The Red Cloud chief., 1890-11-07

almost continually which though
Aaenrsl evaporation seems like . wing
q doom spcead over liquid d~esolation.
is 10 the finsings OF abomination. It is
IN aqueous monster coiled among the
niiiA 9r creeping with ripplea and
seenchful with na~useating mslodorA
IN these regions once stood four great
cities Of Assyria; Sodom, Gomorrsb.
Adms and Zeboim. The Bible ssvs
they were destroyed BY . tempest OF
nre and birthstone after these cities had
niied up Of ~wickednesA mo. that Is
absurd" cries some one; sit is evident
that this was . region of salt and
birthstone and pitch long before that"
And SO 1t WAS The Bible says IL
was . region Of sulphur long before
the great catastrophe. swell. now"
says some one. wanting to raise q quar-
rel between science and revelation, "you
have no right to say the cities of the
plain were destroyed by . tempest OF
IRE and sulphur and birthstone. because
his region had these characteristics
long before these cities were de.
stroyed." Volcanic action il my reply.
These cities had been built out OF very
combustible materials The mortar was
of bitumen, easily lighted, and the walls
dripped with pitch most infiammable.
They sat, l think. on q ridge Of hills
They stood high up and CONSPICUOUS,
radiant in their sins. ostentatious in
their debaucheries. four helis on earth.
One day there was . rumbling in the
earth and q quaking. "What's that?'
cry the aRrighted inhabitants ''What's
that?" The foundations OF tho earth
were giving away. A volcano. whose
fires had been burning for ages. at Gods
command burst forth, easily setting
every thing afamc. and first lifting
these cities high in tho air and then
dashing them down into chasms faith
Omless. Tho fires of that eruption in
tershot the dense smoke and rolled unto
the heavens only to descend again
And all the configuration OF that
country was changed. and where there
was a hill there came q valley. and
where there had been the pomp OF I'M
cleanliness came widespread desolation.
The red-hot spade OF volcanic action
had shoveled under the cities Of the
plain. Before 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
Revelation right 'Ho touched the
hills and they smoke"
No science ever frightened believers
in pnvynvotinn On vnuOn no ~nn1o~u Thnrv
feared that the strata of the earth
would contradict the Scriptures, and
then Moses must 60 under. But as in
the Dead Sea instance. 80 in all cases
Gods writing on the earth and Gods
writing in the Bible are harmonious
The shelves OF rock correspond with
the shelves of the American Bible So
ciety. 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, Land ami
mails next" and tho Bible responds,
LAND animals next" ''Then comes
man." says science. ''Then comes mani"
responds tho Bible. Science digs into
the region about the Dead Sea. and finds
result of fire. and masses of birthstone.
and announces q wonderful formation.
20. yes" says the Bible, "Moses wrote
thousands of years ago. the Lord rained
upon Sodom and Gomorrah' birthstone
and fire from tho Lord out OF Heaven,
and David wrote. He toucheth the hills
and they smoke" So l guess we will
hold on to our Bibles a little longer. A
gentleman in the ante-rOOm of the
White House at Washington. having an
appointment with Mr.. Lincoln at five
O'clock in the morning, got there fifteen
minutes early, and asked the servant:
''Who is talking in tho next room?"
sit is the President, sir!" lis any body
with him?" 'No. sir; he is reading the
Bible. He spends every morning from
four to five o'clock, reading the Scrip
lures"
My text implies that God controls
volcanoes, not with the full force OF His
hand, but with the tip of His finger.
Etna, Stromboli and Vesuvius fawn at
His feet like hounds before the hunter.
These eruptions of the hills do not be-
long to PlutO's realms, 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
m~outh-pieces They are on every con.
tinent and in all ATTITUDES That earth
quake which shook all America about
six or seven summers ago was only the
raving around of volcanoes rushing
against the sides of their rocky caverns
trying to break out They must come
to the surface. but it will be at the d.
vine call They seem reserved for tho
punishment of one kind of sin. The
even cities they have obliterated were
celebrated for one kind of transgres-
son. Profligacy was the chief charac-
teristic of the seven cities over which
they put their smothering wing: Pom
peii, Herculaneum. Stab B, Adma,
Zeboim, SodOm and Gomorrah. II
our American cities do not quit their
~profligacy, il in high life and low life
d~issoluteness does not cease to be a joke
and become q crime. IL wealthy libcrtin-
iSm COutiuucS W uuV 81 many OOOFS OI
domestic life open to its faintest touch,
il Russian, and French. and American
literature. stepped in pruriency. does
not get banished from the news stands
and ladies' parlorS. God will let loose
some OF these suppressed monsters Of
the earth. And l tell these American
cities that it will be more tolerable for
Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of
Judgment whether that day Of judg-
ment be in this present century or in
the closing century Of the earth's con-
~tinuance. The volcanic forces are al
ready in existence. but in the mercy of
God they are chained in the kennels of
subterraneous fire. You let proiigacy,
whether it staggcr into q l~azaretto or
sit on q commercial throne, whether il
laugh in q faded shawl under the street
gaslight or be wrapped in the finest ar
ray that foreign loom ever wrought or
lapidary ever impaired, know right
well that there is . volcano waiting for
it, whether in domestic life. or social
life. OF political life. or in the founda-
tons OF the earth from which sprang
ont fho Aov~cV~nao h~.-ry~-~l A.