The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1901-12-18
TALMAGEs SERMON.
The Tins in Which We LIVES WOE
derful for Disasters an6 Blessings.

In this discourse Dr.. Ia.Uzgo ce1i:eS
SONS great events aad 5bcHs that tie
world is sdvaroiog in the right oi:so-
ton. tex. yoel il, 80, i Rill show
wonders il the heaTens and il the
earth"
Dr.. Cunming-gzeat srd scod uaz-
would havs told Us the exsc: tine of
the fulfllme1t Of this prophecy. As l
stepped into bis siudyi2 London on NY
arrival from Paris, jast sitter the Fte-c!
hsd surrendered st S:dsr, the gAcc
decor said to NO: ~ is j1:t vh.i /
have tc!d you about F:anas. People
laughed at ma because ! ;ske3 a9oc::
the seven hcr-s and the v!s!s, 2r, :
foressv al his from tEc beck q Dtr-
iel and tie book c. a.71:at:Gn. Me-
taking s7y auca rsspc2>!o:1iy - TIC
interpretation of sho cas5sga. l snip
II assert shst zhe-e Is = l:saSgest-cos n
many tLlEgs II onr time.
Our eyes oisate and ous heszt quick.
ems in its pulsstiens as We reaa q
events in the third century, ne SKI
century, the eighth century, tee ScUc-
teenth century, 5us thero were ocra
farresching evepis crowded into tie
nineteenth csn;u"y tEsn soto a-y
other, and :he isst twenty years ceSipse
any preceding twenty. We rsau II tie
daily newspapers o. events anQcu7oso
in one parsgIaph and Ei-hou5 sa7 ape
cisl acknowledgements EGica Here
dotus Joscp6us, A!5oghon, Glo
bon would hsvs taken Whole chapters
or whole volumes to eiSeors:e. L>ok-
ing out UPON our time 'Ee nus: cry out,
in the words OF tie text, WONDERS IN
the heavens and in the asrth
I propose to show ycu that tbs time
in which We live is E0nderfuI Ser 2isss
ter and wonderful f,r blessing, fl1 there
must be lights aud Sbades il this pic
sure IS il sii others. Need I srsps that
our tins is wonderful fcc disaster? Oar
world has had rough tire since o3 the
hand Of God Il wss bowed cut i2to
SPACE. It is an epileptio esz,h-con
vulsiop after CONFUSION; frost5 5cuao
ing it with s!edge hammer o. ice5e'g
and fire melting it With furnaces seVen
times heated. lis wonder to rs i:
has lasted so long. Msteocs shooting
by On this side and grazing it and 'mste:
ors shooting by on the ether side snd
grazing it, zone Of then slowing up 10:
safety. Whole dsets aud 1svlss ana
argcsies and 6otil!as Of worlds sweeping
eli about Us. Our earth Ike fishing
smsck of the banks os NeIfouud aud,
while the Msj site ana the St. Paul
and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse
rush By. Besides thss, cur world has
By sin bsen damaged in It's internal ms
ohinery, and ev:r and anon the fuEn-
secs have burst, ard the walking beams
Of the mountains have broken, and toe
islands have shipped Sos, snd the
great hulk Of the world hss beer Jared
with accidents thst ever and anon
threatened immedidass demolition.
But it seems to Us SIS if tie last hun.
dred years we're especially charscteCz ID
By disaster-volcanic, oceanic, eplce-
mic. say volcanic because an earth,
quake is only volcano huined up.
When Stronboli and CotcpsZ! and
Vesuy;us stop bceathiag, lst he foun-
dations Of the earth bewsre! Seven
thousand earthquakes IN two centuries
recorded in the catalogue Of the Brit
ish sssocicstiorl Trejs1, the emperor,
goes to ancient Antioch ano amid the
splerdors Of his reception is net 5y 81
earttoueke that nearly destroys the
emperor's life. Lisbon, fair ane bsaut:-
ful. at ! o'clock On the lst Of Noven
ber. 1775, in six minutes $4,000 iaVe
parished, sr6 Voltaire writes Of them,
For that regio2 it Tss the last ja5g
ment, nothing wanting bat E trumpet.
Earope and Amarioa feeling the tEroo
-1,500 chimneys in Boston partly or
fully destroyed!
But the disasters Of other TINES have
had their counterpart IN later tim IS.
In 1912 Caracas was osught in the grip
Of GA earthquake, in 1882 il Chile l0o,'
600 square miles Of land By volcanic
fo.ce uphesyed 20 four AID seven feet
Of pernenent elevation, il 1854 japan
felt the geological agony; Naples
shaken in 1857, Mexico in 1858; Men-
dozs, the caps:s! Of the Argentine 4;
public, il 1861; Manila terzorizsd il
1868; ths Hawaiian Islands By such
force uplifted and let doEnio 1871; Ne
ysds shaken in 1871, Au:ioc ID 1872
California in 1872, San Ssl7adcr ic
1878. while IL 1883 what subterra near
excstementl Ischia, sn isisna o. tbs
Mediterranean, g besutiEul Italian Tst
eriug place, vineyard cisd, surrounded
By al natural charm and historical re
miriscsuce; ycnGer Css1i, the summer
resort Of ths Ronsn enpeEcTs: yoa@cr
Nsples, paradise Of art this pesctiiui
island suddenly tcpp!ed in:othe trough
of the earth, S,000 merry makcEs per-
ishing, and some Of then SO fsr down
beneath the reach Ct human obseQ-ias
that it nay be said q Iasny enc Of
chem, as it wss said Of Moses. The
Lord buried him" Italy, al Europe
weeping, all Christeneom weeping,
where there were heacts to synra;hize
and Christians to pray. But while the
nations we're measuring Ehsr msgnitu?e
Of disaster, measuring it rot with gol-
den rod like that Rish w2ich the angel
measured heaven, bur with the bisck
rule Of death, Java & the IEdisu srahi
pelago, the most fertile island O. Ill the
earth, is caught in the grip ofthe es7:h
quake, and mountain after mouossia
goes down sod city sitter city until that
island, which produces the best heVar
age all the Wcrld, produced the gasss
lest catastrophe. Oae huadred thou
sand people dying, dead! Coming
nearer home, OF Aug. 81. 1855, the
great earthquake which Frustrated ore.
half Of Charleston, S. G.
But Iook at the disasters oyc'cnie.
At the mouth Of the Gsoges sre three