Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-30


The hot springs near Its banks by the
name of Cailirhoe, where King Herod
came TO battle off his illnesses, no sooner
pour into this sea than they are poisoned.
Not fish scale swims it.
NOT AN INSECT WALKS IT.
1t hates life, and if you attempt TO swim
there 1t lifts you by az unnatural buoy
aucy TO the surface, as much as to say
"We want no life here, but death is our
preference, death. - Those who attempt
to wade into this lake and submerge
themselves come out almost maddened
as with the sting of hundred wasps and
hornets, and with lips and eyelids swollen
| with strange ablution. The sparkle OF
its waters are not like the sparkle OF
beauty on other lakes, but a metallic
lustre like unto the flash of a sword that
would thrust you. The gazelles and the
| ibexes that live on the hills beside It, aud
the cranes and wild ducks that fly
aCross-for, contrary to the old belief +,
! birds do safely wing their way over it
and the Arab horses you have been rid
ing, though thirsty enough, will not
drink out of this dreadful mixture. a
mist hoyers over parts of it almost con-
| tinuaily, which though natural evapora-
ton, seems like wing of doom spread
|
of abo nination. 1t is an aqueous mon
ster coiled among the hills, or creeping
| with ripples, and stenchful with nsuse-
atinR malodors.
In these regions once stood four great
| cities of Assyria: Sodom, Gomorrah,
| AdmH and Zeboim. The Bible says they
were destroyed by tempest OF fire and
birthstone after these cities had filled up
of wickedness. 'No, that is absurd -
cries some one. SIT is evident that this
was region of salt and brImstoue and
pitch long before that And SO It was.
The Bible says il was region of sulphur
long before the great catastrophe.
'Well, now says some one, wanting
to raise quarrel between science and
revelation, ''you have no right to say
the cities of the plain were destroyed by
tempest OF fire and sulphur and brim-
| stone, because this region had these
characteristics long before these cities
were destroyed.'
VOLCANIC ACTION, is MY REPLY.
These cities had been built out of
very combustible materials. The NOR
tar was of bitumen easily ignited and
the walls drippad with pitch most i'll
fiammeble. They sat, think, on ridge
of hills. They stood high up and con-
spicuous, radiant in their sins, ostenta-
tious in their debaucheres, four hells on
earth. One day there was q rumbling
in the earth, and quaking. 'Whet's
that?' cry the affrighted inhabitants,
"What's thst?' The founde tions of
the earth were giving way. A volcano,
VIII ose fires had been burning for ages,
1T God g command burst forth, easily
setting everything aflame, and first lift
fhno MA frh in, sair md tfnr.
dashirg them down in chasms fathom-
less. The fires of that eruption inter-
shot the dense smoke, and rolled unto
the heavens, only to descend again.
And all the CONFORMATION of that coun-
try was changed, and whore there was
hill there came a valley, and where
there had been the pomp of uncleanness
came widespread desolation. The red
hot spade of volcanic action had SHOW
elled under the cities of the plain. Be-
fore the catastrophe, the cities stood on
the top of the salt and sulphur. After
the catastrophe they were under the salt
and sulphur. Science right. Revela-
ton right. "Hs touched the hills and
they smoke.
No science ever frightened believers in
Revelation so much Us geology. They
feared that the strata OF the earth would
contradict the scriptures, and then
Moses must go under. But as in the
Dead sea instance, so in all cases Cod
writing on the earth, and Gods writing
In the Bible are harmonious. The
shelves of rock correspond with the
shelves of tina American Bible society.
SCIENCE DIGS INTO THE EARTH
and finds deep down the remains of
plants, and so the Bible announces
plants first. Science digs down and
says, 'marine animals next and the |
Bible says, ''marine animals next
Science digs down and says, Gland ami |
mails next,' and tie Bible responds,
Gland animals next.'' "Then comes |
man!' says science. "Then comes |
manl' responds the Bible. Science digs |
INTO the regions about the Dead sea, and |
finds result of fire, and masses of brim- |
stone, and announces a wonderful geo |
logical formation. "Oh, yes,'' says |
the Bible, ''Moses wrote thousands of |
years ago THE Lord rained upon Sodom, |
and upon Gomorrah, birthstone and fire |
from the Lord out of heaven, and David |
wrote, HE toucheth the hills and they |
smoke. 90 So 1 guess we will hold on
to our Bibles little longer. Il gentle
man in the ante-room of the White
House at Washington, having an ap-
pontment with MIR. Lincoln at 5
o CLOCK in the morning, got there
fifteen minutes early, and asked the
"Who 10 talking in the next
"It is the president, SRI"
'Is anybody with him?'' 'No, sir; he
is reading the Bible. He spends every
from to 5 CLOCK reading the
My text implies that God controls VOL
canoes not with the full force of His
hand, but with the tip Of his finger.
Etna, StrombolI and Vesuvius fawn at
feet like hounds before the hunter.
These eruptions of the hills do not be-
long to Pluto's realm as the ancients
thought, but to the Divine dominions.
Humboldt counted 200 of them, but
since then the Indian archipelago has
been found to have 900 OF these great
They are on every CONT
neDt aud IN all ATTITUDES. That earth
quake which shook all America about
six or seven summers ago was only, the j
raving around of volcanoes rushing |
against the sides of their rocky caverns
trying to break out.
THEY MUST COME TO THE SURFACE,
but il will be at the Divine call They
seem reserved for the punishment of one