The Newtown bee., 1898-03-04

vast burial places, the sea which has ov-
erturned them, keeps at its dIeary task
and moves them shoreward. 1t carries
them as by conflicting and opposing
floods. The tides take them in their soft
hands and lay them at last gently down,
the first gentlness they have known, on
some sandy reach of shore or amid the
rocks, Natures granite mauseleum. But
it is the overturning which is the power.
The sea reveals as it keeps pushing its
waters on. The sea gives up
its dead, and much more wide
ly than we at first suspect
this great law of overlurnlng and revela-
ton holds.
THE SEA OF LIFE GIVES UP ITS DEAD.
They who betray the powers of life soon
er or later come to the surface. No con-
cealment lasts forever. Nature is against
secrecy. The word of God in the storm
and in scripture and in the book:of human
life is revelation. Commo.ioa brings
buried things out. Agitation which is
the constant, endless moving of publ,
thought exposes the evil of the English
slave trade and of American slavery.
So by the great prophet Haggai, God
says, L will shake the heavens ard the
sea and L will shake all nations. What is
this but prediction that world wide
! agitation, shaking must go on before
even the divinest things can appear.
The wind which shakes the atmosphere
| is the wind that pur.fies it. The over
turning is cleansing. The commotion is
publication. There ia no advance in
stagnant empires. China is dead be-
cause there are no internal forces at
work to renOvate and reconstruct. That
vast empire moves only when some
Japanese war stirs up its paraly zed
members. The law is universal. Growth
comes by movement among the cells.
And the motion of the huge tides is the
power which brings the lost sailor ashore.
There is an overturning going on in the
moral world as there is in the great and
wide sea and life will give up its dead.
The man who goes away from his town
to have his little episode of intoxlcation
aud hides in some secret chamber, finds
out first or last that the appetite eats
into the marrow of his face and his up
turned and overturned self is the sign of
his n oral degeneration. The sea gives
up its dead. The man who forsakes his
home and the fine atmo phere of charm
which true wife and bright ardent
children throw about it like a halo, to
disport In some other field where low
vagrant loves have their guilty and
transient hour conceals for time the
dark dishonor of his shamelessness. But
never in the history of the world did such
misdemeanor long remain unrecogni-
Lzed. Kings and queens and men of com
mon clay alike come to the daylight land
are reported. There is an overturning in
the realm of morals which soon appears in
the form of mutual disgust. There is a
sating to the worst of passions, and the
sea gives up it's dead.
The young man takes great care to let
it not be known that behind drawn shut
tiers and locked door, with voices muf-
fed in the silence of covert sin he sets his
stakes and wins or loses with the caprici-
GUS chance of his uncertain game. How
sly he isl But not IS sly as the officer or
even IS his friend. And the sea gives up
| it's dead.
And once more to end somewhere this
expose of modern and of ancient life the
high social pet and pride, boy or man,
turns his figures into falsehood abstracts
from the book and account of widow and
workman some part of their little all and
pursues in the solitude of his own
knowledge the wsy Of extravaganza and