The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-10-03
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"The Sea is His And He
Made il"
". C. 7. U. HOLDS SERVICE
Classmeeting at Old Ladies
Home.
Interesting Discourse Given by Rev.
Scbillingcr---Church News.

q powerful and eloquent sermon to a
large congregation at the First Pres
byterian church Sunday The pastor
sald in part. on his subject, which
was "The Sea Is His and He Made
It,"
"The possessions of God are so
great that only one acquainted with
eternity can properly appraise them.
with one hand He holds all the seas
and with the other He gathers all
the stars. And between the farthest
star and the deepest canon of the
sea. He announces, All things are
mine
Hear a partial list Of His posses
sions:
"'Before the mountains were
brought forth, or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, even
from everlasting to everlasting. thou
art Cod The trees of the Lord are
full OF sap.' God commandcth the
sun, and II shineth not; and sealeth
up the stars He commanded the
clouds from above and opened the
doors of heaven Let us fear the
Lord that giveth rain He castetb
forth his ice like morsels.' He
brought streams also out of the rock,
and caused waters to run down like
rivers i will send grass In thy
fields for thy cattle For every
beast of the forest Is mine. and the
cattle upon thousand hills He
made darkness His secret place III
attempting to list His possessions we
discover there Is such plentitude
of them as TO bewlldcr us. And not
among the least Is the text, The Sea
is His and He Made It
"If you care to Investigate you will
he surprised to find how frequently
the Bible speaks of the sea, Moses
speaks of the Lord causing the sea
TO go back and made II dry. He tells
us that wind brought quails from
the sea. The Psalmist prophesies
God shall have dominion from sea
To sea. He who thinks OF JONAH
thinks of the sea. IIaggai dcclare'
God will shake the heavens, earth and
the sea Ezek. speaks of sea-farine
men. jeremiah refers to Caunel To-
Gated by the sea. Paul mentions our
fathers who passed through the sea
| The gospels tell us of one who ST.
| fenced the sea and John looks for
ward to the time when there shall b'
no more sea. BY way of illustration
| 6gure of speech, location and bust
ness the Bible speaks much about th'
sea and that which Is often mentioned
should occupy big place In oul
| minds.
secular writers have looked upoi
the sea as valuable material for poem
and essay. Shakespeare speaks o
great anchors heaps of pearl al
scattered in the bottom of the sea.
Barry Cornwall cries out:
"'The sea, the sea, the open sea,
| The blue, the fresh, the ever free
"You can fancy Lord Byron stand
ing with tears in his eyes exclaiming
| And have love this, Ocean; and m
| joy of youthful sports was on tn!
breast to be borne, like thy bubbles
| onward
Listen to the marshall music
Bryant:
"'old oceans gray and melanchol
waste,
Are but the solemn decorations all
or the great tomb of man.
| "Longfellow watches the wakes an
beautifully says:
"The little waves with their soi
white hands,
The tide rises the tide falls
Keats says the sea keeps eterna
whlsperings around desolate shores
And Bayard Taylor sees the mirt
of the mighty sea- SO God and ma
have spoken much about this grea
work of the Creator.
"The occasional sight and memor
of the sea humbles man and make
him conscious of his frailty. Lik
mad rivers rising in early spring dea
to all the pleadings of man whos
property is being swept away. so IN
sea Is heartlcss and dumb to all plea
. Of mercy. It's sad moan Decoih'
\ pathetic and weird when the voyage
: realizes his inability to lift It's pui
den. Its over mastering waves pea
and sweep over the deck only TO gai
, new energy for the next encounte
!. And in all Of this restless. merciies
!, bewlldering madness. the sea-tarli'
man Is conscious that The sea Is h
and He made it,
photography has done III )usu'
!, to the sea as artists have to the la'
OF Him who long centuries ago stro'
across its surface. We have seen u
sea at early dawn when the voice
morning called to tho sun TO rise lro
3 his golden couch far beyond the II
of the sea, and as his splendid chari
came up from the path OF darkhe
u there were rapture and glory th'
fastened across this trackless dcse
which seemed kindred to the ante
pated glory Of golden streets.
have seen the sea at high noon, rop'
in its garments Of green, SO wohde
> ful, never tirlng, constantly ihuucii
g the traveller to look once more al
!. then again, until compelled to W.T.
!. draw oneself from the spell OF ecsta
e and delight. We have seen the y
/. at sunset, shiyering in the hngerl
5, colors of the fast setting SUM- ~
purple hills along the distant sho
y the clouds are crimson and gold al
d blue until man becomes lost IN a'
j. and wonder and feels like censuril
n any intruder for disturbing this ra
d dream of life. And somehow neith
IS writer nor photographer can do Ju
"a tice TO Gods sea.
N "The mighty area covered by 7
1, sea Is symbolic of the big area
habited by Gods mercy. Into
depths this all earth plunges It's po