The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-02
A PATH THAT SHINES.
REV. DR.. TALtiAGe breaches UPON
THE LIGHTNING OF THE SEA.

Ses
An Unusually Attractive aud Eloquent Ser.
mon-The Pathway Of the A~imIghty-An
Irradiated Wave of Gladness-The GLOW
Of Good Deeds.
BROOKLYN, Feb. 1s.-In the Brooklyn
Tabernacle this forenoon Rev. DR.. Tai
mage preached an unusually attractive
and eloquent gospel sermon to a crowd
ed audience, who listened with rapt in
terest. The subject was "The Lightning
Of the Sea-" the text selected being Job
xii, 30, He maketh a path to shine after
him."
II for the next thousand years minis
tiers Of religion should preach from this
Bible, there will yet be texts u~nexpound-
ed and unexplained and unappreciated.
What little has been said concerning this
chapter in Job from which my text is
taken bears on the controversy as to
what was really the leviathan described
as disturbing the sea. What creature it
was know not. Some say it was a whale.
Some say It was q crocodile. My own
opinion Is II was q sea monster now ex-
tinct. No creature now floating in Med
iterranean or Atlantic waters CORE.
spends to Jobs description.
LIGHTNING OF SEA.
What most interests me Is that as IL
moved on through the deep it left tho
waters flashing and Respondent. In the
words Of the text, HE maketh q path
to shine after him." What was that IL
lumined path2 1t was phosphorescence.
You find 1t in the wake Of a ship in the
night, especially after rough weather.
Phosphorescence is the lightning of the
sea. That this figure Of speech is cor
rect In describing its appearance I I'm
certified by an incident. After crossing
the Atlantic the first time and writing
from Basic, Switzerland, to an Ameri-
can magazine an account Of my voyage,
in which nothing more fascinated me
than the phosphorescence in the ships
wake, I called 1t the lightning 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, in which he called 1t
1.-THE lightning Of the sea-"
Down to the p~ostofice I fastened to
get the manuscript, and with great labor
and some expense got possession Of the
magazine article and put quotation
marks around that one sentence, al
though it was as original with me as
with John Ruskin. I suppose that nine
tenths Of you living SO near the sea-
coast have watched this marine appear.
ance called phosphorescence, and I hope
that the other one-tenth may some day
be so happy as to witness it. II Is the
waves Of the sea ~diamonded; 1t Is the in
forescence 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 tho entire ocean seems in con
~flagSatio~ with this strange splendor az
Lip Dry moment to tanner OF
I-.Slx /dazzliiy color on all sides Of you,
YoT sit looking over the ~taffrail Of thu
yacht Of ocean steamer, watching and
waiting to see what new thing the Goo
of beauty will do with the Atlantic. II
is the ocean in TRANSPORTATION; It is the
marine world casting its garments Of
glory in the pathway of the Almighty a!
he walks the deep; 1t Is an inverted frma
ment with all its stars gone down with
it. No picture can present it, for pho
t~ographer's camera cannot he success
bfully trained to catch 1t, and before 4
the hand Of the painter drops its pencil
o7e.awad and powerless.
This phosphorescence is the appear
ance Of myriads Of the animal kingdom
rising, falling, playing, flashing, living
dying. These luminous animalcules TO
NEARLY $50 years have been the study o
paturalists and the fascination and sol
emnixation of all who have brain enougl
to think. Now, God, who puts in hi
Bible nothing trivial or useless, calls tn
attention Of Job, the greatest scientis
Of his day, to this phosphorescence, an
as the leviathan Of the deep sweeps pas
points out the fact that ".he maketh
path to shine after him."
WAKE MADE BY A BAD MAN,
is that true Of us now, and will II b
true Of ps when we have gomez Wi
there be subsequent light or darkness
VIII there be q trail Of gloom or goo
cheerp Can any one between now an
the next 100 years sav { . us truthful
as the text says Of the leviathan OF til
deep, HE maketh a path to shine aftt
himY" For we are moving on. VIII
we live in the same house, and transa'
business in the same store, and write q
the same table, and chisel In tho san
Z studio, and thrash in the same barn, an
worship in the same church, we are
motion and are in many respects mo
ing on, and we are not where we we
10 years ago, nor where we will be
years hence. Moving on!
Look at the family record, or the
manac, or into the mirror, and see 1t al
one Of you is where you were. All
motion. Other feet may trip and stui
BILE and halt, but the feet Of not n n
ment for the last 90 centuries has trlpp
az stumbled OF halted. Moving on! {
ciety moving ont The world moving
Heaven moving on! The universe mt
ing on! Time moving on! Eternity me
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