The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1901-12-13

T on al around the world and on every
\ coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities stood
Pillars Of TEMPLES that stood on hills
/ geo!oe,sts now ind three-guarters under
/ the water or altogether submerged The
\ sea- having wrecked so many merchlat.
/ men and nOtlllas, wants % wreck the con
| tinelt- ana hence disasters oceanic.
! A.Is for Galveston and other cities almost
I drowned
Look az the disasters epidemic. l speak
| not OF the plague IN the fourth century
/ taat ravaged Europe and in Moscow and
! the Neapo!itan domnions and Marseille.
| wrought such terror IN the eighteenth CEN
! tIIy, but ! look az the yellow fevers and
| the cnO.eras and the diphtherias and the
scarlet fevers and the tvphoids OF our
| time. From Hurdwar India. where every
| twelfth year 100000 devotees conzregate,
! the caravans brought the cholera, aud that
! one disease slew 5000 in eighteen days in
/ BOssOrah. Twelve thousand IN one sum.
mer slain by IL IN India and 25,0OO in
| Egypt Disasters epidemic. Some Of the
| finest monuments m Greenwood AID Lau.
rel Hill and Mount Auburn are % doctors
who lost their lives battling with southern
! epidemic
But now / turn the leaf in my subject.
and ! plant the white lilies aud the palm
tree amid the magistrates and the myrtle
This age no more characterized by won.
ders o! disaster than by wonders of bless
laE-b es-ing 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 davs In other
times 1t 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
| Methuselah lived his ee9 wears
Blessings Of intelligence: The Salmon =.
Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and the
Henry Wilson's Of the coming time will not
be required 10 learn 10 read by pine knot
lights or seated on shoemaker's bench nor
Will the Fergusons have % study astronO-
nv while watching the cattle. knowledge
rolls ITS tides along every poor mans door,
and his children may go down an1 battle
in them
If the philosophers of hundred years
ago were called up to recite 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
questionsl
Free Libraries in all the important towns
and cities of the land Historical alcoves
and poetical shelves and magazine tables
for all who desire 20 walk through them
or sit down at them.
Blessings of quick information: News
napers falling all around us thick as leaves
IN a September equlnoctal. News three
days old rancid and stale. We see the
whole world twice a day-through the
newspaper at the breakfast table and
through the newspaper at the tea.table,
with an extra here and there between.
Blessing Of gospel proclamation: Do you
not know that nearly all the missionary
societies have been born within a hundred
years and nearly all the Bible societies
and nearly all the great philanthropic
movements? Christianity Is on the march,
while inhdelity is dwindling into imbecil-
ty. While infdeity is thus dwindiing
the wheel OF Christianity is making about
a thousand revolutions in a minute. All
the copes Of Shakespeare and Tennyson
and Disrae and of any ten of the most
popular writer's OF the day less in number
than the copies of the Bible going out
from our printing presses.
And along the track the car of the
worlds redemption will roll and roll to
the Grand Central depot of the millen-
mum. | have no anxiety about the track.
! am only afraid that for our Incidence
and unfaithfu,ness God will discharge us
and get some other stoker and some other
engineer The train Is going through with
us or without US.
There is a house in London where Peter
the Great Of Russia lived awhile when he
was moving through the land incognito
and in wOrkman's dress, that he might
learn ship carpentry. by which he could
supply the needs OF his people. a stran-
ger was visiting at that house, What's
IN that hoxE" The owner said: Il don't
know That box was there when | got the
house, and 1t was there when my father
got it, We F"yn't had any curiosity to
| look at il. ! .ess there's nothing IN #"
Well said the stranger, IN give you
! 60 for it," We'll, done" The f2 was
paid. and the contents of that box were
IL . . f,v In
1t the lathing machine of Peter the Great
! his private letters and documents of value
| beyond all monetary consideration. And
| here are the events that seem very inslg
| nidcant and unimportant, but they incase
treasures of Divine Providence and etcrni-
ties of meaning which after awhile God
! viii demonstrate before the ages as being
| of stupendous value.
When Titans play quoits they pitch
mountains. but who owns these gigantic
natural forces we are constantly reading
! about? Whose hand is on the throttle
valve of the volcanoes? Whose foot, sud
| denly planted on the footstool makes the
continents quiver? God! | must be at
peace with Him.
! Through the Lord Jesus Christ this God
| is mine and He is yours, | put the earth
| quake that shook Palestine at the cruc-
| hNoa against all the down rockings OF the
centuries. This God on our side, we may
challenge all the centuries of time and all
| the cycles OF eternity
| Those of you who are in midlife may well
thank God that you have seen so many
wondrous things, but there are people
| alive to-day who may 1--we to see the shim-
mCring veil between the material and the
| spiritual word lifted.
| Magnetism, a word with which we cover
| up our ignorance, Will yet be an explored
realm Electricity. the fiery courser OF
the sky that Benjamin Franklin lassoed
! and Morse and Bell and Edison have
| brought under complete cOntro! mas
| greater wonders to reveal.
| Whether here or departed this life. we
! will see these things. IL does not make
| much difference where We stand, but the
higher the standpoint the larger the pros.
| pect We will see them from heaven II
! we do not see them from earth.
Years ago | was at Fire Island, Long
Island, aud | went up IN the cupo.a from
! which they telegraph 10 New York the
approach OF vessels hours before they come
into port There l. an opening IN the wall.
and the operator puts his telescope through
that opening and looks out and sees YES.
,cls far ont az sea. While | was talking
with kim he went up and looked out. He
! said. We are expecting the Arizona to-
night" / said: is it possible you know
ali those vessels? Do you know them as
you know a mans taceF he said. Yes.
/ never make a mistake. Before ! see the
huls | often know them by the masts. /
know them ALL have watched them so
long
Oh. what a grand thing 1t Is to have
ships te,egraphed and heralded long before
they come to port. that friends may come
down to the wharf and welcome their .ong