The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-02-22
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DuvtNE's SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Tbc lightning OF the
sea-"

TKxr; an aiaieh patti 10 shias dfiei'
him. job xiii, 80.
n for the next thousand years ministers OF
religion should preach from this Bible. there
will vet be texts unsxpounded and uuex-
planned and unappreciated. What little
has been said concerning this chapter In Job
from which my text II taken bears on the
controversy ~ TO what was really the levia-
than described az disturbing the sea. What
creature II was know not. Somess II was
a whale. Some say II was u crocodile. NY
own opinion II II was n sen monster now ex-
tinct. No creature now floating In Mediter.
ran.an or Atlantic waters corresponds TO
Job's description.
What most interests me Is that rs IL moved
on through the deep II left the waters fash
ing AMI resplendent. In the words OF the
text. "Ha maketh path TO shine after
him What was that illumined path? II
was phosphorescence. You nnd II in the
wake OF n ship In the night. especially alter
rough weather. phosphorescence is the
lightning OF the sea. That this figure of
speech IL correct in describing its appear
ance I Am certified by an incident. After
crossing the Atlantic the first time and
writing from Basle. Switzerland. 20 an Amer
lean magazine an account OF my voyage. in
which nothing more fascinated ms than the
phosphorescencc in the ships wake. | called
Ii the lightning Of the sea. Returning to my
hotel. | found book OF John Ruskin. aud
the first sentence my eyes fell upon was his
description OF phosphoresceoce In which he
called 1t 'the lightning Of tho sea"
Down 20 the postoffice | hastened TO get
the manuscript. and with great labor aud
some expense got possession OF the maga-
zine article and put quotation marks around
that one sentence. although II was as orig
inal with me as with John Ruskin. | sup
pose that nine-tenths OF you living 40 near
. q
| pearance called phosDhorescence, and hope
| that the other one-tenth may some day be 80
| happy IA to witness IT, IL il the waves OF the
/ sea diamonded It IL the inhorescence OF the
/ pillows the waves OF the sea crimsoned as
was the deep after the sea fight OF Lepanto
the waves OF the SEA on fire.
There are times when from horizon to
/ horizon the entire ocean seems In confiag.
ration with this strange sp.endor rs II
/ changes every moment TO tamer or more
| dazzling color on all sides OF YOU. You sit
/ looking over the taifraU Of the yacht OF
ocean steamer watching and waiting 10 SEE
what new thing the God OF beauty will dc
with the Atlantic. II IL the ocean IN trans
nguration Il is the marine world casting Its
garments OF glory in the pathway OF the
Almighty ~ He walks the deep Z; II Ia an in
yerted firmament with all its stars gone
down with IL. No picture can present Ii, foi
/ photographers camera cannot be success
iully trained to catch il. and before II the
hand Of the painter drops its pencil, over
lwed and powerless.
This phosphorescence IL the appearance,
Of myriads - the animal Kingdom rising
falling, playing flashing, living, dying
These luminous animaicu'as for nearly 15I
years have been tho study OF n,suralists an,
the fascination and solemnization OF III VIII,
have brain enough TO think. Now, uou
who puts Ia His Bible nothing trivial or use
Iess. calls the attention OF Job. the creates
scientist OF his day, TO this phosphorescence
and as the levathan Of the deep sweeps pas
points out the fact that she maketn pat
TO shine after him.
L. that true OF us now. and will il be tru
OF US when we have gomez VIII there J
subsequent light or darkness WIN there
a trial of gloom or good cheer? Can any OF
between now and the next 100 years say
. I rs truthfIlly the text says OF the leviGha
'aen 10 mnketh 18th