The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-01

on the air brake. Cyclone IN Kansas,
cyclone in Missouri, cyclone i'll Wisconsin,
cyclone in Illinois, cyclone in Iowa Satan,
prince of the power of the air, never made
such cyclonic disturbances as he has in our
day. And am / not right in saying that
one of the characteristics of the time In
which we live is disaster cyclonic!
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
I call the roll of the dead shipping! Ye
monsters of the deep, answer when cali
your names. Vile de Havre, the Schiller,
City of Boston, the Melville, the President,
the Cimbria But why should 60 on call
ing the roll when none of them answer, and
the roll is as long as the white scroll OF the
Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras breakers!
II the oceanic cables could report all the
scattered life aid all the bleached bones that
they rub against in the depths OF the ocean,
what a message of pathos ana Tragedy
for both beaches! In one storm eighty fish
ermen persisted off the coast of Newfound-
land, 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 Darings and the Ida Lewises and the
lifeboat men lowering around Goodwln's
Sands and the Skerries. The sea, owning
three-fourths of the earth, proposes to capt
ure 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 to-
day where ancient cities stood. Pillars OF
temples that stood on hills biologists now
find three-quarters under the water or alto
gether submerged. The sea, having
wrecked SO many merchantmen and flotil-
las, 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 Neapolitan dominions and Marselles
wrought such terror in the eighteenth cen
fury, but / look at the yellow fevers, and
the choleras, aud the diphtherlas and the
scarlet fevers, and the typhoids of our
own time. Hear the wailing of Menu
phis, and Shreveport and New Orleans
and Jacksonville of the last few de-
cades From Hurdwar, India, where
every twelfth year 3,000,OO0 devotees con-
gregate, the caravans brought the cholera,
and that one disease slew Is, 600 in eighteen
days in Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one
summer slain by it in India and $4,000 in
Egypt. Disasters epidemic. Some of the
finest monuments in Greenwood and Laurel
Hill and Mount Auburn are to doctors who
lost their life battling with southern cpl
demic
But now 1 turn the leaf In my subject
and | plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the night shade and the myrtle.
This age is no more characterized by won
ders of disaster than by wonders. of blessing.
Blessing of longevity; the average Of hui
man life rapidly increasing. Forty years
now worth 400 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 is practically greater
now than when Noah lived his $50 years
and Methusaleh lived his 900 years. Bless
ings of Intelligence: The Salmon p Chases
and the 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 the cattle. knowledge rolls
its tides along every poor mans door, ana
his children may go down and battle in
them. If the philosophers Of the last
century were called up to recite in a
class with our boys at the Polytechnic, or
our girls at the Packer, those old philoso-
piers would be sent down to the foot of the
class because thew failed TO answer the
questions! Free libraries in all the i'm
portant towns and cities of the land. His
torical alcoves and poetical shelves and
through them or sit down at them. Bless
ings 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-through the newspaper
at the breakfast table, and through the
newspaper at the tea table, with an extra"
here and there between.
Blessing of gospel PROCLAMATION: Do you
hat aarit no mis-
societies have been born in this century,
And nearly all the Bible societies, and
nearly all the great philanthropic move
ments? A secretary Of one of the denomi-
nations said to me the other day in Dakota
"You were wrong when you said our as-
nomination 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 own denomination
said: 81 have just been out establishing
five mission stationf" | tell you
christianity is on the march, while
infidelity is dwindling into i'm
becility. While ihfdelitv is thus dwindling
and dropping down into imbecility and in
deoency, the wheel of christianity is max
ing about a thousand revolutions in a
minute All the copies Of Shakespeare and
Tennison and Disrael and of any ten Of
the most popular writers 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 Testament purchased,
not given away, but purchased because the
world will haveit
More christian men in high official
position to-day IN Great Britain and in the
United States than ever before. Stop that
falsehood going through the newspapers-I
have seen 1t in twenty-that the judges of
the supreme court of the United States are
all intidels except one By personal
acquaintance | know three of them to be
old fashioned evangelical christians. sitting
at the holy sacrament Of our Lord Jesus
Christ, and | suppose that the majority
OF them are stanch believers in our
christian religion. Aud 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 man Judge Black-dying, his
aged wife kneeling by his side, and he
uttering that sublime and tender PRAYER:
90 Lord God, from whom | derived my
existence and in whom / have always
trusted, take my spirit to myself, aud 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 nations, and more honored than any
other, is the name Of Jesus.
Wonders of self-sacrifice: A clergyman
told me in the northwest that for six years
he was a missionary at the extreme north,
living 400 miles from postoflice, and some
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