Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-02-24

why did we declare the news all
through the households, and everybody
that knew how to pray said, Thank
Godr Because we are all one, bound
by one great golden chain of sympathy.
OH YES. but | have TO tell you that II
YOU viii aggregate all neighborly,
manly. wifely, motherly sympathy, 1t
will be found only a poor starving
thing compared with the sympathy OF
our great Shiloh, who has held in his
lap the sorrows Of the ages, and who
is ready to nurse on his holy heart the
woes of all who viii come TO him. On!
what a God, what Saviour we have!
But in larger vision see the nations
in some kind of trouble ever since the
world was derailed and hurled down
the embankments.
THE DEMON OF SIN
came to this world, but other demons
have gone through other worlds. The
demon of conflagration, the demon OF
volcanic disturbance, the demon OF de-
struction.
La Place says he saw one world in
the northern hemisphere sixteen
months burning. Tycho Brahe said he
saw another world burning. A French
astronomer says that in three hundred
years fifteen hundred worlds have dis
appeared. I do not see why inhdels
find it so hard TO believe that two
worlds stopped in JOshua's time, when
the astronomers tell us that fifteen
hundred worlds have stopped. Even
the moon is a world in ruins. Stellar,
lunar. solar catastrophes innLnerable.
But il seems as if the most sorrows
have been reserved for our world. By
one toss of the world at Ticuboro. ct
1900 inhabitants only twenty-siX peo-
pie escaped. BY one shake Of the
world at Lisbon in five minutes 10000
persisted and 100000 before the earth
stopped rocking. A mountain falls in
Switzerland, burying the village OF
Goldau. A mountain falls in Italy in
the night. when 1000 people are
asleep. and they never arouse. BY a
CONFUSION of The earth japan broken
off from China. BY CONFUSION Of the
earth the caribbean Islands broke off
from America. Three islands near the
mouth of the Gauges. with 100000 in
habitants-a great surge of the ser
breaks over them and $4,000 perish
that dav Alas, alas, for our poor
world. It has been recently discovered
that
A WHOLE CONTINENT
has sunk, continent that connected
Europe and America-part of the in
habitants Of that continent going to
Europe, part coming to America over
the table lands of Mexico. up through
the valleys of the Mississippi. and we
are finding now the remains of their
mounds and their cities in Mexico.
in Colorado. and the table lands Of the
West. II is a matter Of demonstration
that whole continent has gone down.
the Azores off the coast of Spain only
the highest mountain of that sunken
continent, its grandeur, the multitude
of its inhabitants, its splendor and its
awful destruction, and the world
thought it was a romance, but archae-
OlOgists have found out was history.
and the English and the German and
the American fleets have gone forth
with archaeOlOgists, and the Challene-
er and the Dolphin and the Gazelle
have dropped anchor, and in deep sea
soundings they have found the contour
of that sunken continent.
Oh! there is trouble
MARKED ON THE ROCKS,
on the sky. on the sea, on the fora
and the fauna. Astronomical trouble
geological trouble, oceanic trouble, po-
litical trouble. and standing in the
presence Of all these stupendous de-
vastatiOns, I ask if I am not right in
saving that the great wants 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 the gathering
of the people shall be. Other worlds
may fall, but this morning will never
be blOtted from the heavens. The
earth may shake, but this Rock of Ages
will never be shaken from its founda-
tions. The same Christ who led 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. IL
know that my redeemer liveth" and
that "tO him shall the gathering of the
people be-" All. my friend, when Christ
starts thoroughly and quickly to lift
this miserable wreck of a sunken world
it will not take him long to lift it.
I have thought that this particular
age in which we live may he given mp
to discoveries and inventions by which
through quick and instantaneous COM
munication all cities and all communl-
ties and all lands will be brought to-
gether, and then in another period,
perhaps, these inventions which have
been used for worldly purposes will be
brought out for Gospel invitation, and
SOME GREAT PROPHET
Of the Lord will come and snatch the
mysterious, sublime and miraculous
telephone from the hand of commerce,
and all lands and Kingdoms connected
by q wondrouS wire, this prophet of the
Lord may. through telephone commun-
ication in an instant announce to all
nations pardon and sympathy and life
through Jesus Christ, and then, putting
the wOndrous tube to the ear of the
Lord prophet, the response shall come
back: Il believe in God, the Father
Almighty, Maker OF heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten
Son" You and l may not live to see