The Red Cloud chief., 1889-04-05
WONDERS Of THE o r
DR.. Talmage Talks For the BENEFIT
Of the People.
The Disasters as Well as RlessIors of Hhs
Present Age-Great Blessings Enjoyed
by the People Of To-day-Prom-
fses Of the Future.

e NC VIII lhlIfl6Xe
stopped over one Sunday at Kansas City
TO rest and did not deliver his regular
sermon. However he gave out for pub
licatIon q sermon on 1.-The Wonders of
This Age" and based his views ON the
text. "a Will Show Wonders in the
Heavens and in the Earth."-Joel ii, 81
He aid
DIR. Cumming-great and good man
would have told US the exact time OF the
fulfil ment of this prophecy. As I stepped
into his study in London on my arrival
from Paris just after the French had sur.
rendered at Sedan. the good doctor said to
me: 1T is just as I tod you about France;
people laughed at m. because ! talked
about the seven horns and the Walls. but I
foresaw all this from the Book Of Daniel
and the Book Of Revelation" Not taking
any such responsibility in the interpreta-
tion Of the passa-e, l simply assert tina
there is in it suggestions Of many things
in our time.
Our eyes dilate and our heart quicken.
its pulsations as we read of events in the
third century, the sixth century, the
eighth century. the fourteenth century,
but there are more far-reaching events
crowded into the nineteenth century than
into any other. and the las. quarter bid
fair to eclipse the three quarters. We
read in the da.Iy newspapers OF events
announced in one paragraph and without
any special EN- phasis-of events which "A
Heroiotus, a J~osephus, a Xenophon, a
Gibbon would hav. taken whole chapters
or whole volumes to elaborate. Looking
out uDon our time we must cry out in the
words Of the text: "Wonders in the
heavens and in the earth"
propose to show that the time in which
We iiveis wonderful for disaster and WON
derful for blessing. for there must be
lights and shades in this picture as in all
others. Need l argue this day that our
time is wonderful for disaster: Our
world has had a rough time since bv the
hand of God it was BOWED out into space.
1t is an epiIeptic earth; CONFUSION after
CONFUSION; frosts pounding II with sledge
hammer OF ic. berg, and fires melting 1t
with furnaces seven hundred times hent-
ed. 1t is a wonder to me it has lasted so
long Meteors shooting by on this side
and grazing il, and meteors shooting by
on the other side and grazing II, none OF
them slowing up for safety. Whole
fleets aud navies and argosies AM hotillas
OF worlds sweeping all about US. Our
Earth like a fish smack of the banks OF
Newfoundland, while the Etruria aud
GeGm1nica and the Arizona and the City Of
New York rush bv. Besides that, our
world has by sin been damaged in its i'm
ternal machinery and ever and anon the
furnaces have burst, and the walking
beams OF the mountain have broken, and
the is anis have shipped q sea, AMI the
great hulk of the world has been Jared
with accidents that ever and anon threat
ened imm.i ate demolition. But it seems
to us ms il our century wer. especially
characterized 10y disaster. volcanic, cy-
clonic oceanic. epidemic. l say volcanic.
because an earthquake is only a volcano
hushed up. When Stromb pli aud Coto-
pax and Vesuvius stop breathing. let the
10 ~inaations of the earth tcware. Seven
tn busand earthquakes in two centurie Is re-
corded i'm the catalogue OF the British As
ISOLATION. Trajan. the En- ,eror, goes to
anci.n' Antioch AMI amid the spl.nlors
of h $ reception Is rpet 10y an earthquake
that nearly destroys the Emrreror's life.
Lisbon. fair ard beautiful at one O'Clock
on Nov. mher 4. l.5I. in six m nuies COZ 90
have peri~hed. and Voltair. writes OF
tn. m: For that region Il was the last
judgment. nothing wanting but a trum-
pet" Europe aud America feeling the
throb; 800 chimney. in Boston partly or
fully destroyed.
But the Disasters of other centuries have
had their counterpart in our own. In Isl.
Caracas was caught in the grip Of the
earthquake; in lS22. IN Chill, loo. 0JJ square
miles O: land by volcanic force u~pheaved
To four and seven feet of permanent eleva-
lion; in 1854 Japan felt the geological
agony: Naples shaken ia 1887; Mexico In
i>bS; Medosa, the capital of the Argentine
Republic. in 1861: Manila ter-orized in
iSSs; the Hawaiian islands by such force
lpliited and let down in 1871: Nevada
shaken in ISL: Antioch in lss2: California
IN 49,; san Salvador in 1873; while in 1853
what subterranean excitement! lschia-
au island Of thu Mediterranean. n beauti-
fui Italian watering place. vineyard clad.
surrounded by all natural charm and his
.orical reminiscence: wonder Capri. the
summer resort of the Roman Emperors;
wonder Naples. the paradise of art-this
beautiful island suddenly topple I in;o tn.
rough of the earth. 90 merry-tnakers
per.shing. and some Of them SO far down
beneath the reach OF human o~trseQuies
hat il NAV Ice 81 Il OF many "a one OF them
as il WAS Of Moses, The Lord buried him. y
Iialv weeping. all Europe weeping. all
rhristendom weeping where there Were
hearts t. sympathize and Christians 10
prav. Eut white the nations were
measuring that magnitude Of disaster,
measuring il, not with the golden rod
lka that with WI CHI the angel measured
Heaven. but with the black rue Of death.
lava, of the Indian chlpe,aCc, the most
fertile island Of all the earth, * 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 Ghasiliest accident OF
the century. One hundred thousand peo-
pie dying. dying, dead. dead.
But: look at the disasters cy~clonic. \,
the mouth of the Gauges are three islands
the Hof;ish, the Sundeep and the paSin
n sba2pore- In the midnight of October,
i>... ON those three Island. the cry was:
The waters. the waters" \ cyclone
arose and rolled the see over those three
islands. and of a population of $4,000,
sla, uoJ were drowned. Only those were
saved who had climbed 20 the top Of the
highest trees. Did you ever see a cyclone.
No. Then | prav God you NAV never see
one. SAW one on the ocean. and il swspi
us 80 miles back from cur course. and fer
thirty-s;x hours during the cyclone and
after IL We expected every moment
20 go Ia the lotion. 1hey told u,
before we ret red at nine O'Clock
that the barometer had fallen. hu, a,
eleven O'Clock u: night we were awakened
with the stock Of the waves. All the
lights cat. Crash. went ail the life boats.
Waters rushing through the sSyliShts
down into the cabin ami down the furnaces
unpl n " Kissed ami smoaei IN the de-
urSs Seven hundred people praying,