Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1901-12-13


The moving of the hotels at Brighton
Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood a type of what is go
ing on all around the world and on
every coast. The Dead sea rolls today
where ancient cities stood. Pillars OF
temples that stood on hills biologists
now find three-quarters under the
water or altogether submerged The
sea. having wrecked so many mer
chantmen and iiotllas. wants to wreck
/ the continents. and hence disasters
oceanic. Alas for Galveston and other
cities almost drowned,
Look at the disasters epidemic. Look
at the yellow fevers and the chOleraS
and the diphthcrias and the scarlet fe-
vers and the typhOids of our time.
From HurdWar. India. where every
twelfth year 3.5OG 600 devotees congre-
gate. the caravans brought the cholera,
and that one disease slew $4,000 in Is
days in BOSSOrah. Twelve thousand in
one summer slain by il in India and
1000 IN Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
Some of the finest monuments in
/ Greenwood ana Laurel Hill and Mount
Auburn are to doctors who lost their
lives battling with southern epidemic
But now | turn the leaf III my sub
ject and | plant the white lilies and
the palm tree amid the night shades
and the myrtle This age no more
characterized by wonders of disaster
than by wonders of blessing blessing
of longevity; the average of human life
man life practically greater now than
when Noah lived. with his $50 years,
and MetIusaleh lived his 500 years
Blessings OF intelligence, If the phil
oSOphers of Il hundred years ago were
called up to recitc in a class with our
boys and girls. those old philosophers
( would be sent down to the foot of the
class because they failed to answer the
questions Free libraries in all the
important towns and circles of the
land. Historical aicoves and poetical
shelves and magazine tables for all
who desire TO walk through them or
sit down at them.
Blessings Of quick information.
Newspapers falling all around us thick
IS leaves in q September equinoctial.
We see the whole world twice day
through the newspaper at the break
fast tdole and through the newspaper
. the tea table
Blessings of gospel proclamation.
While intidelity is dwindling the
wheel of Christianity is maxim, about
thousand revolutions in minute A
few years ago in SIN weeks more than
200000o copies of the New Testament
purchased not gwen away. but pur-
chased because the world will have it.
The most popular book today is the
Bible, and the mightiest institution is
the church. and the greatest name
among the nations and more honored
than any is the name of Jesus.
Wonders of self-sacri1ice, All for
Christ, Where is there any other be-
ing that will rally such enthusiasm?
Millions of good men and women, but
more women thar men. to whom
. Christ is everything. Christ first and
Why. this age Is not SO characterized
by invention and scientific exploration
as il is by gospel proclamation. You
can get no idea of it unless you can
ring all the church bells in one chime
and sound all the organs in one diapa-
son and gather all the congregations of
ChriSteDdOm in one Gloria In Excel
sis Mighty camp meetings, Mighty
Ocean Groves. Mighty Chautauquas.
Mighty conventions of Christian work
crs, Mighty general assemblies of the
Presbyte. ian church, Mighty confer
ences of the Methodist church, Mighty
associations OF the Baptis, church.
. Mighty conventions of the Epis-
copal church There may he many
years OF hard work vet before the con
summation, but the signs are to ME so
encouraging that would not be unbe-
lieving if saw the wing OF the apoca-
lyptic angel spread for its last tri-
umphal fight in this days sunset or if
tomorrow morning the ocean cables
should thrill lis with tho news that
Christ he Lord had aligh;ed on Mount
Oliyet TO proclaim universal dominion
All dead churches wake up, Throw
back the shutters of stiff ecclesiasti-
cism and let the light of the spring
morning come in. Morning for the
land, Morning for the sea Morning
of light and love and peace, Morning
of day in which there shall be no
chains to break. no sorrows to as
suage no despO ism To shatter. no
woes to compassionate
These things ! say because | want
YOU to be alert. want you to be
from the heavens and the earth God
has classified them. whether caiamitous
or pleasing. The divine purposes are
harnessed In traces that canno; break
and in grths that cannot Slip and in
buckles that cannot loosen and are
driven by reins trey must answer.
So / rejoice day 10y day Work for
all to do. and We may turn the crank
of the Christian machinery this way or
that. for we are free agents but there
is the tracks laid 50 Ion: ago no one
remembers It-laid by the band Of the
Almighty God in sockets that no ter
restrial or satanic pressure can ever
affect And along the track the car of
the worlds redemption will roll and
roll to the Grand Central depot of the
millennium ! have no anxiety about
! the track. | am only afraid that for
our indnlpnra ouI upfai il N fulppcc God