The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1899-11-22
4 pr r almage on Divine Interposi-
tion III Human Affairs.
/. COP GOVERNS UNIVERSE.
The Fate fAIl Nations as Well as
Of individuals in The
Hands Of God.

This world has boon in process of
change ever since, it was created
mountains born, mountains dying, and
they have both cradle aud grave. Once
this planet was nll fluid, and no being
suoh as you or I have ever seen could
have lived on it a minute. Our hcmis-
phere turns it's face to the sun and then
turns it's back. The axis Of tho earth s
revolution has shifted The carth's
ocntro Of gravity has changed, Once
flowers grew in the arctic and there
was snow in tho tropic. There has
been redistribution Of land and sea,
! tho land crumbling into tho soa,
tho soa swallowing the land. loo and
fire have fought for tho possession Of
this planet. Tho chemical composition
Of it ia different now from what it once
was. Volcanoes onco terribly alive are
dead, not one throb Of fiery pulse, not
one breath of vapor-thc ocean chang
ing it's amount Of saline qualities. Tho
internal fires of tho earth are gradually
eating thor way to tho surfacos-up-
hoaval and subsidcncc Of vast realms Of
continent.
Moravians in Greenland have re
moved thoir boat poles because the i'd
vancing sea submerged chem Lin
/, naeous records tha&in 81 years a great
stone was 100 .!feWGfncarcr the vat CT
than when he wsota. Forests have
boon buried by the<sca, and land that
was culture1rby farmers hoe can be
touched only by sailors anchor. ].och
Nevis of Scotland and Dinglo bay OF
Ireland and floods of Norway, who're
pleasure boats now float, wcro once
valleys and glens Many of the islands
Of the sea arc the tops Of sunken noun
tains. Six thousand miles Of tho Pa
cifir are sinking. The diameter Of the
earth, according to scientific announce
mont, is 189 milcs less than it was.
The entire coniguation Of tho earth is
altered. Hills arc dcnudcd Of their
forests. The frosts and the waters and
the air lombard the earth till it surren-
ders 10 tho assault. The SO. called
everlasting hills" do not last. Many
railroad companies cease 10 build iron
bridges because the iron has life Of its
own, not a vegetable life or an animal
life, but metallic life, and when that
life dies tho bridge goes down. Oxda-
for describing their death Moses and
seaweeds help destroy the rocks they
decorate. @
->Tho ch.ngcs Of the inanimatc Garth
only symbolic the lM,ral changes. So
clety 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 logisla-
tion. The characteristic Of this world
is that nothing in it is settled. At a
time when wo hoped that tho arbitra-
tration planned last summer at The
Hague, Holland, would forever shcathc
the sword and spike tho gun and dis
mantle tho fortress tho world has on
hand two wars which are digging graves
for the flower Of English and American
soldiery. From tho presence of such
geological and social and national and
,h.,a;to; ,hternationf .diton 3t we turn Win
and ind ,l.aS II We p.sls Gle" arc things forever
settled, but in higher latitudcs than we
have ever trod. Forever, 0 Lord,
thy word is settled in heaven"
High up in the palace Of the sun
at least fvo things are settled that
nations which 60 continuously and per-
sistently wrong perish; that happiness
10 the result Of spiritual condition and
not Of earthly environment; that this
world is a schoolhouse for splendid or
disgraoeful gradation; that with or with
out us the world is to be made over into
u scone Of aborcscencc and purity, that
all who arc adjoincd to tho unparalleled
One of Bethlehem and Nazareth and
Golgotha will be the subjects Of super
nal felicity without any taking off.
DO you doubt ny fist proposition
that nations which 60 wrong psri, !?
We have in this American nation ali
the elements Of permancnco and de-
struction. We need not borrow from
others any trowels for upbuilding or
torches for demolition. Elements Of
ruin nihilism, inidclity, agnosticism,
Sabbath dcsecration, incbrioty, scnsu-
ality, extravaganza, fraud; they are all
here. Elements Of safety God wor-
shipping men and women by tho scores
OF millions, honesty, bencvolonco,
truthfulncss, self sacrifice, industry,
sobricty and moro religion than has
characterized any nation that has over
existed; they arc all here. The only
question is as to which Of the forces
will gain dominancy-th the one class as
cendant, and this United States govern.
ment, think, will continue as long rs
the world exists; the other class as
cendant, and the United States goes
into such small pieces that other gov.
ernments would hardly think them
worth picking up.
Hayo YOU ever noticed tho size Of tho
cemetery Of dead nations, tho vast
Greenwood and Pore lc Chase, where
mighty Kingdoms were buried? Open
the gate and walk through this come
terry and read the cpitaphs. Hero lies
Carthage, born 100 years before Romo,
great commercial metropolis on tho bay
OF Tunis, part Of an empire that gavo
the alphabet to the Greeks and their
great language to tho Hebrews; her
arms tho terror Of nations, commanding
Al ono time 5000 miles of coast; her
Hamiloar leading forth 80 myriads, or
100000 troops; her Hannibal carrying
out in manhood tho oath ho had taken
in boyhood to preserve eternal onmity
to Rome, leaving costly ard imposing
monuments at Agrigcntum a ghastly
heap Of ruins; Carthage. her colonies
on oyory coast, her ships plowing every
sea; Carthage whore aro hcr splondors
now? All oytinguishcd. Where arc
her swords? Tho last one broken.
Whore are her towers and long ranges
Of magnificent architectural Buried