The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-04-04

them into indIScriminate ruin. and
lifted rail train and dashed it down.
a mightier hand than that of the en-
gineer on the air brake. Cyclone in
Kansas, cyclone in Missouri. cyclone
III 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 I not right In saying
that one of tho characteristics Of the
time in which we live is disaster cy-
clonic2
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall 1 call the roll Of the dead ship
ping2 Ye monsters of the deep, answer
when | call your names. Vile de
Havre, the Schiller, City of Boston,
the Melville, the President, the Cim-
bria. But why should I 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
could report all the scattered life and
all the bleached bones that they rub
against in the depths of the ocean,
what message of pathos and tragedy
for both beaches In one storm eighty
fishermen perished 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 the lifehoat
men lowering around Goodwins
Sands and the Skerries. The sea, own
ing three-fourths of the earth, proposes
TO capture the other fourth, and is
bombarding 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 today where ancient
cities stood. Pillars of temples that
stood on hills geologists now find
three-quarters under the water or alto
gether submerged. The sea, having
wrecked so many merchantmen and
hotillas, wants to wreck the continents,
and hence disasters oceanic.
PLAQUES THAT HAVE sMITTEN HU-
MANTTY.
Look at the disasters epidemic.
speak not of the plague in the Fourth
century that ravaged Europe, and in
Moscow and the Neapolitan domin-
ions and Marseilles wrought such ter
ror IN the Eighteenth century, but /
look at the yellow fevers, and the
choleras, and the diphtherias and the
scarlet fevers, 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-
cades From Hurdwar, India, where
every Twelfth year three million devo-
tees congregate, the caravans brought
the cholera, and that one disease slew
eighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one
summer slain by it in India and twen-
ty-iivo thousand in Egypt. Disasters
epidemic. Some of the finest monu-
ments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
and Mount Auburn are to doctors who
lost their life battling with southern
epidemic.
TURNING OVER NEW LEAF.
But now l turn the leaf in my sub
iect, and | plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night shade and
the myrtle. This age no more charac-
terized by wonders of disaster than by
Wonders of blessing. Blessing of lon
gevity; 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 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 Methusaleh lived
his $50 years. Blessings of intelli-
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 shoemaker's
bench, nor will the Fergusons have
to study astronomy while watching
tho cattle. knowledge rolls its tides
along every poor mans door, and his
children may go down and bathe in
them. If the philosophers of the last
century were called up to recite in O
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 10 answer the questions 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. Blessings
of quick information: Newspaper.
falling all around us thick as leaves in
September eq,iinoctial News thro,
days oil, rancid and stale. We see
the whole world twice day-througt
Che newspaper at tho breakfast table
and through the newspaper at the tea
table. with AN ''extra" here and there
between.
CHRISTIANITY Is IN A FLOURISHING CON
DITIoN.
Blessing of Gospel proclamation
Do YOU not know that nearly all tn,
missionary societies have been born IL
this eentury2 and nearly all the Blbl
societies, and nearly all the great phil
anthropic movements2 A secretary o
one of the denominations said TO m,
the other day in Dakota: You wer
wrong when you said our denomina
ton averaged q new church every da,
of the year; they established nine II
1 one week, SO you are far within th
truth" A clergyman OF our own &c
nomination said: II have just bee
, out establishing five mission stations.
tell YOU Christianity is on the march
while Infidelity is dwindling into in
becility. While Infidelity is thu
: dwindling and dropping down int
imbecility and indecency, the wheelo c
! Christianity is making about thol
sand revolutions in a minute. All tn
copies of Shakespeare and Tennyso
, and Disraeli and of any ten OF th
most popular writers of the day, lie.
in number than the copies of the Bib
, going out from our printing presse
! A few years ago, in six weeks, mol
:, than two million copies of the Ne
/ Testament purchased, not given ava,
e but purchased because the world WI
), have it.
q More Christian men in high offlcii
5, position today in Great Britain and
NJ the United States than ever befor
10 Stop that falsehood going through Il
81 neygspapers-l have seen il in twent
81 that the judges of the supreme cou
sr of the United States are all infidels e
ID cept one. BY personal acquaintance
* know three OF them TO be old fashion,
X evangelical Christians, sitting at Il
er holy sacrament of our Lord Jesl
20 Christ. and suppose that the major
@ tv of them are stanch believers in ol
le Christian religion. And then he
* The diving words Of Judge Black. ma
ne who had been attorney general of 4
Is United States, and who had be-
IS. secretary of the United States,
is stronger lawyer of the century thi
be Judge Black-dying, his aged vi
ed luneeling by his side, and he utterii
lie that sublime, and tender urayer: