Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1889-04-06
in tho dcIugc. Seven hundred people


was in Minnesota, where there
was one Of those cyclones on
land that swept the city Of Roch-
ester from its foundations, and took
dwelling houses. barns. men, women,
children, horses. cattle, and tossed
them into indiscriminatc ruin, and
lifted rail train and dashed ii down,
a mightier hand than that OF the cn-
ginecr on the air brake. Cyclone in
Kansas. cyclone in Missouri. cyclone
in Wisconsin. cyclone in Illinois, cy-
clone in Iowa. Satan, prince of the
power OF the air, never made such cy-
clonic disturbances as he has in our
day. And am | not right in saying
that one of the characteristics OF the
time in which We live is disaster cy.
clonicl
But look nj the disasters oceanic.
Shall ] call the roll of the dead ship
pingl Ye monsters Of the deep. answer
when ! call your names. Villo de
Havrc, the Schiller, City Of Boston,
the Melville, the President, the Gin.
bria. But why should goon calling
the roll when none Of them answer,
and the roll is as long rs the white
scroll Of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat.
tcras brcakcrsl II the oceanic cables
could report all the scattered life and
all the blcached boneo that they rub
against in the depths M the ocean,
what n message Of pathos and tragedy
for both beaches. In one storm eighty
fishermen pcrishcd Off the coast Of
Newfoundland. and whole fleets Of
them of the coast Of England. God help
the poor fellows at sen, and give high
seats in heaven 10 the Grace Darlings
and the Ida Lcwiscs and the lifcboat
men lowering around Goodwin's 5
Sands and the Skcrrics. The sea. own.
ing thrcc-fourths Of the earth. proposes
to capture the other fourth, and is
bombar,ling the land all around the
earth. The moving Of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward one hundred
yards from where they once stood, a
type Of what is going on all around
the world and on every coast. The
Dead sca rolls today where ancient
cities stood. Pillars Of temples that
stood on hills gcologists now find
thrcc-quartcrs under the water or alto
gcthcr submerged. The sea, having
wrecked so many merchantmen and
iiotillas, wants To wreck the continents.
and hence disasters oceanic.
PLAQUES THAT HAVE sMlTTEN Ill.,
MASITY.
Look nj the disasters epidemic.
speak not of the plague in the Fourth
century tina, rivagcd Europe. and in
Moscow and the Ncapolitan domin.
ions and Marscillcs wrought such ter.
ror in the Eighteenth century. but
look at the yellow fcvcrs. and the
cholcas. and the diphthcrias and the
scarlet fcvcrs, and the typhoids Of our
own time. Hear the wailing Of Mem.
phis. and Shreveport, and New Orleans
and Jacksonville Of the last few de.
cadcs. From Hurlwar India. where
every Twelfth year three million dcvo.
tees congrcgate, the caravans brought
the cholera. and that one disease slew
eighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossoislh. Twelve thousand in one
summer slain by j, in India and TWEEN.
tylivc thousand in Egypt. Disasters
epidemic. Some Of the finest monu.
mcnis in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
and Mount Auburn are 10 doctors who
lost their life battling with southern
epidemic.
TURNING OVER NEW LEAF.
But now | turn the leaf in my sub.
jcct, and | plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night shade and
the myrtle. This age no more charac-
tcrizcd by wonders Of disaster than by
wonders Of blessing. Blessing of lon.
gcvity; the average Of human life rap
idly increasing. Forty years now
worth four hundred years once. Now
can travel from Manitoba to
New York in three days and three
nights. In other times il 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 Y
greater now than when Noah lived
his $50 years and Meihusaleh lived
his 9G9 years. Blessings OF intclli.
gcncc: The Salmon =. Chases and the
Abraham Lincolns and the Henry
Wilson's Of the coming time will not
DO required TO learn TO read by pine
knot lights, or seated ON shocmakcrs
bench. nor will the Fcrgusons have
TO study astronomy while watching
the cattle. knowledge rolls its tides
along every poor mans door, and his
children may 20 down and bathc in
them. II the philosophers Of the last
century were called up 10 rccite in Il
class with our boys AT the Polytechnic,
or our girls at the Packer. those old
philosophers would be sent down Ia
the foot Of the class because they
failed 10 answer the questions. Free
libraries in all the important towns and
cities Of the land. Historical alcovcs and
poetical shelves and magazine tables
Tor all that desire 10 walk through
them or sit down at them. blessings
Of quick information: Newspapers
falling all around us thick as leaves in
a September equinoctial. News three
days old. rancid and stale. We SEE
the whole world twice u day-througli
the newspaper at the breakfast table,
and through the newspaper at the tea
table, with an extra" here aud there
between.
CHRISTIANITY Is ~ A fLoURISIIiSG CON
DITIoN.
Blessing Of Gospel proclamation:
Do you not know that nearly all the
missionary societies have been born in
this ccnturyi and nearly all the Bible
societies, and nearly all the great phil.
anthropic movcmentsl A secretary Of
one Of the denominations said TO me
the other day in Dakota: You were
wrong when you said our dcnomina-
ton averaged n new church every day
Of the year; they established nine in
one week. so you are far within tho
truth" 4 clergyman Of our own de
nomination said: II have just been
out establishing five mission stations. "
| tell you Christianity is on the march,
while Inlldclity is dwindling into i'm.
becility. While Infidelity is thus
dwindling and dropping down into
imbecility and indeccncy, the wheel Of
Christianity is making about thou.
sand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies Of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Disraeli and Of any ten Of the
most popular writers Of the day. less