.
Vow. God, who puts in his Bible moth
ing trivial on useless, calls the attention
ofJUb, the greatest scientist oil his day,
10 this rh0suh0rescence, and Gs tba Tee
vfathan Of che deep sweeps past, points
out the fact that "he maketh a path TO
shine after him..
Tsthat true OF MS now. and viii 90 be
true OF uB when we have gomez Wu
there be a trial OF gloom or good cheer'
Can anv one between now AID Che next
100 years say OF Us truthiu..y as the
text SAYS of tha ieviathan OF Che deep,
'.He maketh a path 90 shine after nimt
For we are moving or. While we 1--we
ia the same house, and transact ol.l-
ness i'm teh same store, and write on the
same table. aud Chisel in the same
strdio. and thresh in the same barn,
and worship in the same church, we
are in motion, and in macy respects
moving Oh, and we are NOE where we
we're The years ago, nor where we will
be ten years hence. Moving on. LcoS
40 the family record, on tho almanac,
or into the mirror, and see ii any one
b of you is where you were. All 10 mo-
ton.
Other feet may trip. and stumble, and
haIr. but the feet of not one moment
FOR the last sixty centuries has lrlpped.
or stumbled, or halted. Moving on.
Society moving on. The world moving
onl Heaven moving on. The universe
moving onl Time moving on. E-er-
nitv moving on Therefore, 10 is absurd
10 tnink that we ourselves can stop, as
We mhst move with all the rest, Are
We ike the creature OF tho text, MAX
inc our path 90 shire after us2 TO may
be a psculiar question, but my text sug-
costs In. What influence will We leave
in this world after we have gone
through 90? "N0ne, answer-nunoreoS
nj voices. s'we are not one OF the I'M
nortals. Fifty years after we are not
oftbe world no will be as though we
never inhabited t." TOu are wrong IN
saving that. pass down through this
audience and up through these CALLER
les, and
IAN LOOKING FOE SOME ONE
whom cannot fnd. am looking for
one who will have no influence ln THIS
world 100 years from now. But 4 nave
found The man who has the least ini.3-
snce. and inquired into his history
and ind that by a yes or no he de-