154 THE CHRISTIAN NATURALIST. 



OCTOBER. 



THE SEA. 



* And thou majestic main ; 

 — A secret world of wonders in thyself — 

 Sound his stupendous praise, whose greater voice 

 Or bids you roar, or bids your roarings fall.' 



" O Lord, how manifold are thy works ! in wisdom 

 hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy 

 riches : So is this great and wide sea also." (Psalm 

 civ. 24, 25.) From these words we may infer that the 

 attention of the divine Psalmist was deeply arrested 

 by a sight of the ocean; and who that beholds this 

 object with any degree of consideration, but must be 

 struck with its importance, if not with its beauty. 

 The Sea is evidently the chief source of all human 

 riches. Without the Sea, the earth must have been 

 a barren wilderness. From the Sea the clouds are 

 constantly supplied with t^ose watery treasures, but 

 for which the earth could not have yielded its increase. 



