The Washington weekly post., 1899-06-13

phiia, because it is like a tree; another
Is called the astrara. because it Is like a
star; another is called the brain coral,
because il is like the cOnvolutions OF me
human brain; another is called fan coral,
because il is like the instrument with
which YOU cool yourself on a hot day;
another specimen is called the organ
pipe coral because il resembles the king
of musical instruments.
No Comparison with Religion.
"All the flowers and all the shrubs in
the gardens of the land have their cor
respondencies in this garden of the sea.
COrailumi 1t IS the synonym for beauty.
And yet there is no beauty In the coral
compared with our religion. It gives
physiognomic beauty. 1t does not change
the features; 1t does not give features
with which the person was not originally
endowed, but it sets behind the features
of the homeliest person a heaven that
shines clear through. So that often, on
first acquaintance, you said of a man:
He is the homeliest person L ever saw
when. after you came TO understand him
and his nobility of soul shining through
his countenance, you said: He is the
loveliest person l ever saw No one ever
had a homely Christian mother. What
ever the world may nave thought of her,
liAClt were lNO WIZ AilOuSIt ybui
father. who had admired her for fifty
years. and you. over whom she bent with
so many tender ministra tiOns. When you
think of the angels of God, and your
mother among them, she outshines 'hen
all. oh, that our young people could un-
derstand that there is nothing that so
much beauties the human coUntenance
as the religion of Jesus Christ! 1t makes
everything beautiful. Trouble beautiful.
Sickness beautiful. DisappOinJment beau
titul. Everything beautiful.
Near my early home there was place
called the Two Bridges These bridges
leaped the two streams. Well, my fFieHds,
the religion Of Jesus Christ is two bridges.
1t bridges all the past, II arches and
overspsns all the future IL makes the
dying pillow the landing place OF angels
fresh from glory. II turns the sepulclcr
into May-time orchard. II catches Up
the dying into full orchestra. COrailGm.
And yet that does.not express the beauty:
No mention shall be made OF coral
AHiB,rlcsIae that Conquer Oceans
Il take your hand again and walk d
little farther on in this garden of the sea,
and l notice the durability of the work
OF the coral. Montgomery speaks of it.
He says: Frail were their forms. epheme-
raj their lives. their masonry imperisha
BILE Rhizopods are insects 50 small they
are invisible, and yet they built the Apen-
Mines, and they planted for their own
monument the Cordulerasl u takes lS7.-
ooo,o0 OF them to make one grain. CofaIs
are changing the navigation OF the sea,
saying 20 the commerce Of tho world:
Take this channel Take that channel,
Avoid the other channel Animaicules
beating back the Atlantic and Pacific
seas. IL the insects OF the ocean have
EfrsE~ "A nh
knows but that they may yet build reef
S.eOe miles long. ana thus. that by one
stone bridge Europe shall be united with
this continent on one side, and BY another
stone bridge Asia will be united with this
continent on the other SIDE; and the tour
Isl OF the world, without the turn of
steamers wheel or the spread OF a ships
sail, may go all round the world. and
thus be fulfilled the prophecy. There
shall Se no mere sea
But the durability of the coraFs work
j. not al all 10 Dc compared with the
durability of our W0rE for GOD. Tne
coral Is going 70 crumbie In the fiFes OF
the last day, but your work for God Will
endure forever.
The song with which you sing your
child 10 sleep U4ll never cease is mis-
sion. You VIII grow ola ana die. That
son viii pass out into the word. The
song Nlth which you sang him 20 sleep
last night will 20 with him while he liges.
a conscious or unconscious restraint and
insp.Ta alton here. and may help open 20
him the gate Of q glorious and triumph
ant hereafter. The iuIisbies OF this cen
tury ALL sing through al the centuries
The humbiest good accomplished in time
Will las through eternity.
The Folly of Bsisg Discouraged.
Il sometimes set discouraged. as. sup
pose. "on DO al the Ysstness OF the work
and ar how little ne are doing. and yet.
do you suppose the rhizopod said: There
IS no need OF my working; ] cannot build
The CortillerasT Do yen suppose .he
msdrepore said: There Is no need OF my
working | cannot build the Sandwich