Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13


bleached homes that they rub against in
the ocean. what message Of pathos and
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen persisted off the coast Of
Newfoundland and whole fleets Of them
off the coast Of England. God help the
poor fellows ut sea and give high seats in
heaven to the Grace Darlings and the Ida
Lewises and the lifeboat men lowering
around Goodwin sands and the Skerries!
The sea, owning three-fourths of the
earth. proposes to capture the other
fourth and is bombarding the land all
around the earth. The moving of the no.
tells ut Brighton Beach backward 100
yards from where they once stood a type
of what is going 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 merchantmen and fotil-
las. wants to wreck the continents. and
hence disasters oceanic. Alas for Calves
ton and other cities almost crowned
The Work of Epidemics.
Look at the disasters epidemic speak
not of the plague in the fourth century
that ravaged Europe and in Moscow and
the Neapnlitan dominions and Marseilles
wrought such terror in the eighteenth
century, hut | look at the yellow fevers
aud the chOleras aud the diphtherias and
the scarlet fevers and the typhOids of our
time. From Hurdwar. India. where every
twelfth year 100000 devotees congre-
gate, the caravans brought the cholera.
and that one disease slew $4,000 in eight
cen days in BossOrah. Twelve thousand
in one summer slain by it in India and
$4,000 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic.
Some of tho finest monuments in Green.
wood and Laurel Hill and Mount Auburn
are to doctors who lost their lives battling
with southern epidemic.
But now I turn the leaf in my subject
and | plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the magistrates and the myrtle
This age no more characterized by won
dPrS Of disaster than by wonders Of bless
ing-blessing Of longevity; the average of
human life rapidly increasing. Forty
years now worth 400 years once. Now ]
can travel from Manitoba to New York in
! less than three days. In other times it
would have taken three months. In other
words, three days now are worth three
months of other days. The average of
! human life practically greater now than
when Noah lived, with his $50 years, and
Methusaleh lived his 9G9 years.
Blessings of intelligence: The Salmon
! p. Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and
! the Henry Wilson's of the coming time
will not be required to learn to read by
pine knot lights or seated on shoemaker's
bench, nor will the Fergusons have to
study astronomy while watching the cat.
tie. knowledge rolls its tides along every
| poor mans door. and his children may go
down and battle in them If the philoso-
piers of hundred years ago were called
up to recite in a class with our bows and
girls, those old philosophers would be sent
down to the foot of the class because they
failed to answer the questions! Free IL
braries in all the important towns and cit
les Of the land. Historical alcoves ant
poetical shelves and magazine tables fol
all who desire to walk through them or si
down at them.
blessings of Quick Information.
Blessings Of quick information: News
papers falling all around us thick a
leaves in September equinoctial. New
three days old rancid and stale We Sc,
the whole world twice day-through tn,
newspaper at the breakfast table anC
through the newspaper at the teatable
with IN extra" here and there between.
Blessings of gospel proclamation: d.
you not know that nearly all the mission
airy societies have been born within
hundred years and nearly all the Bib,
societies and nearly all the great philan
thropic movements? Christianity is OF
the march. while infdelity is dwindlin,
! into imhecility. While infdelity is thu
dwindling the wheel Of Christianity i
making about a thousand revolutions in
minute All the copies of Shakespeare
and Tennys;On and Disrael and Of an
ten of the most popular writer's Of the da.
less in number than the copies Of the Bi
bic going out from our printing presses
A few years ago in six weeks more thai
100000 copies of the New Tesla men
purchased-not given away. but purchas
ed, because the world will have it. Tn
most popular book today is the Bible an,
the mightiest institution is the church
ana the greatest name among the nation
and more honored than any is the name o
Jesus.
Wonders Of self sacrifice: A clergyman
told me in the northwest that for 81,
years he was a missionary at the extrem
NORTH living 400 miles from a postofIice
and sometimes. the thermometer 40 de
greeS below zero, he slept out of doors il
winter. wrapped in rabbit skins woven to
gether. ] said: SIS it possible? You d
not mean 40 degrees below zero?" H
: said 81 do, and I was happy" All 70
Christi Where is there any other bein
: that will rally such enthusiasm? Mother
= sewing their fingers off to educate thei
! boys for the gospel ministry For min
years no luxury on the table until tn
course through grammar school and co.
5 lege and theological seminary be complet
ed. Poor widow putting her mite into til
: Lords treasury, the face Of emperor q
t president impressed upon the coin not s
D conspicuous as the blood with which sh
D earned it. Millions Of good men and W,
p men, but more women than men, to whol
p Christ is everything. Christ first an
p Christ last and Christ forever.
Why, this age is not so characterized b
? invention and scientific exploration as
{ is by gospel proclamation. You can get I
p idea of it unless you can ring all Il
+ church bells in one chime and sound q
r the organs in one diapason and gather a
J. the congregations of Christendom in OF
{ "Gloria In Excelsis." Mighty camp NEE
ingsI Mighty Ocean Grovesl Might
Chautauquas! Mighty conventions
I Christian workers! Mighty general a
: sembies of the Presbyterian churc
n Mighty conferences of the Method
r. church! Mighty associations of the Ba
Y fist church. Mighty conventions of Il
d Episcopal church! There may be MAJ
:. years of hard work yet before the Co
0 summation, but the signs are to me so e
g cOuraging that ] would not be unbelieviI
!; if saw the wing Of the apocalyptic ang
= spread for its last triumphal flight in tn
, days sunset OF if tomorrow morning Il
if ocean cables should thrill us with Il
p. news that Christ the Lord had alighted {
?. Mount Olivet to proclaim universal d
D. minion.
&c The Coming of Light.
All dead churches, wake up! Thro
4 back the shutters Of stiff ecclesiasticis
y and let the light of the spring morniI
n come in! Morning for the land! MOrniI
u for the sea! Morning Of light and To-
y and peace! Morning Of a day in viii,
D. there shall be no chains to break, no 50
. rows to assuage. no despotism to shatte
II no woes to compassionate. Blessed Chris
II descend! Scared temple, take the crow
,, Bruised hand. take the scepter! Wound,
- foot. step on the throne! Chime is Il
\ Kingdom
y These things 1 say because I want "
to be alert. / want you to be watching
these wonders unrolling from the HEAVIER
= and the earth. God has classified thel
= whether calamitous or pleasing The
: vine purposes are harnessed in traces tn
= cannot break and in girths that cam
y slip and in buckles that cannot loosen al
~ are driven by reins they must answer.
preach no fatalism. A swarthy engine
- at one Of the depots in Dakota sal
= when will you get on the locomotive a.
le take a ride with us?' "Wen." l sat
Is ''nOw, if that suits you" So I got on o