Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1899-11-18
ALL IN GODS HANDS.
DR.. Tslmage on Divine Interposition
In Human Affairs
Fate of Nations wen es OF In
dfvtduals settled I'm ueavcn
World Rot Governed in
q HsphrEsrd way.
tcopyrlsh,. lsas. by Louis KiOpsch.l


Or. Tslmags. The text l. Psalm lls'
@: Forever, o Lord, Thy word Is set
tled in HeaEen."
This world has been In process OF
change ever since IL was created
mountains born. mountains diving, and
they have both cradle and grave.
Once this planet was all fluid, and no
being such as you or I have ever seen
could have lived on II minute. Our
hemisphere turns it's face TO the sun
and then turns its back. The axis OF
the earth's revolution has shifted. The
sarth's center Of gravity is changed
Once flowers eresy I'm the arctic and
there was snow in the tropics. There
has been a redistribution OF land and
sea. the land crumblinR into the sea.
the sea swallowing the land. Ice and
Ere have fought for the possession OF
this planet. The chemical compost I
tion Of il is different now from what I
it once was. Volcanoes once terribly /
alive are dead. not ore throb OF fiery I
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
20 the surfaces-upbeayal and sub
sidence OF vast realms Of continent
High up IN the palace of the sun at
least FIVE things are settled-that na-
tions which 60 continuously and per
sistently wrong perish; that happi-
ness is the result OF spiritual conci-
tiou and not OF earthly environment;
that this world is schoolhOuse Tor
aplendid or disgraceful graduation;
that with OF without Us the world Is 20
be made over into n scene Of arbOrcs-
cenee and purity: that all who are ad'
Solned 20 the unparalleled One OF Beth
lehem Snd Nazareth and Goleotha will
be the subjects OF supernal felicity
without any taking OF.
Do you doubt my first proportion
that nations which 60 wrong perish
We have in this American nation all
the elements Of permRnence and de-
struction. We need not borrow from
Others any troweis for upbuiiding or
torches for demolition. Elements Of
ruin-nihilism. infdelity. agnosticism.
Sabbath desecration. inebriety. sens ual-
ity. extravagance. fraud; they are all
here Elements of safety-GOd-wor-
shiping men and women by the scores
OF millions. honesty. b, uevolence. truth
ETY. and more religion than has char
acterized any nation that has ever eN
listed; they are all here. The only
question is as TO which OF the forces vii
gain dominancy-the one class ascend
ant. and this United States government
think. viii continue as long rs th'
world exists; the other class ascend
ant, and the United States goes int
such small pieces that other govern
ments would hardly think them wortl
picking up.
Have you ever noticed the size OF tn
cemetery of dead nations. the vas
Greenwood and Pere lie Chaise, wher
mighty kingdoms were baried2 Ope
the gate and walk through this cen
etery and read the epitaphs. Here lie
Carthage, born 100 years before Rom
great commercial metropolis on II
bay of runis. a part of an empire th'
gave the alphabet to the Greeks an
their great language to the Hebrew
her arms the terror OF nations. cor
manding at one time 10000 miles
coast her Hamilcar leading forth
myriads, or SOC, 200 troops; her Hanr
bal carrying out in manhood the GA
he had taken in boyhood 10 preser
eternal enmity 10 Rome, leaving cost
and imposing monuments a. Agrige
tum a ghastly heap OF ruins; CsrthaE {
her colonies on every coast, her shi
plowing every sea; Carthage-whs
are her splendors nowf AL ext
ruished. Where are her swords? I
last one broken. Where are her 20
ers and long ranges OF msgnihcs
architectural Buried under the sar
of the Bagradas. AZ ballast of forei
ships much OF her radiant marble
been carried away to build the wa
of tranSMediterranean cathedr;
while other blocks have been bias
An modern times by the makers of
Tunis railway. And all OF that gr
and mighty city and kingdom that
tourist hnds to-day 10 here and tn
q broken arch OF what was once a
mile aoueduct. Our talented
treniai friend. Henry NJ. Field. In
Of his matchless books of travel.
bors hard to prove that the slight ~
of tsfst city are really worth visit
tCarthage buried In the cemetery
dead nations. Not one altar to
ftrue God did she rear. Not one of
Item Commandments but she oonsp
ously violated. Her doom wss set
lin Heaven when II was decided far
FIN the eternities that the nation
lingdom that viii not serve God
perish.
2 Our own nation viii be judged by
| sare moral laws by which all
nations have been judged. The J
usnt day for individuals will prob