Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-22
SERMON
Rev. Or. Caln.aa
Subject: Settled In Heaven-The Fate o.
Nations ~ Well rs OF Iuiiviiuais In
Gods Hands-rhe World Not Gov.
erned In . HaphaxSrd Way.

Subject: Settled In Heaven.The Fate q
Nations ~ Well as OF Iuiiviiuais In
God's Hand.-rhs World Not Gov.
erned In . Haphazsrd Way.
tCopyright. Louis Klc.sch 1921
WASHINGTON, D. C.-The idea that things
In this world are at loose ends and going
at haphazard Is In this discourse combated
by DR.. Talmage. The text is Psalms cxix.,
50. Forever, o Lord, thy word is settled
In heaven"
This world has been in process of chang,
ever since 1t was created-mountainsb born,
mountains dying, and they have both
cradle and grave. Once this planet was
all fluid, and no being such as you or
have ever seen could have lived on 1t
minute. Our hemisphere turns its face to
the sun and then turns its back. The axis
OF the eart,'s revolution has shifted. The
earth's centre of gravity Is changed. Once
flowers grew in the arctic and there was
snow in the tropic. There has been re-
distribution of land and sea. the land
the land. Ice and fire have fought for the
possession of this planet. The chemical
composition Of 1t 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-rhe ocean changin g
Its amount of saline qualities. The inter-
nal fires Of the earth are gradually eating
their way to the surface-upheaval and
subsistence of vast realms OF continent.
Moravians in Greenland have removed
their boat poles because the advancing sea
submerged them. Linn@us records that
In eighty-seven years great stone was 10C
feet nearer the water than when he wrote.
Forests have been buried by the sea, and
land that was cultured by far mer's hoe can
be touched only by sailors anchor.
Loeb Nevis Of Scotland and Dfngle bay
of Ireland and the fiords OF Norway, where
vaIo hno fa V a.
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 diameter of the earth, ac-
cording to scientific announcement, Is lS9
miles less than 1t was. The entire con-
fiRuration OF the earth Is altered. Hills
are denuded of their forests. The frosts
and the waters and the air lombard the
earth till It surrenders to the assault.
The 90 called Everlasting hills do not
build iron bridges because the iron has a
life of its own, not vegetable life or an
animal life, but metallic life, and when
that life dies the bridge goes down. Oxida'
tion of minerals is only another term for
describing their death. Mosses and sea-
weeds help destroy the rocks they deco
rate.
symbolixe the moral changes. Society
ever becomes different for better or worse
Boundary lines between nations are set
tied until the next war unsettles them.
Uncertainty strikes through laws and GUS
toms and legislation. The CHARACTERISTIC
OF this world is that othiug in 1t Is settled
At a time when we hoped that the arbi-
tration planned last Summer at The
Hague, Holland, would forever sheathe
the sword and spike the gun and dismantle
the fortress the world has on hand two
wars which are digging Eraves for the
flower OF English and American soldiery
From the presence of such geological and
social and national and international un
rest We turn with thanksgiving and exui
| tation to my text and find that there arr
, things forever settled, but In higher lati
| tudes than we have ever trod. Forever
| o Lord, Thy word Is settled in heaven"
High up In the palace OF the sun at least
I five things are settled-that nations which
= continuously and persistently wrons
happiness Is the result o
1 t-snfrifnalt IN and not OF earthly en-
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