The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-04-01
TALMAGE In KANSASCITY
OUR TIME WONDERFUL FOR DIS
AsTER AND BLESSING.

asters Have Their Counterparts To-
| Day.
KANSAS CITY, March S1.-The Row T.
| Do Witt I9mage preached sermon here
to-day on Wonders OF Disaster and Bless
ing" ," his text being, II will show wonders
III the heavens aud in the earth" Joel H..
30 He said:
Dr. Cumming-great and good man
would have told us the exact time OF the
| tulfllment of this prophecy. AS stepped
! into his study in London on my arrival
| from Paris just after tho French had sur
rendered. at Sedan, the good doctor said TO
mo: ut is just as | told you about France;
people laughed at me because talked out
the seven horns and the vials, but | fore
saw all this from the Book Of Daniel and
the Book of Revelation Not taking any
such responsibility In the Interpretation OF
the passage, simply assert that there is in
1t suggestions OF many things in our time
Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens its
pulsations as we read OF events in the third
century, the sixth century, the eighth CEN
tury, the fourteenth century, but thore are
| more far-reaching events crowded into the
nineteenth century than any other, and the
last quarter bids fair to eclipse the preced-
| ing three-quarters. We read in the daily
| newspapers Of events announced In one par
| agraph, and without any special emphasis
OF events which a Herodotus, "A Josephus, a
| Xenophon, a Gibbon would have taken
| whole chapters or whole volumes 10 elabor-
ate. Looking out upon our time, wa must
| cry out IN the words Of tho toxt: "Wonders
| in the heavens and In the earth
| propose To show you that the time in
which We live Is wonderful for disaster and
wonderful for blessing, for thoro must be
| lights and shades In this picture as in all
| Others. Need | argue this day that our
timo is wonderful for disasterl Our world
has had rough time since by the hand Of
| God it was bowled out into space IL is an
| epileptic Garth; convulsion after convul-
sion, frosts pounding IL with sledge ham
mer OF iceberg, and fires melting ID
| with furnaces 700 times heated It
Is wonder TO me it has lasted so
| long. Meteors shooting by on this
| side and grazing il, and meteors shooting
| 10y on the other side and grazing it, none OF
them slowing up for safety. Whole fleets
and navies and argosies and fotillas of
worlds sweeping all about us Our earth
like fishing smack Off the banks of New
foundland, while the Etruria and Germanio
and the Arizona and the.City Of New York
rush by. Besides that, our world has, by
sin. been damaged in its inter
| nal machinery, and ever and
anon the furnaces have burst, and
| the walking beams of the mountain have
broken, and tho islands have shipped a
sea, and the great hulk Of the world has been
| Jared with accidents that ever and anon
threatened Immediate demolition. But it
| seems to ne as II our century were especially
characterized by disaster. volcanic, cyclonic,
| oceanic, epidemic. | say volcanic, because
an earthquake is only volcano hushed up,
When Stromboli and Cotopaxi and Vesu-
vius stop breathing let the foundations
of the iearth beware. Seven thou
sand earthquakes in two centuries
recorded in the catalogue of tho Brit
ish association. Trajan. the emperor, goes
TO ancient Antioch, and amid the spendors
Of his reception is met by an earthquake
that nearly destroys the emperors life
Lisbon, fair aud beautiful at O'Clock on
the lat OF November, 1885, in six minutes
6O,OOO have perished, and Voltaire writes of
them "For that region it was the asst
Judgment. nothing wanting but trum-
petln Europe and America feeling the
throb: 1900 chimneys in Boston partly or
fully destroyed
But the disasters of other centuries have
had their counter part in our own. In 1919
Caracas was caught in the grip Of the
earthquake in 1929, in Chill 100 900 snuare
miles II land by volcanic force upheaved to
four and seven feet Of permanent elevation;
in 1864 Japan felt the geological agony;
Naples shaken in 1857; Mexico In 1885,
Medosa, the capital of the Argentine Re-
public, in 1861 Manila terrorized in 1858;
the Hawaiian islands by such force uplifted
:
Antioch in 1872; California in 1872; San
Salvador in 1873; while in 1888 what sub
torranean excitemsnti fsohia an ISL
and Of the Mediterranean, beautiful Ital-
ian watering place, vineyard clad, sur
rounded by all natural charm and histori.
cal remlnlscence; yonder Capri, the sum.
NOR resort Of the Roman omperors; yonder
Naples, the paradise OF art-this beautiful
island suddenly toppled into the trough of
the earth, 5000 merry-makers perishing,
and some Of them 50 far down beneath the
reach Of human obsequies that ii may bo
said OF many one Of them as IL was said
Of Moses: The Lord buried him." Italy
weeping, all Europe weeping, all christen-
dom weeping where there were hearts
TO sympathiza and christians to
pray. But while the nations were measur-
ing that magnitude of disaster, measuring
it not with golden rod like that with which
the angel measured heaven, but with the
black rulo Of death, Java, Of the Indian
archipelago, tho most fertile island OF all tho
earth, Is caug' In the grip Of the earth
quake, and mountain after mountain goes
down, and city after city, until that island,
which produces the healthiest beverage of
all tho world, has produced tho ghastliesb
accident Of the century. One hundred
thousand people dying, dying, dead. dead.
WHEN HEAVENS WINDS VISITED THH
EARTH ROUGHLY.
But look nt the disasters cyclonic. At the
mouth Of the Ganges arc three islAnds--tho
Haitian, the Sundeep aud the Dakin S a
ba2pore. Ia the midnight of October. 1877,
on all those three Islands the cry was: "'rhe
wators. the wntorsn A Cyclone arose and
rolled the sen over those three islands, aud
Of population of $4,000, 2l5,000 wero
drowned. Only those saved who had
climbed 10 the top Of the highest trees.
Did you ever SEQ cyclonei NOT Then |
pray God you may never see one. | saw
one on the ocean, and it swept
us eight hundred miles back
from our course, nndg for thirty six
hours during the cyclone, and after It wo
expected every moment 10 go TO the bot
tom. They told US before we retir d at o
O'Clock that the barometer had fallen, but
at / O'Clock at night we were aW akeled
with the shock Of the waves. All the lg is
out Crash went all the life boats.
W Waters rushing through the skylighis jwn
into the cabin, and down on the furnac g
until they hissod and smoked in the
deluge. Seven hundred people pray
ing, blaspheming, shrieking. Our great
ship poised moment ON tho top Of
mountain OF phosphorescent f,e,
and then plunged down, down, down, un.
I'll II seemed AS II she never would again 10
righted. Ahl you never want to see a cy-
clone at sea. But l was in Minnerota
where tn TO was one Of those cyclones on
land that swept the city of Roche ter from