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REV. 1)11. TALMACE.
TUIkIiKUOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON,
Subject: “The Gardens of the Sea."
Tt/rr: “ The need* were wrapped about my
head." —Jonah 11., 5.
**Thi> Botany of the Bible; or, Oo'l Among
the Flower*,” la a fascinating I hold
In ray hand a hook which 1 brought from
Palestine, bound In ollvo wood, and within
It are pressed flowers which have not only
retained tbelr color, hut their aroma. Flow
ers from Bethlehem, (lowers from Jerusa
lem, flowers from Octhsemane, flowers from
Mount of Olivos, flowers from Bethany, flow
ers from Hi loam, flowers from the valley of Je
boshaphat, rod an unones and wild migno
nette, buttercups, daisies, cyclamens, camo
mile, biijcftella, ferns, mosses, grasses and a
wealth of flora that keep me fa ■•mated by
the hour, and every time I open it it is a now
revelation. It Is the New Testament of the
fields. But my test leads ns 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
Htars “The Ornithology of the Bible ; or,
Goil Among the Birds;’’ “The Ichthyology
of the Bible ; or, God Among the Fishes;”
•'The Mineralogy of liie Bible ,or, God Among
the Amethysts“ The Con etiology of the
Bible; or, God Among the Shells “The
Chronology/)! the Bible ; or, God Among tho
Centuries'' I speak now to you about “The
Botany of the Bible; or. God in the Gardens
©f the Hea.” Although I purposely take this
morning for consideration the least observed
and least appreciated of all the botanical
products of the world, we shall And the con
templation very absorbing.
In all our theological '•mlnaries where we
make ministers there ought to be prof*** **s
to give lessons in natural history. Physical
aclence ought to be taught side by side with
revelation, tt Is the same God who inspires
the page of the natural world as the page of
the Bcrlptura! world. What a freshening up
ft would be to our sermons to press into
them even a fragment of Mediterranean sea
weed ! Wo 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 erystsl of salt flash
©ul the preservative quallti*** of religion.
The trouble ts that in many sf our theo
logical seminaries men who are so dry them
aelve* they never could get people to come
and hear them preach are now trying to
teach young men how to preach, and tho
Student is nut between two great presses of
dogmatic tneology and squeezed until there
Is no life left in him. Give the poor victim
at least one lesson on the botany of the Bible.
That was an awful plunge that the recreant
prophet Jonah made when, dropped over the
Ifuriwales of the Mediterranean snip, he Bank
many fathoms down into a tempestuous sea.
Both before and after the monster of the deep
swallowed him, ho was entangled In seaweed.
The Jungles of the deep threw their cordage
of vegetation around him. Home of this sea
weed was anchored to the bottom of the
watery abysm, and some of It was afloat and
swallowed by the great sea monster, so that,
while tlie prophet was at the bottom of the
deep attar lie was horribly imprisoned lie
could exclaim and did exclaim in the words
of my text, “The woods were wrapped about
my head.”
Joanah was the first to record that there
are growths upon the bottom of the sea as
well as upon land. The first picture I ever
owned was u handful of seaweeds pressed on
A page, and I called them “tbo shorn locks
of Neptune." These products of the deep,
whether brown or green or yellow or pur
ple er red or Intershot of many colors, are
most fascinating. They are distributed ail
ovor the depths and from Arctic to Antarctic.
That God thinks well of them I conclude
from the fact that he has made 6000 species
of them. Hornetlmen these water plants
are 400 or 700 feet long, and they cable
the sea. One specimen has a growth of
1600 feet.
On the northwest shore of our country I**
seaweed with leaves thirty or forty feet long,
Amid which the sea otter makes his home
resting himself on the buoyancy of the leaf
and stein. The thickest jungles of the trop
ics are not more full of vegetation than tho
depths of the H«a. There are forests down
there and vast prairies all abloom, and God
walks there as he walked in the Garden of
Kden “in the cool of the day.” Oh, what
•n trail cement, this subaqueous world ! Oh,
the God given wonders of the seaweed ! Its
tdrthpiaeo Is a palace of crystal. Tim cradle
that rooks it Is the storm, its grave i* a sar
cophagus of beryl and sapphire. There is
&o night down there.
There are creatures of God on the bottom
©f the sea so constructed tlmt, strewn all
Along, they make a Armament besprent with
Alar*, constellations and galaxies of impos
ing luster. The sea feather Is a lamplighter.
The gymnotus is an electrician, and he is
AUK'lmrged with electricity and makes the
deep bright with the lightning o; then a.
Tho gorgouia flashes like jewels. There are
*en anemones ablnae with light. There are
the starfish and the moontlsh, so called be
cause they so powerfully suggest stellar and
lunar illumination.
Oh. these midnight lanterns of the ocean
AAvorns ; these processions of flame over the
white floor of the deep ; these illuminations
throe miles down under the sea ; these
Itmifoously upholstered castles of the Al
mighty in the underworld! Tho author of
the text felt the pull of the hidden vegetation
©X ths Mudlturra. *vLuther or not he ap
preciated Its beauty, as he erted out, “The
Woods were wrapped about my head.”
Let my subject cheer all those who had
friends who have boon buried at sea or in
our great American lakes. Which of us
Brought up on the Atlantic coast has not had
kiudred or friend tlmssepuleheredy We had
the useless horror of thinking that they were
denied proper resting place. We said : “Oh.
If they bad lived to come ashore and had
then expired ! What an alleviation of out
trouble it would have been to put them tn
some beautiful family plot, where we could
have planted flowers and tre«v% over them.”
Why. God did better for them than we eould
have done for them. They were let down
Into beautiful gardens. Before they had
reached the bottom they had garlands abodt
their brow.
In more elaborate and adorned place than
We could have afforded them they were put
awar for the last slumber. Hear tt. mothers
AAd fathers ot sailor boys whose ship went
down tn our last August hurricane! There
Are no Greenwood* or Laurel Hills or Mount
Aubums so beautiful on the land as there are
bonked and terra ed aid scooped and hung
111 the deaths of the sea. The bodice of out
Hood Cures
/] *|| W dose help* rae. M\ little
UjT sy* ACT hoy. sd\ years old, bad
£ w could not wear <u>y ehoea.
Mr*. Titus. i'‘*m,pre-amsi
on account of ijn* bi-HKi
bavins: been patterned by ivy. Many leiuetift
failed to do him any good. Finally 1 gave Una
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
and after s week the acres commenced to heal
and dieapiHSt After taking twobottlra be
was entirely cured and his general health was
greatly bandied.** Mas, t\ 8, TlWk South
Qftbeoa. Ha,
X. B. If you decide to get Hood’s
rtlta do not be induced to buy any other,
Mood’s purely vtgnaide, * ctevUy
aarwlsea eiweradt*o**« aa d bcaskuiaL lac.
foundered and sunken mends are girdled
in : ".mopj'-d and Ik .i«<* i with such glories
A** 'Uic/id no oth‘*r Necropolis.
T:, v r** -w.ciq; I in lifeboats, or they
atru on G Kid win sands or Deal beach oi
lb** s ■ rric . an I \\'i r • never heard of, ordis
fi »P If d wit!/ the < Boston, Os the VUig
<jc Havre, or tin- <‘yrnhna or wore run down
in a linif ■ . that put out from New
foiin iUiid. i. .! di.n ur-- your previous gloom
ti. cii th« I rror/s o ocean entombment.
W» 1 •- pot VIS l/‘*s; in tha
An -' H i i .* r, Fringe Meutcliikof, com
ti.ao.iiiig tuo Jbi-. >i:tu navy, saw tiiat thf
only way to keep the English out of the har
bor was to sink all the Uussian ships of war
in the roadstead, and so 100 vessels sank.
When, after the war was over, our American
engineer, Gowan, descended to the depths
in a diving bell, it was un improsaive spec
tacle.
One hundred burled ships! But It fs that
way nearly all across the Atlantic Ocean.
Bhips sunk not by command of admirals,
but by tho command of cyclones.
But tliev all had sublime burial, and the sur
roundings amid which they sleep the last
sleep are more imposing than the Tal Mahal,
tho mausoleum with walls inornate 1 with
precious stones and built by tho great mogul
of India over his empress. Your departed
ones wore buried In the gardens of the sea,
fenced off by hedges of coralline.
The great st ol>M'*quif;«i ever known on ths
land were those of Moses, where no one but
God was pro nt. Thosublimjj report of that
entombment i* in the book of Deuteronomy,
which says that the Lord buried him, and of
those who have gone down to slumber in the
deep the same may be said, “The Lord buried
them.” Ah Christ was buried in a garden,so
your shipwrecked friends an 1 those who
could not survive till they reached port were
put down amid iridescence—“ln the midst of
the garden there was a sepulcher.”
It has always been a mystery what was tha
particular mode by which George G. Cook*
man, the pulpit orator of the Methodist
Church and trie chaplain of American
t'ongress, left this life after embarking for
England on the steamship President, March
iltb, 1841. The ship never arrived in port.
No on« ever signaled her, and on both aides
of the ocean it has for fifty years bopn ques
tioned what became of her. But this I know
about Gookman that whether it was iceberg
or conflagration midsea or collision he had
more garlands on his ocean tomb than if, ex
piring on land, each of his million friends
had put a bouquet on his casket. In the
midst of the garden was his sepulcher.
But that brings me to notice the misnomer
in this Jonahitic 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 imide a mistake when he
styled ns weedH these growths that enwrapped
him on the day he sank. A weed Is some
thing that is useless. ft is something you
throw out Trom the garden. It is something
that chokes the wheat. It is something to
be grubbed out from among the cotton. It
Is something unsightly to the eye. It. is an
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 Go 1 ever makes, It was a water plant
known us the red colored alga and no weed
at all. It comes from the loom of infinite
beauty. It is planted by heavenly love. It
lathe Htar<»f u sunken Armament. It is a
lamp which the Lord kindled. It Is a cord
by which to bind whole sheaves of practical
suggestion. It is a poem all whose cantos
an; rung by Divin* goodness. Yet we all
make the mistake tlmt Jonah mado in regard
to it and cull it a weed.
“The weeds were wrapped about my head.”
Ah, tlmt is tie’ trouble on the land as on the
sea! We call those weeds that are flowers.
Pitched up on the beach of sooloty are chil
dren without home, without opportunity for
anything but bin, seemingly without God.
They arc washed up helpless. They are called
ragamuffin*. They are spoken of as tho
rakings of tin* world. They are waifs. They
are street arnbs. They are flotsam and jet
sam of the social sea. They are something
to he left alone, or something tj be trod on,
tMf somothing to give up to deoey. Nothing
but weeds. They are up tho rickety stairsof
that garret. They aro down in the cellar of
tiiat tenement house. They swelter in sum
mers when they see not one blade of green
grass, and shiver in winters that allow thorn
not one warm ooat or shawl or shoe.
Hueh the city missionary found in one of
our city rookeries, and when the poor woman
was asked IT »li« sent her children to school
she replied : “No, *ir, 1 never did send ’em
to school. I know it, they ought to learn,
but I couldn’t. I try to shame him some
times (it i* my husband, sir), but he drinks
&ud then beat* mu—look at that bruiso on
my face—and T tell him to see what Is cornin'*
to his children. There* Peggy goes sailin'
fruit every night in those cellars in Water
street, and they’re hells, sir. She’s learnin’
all sorts of bad words there and don’t get
hack till 12 o’clock at night. If it wasn’t for
her earnin’ a ahUUn’ or two In them pi non*,
I should starve. Oh, t wish they was out of
the city. Yes, it is the truth. 1 would rather
have all my ehlldreu dead than outhe street,
but I can’t help it.”
Another one of those poor women found
by a rotor itory association recited her
story o f want and woe and looked up and
said, “l fell so > ard to lose the children
when they died, but now I’m glad they’ro
goiu*.” Ask any one of a thousand such
children on the streets,“Where do you live?”
and they will answer. “I don’t live no*
where.” They will sleep to-night in ash bar
rels, or under outdoor stairs, or on the
wharf, kicked and bruised and hungry. Who
cares for them? Once in a while a city mis
sionary, or a tract distributor, or a teacher
of ragged schools will rescue one of them,
but tor most people they .ire only weed*
Yet Jonah did not more completely mls
repr sent the red alga About his head in the
Mediterranean than most people misjudge
these poor and forlorn And dying children of
the street. They are not weeds. They are
Immortal flowers. Down in the deep sea ot
woe. but flowers. When society and the
church of God come to appreciate their eter
nal value, th T« will be more 0. L. Braces
and more Van Mct r* an t more angels of
merey spending their fortunes and their lives
In the rescue.
Hoar it. O ye philanthropic and Christian
and merciful souls not weeds, but flowers.
1 ah-ur« v*hi a* the frieii'ts of nil newsboy.*
lodßinß bouse.. of nil industrial school., ot
nit homes for friectlos* girls. nut for tho
many reformatories and hutv.ano aasocia
tlons now on toot. How muoh they havenl
rsadv no •oraplishe.l I Out of w »ai wet'-h
--e.liU'M, into what Rood homes ! Os 21.000 of
these picked up out of the streets an I sent
into country homo, ouly tw.l.vo children
turned out badly.
In the last thirty year* * number that no
man eon number of the v.i -r.ints h.ive been
lifted Into respectability an l usefulness unit
a Christian life. Mauy of them tuive homes
of their own. Thouch racce * boys once and
si reel cirss, now ;il the heed of prosperous
families, honored on eorth and to be Riorums
in heaven, borne of them have been 11 1 1 Vor 11 -
ors of Mate*. Some of them are minister* of
the Rospel, In alt departments of life those
Who were thought t» be weeds have turned
out |>* be flowers. One of those re- lie.! lad*
from the streets of our cities wrote to another,
»tyiuß : "1 have heard you are studying for
the ministry-. So am 1 "
My hearers, I imple.id you for the news
bins ilthe streets nmy of them the briuht*
•s: uldreu of the itv. but with no chance,
lie net sieit on their bare feet l>o n >t.
wbye tine st-al s ride, cut behind W en
the paper is throe cents, once In a while rive
them a five oeut piece and tell them to w«ep
the chance. I like the rinc ot the letter the
news. <y sent haek irom Indians, where he
hid een sent to a Rood home, to a New
York newsboy's lod-iur house: “Bov-, we
should show ourselves that we are no fools,
that we can become as respectable as any of
the countrymen, for Frankltn and Wei -ter
and Ciav were ivcvor beys on-e. and even
tieorge l.aw au I Vanderbilt an i .Vstor And
now. boys, stand up and Set them see you
have got ths real stuff In you. Come out
here and make respectable and honorabla
men, so they -an say, ‘There, that boy was
once a newsboy,’ ” My bearers, join the
Christian philanthropists who are changing
oriran Rrinders and bootblacks and husw
boys and street arabs and cigar Rirtl :nt*
those who ahall be kings and qm as nnt«
do i forever, ft is high time that Jon Pi
finds out that that which is about hu&uwMl
weeds, bnt flowers.
As I examine this red alga W
shout tho recreant prophet down in tha
Mediterranean depths, when, in the words
of my text, he cried out, “The weeds were
wrapped about my head,” and I am led
thereby to further examine this submarine
world, / am compelled to exclaim, What a
wonderful Go I we have! lam glad that, by
diving bell, ami “Brooks' deep sea sounding
apparatus," and over improving machinery,
w- are p-rmitted to walk tho floor of tho
ocean an- report tho wonder* wrought by
tho great God.
Htudy these gardens of the sea. Easier and
oas-.b r shall tho profounds of tho ocean be
come to ue, and more and moro its opulence
of color anil plant unroll, especially as “Vll
leroy s submarine boat' has bee# construct
ed, making it possible to navigate tinder the
sea almost as well as on the surface of tho
sea. and unless God in His mercy banishes
war from the earth whole fleets of armed
ships lar down under the water move onto
blow up the argosies that float the surface.
May *uoh submarine ship* be used, far laying
open the wonders es <7od’» workings tn tne
great deep and never for human devastation t
Oh, the marvels of the water world ! These
s»-called seaweeds are the pasture fields and
the forage of the innumerable animals of the
deep. Not one species ot them can be spared
from the economy of nature. Valleys and
mountains and plants miles underneath she
waves are all covered with flora and fauna.
Sunken Alps and Apennines and Himalayas
of Atlantic and Paid tie oceans. A continent
that once connected Europe and America, so
that in the ages past men came on foot
across from where England is to where we
now stand, all sunken and now covered with
the growths of the sea as it once was covered
with growths of tho land.
England and Ireland once nil ono piece of
land, hut now much of it so far sunken as to
make a channel, and Ireland has become an
island. The Islands, for the most part, sra
only tho foreheads of sunken continents.
The sea conquering the land all along the
coasts and crumbling the hemispheres wider
and wider become the subaqueous do
minions. Thank God that skilled hy
drographers have made us maps and charts
of the. rivers and lakes and seas and shown
us something ot the work of the eternal God
in the water world.
Thank God that the great Virginian, Lieu
tenant Maury, lived to give us “The Physical
Geography of the Sea,” and that men of
genius have gone forth to study the so-calleil
weeds that wrapped about Jonah’s head and
have found them to be coronals of beauty,
ami when the thlo receded these scientists
have wadea down and picked up divinely
pictured leaves of the ocean, tho naturalists,
Pike and Hooper and Walters, gathering
thorn from the pouch of Long Island Sound,
and Dr. Blodgett preserving them from tha
shores of Key West, and Professors Emerson
and Gray finding them along Boston harbor,
and Professor Gibbs gathering them from
Charleston harbor, and for all the other
triumphs of algology, or the science of sea
weed.
Why confine ourselves to the old and hack
neyed illustrations of the wonder workings
of God, when there are at least five great
seas full ot illustrations as yet not marshaled,
every root and frond and coll and color and
movement and habit of oceanic vegetation
crying out: “God ! God ! He made us. He
clothed us. Ho adorned us. Ho was the
God of our ancestors clear back to the first
sea growth, when God divided the waters
which were above the firmament from the
waters which were under the firmament aud
shall be the God of our descendants clear
down to the day when the sea shall give up
its dead. We have heard His command, and
we have obeyed, ‘Praise the Lord, dragons
and all deeps.”’
There is a groat comfort that rolls over
upon us from this study of the so-called sea
weed, and that is the demonstrated doctrine
ot a particular providence. AVhcn I find
that the Lord provides in the so-called sea
weed the pasturage for the thronged marine
world, so that not a fin or scale in all that
oceanic aquarium suffers need, I conclude He
will feed us, and if He suits the alga to tho
animal life of tho deep Ho will provide the
food for our physical* arid spiritual needs.
And if He clothes the flowers of the deep
with richness or robe that looks bright as
fallen rainbows by (lav, and at night makes
the underworld look as though tho sea were
ou lire, surety He will clothe you, “O ye of
little laitli!”
And what Alls me with unspeakable de
light is that this God of depths and heights,
of ocean and of continent, may, through
.Tesus Christ, tho divinely appointed means,
lie yours and mine, to help, to cheer, to
pardon, to save, to imparadise. What
matters who in earth or hell is against us if
He s for usV Omnipotence to defend us,
ntiinmresence to companion us and infinite
love to enfold and uplift and enrapture us.
And when God does small things so well,
seemingly taking as much care with the coil
of a seaweed as the outbranohing of a
Lebanon cedar, and with the color of a Veg
eta <■ growth which is hidden fathoms out
or S It as He does with the solfermo and
purpie of a summer sunset, we will be deter
mined to do wll all we are called to do.
though no one see or appreciate us. Mighty
God ! 801 liu upon our admiration and holy
appreciation more of the wonders of this
suomarme world. My joy ts that after we
aro quit of all earthly hindrances we may
c.ime hack to this world and explore what
w- cannot now hilly investigate.
If we shall have power to soar into the at
mospheric without fatigue I think we shall
have power to dive into the aqueous without
peril, and tltat the pictured and tessellated
sen floor will lie as accessible as now istothe
treveler the floor of the Alhambra, and all
the gardens ot the deep will then swing
onen to us their gates as now to the tourist
Cimtsworth opens on public days its cascades
and statuary and conservatories for our en
i ranee. “It doth not yet appear what we
shall he." You cannot make me believe that
Go I hath spread out all that garniture of
the deep merely (or the polyps aud Crustacea
to ook at.
And if the unintelligent creatures of the
Modi- - rraneau and the Atlantic ocean II sur
rounds wdU such beautiful grasses of the
deep, whaf a heaven we mar efhWt for our
uplifted an l ransomed soul- warn we tire
unchained of the flesh aud rise to real-ns
beatific! Os the flora of that “sea of glass
mingled with fire.” i have no powerto speak,
bill l shall always lie glad that, when the
prophet , f the text, flung over the gunwales
of th<* Mediterranean ship, descended into
the '..oiftitg -■•a, ih.nl which he supposed to oe
we. .- wrapi'ed about his head were not
WC ‘ blit wers.
Mi l am 1 not right in this glance at the
botany ofth ■ Bible tit adding to Luke's mint,
am--- ot emuiu, nrd Matthew's t.ari s. .and
loliti's vine and Solomon's cluster ot cam
p ure. ,iud Jer -mtah's balm, and Job's bul
m% . ..tit -.da i'- tero Hiith. .and Hosea's
i - i . and E eki>- > -liter, and “the hyssop
t ~t -pr.n reiii out o' ihe wall.” aud the
• • . ■ - i.aron and lily of the valley.” and
t ■ rin ate-i-ne aud myrrh and cassia
w -. A: te as*rologers brought to the man
one stalk ol the ahtga of lue
M : riaui au.
An t now t •'■nee tne marine doxology ot
.mi! - v peroration, for tt was written
t nt forty or titty miles from the place
w -ere the seem* of the text was enacted :
-1 i ts Hi-, and Ho made tt, and Hi*
t - i med iho dry land. Oh, come, iet
i - .ip and bow .i 'wn : let ns kneel be
t -.'tbo l.ord, our Mak-w. For He is our
< uiiu no are the people ol His pastors,"
L a.lk
So far ns quantity is concerned coal
tunas for eightv-tive jw-r cent, of uti
he mim r-n- .trc_ >1
\ sound bell will not give out au
uuceiutia ring.
Surprised Fry Monkeys.
ko or three years ago an Austrian
«Bvo engineer was traveling in Cey
lon. Near Pasadena, one of the large
lities, was a botanical garden, which
(s considered one of the finest in the
world. One afternoon the engineet
itrolled around the gardens admiring
Ibe tropical plants and examining
Ihe curious forms of vegetable life
with which the garden abounded. At
length he became very tired, and the
4ay being warm, even for Ceylon, be
ay down and was soon fast asleep.
What happened is best told in his
iwn words:
1 must have slept :tn hour when I
was awakened suddenly by a queer,
uncanny feeling, aud opened my eyes.
Judge of my surprise when I saw
perched upon my feet, body, and even
upon my shoulders, a lot of little
monkeys, while all about me, and
beaming down upon ine from the
trees, were monkeys of all sizes and
age& It seemed to me there were
myriads of them. I was frightened,.
for I knew these monkeys were wild,
and, In their wild state, I did not
know what so many of them might do*
1 gave one leg a twitch, then the
other, and bounded to my feet, throw
ing off all that were gamboling over
and about me. In a second the mon
keys vanished, and only here aDd
there, peering down from the tops of
the tall bamboo and rubber trees,
could I see any of them.
I was very much alarmed, for the
appearance of so many of them was
entirely unexpected. It was a week
before I got over my fright. It ap
peared, however, that the monkeys
had meant no harm to me. Tho
congrees had been called, and their
examination of me as I lay upon the
ground was merely out of curiosity to
divine what kind of an object I was.'
Nevertheless, I vowed never to go to
sleep again in a wild tropical forest,
even if it were called a botanical
garden.
h
Who Were flarby and Joan?
The names Darby and Joan are now
synonymous with man and wife.
They originated in a popular ballad
called “Darby and Joan,” written by
Henry Woodfall in the last century.
It is not, generally known that the
two characters of the ballad were
real personages. John Darby and his
wife lived at Bartholomew Close, and
died in 1730. In the poem Joan gets
dissatisfied with being a household
drudge, and declares that h°r work
Is harder than her husband's labors
in the field. He offers to exchange
places with her, and she consents.
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