The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-14


Psalms. cXixS9: Forever, o Lord. Thy
uar8 IS settled in heaven" He said:
This world has been In process OF
change ever since Il was created. Noun
tsrs born. mountains dying. and they
have both cradle and grave. Once this
r.a1e; was all fiuld, and no being. such as
yos or ! have ever seen, could have lived
On 10 a minute. Our hemisphere turns its
face 10 the sun, and then turns its back
The axis OF the earth's revolution has
shifted. The eaTth's center Of gravity is
changed. once flowers grew I'm the arctic
and there was snow IN the tropic. There
has been a redistribution OF land and sea.
tho land crUmb.ing into the sea, the sea
swallowing the land. Ice and fire have
fought for the possession of this planet
The chemical composition OF the air is
different now from what II once was
Yslcanocs once terribly alive are dead,
no. one throb OF fiery pulse, not one
breath Of vapor The ocean changing its
amount ot saline qualities. The internal
fires o. the earth are gradually eating
their way TO the surfaces. Upheaval and
s-bsidence OF vast realms Of continent.
"M1ravidus in Greenland have removed
their boat poles because the advancing
sea submerged them. Lnnaeus records
that in eighty-seven years great stone
was 100 feet nearer the water than when
De wrote. Forests have been buried by the
Sea. ans the land that was cultured by
farmers hoe can be touched only by sal
l0r's anchor Loeb Nevis, Of Scotland, and
DIugle 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 Pa
clfc Ocean are sinking. The diameter OF
the earth, according to scientific an
nOuncement, Is lS9 miles less than IL was.
The entire ccnfguration of the earth Is
altered Hills are denuded of their forests.
The frosts and the waters and the air
lombard the earth till Il surrenders 10
the assault. The so-called everlasting
hills" do not last. Many railroad compa-
MES cease TO build iron bridges because
the iron has a life OF its own, not vege-
table 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 describing their death.
Mosses and seaweeds help destroy the
rocks they decorate.
symbolic OF Moral Changes.
The changes of the inanimate earth
only symbolic the moral changes. So
ciety ever becomes different for better or
worse Boundary lines between nations
are settled until the next war unsettles
them. Uncertainty strikes through laws
and customs and legislation. The char
acteristic Of this world is that nothing in
IL is settled. At time when we hoped
that the arbitration planned last summer
at The Hague, Holland, would forever
sheathe the sword and spike the gun and
uTa n. h. 4pVN ba hos IN
hand two wars which are digging graves
for the flower of English and American
soldiery. From the presence Of such geo.
logical and social and national and inter
national unrest, We turn with thanksgiv-
ing and exultation to my text, and find
that there are things forever settled, but
IN higher latitudes than we have ever
ICd. Forever. y LOTG, Thy word is set
tied in heaven
High up in the palace of the sun at
least five things are settled-that nations
which go continuously and persistently
wrong perish; that happiness is the result
OF spiritual condition and not OF earthly
environment; that this world is a schooi-
house for splendid or disgraceful gradu-
alton; that with or without US the world
is 10 be made over into scene Of arbor-
escence and purity; that all who are ad-
hem and Nazareth and Golgotha will be
the subjects OF a supernal felicity with
out any taking of.
DO you doubt my first proposition. that
nations which go wrong perish? We have
IN THIS American nation all the elements
OF pefmdnSnce and destruction. We need |
MOI DotIow from others any trowels for |
tpbuldlns or torches for demolition. Ele-
ments or ruin: Nihilism, inndelity. agnOs-
uc!stn, sabbath desecrat.on, inebrietv
s-hsuahly, extravaganza, fraud They
are all here Elements of safety; God |
Norshping men and women by the scores |
OF millions, honesty, beneVolence fruth
iulhess' seif-sacritice, industry, sobriety. /
anu more religion than has characterize |
any nation that has ever existed They
are all here. The only question is as IN |
Mhlch or the forces Will gain domnancy. |
~. one class ascendant, and this United |
S.aies government, ] think. will continue |
as long as the world exists. The other
Idss ascendant and the United States /
sogs into such small pieces that other |
sl,,thlnents would hardly think them /
worth picking up.
Cemetery of Nations.
have you ever noticed the size of the |
cemetery Of Dead Nations, the vast /
GREENWOOD and Pere la Chaise, where |
hAEhV kingdoms were buried? open the /
s''e and walk through this cemetery and /
Eau lhe epitaphs. Here lies CARTHAGE. |
So'" 100 years before Rome, great com |
l'e'.-aI metropolis on the Bay of Tunis. |
part of an empire that gave the alpha
DIT 10 The Greeks. and their rreat Ian
s-ase 10 the Hebrews; her. arms the Ter
TOT oi nations commanding at one time
h''3 miles OF coast; her Hamilcar lead |
"7 loflH thirty myriads, or 300 900 troops:
u'' hannibal carrying out In manhood
.' "d-h he had taken in boyhood TO pre-
N'e eternal enmity to Rome, leaving
10y ana imposing monuments, at Agri-
"''h ghastly heap OF ruins. Car
''' l'I colonies on every coast her
..S glo"lng every sea- Carthaeei
".'e are her splend0rs now? All ex-
--'Fil'u. here are her swords? The
one broken, Where are her towers
-'A5 ranges Of magnificent architec-
Nu'ira under the sands Of the Bag
..'+s. AS ballast OF foreign ships much
''' radiant marble has been carried
- 10 hl.lI the walls Of trans -Medlter-
....'aA calhsdrals. while other blocks
Dseh blasted in modern times by the
=, ,.-. OF The Tunis railway. And all !
6.,. o. great and mighty city and king
ana '' -Ae tourist finds to-day is here
,... broken arch of what was
ana o.. ..-'s nile aqueduct Our talented
n, rs. '' 'Iend. Henry NJ. Field. I'm one
ts-5 .''eA.5Ss books of travel. labors
l'.. l'".' 10 prove that the slight ruins of that
are really worth visiting. Carthage
r. q" me Cemetery OF Dead Nations.
'.. altar 10 the true God did she
i.., 10, one Of the Ten Commandments
-'- e#4su clOugly violated Her
a.. VS. settled in heaven when fl was |
n .''.- l-f back In the eternties that
g.. -" o., 20 aHG kingdom that will not
r.' goa shall perish.
So ''-A ,A ln the Cemetery Of Nations
a. Tie long lines - lombs Thebes. |
e sie and Egypt. and Babylon and
n :, -'-l '.Is,an. and Macedonian. and Ro-
.. ait saxon hsptaTchy-great nations.
.. D.. HoHs nations that lived a year,
-.'".- that lived 80 years.
'i '"n La-ion VIII be judged by the
- moral laws by which ali other ma
IN nave been judged The judgment
Tor Individuals viii probably come
=. On ln the future. Judgment day for
,-..-i- De- every day. Every day weighed,
''it Gay approved. o. every day con /
iHiei- Never before IN the history Of