The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-07-18

one lurch and was gone! SO there are
some men who sail on prosperously in life
Ais well, alrs well. But ut last some
financial disaster comes; IL euroclydon
Down they go! the bottom of this CONNER
cial sea strewn with shattered hulks. But
because your property goes DO not let
your soul go. Though all else perish, save
that; for ] have to tell YOU more stu
pendous shipwreck than that which l have
Just mentioned God launched the world
six thousand years ago, 1t has been 90
ing o.: under freight of mountains and I'M
mortals but one day it will stagger at
the cry of fire. The timbcrs of rock will
burn. the mountains flame like mastS. and
the clouds like sails in the Judgment hurrl-
can. Then God shall take the passengers
off the deck. and from the bcrths those who
have long been asleep III Jesus. and he VIII
set them far beyond the reach of storm and
peril. But how many shall go down; that
will never be known. until it shall be an
nounccd one day in heaven: the shipwrcck
of the world. Oh! my dear hearers, what
ever you lose, though your houses 20.
though yonr lands 60. though nj Your
earthly possessions perish, may God Al
mighty through the blood of the cycrlast-
ing Covenant, save your souls.
THE INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY.
The Engineers and Surveyors Preparing
Their Reports on the Routes Surveyed.
Washington. July 16.-The international
railway commission. which was one of the
outgrowths of the late pan-American con-
gress, is now engaged in winding up the work
it has been pursuing for the past TWO
years, and the engineers and surveyors
who have been in the field are now prepar-
ing their reports and reducing their held
notes to the shape of maps and charts
The commission was appointed Tor inc
pIlrpoSe of securing surveys OF suitable mes
for Il railway system which should connect
the northern and southern hemlSphcrcS
with each other and form {; continuous Inc
of railroad from the United States through
the American republics Of tn" south rs III
as in the ease of the bucau of American re-
pub!icS. each country interested pays It's
share Of the expense i'll proportion to popl-
lation.
Congress last wear failed to make any ap-
DropratiOn for the continuance OF the work
on the part Of the United States and IT VIII
REQUIRE the greatest economy for the com
mission, with the funds on hand, to be able
to close ,p its work and print its reports
which will then be opened for the use OF
capitalists who may seek to proht by 'heS'
government surveys and Du'ld tile faliIoiluS
that are contemplated.
The field work was pursued by three par
ties one il Central America and two III
South America. That in Central America
was under the direction Of Lieutenant NJ.
NJ NIacob.. t. $. A.. and surveyed n
line frum the southern boundary OF Mexico
through G,latemaa San Salvador, llond1-
raS, Nicaragua and Costa lica to the Say,
agrc river. This party has lust returned
20 the United States. arr wing July Stl' ana
is now ut work upon the reduction OF us
field notes and the preparation OF maps ana
charts Corps number two. under the com
mund of Mr.. William +, Skunk. started IN
at Quito. Ecuador and surveyed line
through the difficult Andean region as tar
as Cartagcna on the Caribbean sea: also Il
line from the Savagrc river i'll Costa Ihc'l
through the iSthmus to the ncighborhood OF
Antiouuua in Colombia. where 1t connects
with the other line from the isthnus to Car
tagcna Mr.. ;Shunk'1 party returned TO the
United States in June. and are also en-
gagged III writing 10 their final report and
preparing their maps. ;.
The remaining corps was under the di-
rcction of Mr. William ID. Kelly, and sur
vcycd a line from Quito, Ecuador, to Cuz-
60. Peru The maps of this last party are
nearly completed, and their reports covering
their operations are now IN preparation;
Concerning the whole work. it may be sad
that the reports of the field engineers dep
onSratc tn" feasibility of building these =
roads to connect the countries OF
America with those of South g
and that there are no insurmp%
gnccrinc difficulties in the W
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