Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-01
WONDERS OF THE DAY.
PAR REACHING EVENTS CROWDED INTO
THB NINETEENTH CENTURY.
The Time in Which We Live Wonderful for Disas-
aser and Wonderful for Blssslng-OyclOnss
and Epidemics-The Gospel Proclamation
Rev Dr. Talmage's Sermon
Special 7sleaam o he Reeiser.


KANSAS CITY, March 81 The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage preached a sermon heEe
to-day on Wonders OF Disaster and Blest-
ing" his text being, 81 will show won
ders in the heavens and in The earth
Joel ii, 80. He said;
Dr. Cumming-great and good man
would have told us the exact time of the
fulfllment OF this prophecy. As l 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 | told you about France;
people laughed at ne because l talked
about the seven horns and the visis, bat !
foTesaw su this from the Book of Daniel
ard the Book OF Revelation - Not taking
sDy such responsibility in the iuterpreia-
ton OF the passage, simply assert that
there ia in it suggestions Of many things
in our time.
Our eyes dilete and our heart quickens
its pulsatiOns as we resd Of events in the
Third century, the Sixth century, the
Eighth century, tie Fourteenth century,
but there ale more far reaching events
crowded into the Nineteenth century thar
into any other, and the last quats bids
fair to eclipse the preceding three quarters
We read in the daily newspapers Of events
announced in the paragraph and without
any special emphasis-of events which
Josephus, q XeuOphOn, a
Gibbon would have taken whole chapters
OF whole volumes to elaborate. Looking
out upon our time, we must cry out in the
words of the text: Wonders in the hesv-
ems and in the earth"
DISASTER AND BLESSING.
propose to show you that the tine i'll
which We live is wonderful for disaster
and wonderful fer blessing, for there must
be Eghts and shsdee in this picture as 10
all Others. Need / Mgde this day thst our
time is wonderful for disaster? Oar world
has had a rough time since by the hand OF
God It was bowled out into space 1t ia
IN epileptic earth: cOuvulsion after con
vulsiOD; frOsts pounding il with sledRe
hammer Of iceberg, and dres melting 1t
With furnaces seven hundred times heated.
Il is a wonder to me il has lasted 50 long
Ieteors shooting by on this side end graz
.ng it, none Of them allowing up for safety.
Whole fleets and nayies and argOsies aud
lotillas of worlds sweeping all about us.
Our esrth like a fishing smack off the
banks of Newfoundland, while the EtruTis
and Germanic and the Arizona and the City
Of New York rush by. Besides that, our
world has by sin been damaged in its in
teTnal machinery, and ever and anon the
'ur0aces have burst, and the walking
teams of the mountain have broken, and
Tie islands bave shipped a sea, and the
great hulk of the world hes been Jared
with accidents that ever and anon threat
suei immediate demolition. But It seems
to us "a if our century were especially
by disaster, volcanic, cy-
rlonic. oceanic, epidemic. | say volcanic,
because an earthquake is only volcano
bushed up. When StrOmbOli and COtopaxi
ard Vesuyius stop breathing, lei the loun-
iaiions Of the earth beware. Seven thou
.und earthquakes IN two centuries record
Cd in the catalogue Of the British Associa-
ton. Trajan, the emperor, goes to Anti
1ch. and amid the splepdoIs of his recep-
ton is met by an earthquake that nearly
DESTROYS tie emperor's life. Lisbon, fair
and beautiful at 1 o'clock on the lst Of No
yember, 1855, in ak minutes 60, 600 have
perjshed. and VOltaiTe writes of them:
For that region it was the last judgment,
nothing wanting but trumpein Eu-
rope and America feeling the thrOb, 1,5OO
chimneys il Boston partly or fully de-
stroyed.
CYCLONES AND EPIDEMICS.
Bat look at the disasters Cyclonic. At
the month of the Garges are three islands
the Hattiah, the Sundeep and the Dakin
In the midnight Of October,
1877. on all those three islands the cry
was: "The waters, the wstersW a cyclone
arose and rolled the sea over those three
islands, and of 8 population of 10000,
Dis GOO we're drowned. Ooly these saved
who had climbed 20 the tcp of the highest
trees. Did you ever see cyclone! nor
Then pray God you may never see one.
I saw one or the ocean, and it swept ua
eight hundred miles back from our cou Sc
and for thirty-six hours during the cyclone
and after it we expected every moment to
20 TO the bottom. They told us before we
retired al 9 o'clock that the barometer had
fallen. but at II o'clock at night we were
weakened with the shock of the waves.
All the lights out Crash! went all the
lifeboats. Waters rushing through
the skylights down into the
cabin and down on the far
naces until they hissed and smoked in
the dalupe. Seven hundred people pray
inp. blasphemi, z, shrieking. Our great
sbip uosed moment on the top Of a
Of phOsphOrescent fire, aud thsn
plunged down, down, down, nnli it|
seemed as if she never would be ngAied.
Ali Won never want to see cyclone at
sss But was in Minnesota, where thei
was one of those cyclones on leod tnat
q vent the city Of Rochester from its iounda-
t;ons and look dwelling houses, barnu,
man. women. children, horses, cattle, and
tosaed them into indscriminste ruin, and
iiee6 a rail train and dashed it down, a
,nisbtier hsnd than that Of the engineer
ON tho air brake Cyclone in Kansas,
cyclone in Missouri, cyclone IN W soonsin,
cycloue in Illinois, cyclone N Iowa
Satan. prince of the power OF the arr, never
made such cgclonic disturbances as he nas
in our dsy. And am not right IN saying
that one Of the characteristics OF the time
in which we live is disaster cyClonic?
Took et the disasters epidemic. speak
no. of the plegues iu the Fourth century
tbot rovaged Europe and in Moscow and
tbe Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles
srTo1ght such terror in tbs Eighteenth
oent11v hut I look at the yellow fevers,
ond the cboleras, and the diphtheriae, and
tbe re ecsrlet fevers. and the typbOids OF our
own time. Hear the wailing OF Memphis,
ond Shreveport, and New Ol,ans. and
Tscksonville of the last few decades. From
uD,s,ysr India. where every twelfth year
tbree million devotees coDgregste, the csr-
svsns brought the cholera, and that one
S;sease sIew eighteen thousand in eighteen
Jsvs in Bos,oreh. Twelve thousand slain
bv # in one summer in India. and twenty
t,ys thousand in Egypt. Disasters cpl
5or,;c Some Of the finest monuments IN
Grsen,yood and Lsurel Hill and Mount
G1b1rn are to doctors who lost their life
battling with southern epidemic
WONDERS OF BLESSING.
Bnt now turn the leaf in my subject,
II M T Djsnt the white lilies and the palm
49, 49, mid the night shade and the myrtle.
MI III noe, noe no more characterized by won
dars of disaster than by wonders OF bless-
inc Knowledge rolls its tides along every
noor mans door, and his children may 90
I'm and bsthe in them. II the philoso-
- H. 1est csrturv were called up to