St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-24

was said of Moses, 1.-The Lord buried him."
italy weeping, all Europe weeping, all
| Christendom weeping where there are hearts
to sympathize and Christians to pray. But
while the nations were measuring that mag
nitude of disaster, measuring it not with
the golden rod. like with which the angel
measured heaven but with the black rule
of death. Java, of the Indian Archi-
pelago. the most fertile island of
| all the earth, is caught in
the grip of the earthquake, and mountain
after mountain goes down, and city after
city. until that island, which produces the
healthiest beverage of all the world has
produced the ghastliest accident of the
| century. One hundred thousand people
! dying, dying. dead, dead.
| But look at the disasters cyclonic. At
the mouth of the Ganges Of three islands
the Hattiah, the Sundeep and the Dallin
ShabaZpore. In the midnight of October,
| 1877, on all those three islands the cry was,
1.-The waters, the waters.' A cyclone
| arose and rolled the sea over those three
Islands, and of population of $40. 600, 2l5,-
600 were drowned. Only those We're saved
| who had climbed to the top of the highest
| trees. Did you ever see cyclone? No?
Then | pray God you may never see one.
l saw one on the ocean, and it swept US 500
! miles back from our course, and for thirty
six hours during the cyclone, and after il,
we expected every moment to 60 10 the
bottom. They told us before we retired at
9 o'clock that the barometer had fallen, but
| at II o'clock at night we were awakened
with the shock of the waves. All tie lights
out. Crash. went all the lifebOatS. Waters
rushing through the skylghtS down into
the cabin and down on tine furnaces, until
they hlssed and smoked in the deluge.
Seven hundred people praying, disappearing,
shrieking. Our great ship poised moment
on the top OF a mountain of phoSphOreScent
fire, and then plunged down, down, down,
until it seemed as if she never would again
be righted. All! you never want to see
cyclone at sea. But
WAS IN MINNESOTA,
where there was one of those cyclones on
land that swept the city of Rochester from
its foundations, and took dwelling-hOuses,
barns, men, women, children, horses, cattle
and tossed them into indiScriminate ruin,
and lifted a railroad train and dashed it
down, mighter hand than that of the
engineer on the air brake. Cyclone in
| Kansas. cyclone in Missouri, cyclone in
! Wisconsin, cyclone IN Illinois, cyclone in
Iowa. Satan, prince of the power of the
air, never made such cyclonic disturbance
as he has in our day. And am l not right
in saying that one of the characteristics of
the time in which we live is disaster
cyclonic9
But now turn the leaf in my subject
and plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the nightShade and the myrtle.
This age is no more characterized by wonders
of disaster than by wonders of blessing.
Blessing. Blessing OF longevity: The ay-
erage of human life rapidly increaSin 2.
Forty years now 400 years once. The ay-
erage of human life practically greater now
than when Noah lived his $50 years and
MethuSaleh lived his 969 years. Blessing
of intelligence: The Salmon p. Chases and
the Abraham Lincolns and the Henry VIII
sons of the coming times will not be re-
quired TO read by pine-knot lights, or seated
on ShOemake:iS bench. nor Will the Fergu-
| sons have To study astronomy while watch
| ing the cattle. knowledge rolls its tides
along every poor mans door and his chill
dren may 90 down and bathe in them. If
the philosophers of the last century were
called up TO recite in a class with our boys
| at school, those philosophers would be sent
down 10 the foot of the class because they
failed to answer the questions. Historical
| alcoves and pOetieal shelves and magazine
tables for all that desire to walk through
| them or sit down at them. Blessings of
|
around lis thick as leaves i'll a September
equinoctial. News three days old rancid
and stale. Wesee the whole world twice a
day-through the newspaper at the break
| faSt-table and through the newspaper at the
tea-tabe, with an extra" here and there
between.
Wonders of self-sacrifce: A clergyman
told me in the Northwest that Tor six years
he was missionary at the extreme north,
living 400 miles from postoflice, and some
times he slept out of doors in winter, the
thermometer sixty and siXty-flve degrees
BELOW ZERO,
wra pped in rabbit skins woven together. ]
said ''IS it possible; you don't mean
sixty and siXty-fiye degrees below ZerO?'
He said, Il do, and / was happy" All for
Christ. Where is there any other being
that will rally such enthusiasm? Mothers
sewing their fingers Off to educate their
boys for the gospel ministry. For nine
years no luxury on the table until the course
through grammar school and college and
theological seminary be completed. Poor
widow putting her mite into the Lord 5
treasury, the face of emperor or president
impressed upon the coin not so conspicuous
as the blood with which she earned it.
Millions of good men and women. but more
women than men. to whom Christ is every
thing, Christ first and Christ last and Christ
forever.
Why, this age is not so characterized by
inventions and scientific explorations as il is
10y gospel proclamation. You can get no
idea of it unless you can ring all the church
bells in one chime, and sound all the organs
in one diapason. and gather all the cOngre-
cations of Christendom in one gloria in eX-
celsis. Mighty camp meetings, mighty
Ocean Groves mighty ChautauQuaS
mighty convention of Christian workers,
mighty general assemblies of the Presby-
terian church, mighty conferences of the
Methodist church, mighty associations of
the Baptist church, mighty conventions of
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