The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1886-10-16
Day P. o. Items and More Earth
quake Theories, &c.
For the Democratic Advocate.

Morgan Chapel here has right to be proud
and boast a little of her exceptionally success
full Sunday school operations the present
summer Honor is due to all its patrons. 1t
has been most efficiently conducted, and now
it is nearing its close for the season Heavens
'sBook of Remembrance" has a notation of
every ones work and reward, and the record
will be safely kept "until the times of restitu
ton shall come, when. even a cup of cold
water given will be taken into account, We
are a pretty good sort of people here-will
compare favorably with any who are about as
good as we are. We have one most excellent
trait--the leading trait of Christianity Is
charity. Honest sectarian differences of
opinion make no insuperable barriers between
us, no hiatus across which we cannot shake
hands, whether we be silent worshippers or
more demonstrative, the pervading thought
and feeling seeming to be God and humanity,
with Christ for our daysman. He said "My
sheep know my voice and they follow me,
also tspther sheep Ihave which are not of this
fold" And if, when lost sheep is deserted,
the rescuer pause to ask SIS it one of my
fold ?' it is sufficient proof that he is not of
the Master fold. Well, no matter whether in
this fold or that, Morgan Chapel has been gath
ering up the lambs which are to be the coming
fold. Our regular minister is an earnest work
er, zealously deserving the dangers ahead, while
the love that pervades the universe, that IS
often borne in musical undulations IN the I'M
proved singing at Morgan Chapel, helps to
Waft the lightened heart over the dangers
without our even seeing them,
We see the question in last weeks Anvo-
CATE, '.Is the North getting colder?" If we
may reason analogically, we think the ques-
ton may be answered afirmatively. If the
earth was once all q molten mass, as taught
BY science, then there was no water, as such,
here; but, being driven by the heat, it hoated
above the armament in aqueous vapor; hence
it was that darkness was upon the face OF the
deep-of the molten mass-until the process
of condensation by gradual cooling had
brought the thick vapor down. 1t being
received opinion that the gradual cooling pro-
cess is still going on in our globe, the poles
from natural causes cool the faster; and gray-
itation or centripital force, there being greater
in inverse proportion, as centrifugal force rs
increased by motion on the periphery OF the
globe, or at the equator, the tendency of the
poles is to near each other, and so, pressing
upon and COMPRISING the molten mass be-
tween, is pressing it toward the periphery,
there gradually increasing the strain upon the
crust that keeps that mass within bounds. Is
it any wonder, then, that half a continent
should heave and quake at some weaker point,
and mud, water and fire ooze from the earth
in those natural throes? And is it not among
the possible, even the probable, that the COM
ponent forces of polar compression and per-
ipheral distension may continue as the effect
of the increased gravitation of the one and
the decreased gravitation of the other, until
the earth becomes far more fattened at the
poles, like grindstone, than it is; and as the
everlasting hills more and more yield to this
pressure, we may expect to be occasionally
shaken up, and, sometime in the next thous-
and years, to see this outer rim give way, when
i.the armament shall melt with fervent heat. y
Earthquakes are but the result of eternal pro-
cess moving on, pregnant with natural forces,
to increase, eliminate and burst forth in wild
destruction when the fulness of time shall
come. DAY.