Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1892-12-23

disobs Hence doom ami damn everything
they touch, an the spectacle practically
says to all other worlds: 20 )ey God, keep
holy aud stay in the orbit where you were
intended to swing, or you will suffer that
which that recrelnt world out yonfer has
been suffering for thousan of years. 1t
is no longer to me a mystery WY 50 small
world as ours was caosel for the tragedy.
A chemist eau demo 5trats all t1s laws of
earth and haven in a small laboratory, ten
feet by five. and our worl was not toe
snail to demonstrate to the universe the
awful chemistry OF uprghteousness. its ex-
plosive and irwin, an consu ming power.
do not believe that tlere Is world that
has been in existencs from the time when
Copernicus, rue astronomer, knocked
ON the door OF heaven, to the world that
last week cane within sight OF the OBJ
ssrvatory at Greenwic !, but has heard OF
our terrific terrsstial experiment, an 1 the
awful OBJECT lesson has thrilled the multi
millions Of steller population, especially
when they heard that in order 70 arrest the
disaster of centuries the World Maker aud
the World Starter and the World Up1older
must give up dis oaly Sol to assassination
to expiste an restore and save the victims
OF tho planetary shiowrecS.
On the tower OF Phlros Egypt, a metallic
mirror was rassd which reflected all that
occurred both on land and sea for a distance
OF three hun irel miles AMI So Egypt was
informed of the coming OF her enc mics long
before their arrival By what procee Is 1
know not but in some way this ship of a
stru ggiing earth | thnS. is mrrOret to
distant worlds. Surely this one experiment
OF n world unlOosing itself from Col will
be enough for all worlds and all eternltles.
But notice til 1t as othec woi Is rolie IN.
fha hi
Genesis. they also appear in th last book OF
the Bible. the book OF Revelation. They
will take part in the scenes o. tl1t OCCASION
which shall be the earth's win ling up ana
tremendous occasion for you an me per
sohally. Ny father was on tue turnpike
roal between Trenton AMI Bount broos,
New Jersey. He was coming through tne
ni1ht from the legislative halls waere he
was serving his State, to his home, where
there was sickness. 1 often heard MN tell
about It. It was the night OF the 18th AMI
the morning of the 18th OF November, looo'
The sky was clou less and the air Clear
Suddenly the whole heavens became scehs
never TO be forgotten. From the constelia-
tion Leo 1neteors began to shoot out in all
directions. For the two hours between four
and six in the morning 1t was estimator tna5
a thousand metsors minute hlshe aud eE-
pired. 1t grew lighter than monday. Ar
rows of fire. Balls Of fire. Trails oil nre.
Showe-sof fire. some Of the appearances
were larger than the full moon. All around
the heavens explosion followed explosion.
Sounis as we'll as sight. Tne AIR hlled
with uproar. A the lu1inarles or the SKY
seemed 20 have received marcllnS orders
TAe heavens ri)5si and interlacsd and gar
landed with meteoric display. From hori-
z)n 10 horizon everything In c)mouStioa
and conhagration.
The SD sctac.e easel not u It'll thu rising
sun of the November morning eclipse1 n.
and the whole American nation sat down
exhausted with the agtatiOns Of night to
be- memorable until the earth itself shall be-
come q falling star Th3 Bible closes with
such a scene OF falling lights-nos only
figety meteors, but grave Old stars. 81.
joan saw it in prospsc AMI wrote, rho
stars OF hsaven fell unto thu earth, even as
a fig tree caststh her untimely figs when she
is shaken Of a mighty wind" WHAT time
there will he when worlds drop. R1ia
planets. Gravitation letting looss her grip
on worlds. Consultations flying apart. Gal
axies dissolved.
The great orchard OF the universe, swept
by the last hurricane, letting down the stars
ike ripened fruit. Oar old earth will 20
with the rast. and let it 90, for it will have
dous experiment. But there will be enough
worlds left 10 make a heaven out OF it, ifany
more heaven nee Is to be built. That daJ
iinding us in Clrist. our nature regeneratet
aud our sins parlonei, aud our hope triun-
plant. we wilt feel no more alarm than
when in September, passing through an or
chard, you hear the apples tbunp to the
ground, or through a conservatory and you
hear an untimey fy drop on the fio)r.
You will only go upstairs into another
story, better lightsi story, better
furnished story, a better ventilate story,
a better pictured story, and into a story
where already many OF your kindred are
waiting for you AMI wners prophets ani
and apostles and martyrs will pay sou coles
tial visitation, and where, with a rapture
beyond the most ra liant anticipation, you
shall bow before Him that "buildeth HIS
stories in the heavens