The Monitor-register., 1896-02-28

and they never arouse. By cOnvulslOn
of the earth Japan broken off from Chi
ma. By convulsion of the earth the
Caribbean islands broken off from Amer
lea. Three islands near the mouth OF
the Ganges, with $40, 900 inhabitants
great surge of the sea breaks oven
them, and 214,000 perish that day.
Alas, alas, for our poor world 1t has
been recently discovered that whole
continent has sunk, a continent that
connected Europe and America-part of
the inhabitants of that continent going
to Europe, part coming to America over
the tablelands of Mexico, up through
the valleys Of the Mississippi, and we
are finding now the remains of theil
mounds and their cities in Mexico, in
Colorado and the tablelands of the west.
1t is matter Of demonstration that
whole continent has gone down, the
Azores off the coast of Spain only the
highest mountain of that sunken CONT
nent Plato described that continent,
Its grandeur, the multitude of its inhab
itants, its splendor and it's awful de
struction, and the world thought it was
romance, but arch9ologists have found
out it was history, and the English and
the German and the American fleets
have gone forth with arch@ologists, and
the Challenger, and the Dolphin, and
the Gazelle have dropped anchor, and
in deep sea soundings they have found
the contour of that sunken continent
The Rock Of Ages.
Oh, there is trouble marked on the
rocks, on the sky, on the sea, on the
dora and the fauna! Astronomical trou.
BILE, geological trouble, oceanic trouble,
political trouble, domestic trouble, and
standing in the presence of all those stu.
pendous devastations I ask if I am not
right in saying that the great want OF
this age and all ages is divine sympathy
and omnipotent comfort, and they are
found not in the Brahma of the Hindoo
or the Allah of the Mohammedan, but
In the Christ unto whom shall the gath.
erlng OF the people be. Other worlds
may fall, but this morning star will
never be blotted from the heavens The
earth may quake, but this rock of ages
Will never be shaken from it's founda-
tions. The same Christ who fed the
5000 will feed all the worlds hunger.
The same Christ who cured Bartimeus
will illumine all blindness. The same
Christ who made the dumb speak will
put on every tongue a hosanna. The
same Christ who awoke Lazarus from
the sarcophagus will yet rally all the
pious dead in glorious resurrection. 'I
know that my Redeemer hveth," and
that ito him shall the gathering of the
people be-" All, my friends, when
Christ starts thoroughly and quickly to
lift this miserable wreck of a sunken
world it will not take him long to lift it.
have thought that this particular
age in which we live may be given up
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous COM
munication all cities and all communi-
ties and all lands will be brought to-
gether, and then in another period per-
haps these inventions which have been
used for worldly purposes will be
brought out for gospel invitation, and
some great prophet of the Lord will
some and snatch the mysterious, SUBJ
lime and miraculous telephone from the
hand Of commerce, and, all lands and
Kingdoms connected by a wondrous
wire, this prophet Of the Lord may.
through telephone communication, in
an instant announce to all nations par
don and sympathy and life through
Jesus Christ, and then, putting the
wondrous tube to the ear of the Lords
prophet, the response shall come back,
''I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ his only begotten Son.
You and may not live to see the
day. I think those of us who are over
40 years of age can scarcely expect to see
| the day. expect before that time our
bodies will be sound asleep in the ham
mocks Of the old gospel ship as it goes
sailing on. But Christ will wake us up
| in time to see the achievement. We who
have sweated in the hot harvest fields
will be at the door of the garner when the
sheaves come in. That work for which
in this world we toiled and wept and
| struggled and wore ourselves out shall
not come to consummation and we be
| oblivious of the achievement. We will
| be allowed to come out and shake hands
with the victors. We who fought in the
earlier battles will have just as much
| right to rejoice as those who Redeemed
| their feet in the last Armageddon. All,
yea, those who could only give cupful
| Of cold water in the name of disciple; !;
| those who could only scrape handful
of lint for wounded soldier; those who
could only administer to old age in it's
| decreptitude; those who could only
coax poor waif of the street to 20 back
home to her God; those who could only
| lift little child in the arms of Christ,
will have as much right to take part in
| the ovation to the Lord Jesus Christ as
a Chrysostom. 1t will be your victory
and mine as well as Christ's, he the
conqueror, we shouting in his train.
Christ the victor will pick out the hum
b1est of his disciples in the crowd, and
turning half around on the white horse
| Of victory he shall point her out for ap-
| proval by the multitude as he says,
"She did what she could. +" Then put
ting his hand on the head Of some man,
| who by his industry made one talent
do the work of ten, he will say: "Thou
| hast been faithful over a few things. I
will make thee ruler over ten cities. -
Two different theories about the fulfill
ment of this promise.
Gathering of the People.
There are people who think Christ
will come in person and sit on throne.
Perhaps he may. I should like to see
the Scared feet going up the stairs of
| palace in which all the glories of the
Alhambra, and the Tai Mahal, and
st. Marks, and the Winter palace are
gathered. / should like to see the world
pay Christ in love for what it did to
him in maltreatment. / should like to
be one of the grooms Of the charges
holding the stirrup as the King mounts.
Oh, what glorious time it would be on
earth If Christ would break through the
heavens, and right here where he has
suffered and died have this prophecy
fulfilled, "Unto him shall the gathering
PHYSICAL STRENGTH,
cheerful spirits and the ability to fully
enjoy life, come only with healthy
1araA body and mind The young
man who suffers from nerv-
GUS debility, impaired men,
IVY ory, low spirits, irrita-
BILE temper, and the