The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-05

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the characteristic of the time in which
We live is disaster cycionic!
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
! call the roll OF the dead shipping: Ye
monsters of the deep, answer when ! call
your names. Vile de Havre. the Schiller,
City of Boston, the Melville, the President
the Cimbria- But why should / 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
breakers: Ii the oceanic cables could re-
port all the scattered life and all the
bieached bones that they rub against in
the depths Of the ocean, what q message
OF pathos and tragedy for both beaches
In one storm eighty fishermen persisted
on the coast OF Newfoundland, and whole
heets OF them OF the coast Of England.
6od help the poor fellows OF at sea and
give high seats in Heaven to the Grace
Dariings and the Ida Lewises and the life.
boat men lowering around Goodwin
Sands and the Skerries. The sea owning
three-fourths OF the earth, proposes &c
capture the other fourth and is lombard
ing the land all around the earth. The
moving Of our hotels at Brighton Beach
backward one hundred yards from where
they once stood, q type OF what is going
on all around the world and on every
coast The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities too Pillars of temples
that stoOd on hills geOlogists non find
fhree-Quarterx under the water or alto.
getRer submerged. The sea, having
wrecked SO many merchantmen and iot !.
las. wants to wreck the continents, and
hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. l speai
not Of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and
The NeapOiitan dOminiOns n Marseilles
wrought such terror in the eighteenth
century, but l look at the yellow fever,
and the choieras, and the diphtherias, and
the scarlet fevers and the typhoids OF ouI
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 900 devo:e-s consre.
gate. the caravans brought the cholera,
and that one disease slew IL. 900 in eight
cen days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand
in one ummer sia n by it in India and -,
80 ia Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some
Of the finest 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 INV subject
and l plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the night shade and the myrtle
This age no more characterized by won.
ders Of disaster han by wonders OF bless.
ing. Blessing of longevity; the average OF
human life rapidly increasing. Forty
years now worth Jour hundred years Once
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
practically greater now than when NOAH
lived his $50 years and Meihuselah lived
his %c years. Blessings Of intelligence:
The Salmon I. Chas-S and the Abraham
LiDcolns and Henry Wilson's Of the com
ing time Will not be required TO learn
TO read by pine knot lights or seated on
shoemaker's bench, nor will the ~Fergusons
have to study astronomy " lille watching
the cattle. knowledge rolls its tides
along every poor mans door, and hi.
children may go down md battle in them
Ii the philosophers OF the last century
were called up to recite in a class with ouI
boys in the Polytechnic, or our gIrls ut the
Packer. those old philosophers would be
sent down to the foot Of the class because
they failed to answer the questions. Free
Libraries in all the important towns and
cities Of the land. Historical alcoves and
p~oeticai shelves and magazine tables foI
all that desire TO walk through them or sit
down at them. Blessings of quick infor-
nation. Newspapers falling all around
us rs leaves in u September e%quinoctial.
News three days old. rancid and stale
We see til. whole world twice a day
through the new spaper at the bIeakfas,
table. and through the newspaper at the
tea table, with an extra here and there
between.
blessing Of Gospel p~roclamntion: Do you
know that nearly all the missionary so.
~cieties have been born in this country,
and nearly all the Bible societies, and
nearly all the great philanthropic move.
ments: A secretary of ono of the de-
nominations said to me he other day il
dakota: You were wrong when you said
our denomination averaged n new church
every day Of the year; they esfabi' shed
nine in one week. so you are FAR within tn.
1911 Va ous p" "Ihhosa
ination said: 81 have just been out estab.
fishing five mission stations" l tell yot
Christianity is on the march. while inf
dcl,ty is dwindlinc into imbsciiity. While
infid-litv is thus dwindlIng and dropping
down into imbecility and indecency. the
whee! OF Christianity is making about q
thousand revolutions i'll a minute. All the
copies Of Shakespeare and Tennyson and
\ y..r>ar a.f ~ a,r 90. - HhA ,.t mann
lar writers of the day. less in number thar
the copies. OF the Bible going out from oul
printing presses. A few years ago. in 81
weeks. more than 1900 100 copies OF til.
New Testament purchased, not Siver
away, but purchased because the world
viii have il.
More Christian men in high official posi-
ton to-day in Great Britain aud in thu
United States than ever before. Stop hal
fal>ehood going through the newspaper,
i have seen il in fwenty-:hat the judge,
Of the Supreme Court of the United State,
are al iniidels excep: one. b persona
acquai ntance ! know three of chem 10 b'
| old fashioned evangelical Christians. st
ting 1T the holy sacrament OF our LORD
Jesus Christ, and l suppose that the ma
joritv Il them are stauch believers in oul
Christian religion. And then hear the dy'
ing words Of Judge Black. a man who had
been AtforneN-General of the United
States. and who had been Secretary OF the
United States no stronger lawyer OF th'
century than Judge Black-iyiny, hi.
aged wife kneeiing 10y hrs side and he ut
tered that sublime and tender prayer
o. Lord God. from whom l derived my
existence and in whom | have always
trusted. take my spiri; 10 Thyse,f and lie
Thy richest blessing CONS down upon my
Mary" The moss popular book to-day i,
the Bible. ani the misht!est institution !
iha Church. and the Sreates, name Auong