The national leader., 1889-04-20

were drowned. Only those saved who
had climbed to the top of the highest
trees! Did you eyer see a cyclonep
No? Then pray God you may
never see one. saw
A CYCLONE ON THE OCEAN,
and it swept us eight hundred miles
back from our course, and for thirty
six hours during the cyclone and after
t we expected every moment to 60 to
the bottom. They told us before we
retired at 8 o'clock that the barometer
had fallen, but at IL o'clock at night
we were awakened with the shock of
the waves. All the lights out! Crashl
went all the lifeboats. Waters rushing
through the skylights down into the
cabin, and down on the furnaces until
they hissed and smoked IN the deluge.
Seven hundred people praying, bias
pheming, shrleking. Our great ship
poised moment on the top Of noun
tain of phosphorescent fire. and then
plunged down, down, down, until 1t
seemed as If she never would again be
righted. Ahl you never want to see a
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 indiscriml-
nate ruin, and lifted a rail train and
dashed it down, mightier hand than
that of engineer on the airbrake.
Cyclone in Kansas. cyclone in Missouri,
cyclone In Wisconsin, cyclone In ILL
nois, cyclone in IowaI Satan, prince of
the power Of the air, never made such
cyclonic disturbances as he has in our
day. And am 1 not right in saying
that one of the characteristics of the
time In which we live is disaster cy-
clOnicp
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall call the roll Of the dead shipping?
Ye monsters OF the deep. answer when
l call your names, The Vile de Hdvre,
the SchtlEer, the City of Boston, the
Melville, the President, the Cinabria.
But why should l 60 on calling the
roll when none of them answer, and
the roll is as long as the white scroll of
the Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras
breakersI If the oceanic cable could
report all the scattered life and all the
bleached bones that they rub against
In the ocean, what
A MESSAGE OF PATHOS AND TRAGEDY
for both beachesl In one storm eighty
fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets of
them off the coast OF England. God
help the poor fellows at sea, and give
high seats IN heaven to the Grace
Darlings and the Ida Lewises and the
lIfeboat men lowering around Goodwin
Sands and the Skerriesl The sea,
owning three-fouths of the earth, pro.
poses to capture the other fourth, and
is bombarding the land all around the
earth. The moving of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward one hundred
yards backward from where they once
stood, type Of what is going on all
| around the world and on every coast.
The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities stood. Pillars Of temples
that stood on hills, geologists now find
three. quarters under the water or al
together submerged. The sea, having
wrecked so many merchantmen and
| flotillas, wants to wreck the continents,
anu u6QCo QlSdSL6TS OC6dUlC.
Look at ,the disasters epidemic! /
speak not Of the plague in the Fourth
century that ravaged Europe, and in
Moscow and the Neapolltan domlnions
and Marseilles wrought such terror in
the Eighteenth century, but l look at
the yellow fevers, and the choleras, and
| the diphtherias, and the scarlet fevers,
and the typhOids of our own time.
Hear
THE WAILING OF MEMPHIS
and Shreveport and New Orleans and
Jacksonville of the last few decades.
From Hurdwar, India, where every
twelfth year three million devotees
congregate. the caravans brought the
cholera, and that one disease slew
eighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossorah. Twelve thousand In one
summer slain by it in India, and twen-
ty-tive thousand in Egypt. Disasters
epidemicl Some of the finest monu-
ments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
and Mount Auburn are to doctors who
lost their lives battling with Southern
epidemic.
But now l turn the leaf In my sub
ject. and plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night.shade and
the myrtle. This age no more charac-
terized by wonders of disasters than by
aconderS of blessing. Blessing of Ion
gevlty; the average of human life rap
idly increasing. Forty years new worth
four hundred once. Now l can travel
from Manitoba to New York in three
days and three nights. In other times
it would have taken three months. In
other words, three days and three
nights now are worth three months of
other days. The average of human
life practically greater now than when
| Noah lived his $50 Yeara and Mathnsa.