The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-18
ALL in GODS HANDS.
Dr. Talmage on Divine Interposition
in Human Affairs.
Fate OF Nations ns Wen ms OF In
dividunis Settled In Heaven
.. World Not Governed In
n Hnphaznrd Way.
Copyright. 1899. by Louis Klopsch)


ard is in this discourse combated by
nr. Tnlmagc. The text is Psalm ll9
&: Forever, o Lord, Thy word Is set
tied in Ilcnren."
This world has been in process o!
change ever since il was created
mountains bora, mountains diving, and
they have both cradle and grave
Once this planet was all fluid, and nc
being such as you or | have ever seer
could have lived on ii minute. Our
hemisphere turns its face 10 the sun
and then turns it's back. The axis OF
the earth's revolution has shifted. The
earth's center of gravity is-charged.
Once flowers grew in the (arctie and
there was snow in the tropics. There
has been redistribution OF land and
sea, the land crumbling into the sea,
the sea swallowing the land. Ice ard
fire have fought for the possession Of
this planet. The chemical compost
ton OF it is different now from what
ii once was. Volcanoes once terribly
alive are dead, not one throb Of fiery
pulse, not one breath Of yapor-thc
ocean changing it's amount of saline
earth are gradually eating their way
TO the surfaces -uphoayal and sub
sidcncc OF vast realms Of continent.
High up in the palace of the sun al
least five things are settlcd-that ma
tons which 90 continuously and per-
sistently wrong perish; that happ-
ness is the result of spiritual cCndi-
tion and not of earthly environment;
that this world is n schoolhouse for
splendid or disgraccful graduation;
that with or without us the world Is to
be made over into scene Of arBores-
c.ncc and purity; that all who are adj
joined TO the unparalleled One of Beth
lehcm and Nazareth and Golgotha will
be the subjects OF n 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
the elements of pcrmanence and de-
struction. We need not borrow from
others any trowels for upbulding or
torches for demolition. Elements Of
ruin-nihilism. iniidclity, aGnosticism,
Sabbath Dissertation, inebriety, sens ual
ity, cxtravagance, fraud; they are ali
here. Elements of safety-God-wOr
shipping men and women by the scores
Of millions, honesty, bcnevolence, truth
fulncss, self sacrifice industry, sobri
ETY. and more religion than has char
.acteri2ed any nation that has ever eX-
listed; they are all here. The only
question is ms TO which of the forces will
gain CONFERENCE.-The one class ascend
ant, and this United States government,
] think, will continue as long rs The
world exists; the other class ascend
ant, and The United States goes into
such small pieces that other govern
mcnts would hardly think them worth
picking up.
Have you ever noticed the size OF the
cemetery of dead nations, the vast
Greenwood and Perc lc Chaise, where
mighty kingdoms were buried? Open
the gate and walk through this Gem
etcry and read the epitaphs. Here lies
Carthage, born 1GO years before Rome.
great commercial metropolis on the
bay of Tnnis, a 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 ut one time 10000 miles OF
coast; her Iiamilcar leading forth 30
myriads. or 3C3,0G0 troops; her Ianni-
bal carrying ont in manhood the oath
he had taken in boyhood 10 preserve
eternal enmity TO Rome, leaving costly
and imposing monuments al Agrigen-
tum n CHASTITY heap of ruins; Carthage,
her colonies on every coast, her ships
blowing every sea; Carthage-wherc
are her splcndors now? All eXtin-
guishcd 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 ars-Mediierranean 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 a 30
mile aqueduct. Our talented and
genial friend. Henry NJ. Field, in one
of his natchess 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 to the
true God did she rear. Not one Of the
Ten Commandments but she conspicu-
ously violated. Her doom was settled
in Heaven when IL was decided far back
in the etcrnitics 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
dry condemned. Never before in the
history OF this country has the Amer
lean nation been more surely in the
balances than II is this minute. DO
right. and we go up. Do wrong. and
we go down. am not so anxious TO
know what this statesman or that war