The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-04-10

monsters of the deep, answer when call
| your names. Vile de Harve, the Schiller,
City of Boston, the Melville, the Presi-
dent, the Cimbria. But why should / go
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 Hat
teras breakers? If the oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and all
the bleached bones that they rub against
in the depths Of the ocean what a message
of pathos and tragedy for both beaches
| In one storm eighty fishermen persisted 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 life-boat meE lowering
! around Goodwin's Sands and the Skerries.
/ The sea, owning three-fourths of the
| earth, proposes to capture the other fourth,
and is bombirding the land all around the
earth The moving of our hotels at
| Brighton Beach backward 100 yards 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 ILLS biologists now find
| three-quarters under the water, or alto
gether submerged. The sea having
wrecked so many merchantmen and flo
| tillas, wants to wreck the continents, and
hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. speak
not of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and
the Neapolitan dominions 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 levers, 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
5000, 600 devotees congregate, the caravans
brought the cholera, and that one disease
slew $4,000 in eighteen days in Bossorah.
Twelve thousand in one summer slain by
it in India, and % 900 in Egypt. Disasters
epidemic. Some of the finest monuments
in Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount
Auburn are to doctors who lost their life
battling with southern epidemic.
But now / turn the leaf in my subject
and plant the white lilies and the palm
trees amid the night shade and the
myrtle, This age no more characterized
by wonders ofdissster than by wonders of
blessings Blessings of longevity, the
average OF human life rapidly increasing.
Now / 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 practi-
cally greater now than when Noah lived
mis- $50 years and Methusaleh lived his 800
years Blessings of intelligence: The Sal
mon p. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns
and the Henry Wilson's of the coming
time will not be required to learn to read
by pine-knot lights, or seated on shoe
makers bench, nor will the FergusOns
have TO study astronomy while watching
the cattle knowledge rolls its tides along
every poor mans door, and his children
may 90 down and battle in them. If
the philosophers of the last cen
fury were called up to recite in class
with our boys at the Polytechnic, or our
girls at the Packer, those old philosophers
would be sent down to the foot of
the class because they failed to answer
the auestionsl Free libraries in all the
important towns and cities of the land.
Historical alcoves and poetical shelves and
magazine tables for all that desire to walk
through them or sit down at them. Bless
ings of quick information. Newspapers
falling around us as thick as leaves in Sep
TENDER equinoctial. News three days old,
rancid and stale. We see the whole world
twice a day-through the newspaper at
the breakfast table and through the news
paper at the tea table, with an extra"
here and there between.
Blessing of gospel proclamation: Do
you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born in this coun-
try? and nearly all the bible societies and
nearly all the great philanthropic move
ments? A secretary of one of the denomi-
nations said to me the other day in Da-
kota: "You were wrong when you said
our denomination averaged new church
every day of the YEAR they established
nine in one week, so you are far within
the truth" a clergyman OF our own de-
nomination said: Il have Just been
out establishing five mission sta
tons" | tell you Christianity
is on the march while infidelity is
dwindling into imbecility. While infidel-
ity is thus dwindling and dropping down
into imbecility and indecency the wheel
of Christianity is making about thousand
revolutions in a minute. All the copies of
Shakespeare and Tennyson and Disraeli
and of any ten of the most popular writer's
of the day less in number than the copies
of the bible going out from our printing
presses. A few years ago, in six weeks,
more than 100000 copies of the new
testament purchased, not given away, but
purchased because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official
position to-day in Great Britain and in the
United States than ever before. Stop that
falsehood going through the newspapers
i have seen itin twenty-that the Judges
Of the supreme court of the United States
are all infidels except one. By personal
acquaintance l know three of them to be
old-fashioned evangelical Christians, sit
ting at the holy sacrament of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and suppose that the ma
iority of them are stanch believers in our
Christian religion. And then hear the
dying words of Judge Black,
man who had been attorney
general of the United States and
who had been secretary of the United
States-no stronger lawyer of the century
than Judge Black-dying, his aged wife
kneeling by his side and he uttering that
sublime and tender prayer: 40, Lord God,
from whom derived my existence and in
whom / have always trusted, take my
spirit to Thyself and let Thy richest bless
ing come down on my Mary" The most
popular book to-day is the bible and the
mightiest institution is the church and the
greatest name among the nations and more
honOred than any other is the name of
Jesus.
Il