Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-11-16

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copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1s9al
WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.-The idea that
things in this world are at loose ends
and going at haphazard is in this dis
course combated by Dr.. Talmage. The
text is Psalms cxiX, SO, Forever, o
Lord, thy word is settled in heaven.
This world has been in process of
change ever since it 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 l have ever seen could
have lived ON il a minute. Our hemi-
sphere turns its face to the sun and
then turns its back. The axis of the
earth's revolution has shifted. The
earths center of gravity is changed.
Once flowers grew in the arctic, and
there was snow in the tropic. There
has been a redistribution of land and
sea, the land crumbling into the sea,
the sea swallowing the land. Ice and
fire have fought for the possession of
this planet. The chemical composition
of it is different now from what it once
was. Volcanoes once terribly alive are
dead, not one throb of fiery pulse, not
one breath of vapor-the ocean chang
ing its amount of saline qualities. The
internal fires of the earth are gradually
eating their way to the surfaces-up-
heaval and subsistence of vast realms
of continent.
Moravians In Greenland have remov-
ed their boat poles because the advanc-
ing sea submerged them. Linnaeus
records that in 81 years great stone
was 100 feet nearer the water than
when he wrote Forests have been
buried by the sea, and land that was
cultured by farmers hoe can be touch
ed only by sailors anchor. Loch Nevis
of Scotland and Dingle bay of Ireland
and the fiords of Norway, where
pleasure boats now float, were once
valleys and glens. Many of the islands
of the sea are the tops of sunken
mountains. Six thousand miles of the
Pacific ocean are sinking. The diane
ter of the earth, according to scien-
tific announcement is 1S9 miles less
than it was. The entire coniguratiOn
of the earth is altered. Hills are de-
nuded of their forests. The frosts
and the waters and the air lombard
the earth till it surrenders to the as
sault The so called Everlasting hills"
do not last. Many railroad companies
cease to build iron bridges because
the iron has a life of its own, not
vegetable life or an animal life, but a
metallic life, and when that life dies
the bridge goes down. Oxidation of
minerals is only another term for de-
scrihing their death. Moses and sea
weeds help destroy the rocks they
decorate
Earth's Changes.
The cnanges of the inanlmate earth
only symbolic the moral changes. So
ciety ever becomes different for better
or worse. Boundary lines between ma
tions are settled until the next war un-
settleS them. Uncertainty strikes
through laws and customs and legisla-
ton. The characteristic of this world
is that nothing in it is settled. At
time when we hoped that the arbitra-
ton planned last summer at The
Hague, Holland, would foreversheathe
the sword and spike the gun and dis
mantle the fortress the world has on
hand two wars which are digging
graves for the flower of English and
American soldiery. From the presence
of such geological and social and ma
tional and international unrest we turn
with thanksgiving and exultation to
my text and find that there are things
forever settled, but III higher attitudes
than we have ever trod. Forever, o
Lord, thy word is settled in heaven"
High up in the palace OF. the sun at
least five things are settled-that na-
tions which go continuously and per-
sistently wrong perish; that happiness