Milford chronicle., 1889-04-05

and tire Ida LoWises and the hieboat men
lowering around Go0dwin's Sands and the
Skerries The sea, owning tbrse-fourtis 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, 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 stool on hills geologists now ind three
quarters under the water or altogether sub
merged. The sen. having wrecked So many
merchantmen and fotillss wants TO wreck
the continents, and hence disasters oceanic.
PLAQUES THAT HAVE sMIrrEN HUMANITY.
Look at the disasters epidemic. speak
not of the plague in The Fourth century that
ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and the Ne
apolitan donini6ns and Malseillos wrought
such terror in the Eighteenth century, but
look at the yellow fevers, and the cholerSs,
and the diphthorias, and the scarlet fevers,
and tie typhoids Of our 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 three million deyotees con9rc-
gate, the caravans brought the cholera, ard
that one disease slow eighteen thousand IN
eighteen days in Bossorah Twelve thousand
+ in one summer slain hy it in India and twcn'
ty-iiye thousand in Egypt. Disasters cpl
/ demic. Some Of the finest monuments in
+ Greenwood and Laurel Hin and Mount Au-
( burn are TO doctors who lost their life bat
ting with southern epidemic.
/ TURNING OVER a NEW LEAF.
/ But now turn the leaf in my subject, and
/ plant the white lilies and the palm tree
amid the night shade and the myrtle This
+ age no more characterized by wonders Of
f disaster than by wonders of blessing. Bless
! ing of longevity; the average of human lie
rapidly 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. Ia other
words, three days and three nights now are
worth three months Of other days The aver
age of human life practically greater now
than when Noah lived his $50 years and Me-
thusaleh lived his $50 years. Blessing Of in
telligence: The Salmon P. Chases and the
Abraham Lincolns and the Henry Wilson's Of
the coming time VIII not be required to learn
to read by pine I'm 9 lights or seated ON shoe
makers bench, nor viii the Fergus0ns have
to study astronomy while watching the cattle.
knowledge rolls its tides along every poor
mans door, and his children may go down
and battle in them IL the philosophers OF the
last century were called up TO recite in class
with our boys at the Polytechnic, or our girk
at the Packer, those old philosophers would
be sent down to the foot Of the class because
they failed To answer the questionsl tret
libraries in all the important towns and cities
of the land. Historical alcoyes and poetic
shelves and magazine tables for all that desire
to walk through them or sit downat them
Blessings of quick information; Newspaper
falling all around US thick as leaves IN a sep
tember equinoctial. News three days old
rancid and stale We see the whole work
twice day-through the newspaper at TIN
breakfast table, end through the newspaper
at the ten table, with an ''extran here an'
there between.
CHRISTIANITY IS II A FLoURIsHING coNDI
TON
Blessing of Gospel proclamation: Doyouuo
know that nearly all the missionary societie
have been born in this century, and nearl.
all the Bible societies, and nearly all the grea
philanthropic movements A secretary o
one Of the denominations said to me the othe
dav in Dakota: "You were wrong when yol
said our denomination averaged a new churcl
, every day of the year; they established min
; in one week, so you are far within the truth
A clergyman of our own denomination said
, u have Just been out establishing five mis-
sion stations" tell you Christianity is o.
the march, while Inhdelity is dwindling int
! imbecility. While Infdelity is thus dwind
ling and dropping down into imbeeility ant
indeceney, the wheel of Christianity is max
I fn.y about a thousand revolutions in a minute
] All the copies of Shakespeare and Tennyso
! and Disraeli and Of any ten Of the most pop
j ulaf writers of the day, less in number thai
the copies of the Bible going out from on
printing presses. A few years ago, in 81
weeks, more than two million copies Of tn
i New Testament purchased, not given away
but purchased because the world will have d
More Christian men in high official positio
TODAY in Great Britain and in the Unite
o States than ever before. Stop that fails
s hood going through the newspapers-I hay
: seen it in twenty-that tho judges of IL
I supreme court of the United States are a
S iniidels except one By personal acquain
2 ance know three of them to be old fashione
evangelical Christians, sitting at the hol
O sacrament Of our Lord Jesus Christ, and
Z suppose that the majority Of them al
: stanch believers in our Christian religion
\ And then hear the dying words Of Jude
j Black, man vino had been attorney generl
# of the United States, and who had bee
e secretary Of the United States, no strong'
n lawyer of the century than Judge Black
+ dying, his aged wife kneeling by his sid
il and he uttering that sublime and tend
PRAYER; 80 Lord God, from whom | d
r rived my existence and in whom l hay
d always trusted, take my spirit to thyse
and let thy richest blessing come down upC
Il my Mary" The most popular book today
the Bible, and the mightiest institution is Il
% church, and the greatest name among q
e nations. and more honored than any othe
2 is the name of Jesus.
N THINGS THAT OUGHT TO MAKE PEssIiis
le oPTIMIsTs.
d Wonders Of self sacrifice; A clergymi
If told me in the northwest that for six yea
l. he was missionary at the extreme mort
- living 400 miles from postoflice, and som
T times he slept out Of doors in winter, the the
IL mometer sixty and sixty-tlve degrees belo
it zero, wrapped in rabbit skins woven togethe
II / said: rs it possiblei You do not me,
,e sixty and sixty-five degrees below zerof
o. said: 81 do, and was happy.n All for Chris
e Where is there any other being that W
l- rally such enthusiasm Mothers sewing the
,e fingers of to educate their boys for the Gt
S pei ministry For nine years no luxury
ie tho table until the course through granlm
v school ami college and thee logical seminal
N be completed. Poor widow putting her mi
d into the Lords treasury, the face Of emper
s. or president impressed upon the com not
ID conspicuous as the blood wita which s.
Of earned it. Millions Of good men and wome
n, but more women than men, to whom Chri
ar is everything. Christ first and Christ la'
sr and Christ forever
IN Why, this age is not so characterized
" invention and scientific exploration as 1t
l. by Gospel proclamation. You can get
II idea Of it unless you can ring all the chur
n, bells in one chime, and sound all the orga
is in one diapason, and gather all the congree
ID tions Of Christendom in one Gloria in Exc
at sis Mighty camp meetings Mighty oce
ne Groves Mighty Chautauquas. Mighty &C
Is ventions Of Christian workers Mighty gt
a eral assemblies Of the Presbyterian churS
er Mighty conferences Of the Methodist ehur'
in Mighty associations Of tho Baptist chur'
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