Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-11

Goodwin's Sands and the Sherries. THE sea.
owning three-fourths of the earth. proposes
10 capture the other fourth, and is lombard
ing the land all around the earth
The moving of our hotels at
Brighton Beach backward one hundred
yards from where they once stood. a TYNE of
what is going ON all around the world and ON
every coast. The Dead Sea rolls today
where ancient cities stood Pillars of tenn
pies that stood on hills biologists now ind
three-quarters under the water or altogether
submerged The sea, having wrecked On
( many merchantmen and fotillas wants to
wreck the continents, and hence disasters
oceanic.
Look at The disasters epidemic. l speak
not OF the plague in the Fourth century that
ravaged Europe, and in Moscow and the
Neapolitan dominions and Marseilles wrought
such terror in the Eighteenth century Int /
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 Memphis, and Shreveport. and New
/ Orleans and Jacksonville of the last few de
\ cades. From Hurdwar, India where every
/ twelfth year three million devotees congre-
| gate, 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 TWEEN
I ty-hve thousand in Egypt. Disasters cpl
] demic. Some of the finest monuments in
/ Greenwood and Laurel Hill and Mount Au-
burn are TO doctors who lost their life bat
tlin.. with Southern endemic.
But now turn the Leaf in my subject. and
1 plant the white lilies and the palm tree
amid the night shade and the myrtle This
age no more characterized by wonders of dis
aster than by wonders Of blessing Blessing
of longevity; 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. Tine average of human
life practically greater now than when Noah
lived his $50 years and Methusaleh lived his
800 years. Blessings of intelligence: The
Salmon 7. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns
and the Henry Wilson's OF the coming time
viii not be required TO learn to read by pine
knot lights, or seated on shoelnaker's
bench, nor will the Fergusons have
TO study astronomy while Watching the cat
tie. Knowledge rolls its tides along every
poor mans door and his children may 90
down and battle in them. II the philosophers
Of the last century were called mp to reeite
in class with our boys at the Polytechnic.
or our girls at the Packer those old philoso-
pliers would be sent down to the foot OF the
class because they failed to answer the ques-
tions! Free libraries in al the important
towns and cities of the land. Historical alcoYes
and poetcal shelves and magazine tables for 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 a day-throuen the news
paper at the breakfast table, and through
the newspaper at the tea table, with an 'ex-
tran here and there between
Blessing of Gospel proclamation: do You
not know that nearly all the missionary
societies have been born in this century,
and nearly all the Bible societies. and nearly
all the great philanthropic movements
A secretary of one of the denominations
said TO me the other day in Dakota
You were wrong when you said our
denomination averaged new church every
day of the year; they established nine in
one week. so you are far within the truth
A clergyman Of our own denomination said
Il have Just been out establishing five mis-
sion stations" l tell you Christianity is on
the march while infdelity is dwindling into
imbecility While infdelity is thus dwin-
ding and dropping down into inn
becility and indecency, the wheel of
Christianity is making about thou
sand revolutions in a minute. All the
copies of Shakespeare and Tennyson and Dis
Taeli and Of any ten Of the most popular writ
ers Of the day. less in number than the copies
Of the Bible going out from our printing
presses A few years ago, in SIX weeks, more
than two million copies of the New Testa-
ment purchased, not given away, but pur-
chased because the world will have it.
More Christian men in high official post
ton to-day in Great Britain and in the United
States than ever before. Stop that falsehood
going through the newspapers have seen 1t
in twenty-that the Judges of the supreme
Court of the United States are all iniidels ex-
cept one. BY personal acquaintance
know three of them to be old-fashioned
evangelical Christians sitting at the
IfY.lx- as54aH Of ar
Christ, and | suppose that the majority OF
them are stanch believers in our Christian
religion And then hear the dying words OF
Judge Black, a man who had been Attorney.
General of the United States, and who had
been Secretary Of the United States. no
stronger lawyer of the century than
Judge Black-dying, his aged wife kneel- I
ing by his side, and he uttering +
that sublime and tender prayer: 70 .
Lord God. from whom derived my existence, .
in whom have always trusted take my spirit .
Co Thyself and let Thy richest blessing come
down upon my Mary The most popular +
book to-day is the Bible, and the mightiest
institution is the church, and the greatest
name among the rations, and more honored
than any other is the name of Jesus
Wonders of self sacrifice; clergyman
told me in the Northwest that for six years
he was missionary at the extreme North,
living 400 miles from postoftice and some
times be slept out Of doors in the winter, the
Thermometer sixty and sixty-five degrees
below zero. wrapped in rabbit SKINS
woven together. l said. as y posi-
bleg You do not mean sixty and sixty-five
degrees below zerog' He said; Il do. and
was happy All for Christ. Where Is there
any other being that viii rally such en5nus-
iaSng Mothers sewing their fingers off Ia
educate their boys for the Gospel Irinistry:
FIR nine years no luxury on the table until
the course through grammar school and coli
le~e and theological seminary be com
pleted. Poor widow putting her mite into
the Lords treasury. the face Of Emperor or
President Impressed upon the coin not so con
snicuous as the blood with which she earned
II Millions Of good men and women, hus
more women than men. To whom Christ y
everything. Christ first and Christ iast ana
Christ forever.
Why. this age IS not 50 characterized by
Invention and scientific exploration as u
is by Gospel proclamation. You can g9s
no idea Of It unless You can ring an
the church bells in one chime, and
sound All the organs in one diapason- ana