Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-02-19
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~ r,IaAen's suBJEcE


. JAZZ
Il. "a d ships Course
enough the ocean,
~ Feb, ls.-In the Brooklyn
oSA .aiSis forenoon Rev. DR.. Talmage
ilsil n !, rnusualiy attractive and elo-
is'sss l. \. sermon to a crowded audience,
w \. so' VI WITH rapt interest The sub
Y w n Lightning Of tho Sea-, the
I. - 800 being Job XII, 81, He maketh
! y N, ~, i hire after him
!, m next thousand years ministers
= . v, N should preach from this Bible,
s S,ilret be texts unexpounded and un-
.'ll.,i nd unappreciated. What little
~, ~ uid concerning this chapter in
- ~ Which M text is taken bears on
" ...,vrrsv as to what was really the
~. s-~ described as disturbing the sea.
n .,sstpre it was know not, Some
-,,srhale. Some say It was crooo-
W,ewn opinion Is it was a sea mon
.1,ztinet No creature now floating
s',s,rspean or Atlantic waters CORE
4 IN Jobs description.
n mos, interests mo is that as it
\ I'M through the deep it left the wa
4 .iai1p and resplendent. In the words
4 IN, "IIe maketh path to shine
"A IN What was that illumined
"A Iwas phosphorescenoe. You find IL
Z IN Of a ship in the night, especially
nsh weather, Phosphorescence is
snco q tho soa. That this figure
& correct in dcScrihingits appear
n d certified by an incident. After
n she Atlantic the FIRST Jime and writ
\ "a Bule, Switzerland, to an Ameri-
n ssiao an account Of my voyage, in
s shl1g more fascinated me than
Il apAmsacence In the ships wake, /
\ iEae Lightning Of the sea, Return
nthotel, | found Il book of John
a d. al the first seuteuce my eyes fell
VS. bis description Of phosphores-
,Fhich he called it "the lightning
+ aAf
A nnthe postoiiice | hestened to get
& anusfipt, and with great labor and
!. iaysnsegot possession of the magazine
Il ahi put quotation marks around
u,aatenoe, although It was as orig.
rshns as With John Ruskin. l sup
4 aarIne.tenths Of you living so near
slaass have watched this marine APP
naollsd phosphorescence, and | hope
he othtl one tenth may some day be
4 sTWto witness it. 1t is the waves
ga damonded. 1t is the inaores-
ad the bllows-thc waves of the sea
.Siel as was the deep after the sea
4 Lfpanto-the waves of the sea on
nap times when from horizon to
"a TIE entire ocean seems m C6iIIi-
y with this strange splendor as it
y every moment to tanner or more
gDlor on all sides of you. You sit
q uef the tafTrail of the yacht or
saantr, watching and waiting to see
nxthing the God Of beauty will do
laAilantic It is the ocean in trans
lG It Is the marine world casting
lrts Of glory in the pathway OF the
fil q he walks the deep; it is an in
ifnament with all its stars gone
2 whit No picture eau present IL,
T H'gapher's camera cannot be sue.
+ trained to catch it, and before it
~ Of the painter drops its pencil,
I'd and powerless.
noiphoreseence is the appearance
'Atsc Of the animal kingdom rising,
Playing, flashing, living, dying.
luminous animalcules for nearly
have been che study of natural
Tie fascination and determination
20 have brain enough to think.
~ who puts In his Bible nothing
Useless, calls the attention Of Job,
H'el scientist Of his day, to this
facenee, and as the leviathan of
sweeps past points out the fact
tnaketh a path to shine after him. "
'kArYAKEwlLL YOU LEAvEg
-luae Of us now and will it be true
l''n We have gomez Win there be
WAY light or darknessl viii there
MOI gloom or good cheer? Can any
f~Aen now and the next 100 wears
suathfully as the text says OF the
No. the deep, He maleth a path
Atef himh For we are moving
l,e We live in the same house, and
BUSINESS in tue same store, and
. Ri w same table, and chisel in tn,
r. -saio' and thrash in the same barn
pm the same church, we are ii
.ua are in many respects moving
1N arc not where we were 10 year
Were We will be 10 years hence
~tae family record, or the alma
NJ ~ me mirror, and see If any on
nHnere you were. All in motion
may trip and stumble and halt
o. not one moment for the las
~ mas tripped or stumbled o
se'ing onl Society moving on
4 N noylng onl Heaven moving on
sae moving onl Time moving on
4esng onl Therefore it is nbsur
~ We ourselves can stop, as W
WITH all the rest. Are we Xix
- q tho text, making our pat
W ns' 1t may be a peculia
o,N ny text suggests it.
laenee Will we leave in thi
~ We have gone through it
ussef hundreds Of voices: 'w
= n,. tae lmmortals. Fifty year
= out Of the world it viii be d
rssef iRhabited it." You al
80 that- | pass down throug
4. 1.,i ~ up through these gale,
i,s leeAlng for some one whom
I, eh.Si 'of one who win have no Il
N n A,ts evsia 100 years from nov
A 49,. nahd the man who has N
tlfsS, 1ea Inquire into his hist
+ L 'lsss y yes or a no he decide
n,s sS 10y, In time Of temptatio
VI. N l,''tiye or nsrstlve to son
y lbe.'.,5t.a another, hearing Of, WI
4 h I'D y .as in the SANG way.
ash., s.lsr slde OF the next W
v. tae first you bear OF
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