REV. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S DAY SERMON. ‘Subject: “The Gardens of the SUN- Sea.” Text: “The weeds were wrapped about my head." Jonah ii., 5. “The Botany of the Bible; or, God Among the Flowers," is a fascinating subject, I hold in my hand a book which I brought from Palestine, bound in olive wood, and within it are pressed flowers which have not only retained their color, but theiraroma. Flow- ers from Bethichem, flowers from Jerusa- lem, flowers from Gethsemane flawars fram Mount of Olives, flowers from Bethany, flow- ers from 8lloam, flowers from the valley of Je- hoshaphat, red anemones and wild migno- | nette, buttercups, daisies, cyclamens, camo- mile, blaebells, ferns, mosses, grasses and a | wealth of flora that keep me fascinated by the hour, and every time 1 open it it is a new revelation. It isthe New Testament of the fields. Put my text leads us into another realm of the botanical kingdom. Having spoken to you in a course of ser- mons about “God Everywhere"-—on “The Astronomy of the Bible; or, God Among the Btars ;" “The Ornithology of the Bible: or, God Among the Birds" “The Ichthyology of the Bible; or, God Among the Fishes ;" "The Mineralogy of the Bible ;or, God Among the Amethysts " “The Conchology of the Bible; or, God Among the Shells" “The Chronology of the Bible ; or, God Among the Centuries speak now to you about “The Botany of the Bible ; or, God in the Gardens of the Sea.” Although I purposely take this morning for econsideraiion the least observed and least appracisted of all the botacical roducts of the world, we shall find the con- emplation very absorbing. In all our theological seminaries where we make ministers there ought to be professors to give lessons in natural history. Physical solence ought to be taught side by side with revelation. It is the same God who inspires the page of the natural world as the page of the Seriptural world. What a freshening up it would be to our sermons to press into them even a fragment of Mediterranean sea- woed ! We should have fewer sermons awfully dry if we imitated our blessed Lord, and in our discourse, like Him, we would let a lily bloom, or a crow fly, or a hen brood her chickens, or a erystal of salt Sash out the preservative qualities of religion, The trouble is that in many of our theo. logical seminaries men who are so dry them selves they never could get pe and bear th proach are teach ¥ men how I student is p tween two great dogmatic theology and squeezed Is no life left Pa 10 come trying to h, and the preases of until thers 3. Give the r vi at least one lesson on the botany Bible That was an awful plunge that the recreant prophet Jonah made when, dropped over gunwales of the Mediterranean shi tnany fath down into a te Both bef them pwallowed him, he was or The jungles of the deep th of vegetation around him, Se weed was anchored to the watery abysm, and some of it was afloat swallowed by the great sea monster, so that while the prophet was at the bottom of the deep after “= was horribly imprisoned he gould exeldim and did excla i the words { my text, “The weeds were wrapped about " my head. Joanah was the first to record that there gre growths upon the bottom of the sea as well pon land. The pleturs I ever owned was a handful of seaweeds pressed on a page, and I called them i of Neptune." These produsts of ether brown ple or red or It nt of ny colors, ars most fascinating. They are distributed all over the depths and from Arctic to Antaretio, That God thinks well of them I conclude fr he : oung stim yf the LL vott $4] 8 A ngt As urs the : nn wate plants 700 feet long, and they cable One specimen has a growth of are 400 or the sea. 1500 feet, On the northwest ahore of our country isa peaweed with leaves thirty or forty feet long amid which the sea otler makes his ) resting himself on the buoyancy of the leaf and stem, The thickest jungles of the trop- jes are not more full of vegetation than the depths of the sea. There are forests down there and vast prairies all abloom, and God walks there as he walked In the Garden of Eden “in the cool of the day." Oh, what entrancement, this sabaqueous world! Oh, the God given wonders of the seaweed! Its birthplace is a palace of erystal. The eradie that rooks it is the storm, grave is asar eopbagus of beryl and sapphire. There is 12 ight down There are creatures of God on the be the sea so constructed that, stre ng, they make a firmament besprent natellations and galaxies of impos r. The sea feathers a lamplightor, The gymnotus is an and he is surcharged with electricity and makes the ep bright with the lightning of the sea ala flashes lke jowals. There are nes at with light Theres are thie starfish and the moonfish, so called Le. eausothey so powerfully suggest stellar and lunar filuminatior Oh, these midn Caverns ; these pr its there, of al whoa p siectrician, bt lanterns of the oosan osssions of flame over the white floor of the deep ; theses {lluminations three miles down under the sea; these gorgeously upholstered casties of the Al mighty in the underworld! The author of the text felt the pull of the hidden vegetation of the Maditerranean, whether or not he ap- reciated its beauty, as he eried out, “The Erect were wrapped about my head.’ Let my subject cheer all those who had friends who have been buried at sea or in pur great American lakes. Which of us brought up on the Atlantic coast has not had kindred or friend thas sepulohered? “We had the usaless horror of thinking that they were denied proper resting place. Wesald : “Oh, if they had lived to come ashore and had then expired! What an alleviation of our trouble it would have been to put them in somo beautiful family plot, where wa could hava planted flowers and trees over them." Why, God did better for them than we could bave done for them. They were let down into beautiful gardens. Before they had reached the bottom they had gariauds about their brow, In more elaborate and adornad place than we could have affordad them they were put away for the last slumber, Hear it, mothers and {athers of sallor boys whose ship went down in our Inst August hurrioane! There are no Greanwoods or Laurel Hills or Mount Aubmurns so beautiful on the land as thers are banked and terraced and scooped and hung fu the depths of the sea. The bodies of our foundeced and sunken friends are girdled end oanopled and housed with such glories as attend no other Necropolis, They were swamped in lifeboats, or they struck on Goodwin sands or Deal beach or the Skerries, and were never hoard of, or dis. with the City of Boston, or the Ville de Havre, or the Cymbria or were run down | in a fishing smack that put out from New- foundiand, But dismiss your previous gloom | about the horrors of ocean entombment, When Sebastopol was in the Anglo-French war, Prines Moniehikof, com. manding the Russian navy, saw that the only way to keep the English out of the har bor was to sink all the Russian ships of war the roadstead, and 80 100 yesssls sank. hen, after the war was over, our American ones wera buried {in the gardens of the soa, fenced off by hedges of coralline, land wero those of Moses, where no one bat God was present. The sublime report of that entombment is in the book of Deuteronomy, which says that the Lord buried him, and of | those who have gone down to slumber in the | deap the same may be sald, “The Lord buried thom," As Christ was buried Ina garden, so your shipwreoked friends and those who could not survive till they reached port wore put down amid fridescence--*‘In the midst of the garden there was a sepuloher.” It has always beon a mystery what was the | particular mode by which Goorge G. Cooks | man, the pulpit orator of the Methodist Church and the chapinin of the American Congress, loft this Ifa after embarking for | England on the steamship President, Maroh | 11th, 1841. The ship never arrived in port, N12 CHS TST Slmnieu Lier, and on DOth sides of the ocean it has for fifty years been ques. tioned what became of her. But this [ know about Cookman-—that whether it was loeberg | or conflagration midsea or collision he had more garlands on his ocean tomb than if, ex- iring on land, each of his million friends ad put a bouquet on his casket. In the midst of the garden was his sepualcher, But that brings mo to notice the misnomer in this Jonahitio expression of the text, The prophet not only made a mistake by trying to go to Tarshish when God told him to go to Ninevah, but he made a mistake when he styled as weeds these growthsthat enwr apped him on the day he sank. A woad is some- thing that is useless, It is something vou | throw out from the garden. Itis something that chokes the wheat, It is somsthing to be grubbed out from among the cotton, It | 1s something unsightly to the eye, It isan Invader of the vegetable or floral world, But this growth that sprang up from the depth of the Mediterranean or floated on its surface was among the most beautiful things that God ever makes, It was a water plant known as the red colored alga and no weed at all, It comes from the loom of infinite beauty. Itis planted by heavenly love. It is the star of a sunken firmament, Itis a lamp which the Lord kindled, It snc by which to bind whole sheaves of practical suggestion, Itis a poem all whose cantos are rung by Divine goodness, Yet we all make the mistake that Jonah made (a regard to it and call it a weed : “The weeds were wrap Ah, that is the trouble or aon! Pitched up on the beast dren without home, v anything but sin, seen They are washed 3 uffins, ’ the R ira ad about my head the land as i t are flowers, ragan rakings are street arabs sam ut weeds, that garrett, ver did ought shame him some ha drinks braise of idan, it is my husband, sir), but then boats me ou at that ny face—and I teil him to see what is 8 Pegry goes m bose collars in Wa , sir, i ig If it wasn't f two in them oy terranean Poor ang fo theo street immortal { wn i and Christian girls, humans sso shh they have of what wrote 01 21,000 wrmnatories tions now on foot, ready accomplished ! edness, into what g nea! these pleked up out of the strests and » into country homes only twelove turned out bad In the last thirty years a number that n man oan number of the vagrants have lifted into respectabliity and usefulness and a Christian life, Many of them have homes of their own. Though ragged boys onoe and streot girls, now at the head of prosperous families, honored on earth and to be glorious in heaven, them have been Govern ors of States, Some of them are ministers of the gospel, In all departments of life those who were thought to be weeds have turned out to be flowers, One of those rescued Inds from the streets of our cities wrote to another, saying : “I bave heard you are studying for the ministry, Bo am 1.” My hearers, I implead you for the news. boys of the streets, many of tham the bright. est children of the city, but with no chanoe, Do not step on their bare feet. Do not, when they steal a ride, cut behind, When the paper is three cents, ones in a while give them a five cent piece and tell them to keep the change. I like the ring of the letter the pnowsboy sent back from Indiana, where he had been sent to a good home, tos New York newsboy's lodging house: “Boys, we thould show ourselves that we are no fools, that we can become as respectable as any of the countrymen, for Franklin and Webster and Olay were Roo boys once, and even George Law and Vanderbilt and Astor, And now, boys, stand up and let them see you have got the real stuff in you. Come out here and make respectable and honorable men, 80 they can say, ‘There, that boy was once a newsboy.'" My hearers, join the Christian philanthropists who are changing organ grinders and bootbiacks and news. boys and street arabs and eigar girls into those who shall be kings and queens unto God forever. It I» high time that Jonah finds out that that which ie about him Is not weads, but flowers, As | examine this red alga which wes about the recreant prophet down in the Maditerranean he, when, in the words of my text, he oried ont, “The weeds were lw i about my head,” sod 1 am led th to further examine this submarine | world, I am compelled to exaslsim, What a wonderful God we have! I am glad that, by diving ball, and “Brooks 4 son sounding | apparatus,’ and ever improving machinery, {we are permitted to walk the floor of the | oosan and the wonders wrought by boven Bome of engineer, Gowan, descendsd to the depths | fn » diving bell, it Was an impressive specs | taals, | Oh, the marvels of the water world ! These | no-called seaweeds aro the pasture flolds and the forage of the innumera from the economy of nature, waves are all covered with flora and fauna, Sunkon Alps and Apennines and Himalayas | of Atlantic and Pacific oceans. A continent that onoe connacted Farope and America, 80 that In the ages past men came on foot nerosé from where England is to where we | now stand, all sunken and now covered with the growths of the seans it once was covered | with growths of the land, England and Ireland once all ons pleco of land, but now much of it so farsunken as to make a channel, and Ireland has become an Island, The islands, for the most part. ara only the forcheads of sunken continents, The ses conquering the land all along the coasts and erambling the hemispheres wider and wider become the subaqueous do. minions, Thank God that skilled hy drographers have male us maps and charts of the rivers and lakes and seas and shown us something of the work of the eternal God in the water world, Thans God that the great Virginian, Lieu tenant Maury, lived to give us “The Physical Geography of the Bea,” and that men of genius have gone forth to study the so-called weods that wrapped about Jonah's head and have found them to be eoronals of beauty, and when the tide receded theses scientists have wadea down and picked up divinely detured leaves of the ocean, the naturalists, ‘tke and Hooper and Walters, gathering them from the beach of Long Island Sound, and Dr, Blodgett preserving them from the shores of Key West, and Professors Emerson and Gray finding them slong Bost and Pr theriog Charleston b the triumphs of algology, or the science wood, Why confine ourselves to theold and haok- noyed fllustrations of the w { God, w at seas full otf {I ns ns y fessor Gihhs | ner of son arbor, an oO i there are 18 rati Lt no and oell and imparadiae or hedl Is against find and rans of the flosh and this glance at the botany of the Bible in adding to Luke's mint, anise and cumin, acd Matthew's tares, and John's vine, and Solomon's cluster of came phire, and Jeremiah's balm, and & bul rust, and Isalah’s terobinth., and Hosea's thistle, and Esekiol's cedar, and “the hyssop that springeth out of the wall” and the “rose of Sharon and lily of the valley,” and the frankincense and myrrh and cassia which the astrologers brought to the man gor at least one stalk of the alags of the Mediterranean ? And now I make the marine David my perorstion, for it about forty or fifty miles from the piace where the soene of the text was snacted “The ses Is His, and He made it, and His hands formed the dry land. Oh, come, Jot us worship and bow down ; let us knowl be fore the Lord, our Maker. For He is our in doxology of was written God, and we aro the people of His pasture.” Amen, - or ——— The Meckrat of South Atrica, The meekrat of South Africa bears a resemblance to the American prairie | dog, but is more easily domesticated, It is a tiny little creature about as big as a rat, very intelligent and affection- ate as a dog when tamed. ! and chatters and purrs, is an inveter- ate thief and spends much of its time standing upright. Its far is gray, | marked somewhat like a tabby eat, snd it is wholly without fear. The dog is its favorite animal, and when tamed the meekrat invariably attaches itself to the most good natared dog in the house. When wild these little animals live in colonies as the prairie | dogs, burrowing their homes under- ground, living on roots. They ex- press supreme sat'zustion by lying flat down and stretching themselves | out so that they seem like a flat skin ! without any bones inside it. The lit- tle creatures have black circles around | their eyes, a stripe running ander. | neath their bodies for its entire length and long, curving black claws on their | little forepaws, —Chiongo Herald. the H Da —— cman open the wonders of God's workings in the | Tl | great deep and never for human devastation! | 10 greatest Sneculon ever known on the | le animals of the | deep, Not one species of them can be spared | Valleys and | mountains and plants miles underneath the | It barks | SABBATH SCHOOL. | INTERNATIONAL LESSON OCTOBER 15, FOR Lesson Text: “Justification by Faith,” ww Fel ext: Romans v., Homans Golden Commentary. 1. "Therefore, being justified In have peace with God thr Jesus Christ H there is 1 indation hat needs to be fully received, fiemly held, oyed and At all who re rd ty dnily « this} FYE IRE ET YH Christ Himself is jshed work of Christ ours ommi | 18 Titus iil, } rand and it passed on, Hb Christ ar pence With ', throu without nny w fv nh. i HO (ELH) or QUE [rom gh the fin ’ ra 01 "nr notable the pases by the HY whom also i wherein we stand, nt yey Of . It is by © irs, that is our pri the in al: His may come boldly for ry tis 1 (He & PAO of the gi I nsingies work and in that grace it r our High Priest within before Go I we nev ars all « enon eo eviden Hur go oliverw] 10 il For i! when we ore one nelled to God h more, being shall i saved by His Lif he Ww neilin. tion is entirely of God ; the need Is wholly ours God was in Christ, recon g the world aeto Himself (11 Cor, wv. 19 The ery through the ambassador is that because of such love on the part of God, who the welfare of the impotent and worthless, the sinner and enemy, and has provided righteousness for the rebel should be willing to believe and receive such love, The further joy Is that baviag saved us, He Hyves to keep us. He is our life (Heb, vii, 25 Rev LL. 15,10: Col, HL. 4.) 11. “And not only so, but we also joy In God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” The God of hope fille us with all joy and peace in believing and makes us to abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost (Rom. xv, 13.) By «a more intimate acquaintance with and knowledge of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit we learn that the kingdom of God Is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost (Rom. xvi, 17.) So the recon clliation (so0 margin) provided bw God, nieve we wer s death of His 8 fled, we rR of re sels surh wrought out by Christ and brought to us by | the Bpirit makes us new creatures in Christ | Jesus, — Lesson Helper, - I — Sai one shopper: “Oh, I saw just the loveliest, sweetest, prettiest baby a minute ago.” Said the other shop per: “What? Do you mean to tel) me that stupid nurse has dared to bring my little darling out such a day as this?" 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A Somerset County Be ing siraugers in a farmer who lives well up on a hillside tells a story of his hiring throug interpreter a Canadis English to w farmer rather a and just after the Freon HH : into the pantry and eam it with a large butcher knife i hand whet ting it on su sh "pre tion for or He at the ne talk in Kp enk no The 1 100K man inrge, man arrived at lis house he steg jars r eutti PRET A Peripatetic Hypaotizer, ——— Dag Sellers, Highest of ali in Leavening Power.——Latest U. S. Gov't Report. 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