The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-09-21

Jerusalem, winch yet retained the eS-
act form of goodness, blu without its
power. and warned and plead, and
wept-then came Titus, the, the Ro-
man, and Jerusalem, the beautiful, was
no more.
h g and scores Of other sins and
punishments form a spiritual multi
~plication table by which we may work
out the problem of life both personal,
national and municipal. The schools
need but one pouS aSinorum, and but
one Euclid TO announce the principles
Of Geometry. 1t does not require a
new multiplication for every new boy
and girl who may enter school. Here
in the Bible are our words of prophetic
warning to fit every g and all peo-
pelS.
We have Moses and the prophets
and if we do not hear them we will
have to feel the torments of Dives,
that's all.
IF we follow the fulfllment of the
ancient prophets we will walk through
has furnished the epitah for each one:
righteousness ~exalteth a nation, but
sin is a reproach (ruination) of any
people
And yet there are messengers for our
modern life and times. Jesus in John
sixteen, just before he left the earth,
as he stood at the end Of the line of
CAO PAOPAACAo i'll DoI L hN ~
many things to say unto you, but We
cannot hear them now Yes many
things not yet told! o they throbbed
in his brain and heart
He never commissioned any more
prophets after the close of the New
Testament, with divine esags to be
wrought into faith, doctrine or prac-
tice, yet l believe he has put divine
| wisdom into the heads and hearts OF a
| noble line of ~"seers," throu ii whom He
has told us many Of the many things
that the world was not able to bear
when Jesus left and John closed the
New Testament.
II believe He helped Copernicus to
| see the truth in the movement of earth,
sun aad stars that He helped Isaac
Newton to comprehend the law OF
gravity; that He directed Harvey to
tracing the circulation of the blood;
that He was with DR.. Mcdowell when
he explored the Abdominal cavity; that
He was with Guthrie when he found
the ingredients of chloroform; that He
was walking with Ben Franklin when
he raised the kite and brought down
the lightning; that He directed the feet
of Thomas Jefferson to a little Bap-
fist church to find the true principles
of democratic government: that He
sat On the shoe-maker'S bench by the
side of William Carey and opened to
Ills ears Tie cry OIL Tile ueduIleH WOIlu
without the gospel.
Men Il modern times have seen into
future; they have seen the shadow of
coming events, and told them to the
world George Fox f~oretold the great
London fire.; Gazette foretOld the fea-
lures of the French Revolution; Jo-
seph Hoag, the Quaker, told of our
civil war thirty-one year before it was
declared, and 1 believe Prof. Rodes
PIInhan1n fOrtn11 tho Sonon aI-ant &c
we'll Is the violent death of the car
Of Russia. Few years ago this same
gentleman wrote some interesting
things concerning American history.
What he has written is based on the
scientific principle of periodicity. The
substance of his thought is that our
country's history had three periods.
o. The New Madrid earthquake, ush-
cred in the war of 1912, when our ma
tional capital was burned and the life
of the young republic was so nearly
destroyed. (2.) The war of 1861, and.
it was preceded by the great comet of
$50. 60 Tha the third period will
be the most tragic and that it will be-
gin perhaps with 1890 and close about
1925, and it will be noticed that mis-
period had also physical f~orerunneIs in
the form of the Charleston earthquake
of 1886. This period will be charac-
terized by an awful war. 1t will be a
val VI NdD III SNtpIldl, IllS IlllIlSi leu
with a religious element of discord and
a mixture of the ace question:
Nature, too, is preparing her calami-
ties for us 'FormidbIe. too, will
be the power of the air with terrible
cyclones : : In the midst of these
horrors of war and floods a terrible
climax will be reached in a Geological
CONFUSION, in which the earthquakes
of New Madrid, of Java. of Lisbon
and Caracas will seen unimportant.'
1t is safe to say our Atlantic
coast is dOomed-every seaboard city
south of New England hat is not more
than fifty feet above the sea level is
destined to a destructive CONFUSION.
Galveston, New Orleans, Mobile, ST.
Augustine, Savannah and Charleston
are doomed Richmond, Baltimore,
Washington, Philadelphia, Newark,
Jersey City and New York will suffer
in various degrees in proportion as
they approximate the sea level.
The destruction of these cities, seems to
be twenty-fCur years ahead (from 1897
it may be twenty-three. All
Central America and Mexico will be
severely shaken. Tampico and Ma
anoras will suffer severely. Calves
ton Will be overwhelmed. New Orleans
is in a dangerous condition. AS
it travels along the gulf shore Mobile
will be half destroyed. Southern Fclri-
da * probably entirely submerged and
lost. Charleston will probably be half
submerged. and New Berne suffer
still more. Norfolk will suffer about
as r1uch as Pensacola. All along the
Jerr " coast the damage will be great.
Atlantic City and Cape May may be
des royed.' The beginning OF
ira <edy will approach with the be-
ginning of the twentieth century and
the war develop in about fifteen years.
Two years of s~anguinary revolution.
ct will reach Europe.) The result will
be utter destruction of monarchy.
Every throne will be destroyed except
that of the sultan-'the sick man of
Europe
The Galveston horror seems to be
blu a preliminary monition of the
Great Cataclyism.' The factor of
submergence seems to be verified at
Galveston already from the following
GOVERNMENT WORKS UNINJURED
Galveston, September 4.-Capt. Rich,
engineer in charge of the government
improvements to the coast of Texas,
after a complete inspection of the gov
eminent works of this city stated hat
the jetties lac SUM nearly to a mean
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