Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1889-04-10

| II ne waters, ID6 Wat6IS u CJCtOnc hiooc
and rolled the sea over those three islands,
aud of population of $40, 600, 215, 600 were
drowned. Only those saved who had
climbed to the top of the highest trees. ID d
YOU ever see cyclone? No? Then l pray
G d you may never see one. I saw cne on
be ocean, and it swept US eight hundred
miles b,ck fr"m our conrse, and for thirty
six hours during the cyclone and after it
we expected every moment to go to the bot
| tom. They told us before we retired al 9
| - clock that the barometer had fallen, but
at II o'clock at night we were awakened
| with the shock of vaves All the lights
| out Crash went all the life boats. Wa
ers rushing through the sky-lights down
! into the cabin and down on the furnaces
nn,il they hssed aud smoked in the deinge.
| Seven hundred people praying, blasphem
| ing, shrieking. Our great ship poised a
moment on the top of y mountain of phOs-
phorescent fire, and then plaDged down,
down dawn, until it seemed as if she never
would again he righted All! you never
want TO See cyclone at sea. But | was
| in Minnesota, where there was one of those
cyclones on land that swept the city of
Rochester from it's foundations, and took
dweliue-houses, barns, men, women, chill
| dreD horses, cattle, and tossed them luio
| indiscfiminate ruin, and lifted rall train
| and d shed it down. mighter hand than
| If the engineer ON the air-brake. Cyclone
70 K .psss, cyclone 10 Missouri, cyclone in
| " isconsin, cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in
lava. Satan, prince of the power OF the
| air. never MADE such cyclnue disturbances
4s be has in our day. And am not right
IN saving that one Of the characteristics of
he time 10 which We live is disaster cy
clonic?
Bat iook at the disaster oceanic Shall |
call the roll Of the dead shipping? YemoD-
sters of the deep, answer when | call your
names V,Ia de Havre, the Schiller, CITY
If Boston, the Melville, the President, the
Gin bria. But why shonld I GO On calling
The roll when uoDe of them answer, and thu
roll is as long AS the white scroll of the A.
antic surf at C.pe Hsrtesss breakers2 tf
the oceanic cab es conid report all the scat.
tered life and all the bleached bones that
they rub against in the depths OF the ocean,
what a message of pathns and tragedy for
both beaches! In one storm eigh'v Il her
men perisbed off the coast of Newfound.
land and whole haets of them off the coast
of England. GDd help the poor fellows at
sea, aud give high seats 10 heaven to the
4race Darlings and the Ida Lewisea and
the lifebOat men towering scouDd G od-
wins Sands and thu SSerries. The sea,
owning thsee fourths nf the earth, proposes
u. capture the other f':urth, and is BON.
harding the land all around the earth. The
moving of our hotels at Brighton Beach
backward one hundred yards from where
they once stood, a type of what is gong on
III around the world and ON every coast.
The Dead sea rolls tn-day where ancient
ctties stood. Pillars Of temples that stood
OF hills biologists now fad three qla' ters
urder the water or altogether submerged,
The sea. having wrecked so many mer-
chaptmer aud f,tiIlas. wants to wreck the
continents, aud hencs disasters oceanic.
Look at the disasters epidemic. | speak
NOT of the plague in the fourth century that
rnvaged Elrnps and iu NJ psonw aud the
N -ap ilitau domlnions and NJ M,rseilles
Yrnugh' such error il the eighteenth Gen.
rury, has l look at the yellow fevers aud
the choleras, and the diphtherias. and tte
scarlet fevars, and the typhoids of our own
time Hear the waiting of Memphis, and
Shreveport, and New Q leans AID Jackson
sille of The last few decades. From Hurd
war, India, where every tRelfth YEAR three
Iillnn devntees cougregate, the caravans
.rnught the cbnle,a. aid that one dIseasa
alas s2gh.aeA thousand in eighteen days IN
Bossorah TTeve thousand in nne sum mer
: aio bv it in Indis and twenty five thou
sand in Egypt. Disasters go demo. Snme
IF the fioes5 monuments in Green ~OnG aud
Laurel Hill and N ,nnt Auburn are tn
doctors who l0st their life battling With
southern epidemic.
Bnt now | turn the leaf in my snbiact,
and plant the white Ill es and tbs pain.
tree AMID the night shade and the myrtle.
This aye no more Characterized by wonders
Of disaster than by wonders of blessing
Blessing of longevity; the average Of human
life ranidiy increas,ng Forty years nov
worth four hundred years once. Nov can
trave! from Manitoba to New York in three
d4ys aud three nighrs. IG other times it
would have tsKen thrae months. La other
words, three days aud three nights now are
sorth three months of other days. Tne
average of human life practically greater
now than @hau n ah lIyed his $50 years
and Msthusaleh lived his $50 years. Bless
ings f iBte ,geoce: fne Salmon Z. Chases
and the Abrsta L'ncnlns snd the Henry
Wilson's of ths coming tine will not be re-
ouired to learn t. read by p'ue knot lights,
nr seated on shoemaker's bsuch. nor Will
the Fergnsous have to study astronomy
while warching the G attle. knowlenge roi s
it's tides aiong every p ,or mans door, and
|
mem. If the p1iios pliers OF the last can
tury were called up To recite IN class Wi b
our boys at the Polytechnic, or our girls at
the P .cke1, those old philosophers would
| be sent dIwa to the foot of the class be-
eause they failed TO answer the Questions.
| Free l,bi aries IN all the important towns
and cities of the lAHd, Historical cuveS d
| uoeiical shelves and mag .z',e tables fer all
that desire to walk through them nr SIT
down az them sBessIugs OF quick informa-
ton: Newspapers fallIng all around us
thick as leaves iu a September equ'noct'sl.
News three DAYS old, fahcif and stale. We
see the whole W rid twice a day-,hfough
tie newspaper az the breakfast table and
through the newspaper at the tea table,
with an ''ex5ra'' here and there between
Blessing of Gospel proclamati'n: D.
you not kuo@ that nearly all the mislIGu'
ary societies have been born in this cen
tury? and nearly all the Bible societies, aud
nearly all the great pbllaDthIOpic move
ments? A secretary of Que Of the dennmI
n tions said f. ue the other day n Dakofa
You were wrong when you said our den
om,nation averaged new church every
day of the yea ; they established ulue II
one week, 81 you are far within the truth
A clergyman Of our va denomination sa d
Il nave lust been OUT estab ishiug five ms
st.n stati 'ns." toll you Christianity is or
the march, while lD6deii'y rs dwindling in
t. lmbacrhJy. Wnde InEdsiity is thus
dwindaug and dloppiug do vi Into imoecil
ity and indecency, the "neel of Caristlaai
ty is making aD)ut Thousand revolutions
in minute. All the copies of Saaksper'
aud Tennyson aud Dsr teii, aud of any ter
Oh the m st Q pular writers of the day, les
in num Der than the copies Of the Bible 60
ing nug fc0m our printing presses. A few
years agn, in six weeks, more than t1t
million copies of the Nav Testament pur
chased, not given away, but purchased os
, cause the world will have il.
More CHRISTIAN nen 10 high official posi-
ton to, day III Great Britain and in the Uui
F ted States than ever bef rs. Stop tut
falsehood s ing through The newspapers
, I have seeu 1T III cWentY-.hat the j 'dge
of the Supreme Court of the United STATE
+ are all iuddeis except one. b. personal ac