The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-22
SETTLED IN HEA| E,
DR. TaImage on Divine lnterposl-
ton in Human Affairs.
GOD GOVERNS UNIVERSE.
The Fate Of All Nations as Wei! as
of individuals in <hs
Hands Of God.

The i6es that things in this world
are at loose ends and going at baphSz
ard il in this discourse combated by
DR., Talmage. The text is Psalms
cxix, 50, Forever 0 Lord, Thy woro
is settled in heaven.
This world has been in process OF
change ever since 1t was created
mountains born, mountains dying. and
they have both cradle and grave. Once
this planet was all fluid, anG no beiEg
such as you or I have ever seen could
have lived on it q minute. Our hemls-
pbere turns its face to the sun and then
turas its back. The axis OF the earth 5
revolution has shifted. The earth 5
centre Of gravity has changed: Once
flowers grew in the arctic and there
was snow in the tropie. There has
been redistribution Of land aud sea,
the land crumbling into the sea;
the sea swallowing the land. Lee anG
FIRE have fought for the possession OF
this planet. The chemical composition
of is different now from what It once
was. Volcanoes once terribly a!l7e are
dead. not one throp Of fiery pulse, not
one breath Of vapor-the ocean chsDg-
ing its amount of saline qualities. The
internal fires Of the earth are gradually
esting their way to the surfaces-up-
heavsl and subsistence Of vast realms OF
continent.
Moravians in Greenland have re-
moved their boat poles because the ad-
vancing sea submerged ,hen. Lin
naesus records that in s. years great
stone was 100 feet nearer the water
than when be wrote. Forests have
been buried by the sea, aud land that
was cultured by farmers hoe can be
touched only by sailors anchor. Loeb
Nevis of Scotland and Dingle bay Of
Ireland and foods of Norway, where
pleasure boats now float, were once
valleys and glens. Many Of the islands
Of the sea are the tops Of sunken noun.
tains. Six thousand miles Of the Pa
ciie a,e s;afirg The diameter Of the
earth, according to scientific announce
ment, is lS9 miles less than it was.
The entire con6guation Of the earth IS
altered. Hills are denuded Of their
forests. The frosts and the waters and
the air bernhard the earth till 1t surren-
ders 10 the assault. The So called
everlasting hills DO not last. Many
railroad companies cease to build iron
bridges because the iron has life OF It's
own, not a vegetable life OF an animal
life. but metallic life, and when that
life dies the bridge goes down. O1ida-
tion of minerals is only another term
for describing their death. Moses and
seaweeds help destroy the rocks they
decorate.
The changes of the inanimate earth
only symbolic the moral changes. So
clety ever becomes difere ut for better
or worse. Boundary lines between na-
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 a
time when We hoped that the arbitra-
tration planned last summer at The
Hague, Holland, would forever sheathe
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 national and
international unrest We turn with
thanksgiving and exu}tasion to my text
and find that there are things forever
settled, but in higher latitudes than We
have ever trod Forever, 0 Lord,
thy word IS settled in heaven.
High up in the palace Of the sun
at least FIVE things are settleo-that
nations which 60 continuously and per
sistantly wrong perish; that happiness
Is the result Of spiritual condition and
not Of earthly environment; that this
world is schoolhouse for splendid or
disgraeeful graduation; that with or with
out us the world is to be made over into
scene of aborescence and purity, that
all who are adjoiDed to the unparrelled
One Of Bethlehem and Nazareth and
Golgotba will be the subjects Of super
nal felicity without arr rk'pg off.
Do you doubt ny list p.cpo>ition--
that nations which 60 wrong p riei,:
We have in this American nation al:
the elements Of permanence and Ge
struction. We need not borrow from
others any trowels for upbuilding or
torches for demolition. Elements of
ruin-nihilism, infdelity, agnosticism,
Sabbath desecration, inebriety, sensu-
ality, extravaganza, fraud; they are all
here. Elements of safety-God wor-
shipping men and women by the scores
Of millions, honesty, benevolence,
truthfulness, self sacrifice, industry,
sohriety and more religion than has
characterized any nation that has ever
existed; they are all here. The only
question is as to which Of the forces
will gain domiuancy-the one class as
cendant, and this United States govern
ment, I think, will continue as loDg as
the world exists; the other class as
eendant, and the United States goes
iato such small pieces that other gov
ernments would hardly think them
worth picking up.
Have you ever noticed the size Of the
cemetery Of dead nations, the vast
Greenwood and Pere lie Chase, where
mighty kingdoms were buried? Open
the gate and walk through this Gene
tery and read the epitaphs Here lies
Carthage, born 100 years before Rome,
great commercial metropolis on the bay
Of Tunis, a part Of al empire that gave
the alphabet to the Greeks and their
great language to the Hebrews: her
arms the terror of nations, commanding
at one time $4,000 miles of coast; her
Hamilcar leading forth 80 myriads, or
100000 troops; her Hannibal carrying
out in manhood the oath he had taken
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