Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1890-11-08

oHal dctcflsClcS long before these cities
were destroyed. Volcanic action, is nv
reply These cities had been built out
vi very combustible materials. The
mortar was OF bitumen easily ignited.
ana The walls dripped with pitch most
Li1ammable. They sat, | think, on a
ridge OF hills. They stood high up and
conspicuous, radiant in their sins. osten-
tatlous in their debaucheries, four bells
on earth.
one day there was rumblng in the
ealt tn, and a quaking. ssWhat's that?"
cry the affrighted inhabitants. "What's
that?' The foundations of the earth
were giving way. volcano, whose
hres had been burning for ages, at Gods
command burst forth, easily setting
everything afiame, and first lifting these
cities high in air, and then dashing them
down in chasms fathomless. The fir,
OF 1hat eruption intershot the den.
smoke, and rolled unto the heavens, onl
to descend again. And all the confgura~
tlon OF that country was changed, and
where there was hill there came
valley, and whore there had been the
pomp of uncleannesS came widespread
desoIation. The red hot spade of vol
canic action had Shoveled under the
trophe the cities stood on the top OF the
salt and sulpher. After the catastrophe
they were under the salt and sulphur.
Science right: Revelation right. He
tOucheth the hills and they smoke
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 Fesuvius fawn at
His 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 two hundred of them,
but since then the Indian Archipelago
! has been found to have nine hundred of
these great mOuthpieCcS. They are on
every continent and in all ATTITUDES.
That earthquake which shook all Amer
lea about six or seven summers ago was
only the raVng around of volcanoes rush
ing against the sides Of their rocky cav
erns trying to break out. They must
come to the surface, but it will be at the
divine call. They seem reserved for the
punishment Of one kind of sin. The
seven cities they have ObliterateG were
celebrated for one kind OF ranSgrcsSlon.
Protigacy was the chief characteristic
of the seven CiticS over which they put
their smothering wing-Pompeii, Her
culaneum, Stabitn, Adma, Zeboim, So
dom, and GOmOrrah.
If our American cities do not quit their
protiigacy. if in high life and low life
dissOlutcneSS does not cease to be Il joke
and become Il crime, if wealthy libertin-
ism continues to find so many doors OF
domestic life open to its fantest touch,
if Russian and French and American
7 ,tn rl,in
I get bauished from the news stands and
ladies parlors, God will let loose some of
| these suppressed monsters Of the earth.
And / tell these American cities that it
will be more tolerablc for SOdOm and
! GOmOrrah in the day Of Judgment,
whether that day Of Judgment be in this
present century or in the closing century
/ of the carths continuance. The volcanic
/ forces are already in existence, but in
the mercy of God they are chained III the
/ kennels of Subterraneous lire. Yet let
prOhigacy. whether it stagger into Il
! IaZarcttO or sit on Il commercial throne
whether it laugh in a faded shawl under
the street gas light or be wrapped in the
isfinest array that foreign loom ever
wrought or lapidary ever impearled
/ know right well that there is a volcano
! waiting for IT. whether in domestic lie,
/ or social life, or political life, on in the
| foundations of the earth from which
! sprang out the devastations that swat
! lowed the cities of the plain. Gle touch
| eth the hills and they smoke.
But the dragoman was rejOiced when
! we had seen enough OF this volcanic re-
! gion of Palestine, and he gladly tight
I ems the girths for another march around
! the horses, which are pranclng ana
! neighing for departure. We are off for
! the Jordan. only two hours away. Now
we come through regions where there
! are hills cut into the shape or cathe-
! draIs with altar and column ana arch
| and chancel and pulpit and dome ana
architecture of the rocks, that | think
/ can hardly just happen SO. Pefhaps IL
! it because God loves the church so well
he builds in the soitudes of Yellowstone
Park and Yosemite and Switzerland and
! Palestine these ecclesiastical piles. And
! who knows but that unseen spirits may
! sometimes worship there? ''Dragoman,
| whom shall we see the Jordan?" | ask.
| All the time we were on the alert, and
looking through tamarsk and willows
for the greatest river of all the earth
The Mississippi is wider, the Ohio is
! dpeper. the Amazon is longer, the
| Hudson rolls amid regions more pic
turesoue. the Thames has more splendor
| ON it's banks. the Tiber suggests more
imnerial procession. the Ilyssus has
! more classic memories, and the Nile
feeds greater populations by its irriga-
tion. but the Jordan is the queen OF rlV-
ers and runs through all the Bible, a
| silver thread strung like beads with
heroics. and before night we shall meet
| - -, hanks Elijah and Elisha and