The Grenada sentinel., 1898-01-01

bury, VT, in q museum built by th
chief citizen, rs I examined spec
men on the shelf, first realized wha
holy OF holes God can build an
has built In the temple Of one piece G
coral. ! do not wonder, that Erna
Hecksl, the great scientist, while il
} Ceylon, was 80 entranced with tn
specimens which some Cingalese diver
had brought up for his inspection tina
he himself plunged into the sea, ant
went clear under the waves at the risl
OF his life, again, and again, and again
that he might know more of the coral
the beauty Of which he indicates cat
not even be guessed by those who have
only seen 1t above water, and after the
polyps, which are its sculptors and
architects, have died and the chief
glories of these submarine flowers
have expired. Job, in my text, did not
mean to deprecats this divine sculp-
ture in the coral reefs along the sea
coasts. No one can afford to depre.
ciate these white palaces Of the deep.
built under Gods direction. He
never changes His plans for the
building of the islands and shores; and
for uncounted thousands of years the
coral gardens, and the coral castles,
and the coral battlements 20 on and
up. l charge you that you will please
God and please yourself if you will go
into the minute examination of the
corals-their foundations, their pima
cles, their aisles, their pillars, their
curves, their cleavages, their reticula-
tion, their grouping-families Of them,
towns of them, cities of them.
and continents Of them. Indeed,
you can not appreciate the meaning of
my text unless you know some thing of
the coral. Labyrinthian, stellar, CO.
lumnar. floral, dented like shields from
battle. spotted like leopards, embroi-
dered like lace, hung like upholstery
twilight and auroras and sun
bursts Of beauty! From deep
crimson to milk-whits are its
colors. You may find this work of God
through The animalculep eighty faith
oms down, or amid the breakers,
where the sea dashes the widest, and
beats the mightiest, and bellows the
loudest. These sea creatures are ever
busy. Now they build islands in the
center of the Pacific ocean. Now they
lift barriers around the con tinent. In
dian ocean, Red sea and coast of Zau-
zibar have specimens of their in
but sublime masonry. At
the recession Of the tides you may in
some places see the top of their Alpine
while elsewhere nothing
but the desp-sea soundings from the
decks Of the Challenger, the Porcu-
pine and the Lightning of the British
expedition can announce them.
The ancient Gsuls employed
The coral to sdorn their helmets
and the hilts of swords. In many lands
t has been used a. amulets. The AL
yerian reefs In one year 1S73) had ut
work amid the coral 81 vessels. with
|, l5c sailors, yielding in profit $685., 900.
But the secular and worldly value of
he coral is nothing as compared with
he moral and religious, as when, in
ny text. Job employees it in compare
on. do not know how auyons can
xamine coral the size of the thumb
lail without bethinking himself of God !
md worshipping Him, and feeling the
pposite OF the great intidel surgeon,
ecturing to the medical students in (
lie dissecting room upon human eve
which lie held in his hand, showing its
Vonders of architecture and adapta-
ion, when the idea Of God flashed h
pom him 10 powerfully he cried out to T
ne students. 'Gen tlsmen, there IL q &
od; but I hate Him." Picking up a v
trsl, l feel like crying out: '.Thsre is c
God. and adore Him." q
Nothing 70 impresses me with the o
sct that our God loves the beautiful. 81
he most beautiful coral Of the world d
ever comes to human observation. n
unrises and sunsets He hangs up for :
ations to look at; He may green the p
rass, and round the dew into pearl, 0!
nd set on fire autumnal foliage to 81
lease mortal sight, buy those thou VI
'nds OF miles Of coral achievement I Ct
link He has had built for His own de- p,
ght. In those galleries He alone can pe
ak. The music of those keys played st
by the fingers Of the wave He only
n heal. The snow Of that white and | .
. bloom of that crimson He alone se
N see. Having garnitured this world Ii,
please the human race, and lifted v,
orious Heaven to please the suQelic at
telligences, l am clad that He has ca
anted these gardens Of ,the deep to ho
ease Himself. But here and there pa
I'd allows specimens Of subms- tn
70 glory to be brought up and q I
before Us for sublime contempla- fu]
N. While spssk, these great na- SRI
ms Of zoophytes, meandrinas, and 90,
ldrepores, with ten tacles for troweL VII
building just such coral a. we And thu
our text The diamond NAV be m,
'rs rare, the Srystal may bs mora Of
lrkling, the |chrysoprass may b. tsr
IRE ablase, but the coral 10 the lopr. sre
sp, everlasting blush Of the ses, Yet Of
B. who undsfstook I'll kinds Of pre. 81
us stones. declares that the beauty III
4 value Of the coral are nothing com. Th
red with our holy religion, ana he w,
ks up this icorslline formation M ~,
ks st u aHd Aings 1t as.ds with ell 81 I