The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-11-17
ALL IN GODS HANDS.
DR.. Talmage on Divine InterpositiOn
in Human Affairs.
Fate of Nntiopn ms wen ms of In-
divIdunIs settled IN Heaven
world Not Governed In
Hnphnzard way.
Copyright, 1899, by Louis Klopsch)
W. nhlr " On NnA. 70

Dr. Talmage. The text is Psalm 119,
8: Forever, o Lord, Thy word is set
tied in Heaven"
This world has been in process of
change ever since IL was created
mountains born, mountains dying, and
they have both cradle and grave
Once this planet was all fluid, and no
being such as you or / have ever seen
could have lived on ii n minute. Our
hemisphere turns Its face TO the sun
and then turns its back. The axis of
the earth's revolution has shifted. The
esrth's center Of gravity is changed.
Once flowers grew in the arctic and
there was snow in the tropics. There
has been a redistribution Of land and
sea, the land crumbling into the sea,
the sea swallowing the land. Ice and
Are have fought for the possession OF
this planet. The chemical compost
! It once was. Volcanoes once terribly
alive are dead, not one throb OF fiery
pulse, not one breath of vapor-the
ocean changing it's amount Of saline
quantities. The internal fires of the
earth are gradually eating their way
TO She surfaces-upheaval and sub
sideuce Of vast realms Of continent.
High up in the palace OF the sun at
least five things are settled-that ma
tions which go continuously and per-
sistently wrong perish; that happi-
ness Is the result of spiritual condi-
tion and not OF earthly environment;
that this world is schoolbouse for
splendid or disgraceful graduation;
that with or without us the world is TO
be made over into a scene of arbores-
cence and purity; that all who are ad.
| joined to the unparalleled One of Beth
lehem And Nazareth and Golgotha will
be ;he subjects of a supernal felicity
without any taking Off.
DO you doubt my first proposition
that nations which go wrong perish ?
We have in this American nation all
tie elements Of permanence and de-
struction. We need not borrow from
others any trowels for upbuilding or
tor ches for demolition. Elements of
ruin-nihilism, infidelity, agnosticism.
Sabbath Dissertation, inebriety, sensual
ity, extravaganza, fraud; they are all
here. Elements of safety God wor-
Shipping meh and women by The scores
Of millions, honesty, benevolence, truth
sulness, self sacrifice, industry, sobri-
ETY. and more religion than has char
acteriled any nation that has ever ex-
listed; they are all here. The only
/ question is ms to which Of the forces will
gain dominancy-the one class ascend
ant, and this United States government,
l think, will continue as long as the
world exists; the other class ascend
ant, ana The United States goes into
such small pieces that other govern
merits would hardly think them worth
! picking up.
Have you ever noticed the size of the
cemetery of dead nations. the vast
| Greenwood and Pere Lee Chaise, where
mighty kingdoms were buried2 Open
the gate and walk through this Gem
etcry and read the epitaphs. Here lies
Carthage, born 100 years before Rome,
great commercial metropolis on the
bay of Tunis, n part of an empire that
gave the alphabet TO the Greeks and
their great language to the Hebrews;
her arms the terror of nations, COM
handing at one time 10000 miles Of
coast; her Hamilcar leading forth 80
myriads, or 100000 troops; her Hanni-
bal carrying out in manhood the oath
he had taken in boyhood to preserve
eternal enmity to Rome, leaving costly
and imposing monuments at Agrigen-
tum ghastly heap of ruins; Carthage,
her colonies on every coast, her ships
blowing every sea; Carthage-where
are her splendors now? All extin-
guished. Where are her swords? The
last one broken. Where are her tow
ers and long ranges of magnificent
architecture? Buried under the sands
of the Bagradas. AS ballast of foreign
ships much of her radiant marble has
been carried away to build the walls
of nns-Mediterranean cathedrals,
while other blocks have been blasted
in modern times by the makers of the
Tunis railway. And all of that great
and mighty city and kingdom that the
tourist finds to-day is here and there
n broken arch of what was once n so
mile aqueduct. Our talented and
genial friend, Henry NJ Field, in one
of his matchless books of travel, la
bors hard to prove that the slight ruins
of that city are really worth visiting
Carthage buried in the cemetery of
dead nations. Not one altar 10 the
true God did she rear. Not one of the
Ten Commandments but she conspcu-
ously violated. Her doom was settled
in Heaven when it was decided far back
in the eternities that the nation and
kingdom that will not serve God shall
perish.
Our own nation will be judged by the
same moral laws by which all other
nations have been judged. The iudg,
mcnt day for individuals will probably
come far on in the future. Judgment
day for nations is every day, every day
weighed, every day approved or every
day condemned. Never before i'm the
| history of This pountrV hne the Amor