The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-18
Il IN GODS HANDS.
,.,maee on Divine InterpOsition
in Human Affairs.
sa,tsns a. Wei ~ of In-
sF ,,,t. settied Ia Heaven
u,rId Not Governed Ia
uaphaEard Way,
,,bt il8. by Louis Klopsch)
lcopl 'h' Washington,


lce' Washington,
Jsa that things In this world
l~ i,o.r ends and going al haphal-
h. This discourse eambated by
u .,,ge. The text is Psalm tlo,
r,a,rr. 0 Lord, Thy word is set
In Heaven
al. world has been in process Of
ever since il was created
pt .ins horn. mountains diving, and
l' La,e both cradle and grave,
q mis- planet was all fluid, and no
.,cb as YOU or have ever seen
N have lived on IL minute. Our
7" here turns its face 10 the sun
Kan turns it's back. The axis OF
ms revolution has shifted. The
M. center Of gravity is changed,
aovers grew In the arctic and
was snow in the tropics. There
h,or = redistribution OF land and
b, land crumbling into the sea,
.eo swallowing the land. Ice and
have fought for the possession OF
n,pet. The chemical compost
.fu is different now from what
,,,e was. Volcanoes once terribly
20 are dead, not one throb of fiery
y. not one breath of yapor-the
M changing its amount of saline
,ttics. The internal fires of the
m are gradually eating their way
the surfaces-upheayal and sub
,rce of vast realms of continent.
pgb up in the palace Of the sun at
I'D five things are settled-that ma
n. which 90 continuously and per-
s,rtly wrong perish; that happi-
n !, 5 the result of spiritual condi-
N and not of earthly environment;
d, This world is a schoolhouse for
|r,rdid or disgraceful graduation;
H. with or without us the world is TO
made over into scene of arbores-
|,-fe and purity; that all who are adj
|irei TO the unparalleled One Of Beth
hem and Nazareth and Golgotha will
1, the subjects Of supernal felicity
hout any taking off.
yorayians in Greenland have re-
moved their boat poles because the ad-
|re.ng sea submerged them. Linnaeus
,oris that in 81 years a great stone
IA, 100 feet nearer the water than
han he wrote. Forests have been bur
/ N by the sea, and land that was cul-
/ J by farmers hoe can be touched
|tly by sailors anchor. Loeb Nevis,
II Scotand, and Dingle bay, of Ireland,
|-i the fords Of Norway, where pleas
re boats now float, were once valleys |
had gens Many of the islands of the
Va are he tops of sunken mountains.
kx thousand miles of the Pacific ocean
[rsinking. The diameter of the earth,
|rordng to scientific announcement, |
|, gg miles less than it was. The en-
re coufguration of the earth is al |
|gel. Hills are denuded of their for
|ss. The frosts and the waters and |
be air lombard the earth till il sur
Enders to the assault. The so called |
|gerlastng hills" do not last. Many
|ilrOad companies cease TO build iron |
Ridges because the iron has a life Of |
Is own, not a vegetable life or an an
|nal life, but a metallic life, and when
bat life dies the bridge goes down,
kdation of minerals is only another
am for describing their death. Moses
nd sea-weeds help destroy the rocks
Ney decorate.
The changes of the inanimate earth
ply symbolic the moral changes. So
|ety ever becomes different for better
worse. Boundary lines between ma
Ions are settled until the next war
nsettes them. Uncertainty strikes
Trough laws and customs and legisla-
On The Characteristic of the world
that nothing in it is settled. At a
|me when we hoped that the arbitra-
Onplanned last summer at The Hague,
|oIland, would forever sheathe the
word and spike the gun and dismantle
Be fortress the world has on hand two
ars which are digging graves for the
Fwer of English and American sol
|Ty' From the presence of such geo
glcal and social and national and in
Irrational unrest we turn with thanks
wing and eXultation to my text and
Ed that there are things forever set
3D. but in higher ATTITUDES than we
|ve ever trod: Forever, o Lord, Thy
Ord is settled in Heaven
Do you doubt my first proposition
at nations which go wrong perish?
( have in this American nation all
{ elements Of permanence and de-
|uction, We need not borrow from
hers any trowels for upbuilding or
|ches for demolition. Elements OF
n-nihilism, infidelity, agnosticism,
Obath dissertation, inebriety, sensual
extravaganza, fraud; they are all
re- Elements of safety-God-wor-
ping men and women by the scores
millions, honesty, benevolence, truth
ness, self sacrifice, industry, sobri-
and more religion than has char
|Tzed any nation that has ever eN-
ed; they are all here. The only
|Stlon is as to which of the forces will
10 dominancy-the one class ascend
and this United States government,
mnk, will continue as long as the
rlI exists; the other class ascend
/ and the United States goes into
n small pieces that other govern
nus would hardly think them worth
King up.
ave you ever noticed the size of the
le'ery Of dead nations, the vast
|en"ood and Pere lie Chaise, where
Ehty kingdoms were buried? Open
gate and walk through this Gem
y and read the epitaphs. Here lies
mage, born 100 years before Rome,
at commercial metropolis on the
OF Iunis, part of an empire that
e the alphabet to the Greeks and