The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-20

plunged DOWN, down., uOWu, untA IL
| seemed as II she never would again be
righted. Ali you never want to see a
cyclone at sea.
But / was in Minnesota, where there
was one of these cyclones on land that
swept the city of Rochester from Its
foundations, and took dwelling-houses,
barns, men, women, children, horses,
cattle, and tossed them into indiscriml-
nate ruin, and lifted a rail train and
dashed it down, a mightier hand than
that of engineer on the airbrake.
Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri,
cyclone In Wisconsin,, cyclone in ILL
nois, cyclone in Iowal Satan, prince OF
the power Of the air, never made such
cyclonic disturbances as he has in u
day. And am L not right in saying
that one of the characteristics OF the
time In which we live is disaster cy-
clonicp
But look at the disasters oceanic.
Shall l call the roll Of the dead shipping!
Ye monsters of the deep. answer when
| call your names, The Vile de Hdure,
the Schiller, the City of Boston, the
Meluitle, the President, the Cinbria.
But why should / 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 Hatteras
breakersI If the oceanic cable could
report all the scattered life and all the
bleached bones that they rub against
in the ocean, what
A MESSAGE OF PATHos AND TRAGEDY
for both beachesl In one storm eighty
fishermen persisted off the coast of
Newfoundland, and whole fleets of
them off the coast or England. God
help the poor fellows at sea, and give
high seats in heaven to the Grace
Darlings and the Ida Lewises and the
llfebOat men lowering around Goodwin
Sands and the Skerriesl The sea.
owning three-fouths of the earth pro-
poses to capture the other fourth, and
is ~bombarding the land all around the
earth. The moving of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward Ole hundred
yards backward from where they 0nce
stood, a type Of what is going on all
around the world and on every coast.
The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities stood. Pillars of temples
that stood on hills. biologists now find
three. quarters under the water Or al
together submerged. The sea, having
wrecked so many merchantmen and
fiotillas, wants to wreck the continents,
and hence disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic! ]
speak not of the plague In the Fourth
century that ravaged Europe. and in
Moscow and the Neapolltan dominions
and Marseilles wrought such terror in
the Eighteenth century, but look at
the yellow fevers, and the ch0leras, and
the d%iphtherias, and the scarlet fevers,
and the typhoids Of our own time.
Hear
THE MAILING OF MEMPHIS
and Shreveport and New Orleans and
Jacksonville of the last few decades.
From Hurdwar, India, where every
twelfth year three million devotees
c~ongregate. the brought the
cholera, and that one disease slew
eighteen thousand in eighteen days in
Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one
slain by it in India, and twen-
ty.five thousand in Egypt. Disasters
epidemicl Some of thu finest monu
ments in Greenwood and Laurel Hill
and Mount Auburn are to doctors who
lost their lives battling with Southern
epidemic.
But now l turn the leaf In my SUBJ
ject. and l plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night-s shade and
the myrtle. This age no more charac-
terized by wonders of disasters than by
aronders of blessing. Blessing of lon
gevity; the average of human life rap
idly Increasing. Forty years new worth
fApr humid nd nnan Nn" r nnVt trn val i
from Manitoba to New York in three |
days and three nights. In other times
1t would have taken three months. In
other words, three days and three
now are worth three months OF
other days. The average of human
practically greater now than when
Noah lived his $50 years and Methusa-
leh lived his 500 years.
BLESSINGS OF INTELLIGENCE.
The Salmon p. Chases and the Abra-
ham LIncolns and the Henry Wilson's
Of the coming time will not be re-
quired to learn to read by ~pine-knot
lights, or seated on shoemaker's bench,
will the Fergusons 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. If the
philosophers Of the last century were
called upon to recite In a class with
our boys at the Polytechnic, or our
girls at the Packer, those old ptiloso-
piers would be sent down to the foot
OF the class, because they failed to
answer the questionsl Free libraries
in all the important towns and cities of
the land. Histyrical alcoves and poeti-
cal shelves and magazine tables for all
that desire to walk through them, or
SIT down at them.
Blessings of quick Information: News
papers falling all around us thick as
leaves in a September equinoctial.
News three days old. rancid and stale.
We see the whole world twice a day
the newspaper at the break
fast table, and through the newspaper
at the tea-table, with an extra" here
and there between.
Blessings Of Gospel proclamation: Do
you not know that nearly all the mis-
societies have been born In this
century, and nearly all the Bible So
ciet ,es. and nearly all the great philan-
movements2 A secretary of
Dne of the denominations said to me
The other day in Dakota: "You were
wrong when you said our denomination
averaged a new church every day of
The year; they established nine In one
week, so you are far within the TRUTH"
A clergyman of our denomination said:
II have just been out establishing five
stations"
CHRISTIANITY is ON THE MARCH.
Inidelity is dwindling into i'm
While Inddelity is thus
iwlndling and dropping down into i'm
bscihty, and i~ndecency, the wheel of
Is making about a thOus-
and revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and Tenayson
and Disraeli, and Of any ten of the
most popular writer's of the day, less
number than the copies of the Bit lie
out from our printing-presses.
few years ago. in six weeks. more
han two million copies of the New
not oIvap auay