Woodruff County news., 1901-12-14

ton; text, Joel 2:30: q will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth"
 Dr. Cumming-great and good man would have told us the exact time of the fulfillment of this prophecy. As stepped into his study in London on my arrival from Paris, just after the French had surrendered at Sedan, the good doctor said to me: Ut is just what have told you about France. People laughed at me because l talked but 1 foresaw all this from the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation :" Not taking any such responsibility in the interpretation of the passage, simply assert that there are in it sug- gestions of many things in our time.
 Our eyes dilate and our heart quick ems in it's pulsations as we read of events in the third century, the sixth century, the fourteenth century, but there were more far-reaching events crowded into the nineteenth century than into any other, and the last 20 years eclipse any preceding 20. We read in the daily newspapers of events announced in one paragraph and with out any special mphasis-events which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a Xenophon, a Gibbon would have taken whole chapters or whole volumes to elaborate. Looking out upon our time we must cry out, in the words of the text: "Wonders in the heavens and in the earth"
 l propose to show you that the time in which we live is wonderful for dis aster and wonderful for blessing, for there must be lights and shades in this picture as in all others. Need l argue that our time is wonderful for disas- ter? Our world has had rough time since by the hand of God it was bowied out into space. It is an epileptic earth -convulsion after convulsion; frosts pounding it with sledge hammer of iceberg and fires melting it with fur naces seven times heated. It is a wonder to me it has lasted so long, Meteors shooting by on this side and grazing it and meteors shooting by on the other side and grazing it. none of them slowing up for safety. Whole fleets and navies and argosies and flotillas of worlds sweeping all about us. Our earth like fishing smack off the banks of Newfoundland, while the Majestic and the St. Paul and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse rush by. Besides that, our world has by sin been damaged in it's internal machinery, and ever and anon the furnaces have burst, and the walking beams of the mountains have broken, and the is lands have shipped sea, and the great hulk of the world has been jared with accidents that ever and anon have threatened immediate demolition.
 But it seems to us as if the last hun dred years were especially character ized by isaster-volcanic, oceanic, epidemic. l say volcanic because an earthquake is only a volcano hushed up. When StromDoh and CotopaXi and Vesuvius stop breathing, let the foundations of the earth beware! Seven thousand earthquakes in two centuries recorded in the catalogue of the British association! Trajan, the emperor, goes to ancient Antioch and amid the splendors of his reception is met by an earthquake that nearly de- stroys the emperor's life. Lisbon, fair and beautiful, at one o'clock on the 1st of November, 1775, in six minutes 60,000 have perished, and Voltaire writes of them: For that region it was the last judgment, nothing want ing but trumpet!" Europe and America feeling the throb-1, 800 chim- neys in Boston partly or fully de- stroyed!
 Look at the disasters epidemic. l speak not of the plague in the fourth century that ravaged Europe and in Moscow and the Neapolitan domin- ions and Marseilles wrought such terror in the eighteenth century but I look at the yellow levers, and the choleras and the diphtherias and the scarlet levers and the typhoids of our time. From Hurdwar, India, where every twelfth year 3,oo0,00o devotees congregate, the caravans brought the cholera, and that one disease slew 1S,OO0 in IS days in the Bossorah. Twelve thousand in one summer slain by it in India and 125,- 900 in Egypt. Disasters epidemic Some of the finest monuments in Greenwood 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 sub ino+ ond I D1ant tho white lilies and the palm tree amid the nightshades and the myrtle. This age no more characterized by wonders of disaster than by wonders of blessing of longevity; the average of human