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"DRIVING OP VIE SEA,
THE LEVIATHAN Ole J013 AN leX'
Tema Seen, MONSTER..
So Saps Itev. Dr. esilinage—ute Latest
Sermon et iiroohlyn 'ratiernitele—
'Eulogy on the Into tr'.1Y,
Itooemiseete Feb. 18—In the Brooklyn
Ineernacle this forenooto Rev, Dr. 11
mage preached as unusaally attrective and
eloquent Clospel mermen to a Or0Wded 49(1i^
elm°, who listened with rept interest. The
SW** Was, " Lightning of the See,"
the text selected. being Job 41; xxxiv; "He
maketh a path to shine after Him."
If for the reset thousand years ministers
of religion should petite% from this Bible,
there will yet be texts unexponndeds and
tuseeplained, and unappreciated- What
little has been said concerning tide chepter
in Job frotn which my text is taken bears
on the controversy as to what was teeny
the leviathan ,described as disturbing the
sea. .bat creattire it was know not.
Some say"it was a whale. Some say it was
a crocodile. My own opinion is it was a
sea roonatermow extinct. No creature now
floating in Mediterranean or Atlantic
waters corresponds to Job's description,
What moire interests me is that es it
moved on through the deep it eeft the
waters flashing aud resplendent. In the
words of the text "He maketh a path to
shiee after Rim." What was that illu-
mined path? It wasphosphorescence. You
find it in the- wake of a ship in the night,
especially after roigh weather. Phosphor-
escence is the lightning of the sea. • That
this figure of speech is correct in describing
ita appearance I am certified by an incident.
After crossing the Atlantic the first time
and writing from Basle, Switzerland, to an
American an account Of my voyage, in
which nothing more fascinated me than
the phospliorescence in the ship's wake. I
called it The Lightning of the Sea. Re-
turning th my hotel I found a book of
John Ruskin, and the first sentence my
eyes fell upon wail his description of phos-
phoresceirce, in which he called it 'The
Lightning of the Sea." Down to the
postoffice I hastened te get the manuscript,
and, with great labor and expense, got
possession of the magazine article and put
guotatien m•rks around that one sentence,
although it was as original with me as
with John Ruiskin. I suppose that nine -
tenths of you living so near the sea -coast
have watched this marine appearance called
phosphorescence, and. I hope that the other
one tenth may some day be so happy aa to
•ewitness it. • it is the wavee of the fieti
diamonded; it is the inflorescence •of the
billow; the wavesof the sea crimsoned,
as was the deep after the sea -fight of
Lepanto; the waves of the sea on fire.
There are times when from horizon to
herizon the entire ocean seems in con-
flagration with this strange splendor, as it
changes every moment to tamer or more.
dazzling color on all sides of you. You sit
looking over the taffrail of the yacht or
ocean steamer watching and waiting to see
what new thing the God of beauty will do
with the Atlantic. It is the ocean in trans-
figuration;it is the marine wored casting
its garmets of geory in the pathway of the
Almighty ad Iffe,walks the deep; it is an
inverted firmament with all its stars gone
down with it. No picture can present it,
for photographer's camera caenot be sec-
oessfully trained to catch it, and before it
the hand of the peinter drops its pencil
overawed and powerless: This -phosphor-
esence is the appearance of myriads of.the
animal kingdom rising, falling, playing,
flashing, living,„ dying. These luminous
animalculae for nearly one hundred and fifty
years hese been the study of naturalists
end the fascination and solemnization of all
who have brain enough to think. Now, God,
wbo puts in His Bible nothing trivial or
useless, calls the attention of Job, the
greatest ecientist of the day, to this phos-
phorescence, and • as the leviathan of the
deep sweeps past, points out the faot
that "He rnaketh a path to shine after
Him."
Is that true of us now, and will te.be
true of usewhen we have gone? Will there
be subsequent light or, darkness? Will
there be a trail of gloom or good cheer?
Can anyone between now and the next 109
.years say of us truthfully, as the tart says
of the leviathan of -the deep, "Ue maketh
a path to shine after Him'?" For we are
moving on. While we live in the same
house, and trinsact'business in the same'
store, and write on the same table, and
chisel in •the same studio, and tbresh in the
same bath, and worship in the same church,
we are in motion, and are in many respects
moving en, and we are not whore we were
ten years ago, nor where we will be ten
y,ears hence. Moving on 1 • Look at the
familenrecord, or the almanac, or into the
mirror, and see if any one of you is where
you were,. All in motion. Ocher feet may
trip, and stumblerand halt, but thesfeet of,
not one moment for the last sixty centuries
has tripped, or stumbled, or halted. Movs
ing on Society moving on! The worlsi
moving on ! Heaven moving On The uni-
verse moving en ! Tirne moving on ! Eter-
nity moving on 1 Therefore,it is absurb
to think that lye ourselves can stop,
as we must move withall the rest. Are
we like 'the creature of the text, 'nuking
our path to shine after us? It may be a
peculiar question, • but my text Sitg-
eats it. What influeence will we leave
in -this world after we ,have on;
through ie? "None 1" answer hundreds
nil voices, "we are not of the immortals,
Fifty years after we are out of the world
it will be as though we never inhabited
et" You aro wrong in saying that. I
pass down through this audience and up
through these galleries, and I are looking
for souse one whore I cannot find. I ani
looking for one who will have no influence
in this world 100 years.„.from now. But I
have found the man who has the least
influence, and 1 inquire into his history and
I find that by a. yes or no he decided some
one's eternity. In time of temptation he
gave an affittmative or a negative, to some
temptation -which another, hearing of, was
induced to decide in the same way. Clear
oti the other side of the next million years
may be the first you hear of the long -
reaching influent:a of that yes or no, but
hear of it you will. Will that father maize
a path to shine after 'him 1 STilI that
mother make a path to shine after her?
you will be tvedking along those streets or
along that eountry road, 200 ves,rs from
now in the character of your descendants.
They will be affected by •your courage or
your cowerclice, your- purity et your de.
pravity, yam heliness or your sin. You
will melte the path to ahine afier you or
blealren after ynn. Why should they point
out to us en some mountain tvso rivulets,
one of vshieh passes down into the
Pacific Ocesei owl the othet rivulet flowing
down into the revere which past oot into
the Atlantic Ocean 1 Every mars'every
woman, etaride at a poitit where words ut-
tered, or deede dorm, or prayer' oltered,
deeide opposite destitute awe opposite eter-
nitiere. We see it man planting a tree, and
treading the sod firmly ori either side of it,
and watering jt in dry weather, mid taking
a great, care To its Culture, and he never
enuaks auy fruit from its bough ; but his
ohildreu will. We are all planting trees
that will yield fruit hundreds of years leiter
we Ape dead; orsheres of goldee fruit, or
groves of dewily upas, I an so feselnated
with the phosphorescence in the track of it
ehip teet e have sometimes wittched for a
long weile, and have seen nothing en the
thee of the deep but blackness- The mouth
of watery chasiee that looked, like gaping
jawa of hell. NO,a spark as btg 40 the
firefly; not a white scroll of surf ; not a
taper to illumiriate the mighty sepulobres
of dead ships; derkness three thoueand feet
deep; and more thouseeds of feet long and
wide. That is the kind of wake that a bad
mem leaves behind hini as he plows through
tee ocean of this life toward the vaster
others of the great future.
Now suppose a man aeated in a corner
grocery or business office among clerks,
gives himself to jolly ecepticism,' He langhs
at the Bible, manes sport of the miracles,
speaks of perdition in jokes, and laughs at
revivals as a frolio, and et the passage of a
funeral procession, which always solemn-
izes sensible people?, says, "Boys, let's take
at drink." There is in that group a young
man who is mieriug • a great struggle
against temptation, and pra,ys night and
morning, and reads his Bible, and is asking
God for help day by say. But thee glIttaW
against Christianity makes him lose his
grip of sacred things and he gives up Sab-
bath, and Church, .and morals, and goes
from had to worse, till he falls under dissi-
pations, dies in a lame house and is buried
in a potter's field. Another young man
who heard that jolly scepticism made up
his mind that " it makes nor difference 'what
VO do or say, for .we will all come out
last at the right place,'' and began, as
consequence'to purloin. Some money. th
ceme into his hands for others he, a
plied to his own uses, thinking perhe.
he •would make it straight' , some oth
time, and all would be well even if h
did not make it straight. He ends
the penitenitiary. That scoffer who u
tered the jokes against Christiani
never realized . what bad work he 'w
doing, and he passed on through Iif
and out ot it, and into a future that
am not now going to depict. I do n
propose with a searchlight to show th
breakers of the awful coast on which th
ship is wrecked, for my bueiness now is
watch the sea atter the keel has plowed i
No phosphorescence in the wake of th
ship, but behind it two souls struggling i
the waves; to young men destroyed b
reckless scepticism, an anillumined ocean b
neathi and on all sides of them. • Blaokne
and demises& You know what a gloriousl
good man Rev. John Newton was, the mo
of his lite, but before his conversion he w
a very wicked sailor and on boarci the shi
"Harwich,"..instilled infidelity and vie
in the mind of a young man principl
which destroyed him. Afterward the tw
met end Newton tried to undo his ba
work, buten. vain. The young man becam
worse - and worse and 'died , a prof:eget
horrifying with his prefanities those wh
stood by him in .his last moments.. Bette
look out what ban influence You start, fo
you may, not able to stop it. Italoe
net require vary great. force to ram other
Why was it that many years ago a Irea
flood nearly destroyed New Orleans? '
°rewash had burrowed into the banks
the river until the ground, was saturate
and the banks weakened until the fioo
burst.u•
• Et
I find here a 'man who starts out' i
life with the determination that he vri
never see suffering but he will try.. t
alleviate it ; and never see discouragemen
but he will try to cheer is; and never pee
ith anybody but he will try to dohi
geed. Getting' hie strength from God, b
starts from hoine with high purpose o
doing all the teeed /Wean possibly do in on
day. Whether standing behind the counter
or talking in the businese office with a pe
behind his ear, or making a bergain with
ellow-trader, or out in the fields eiscussin
with his next neighbor the wisest rotatio
f crops, or in the shoeniakees shop pound
ug thesoleaeather, there is something i
his face, and in his rahiaseolog3r, and in hi
manner that demonatiates the grace of Go
n his heart. He can talk, on religion with
ut awkwardly dragging it in by the ears
He loves God and loves the souls of al
whom he ineets, and is interested in thei
resent and etethal destiny. For fifty
r sixty. years he lives that kind of life, and
hen gets throughWith it and into heaven
ransomed sone But 1 8,ra not going to
ethribe the port into which 'that ship has
nteeed. I am not going to describe the
not who met him °aside at the light.
hip." I am, not going to say anything
bout the crowds of friends who met hem
n the orysteeine wharves up which he goes
n steps ot chrysoerases. For God in His
ords to Job calls me to look at the path
f foam in the wake of that ship, and rteli
on it is all asgleam with splendors of kind-
ess done, and rollin; with illumined tears
hat were wiped away, and aeriash with
ongratulations, and clear out to the horizon
all directions is the sparkling, flaseing,
Mowing phosphorescence of a Christian
fe. " He inaketh a path to shine after
And here 1 correct,. one of the mean
otions vehich at some time takes possession
all of In, and that is es to the brevity of
omen life. When I bury some very useful
an clerical or lay, in his thirtieth or
rtieth year, I say, "What a waste of
ergies ! It Was hard ly worth while for
rn to „get ready' for Christian work, for
had Re soon to quit it.:" Bub the fact is
at I may insure any man or women who
es any good on a large or small scads for
lite on earth as long as the world lasts.
okness, _trolley car eceidents, death Itself
n no more destroy his lie8 than they can
ar down one of .the riogs of Saturn. You
O start one good workene kind act, (me
eerful smile, on a' mission that will last
tit the world becomes a bon-firce arid out
thee' blaze it will Rase into the •heavens
ver to halt as long as God lives.
There 'were in the seventeenth century
en and women whose names you never
ard of who are to.day influencing
horns, colleges, churches, nations. You
ri no more meathre the greenotie results
their lifetime than you could Measure
° length, and breadth ahd depth 'of the
osphOresence lt.st night following the
ip �f the White Star Line.1,500 miles out
sea, How the courage and consecration
others inspires US to follow, as a General
vhe American army, cool, amid the flying
Ilets, a trembling Soldier, who said after-
rds, "I wasnearly scared to death, but
a‘w the old nien's white moustache over
shoulder, and wait one"' Ave, we are
following eoinebody, either in right or
(mg directions. A. few days ago I etood
ide the garlanded casket of a gospel
Meter, and in my remarks had occasioe
recall a stiowy night in a farmhouse
en I Was a boy, and an evangelist spend -
a eight at My father's house, who said
letbreg so novice and beautiful], seer
preesive teat it led MO int* the kingdom
of, 00a, Awl decided my deNtiny for
thiri world end the next, You will,
before twente-foisr hours go by, Meet SOIOQ
man or woman with a big pack of es,rentid
trouble, end, you._ may say something to
him or her that will endure until this world
ellen hene imeu so far lost ia the past ebat
nothing bot the stretch of engelio memory
vvill able to realise that lb ever existed
at all. I am not talk.ing of reinarke,ble teen
and women, but 9f what ordinate, folks pm
do. am not speaking ef the phosphor -
scene in the wake of the "Qampeuie,"
but of tho phosphorescenoe in the tral*
of a Newfeaud laud fiellingemaok. God makes
thunderbolts Out of sparks, and out of the
small veinal and deede of a smell life He
can launch a power that flasle and
burn and thunder through the eternities.
How do you like this preemption of year
earuhly life by deathless influence? Meny a
babe that died at six mouths of age by
the anxiety create(' in the parent's heart to
meet that child tu realms seraphimis livitig
yet in the transformed heart end life of
those parente and will live forever in the
history of that family. If this be the op-
portunity of ordinary souls, what is the op.
portunity of those who have special intel-
lectual, CIC social, or monetary equipments?
Have you any erithmetio capable of esti-
mating tee influence of our good and
gracious friend wile a few days ago weat
up to rest—George W. Childs, of Philadel-
phia? From a newspoper that was printed
for thirty years veithout one word of defeat -
anion, or acurrility, or scandal awl putting
ohief empluteis on virtue and charity., and
clean intelligence, he reaped a fortune for
himself, and then distributed a vast amount
QC it among the poor and struggling, putting
his invalid and aged reporters on pensione,
until hie name stands everywhere for large.
heartedness and sympathy and help and
at highest style of Christian gentleman. In
a an era which had in the, chairs of ita
at journalism a Horace Greeley, and a Henry
p- J. Raymond, and a James Gordon Bennett,
ps and an Bantus Brooks, and a George
er William Curtis, and an Irenams Prime ;
e none Of them will be longer remembered
in than George W. Childs. Staying away
t- from the unveiling of the monument he had
tY reeved at large expense in our Greenwood
as in memory of.Professor Proctor, the &stroll-
ee Omer, lest I should say something in praise
1 of the manwho had paid tor the monument.
ot By all acknowledged a representative of
e the highest American journalism. If you
at would calculate his influence for good you
to must count how many sheets of his news.
t. papers have been published in the last
at quarter of a nentury, and how many people
11 have read them, and ;the effect not only
upon those 'readers, busupon all whom they
e- shall influersice for alltime, while you add
SS to all that the work of theohurches he help -
Y ed build, a.nd of the institutions of mercy
at- he helped found. Better give up before
as you start the measuring of the phosphores.
p ence in the wake of that ship of the Celestial
e Line. Who can tell the post-mortem hi-
es fluence of a Savona/earl, Winklereid, a
o Guttenberg, a- Marlborough, a Decatur, a
d Toussanit, a Bolivar, a Clarkson, a Robert
e Raikes, a Harlan Page, who had 125
e, Sabbath scholars, 84 of whom became
o Christians, and six of them ministers of the
✓ Gospel? '
✓ With gratitude, and penitence, and woe-
s ship, I mention the grandest Life that was
s• ever lived. That ship oflight was launched
t from the heavens nearly 1900 years ago,
A angelic hosts chanting, and from the celes-
of tial wharves the ship sprang into the rough'
d, est sea that ever tossed. Its billows were
d made up of the wrath of men and devils,
• Herodic and Siinhedrimie persecutions stir -
it ring the deep with red wrath, and all the
11 hurricanes of woe smote it, until on the
O rocks of Golgotha that life struck with a
t resound of agony that appalled the earth
t. and the heavens. But in the wake of that
m lite what a phosphorescence of -smiles on
e thecheek of souls pardoned, and lives is -
f formed, and nations redeemed The mil-
e leniurn itself is only one roll of that irrad-
iated 'ave' of gladness and benediction. In
n the subliinest of all senses it may' be said
a of Him, " maketh a path to shine after
g Him."
n. 'But I cannotlook upon that luminosity
that follows ships. without realizing how
n fond the Lord is of life. That fire of the
,11,75 deep is life, myriads of creatures all aeswim,
• and a.play, and a•romp in parks ormarine
beauty, laid out and parterred, and rose-
ated, and blossomed by Omnipotence. What
is the use of those creatures called by the
naturalists "crustaceans': an d "cope pods,"
.not more than one out of hundreds of bil-
lions of whith are ever seen by human eye?
, Goa. created them for the same reason that
, he -creates flowers in places where no human
foot ever makes them bramble, and no
human nostril ever inhales their redolence.
and no human eye ever sees their charm.
, In the botanical -world they prove that God
roves flowers, as in the marine world the
phoephori prove that Heloves life, and He
loves life in play life in brilliancy of glad-
ness, life in exuberance.
• And se I am led to believe..that hee loves
our life if we tulfill our mission ai fully as
the phosphori fulfil theirs. The Son of God
came " that we might have life, and. have
it more abundantly." But ram glad to tell
you that our God is not the God sometimes
described as a harsh critic at the head of
the universe, or an infinite scold one God
that loves funerals better than -weddings ;
roe a God that prefers tears to laughter an
omnipotent Nero, a ferocious Nana ;
but the loveliest Being in the universe, lov-
.1
log flowere, end life, end play, whether of
phesphori in the wake of tee Majeetegroe of
tin) hunters race keeping n "tendril'.
THE SIMAY SCHOOL
lotematienel Lessee, Mara 1. —Gem. 25.
27-31. Golden Text —Luke 12. 23.
QPlrtNClWOttDS,
Where is en interval el tinty.seveer years
between this lesson and the last, The
elnoiese recoreed events of this period ere:
he death toad, 1)004 Of Sarah ; the mar-
riage of Isaae and Rebekah ; the birth of
Esau and Jacob ; the death of Abraham.
The birthright was a matter of greet impel:.
twice. It gave to thefirst-hern (1) authority
over the rest of,. the family; (2) a deuble
portion of the paternal inheritance (3) the
b ire:lungs oefi Itlhiets father i11
;s(4irleninthetePf
ri estellol°°4
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of Aimee. The birthright was a transferable
right, as the transaotion recorded in this
lesson clearly shows. We canuot help
pityieg Esau, when we see him so wronged
byAlis bother. Jacob acted very meanly
and selfishly. If any manly young fellow
in one of our homes were sitting some ea,y
enjoying his dinner, and his brother mime
from the aold or wood very hurigry, Almost
starving, and discouraged, and begged for
'something to eat, what should the otbier one
do? Should he drive a sharp bargain,
taking advantage of his brotherea great
hunger, and get from' bins something
valuable of his, wbich he wanted very much.,
as the price of the pieee of breed which he
gives him? Should he not rather generously
share his meal with ffie hungry brother,
asking no return? What now was Esau's
sin? He bartered off ix most valuable pore
session to gratify the hunger of the present
Here is a good lesson to dwell upon, in each
of therm brothers. Talk about them in the
class. It is well to consider the questions
that will arise in studying the characters of
Jacob and Esau. Why was Jacob the better
of the two?
nerees TO PREPARZ.
, I. The 'Brothers at Home. V. 27. Esau
W5? a ounning hunter.—Literally, killed
in hunting. A man of the field.—Not a
husbandman, but one ,given to roaming
through the field in search of sport. Jacob
was a plain man.—Of mild and gentle mate
ners. • Dwelling in tents.—Loving •to stay
at home; preferring a quiet, _peaceable,
domestic life to one of excitement, adventure
and danger, such as captivated Esau, V. 28.
Isaac loved Esau because he did eat of his
venison.—Not perhaps the sole "'reason of
his preference for Esu, though mentioned
here because of its connection with the
narrative following. Persons of quiet, retir-
ing disposition, like Isaac, are often fascin-
ated by those of more sparkling and ener-
getic temperament, such ariEsau. Mothers,
on the otherhand, are mos tly drown toward
childrenthat are gentle in disposition and
horee-keeping in habit.
H. The Greed of .Taeols. V. 29. ,Te.ceb
sod pottage.—Prepared boiled food of len-
tiles, still a favorite dish iu Egypt and
Syria. Was •faint—Llnsuceessful in his
hunting, weary and famished. Y. 30. Feed
me, I pray thee, with that same red vett-
ageia-Literally, "with that red, that red,"
the repetition in the original shows that
his appetite was greatly excited. His name
was called Edom.—That is "red." V. 31.
Sellmethieday,—Atonce. Thybirthright.—
For what was included in this, see opening
words. Jacob in his greed would take
advautage of his brother's extremity. It
is impossible to approve his conduct in this
matter. • It was sinister and unfraternal,
and it was more—it was unfaithful. He
knew that all he sought had been promised
to him by One, of whose faithfulness in all
his promises he was well assured. It was
therefore his duty to leave the accomplish-
ment to Him, in his own time, wi thout seek-
ing to aid, by paltry, underhand policies,
the purposes of God. We ought nevei to
hurry God's provinces even in defending or
securing or obtaining our own rights.
III. The Folly of Esau. V. 32. What
profit shall this birthright do to me ?—He
was discouraged and thought only of satis-
fyinghis hunger awegratitying his appetite
His folly is just as apparent as the greed
of Jacob., He knew well the value of the
birthright and yet was ready to part with
it for what was in comparison but a trifle.
V. 33., He.sware unto him,—If Jacob's
demand for an oath showed ungenerous
suspicion, Esau's giving an oath showed a
low sense of honor. Sold his birthright.—
See what is said of this act in Heb. 12: 16.
Never was any meal, except the forbidden
fruit, so dearly bought as this broth of
Jacob. • V. 34. Thus Esau despised his
birthright —Thus Scripture both proclaims
his guilt and describes his offence. What
wail' 'Esau's guilt? Brieg out especially the
sinof eacrieeing a great future good and
blessingefor the sake of a present small
gratification.
CLOSING WORDS.
Thus Esau' despised his birthright. Like
nueny in our day he was more impressed
with present carnal pleasures then with
any spiritual advantage. We might think
)his conduct strange did we not every day
seemen selling their birthright—salvation
by grace—for a miserable mess of pottage,
the world and its indulgences. Esau
yielded to temptation. He undervalued
his spiritual rights, and wasConcerned
about his bodily wants, instead of seeking
first the kingdom of God and his righteous-
ness: He is therefore called (Heb. la: 16)
the profane or unspiriturtl person who for
a small bit of food sold his birthright. His
error was that of sinners ever since, and it
is in contrast with the faithful that he is
spoken of and held up as a warning. Many
hear the gospel and are offered all its fun
nese of blessings and yet neglect to secure
its blessings. 'Despise not your birthright,
but make it sure. • Do not for the sake of
present enjoyment part with future blase -
.That is juat whet all yielding to sin
is. The sin gives a present gratification,
but at the cost of sorrow arid hurt in the
future. There are many people who repeat
Esau's folly. There are lives tvhicle go in
thadow alt their later years for one min-
• ute's sinful indulgence,
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