Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-06-15
THE RICHMOND CYCLONE.

aWiui SuUJtCl III l SN'S'''iH' "f
but simply in its moral phases .
While walking through the strickeh I
town, the day after the DISASTER I
visiting suffering irirnds.a gentIelha1' :
himself n citizen of The pi'ce' re-
marked that this was the secon"
time within ten years that Rlchiii"iu :
had been similarly afflicted, ana tua'
tho ressnu WAS to be found III tue
awful wickedness of the place. Eoh
DESTROYED the antedIiuVlan wor'u'
because He found that 1.-The wlckeu-
ness of man was great upon me
earth and that every Imagination OF
the thoughts Of his heart was oh'H
evil continually" Sodom ,Gnlhorrah
and the other cities of the pam were
turned in one day from n scene, as
beautiful as the garden OF the Lof"'
TOTO d hi,cSrued waste, where the
waters of the sen of death nave '"'
nearly forty centuries rolled, because
their tlagrant impiety and impurl'H
cried aloud to heaven for vengeance.
So in many other cases, tod ; lus''''
has executed upon communities t'F-
rifle Judgments rs y Just rehuhe ioi
dsrinr wickeine-S- lhe Seh''e
Saviour wept over Jerusalem, As lie
announced the awful doom it had
brought upon it>e't by having kli'e"
the prophets and stoned them 'ha'
were sent rs warning messengers
W. do not deny, but firmly believe
hat Cots judicial providenre en-
hrsces communities as we'll as lu0t-
yidualS, and that lie rcbuker on OF
cesiou the sins of a community by
calamitieS that fall upon II. Does
the case of our weeping SISTER acros'
the water belong 10 thus category
We're its crimes so numerous, IL
b~lasphemics 50 appalling, its wicked
ness SO general and so heaVen-nelSihE
beyond all other towns, that there
was a call for so terrific q display o
Gods vindictive justice: We do no
believe il. Richmond aud its people
had 8 fair share perhaps OF the ne
p~rayity that forms so distressing
fact in our common humanity. W
know its people reasonably Wet
We have often traver-ed II, streets
sat at its sorIa, boards, and Prrhc'ir
within its -~anrrusr1e-. and 1t Is Oh
belief thai, FIR morally. lute'iise"c
and pirtV, it Ms TIE iU,H equal at IL
villages OF tue west. Moreover, "
have walked amidst ills ruim-' "
have sai bv the. side of it, hfnl>t
and m.ugl, q sufferers. we have th!'
ed of lie u To Is diving, nnd We hay
helped To bury l. desc; ani, rs "
these scores now pass before us, III
we recall that these stricken IN
were innocent babes. pure hear''
girl. II at i'll diving looked to the GRO
of calvary, mothers anu la'iit
whose fidelity to their children al
their church was known and read
ali, and nged saints, all ready,
God's purifying grace, Tor Ills oiee7
n~re.eucr, We feel that il Is not ON
a crushing unkimdne-s to these v
tins of the storm, but also an inst
TO Gods wise aud gracious pro
deuce to assert that this was a Ju'
cial stroke provoked by glarlng :
Others, and probably the mass
persons will say, "NU,the wickedh'
or the pirty of Richmond had no
lug to do with this question. 1t "
simply a matter of the compost
of netcnric forces, Of wind, vap
electricity and barometer In I
sense, this l. certainly u ia"
the physical conditions favored,
cyclone would not have been form
Had they been different, its cou
might have left Lexington instea'
Richmond a mass o fscattered tint
and broken walls. Who form
these meteoric forces Who presi
over these physical conditions
they independent of Intelligence
design The Latius made 4Eolus
ond of the winds: if this is Il III,
is there no God of the winds!
they blow upon the earth at 4
pitiiul pleasure! Is 'hcle No N
gently framed law oE "hi'" !
force aud direction are S">oi"
If there be. who made THIS law
who executes 1t: Is IL 'hc :
Being who made these souls Oh
and taught them to know an"
the right aud hate aud shun
wrong? Does He use Ills phy
forces Independently OF HIS II
government Are theE "iet'hc1
disconnected Kingdoms: of'
IL. use the physical aud lowe
subordiuation and as assistant I
spiritual and higher dominion :
..rh. God who rules on high,
And th"n'irr7 Whs'' Il e i',lse'
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This awful God is ours.
Our Father and our love
The winds do not blow by oh