The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1901-12-12

Copyright, 1901 by Louis F>Iopseh- N ID |
Washington, Dec. Sin this dis |
course DR. Talmage recites some great |
events and shows that the world is adj i
vancing in the right direction; text, |
Joel IL, so, Il will show wonders in the |
heavens and in the earth
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 emphasis-eyents
which Herodotus, JosephuS, Ken
ophon, a Gibbon would have taken
whole chapters 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
1 propose to show you that the time
in which 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 I argue
that our time is wonderful for disas-
ter? Our world has had rough time
since By the hand of God it was bowled
out into space 1t is an epilept1c earth
-convulsion after convulsion; frost
pounding it with sledge hammer of ice
berg and fires melting it with furnaces
seven times heated. 1t is q wonder to
it has lasted long Meteors
shooting by on this side and grazing 1t
and meteors shooting by on the other
side and grazing it, none of them slow
ing up for safety. Whole fleets and
navies and argosies and fotillas Of
worlds sweeping all about u.s. Our
earth like fishing smack off the
banks of Newfoundland, while the Ma
Jestic and the ST. Paul and the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse rush by. Besides
i Nv cit, hoo don
aged in its internal machinery, and
ever and anon the furnaces have burst,
and the walking beams of the noun
tains have broken, and the islands
have shipped sea, and the great bulk
of the world has been Jared with acct
dents that ever and anon threatened
Immediate demolition.
But it seems to us as if the last hun
dred years were especially character
lied by dfsaster-volcanic, oceanic.
| epidemic. Seven thousand earthquakes
| in two centuries recorded in the cata-
logue of the British association Ira
| jan. the emperor. goes to ancient Anti
och and amid the splendors of his re-
ception is met by an earthquake that
| nearly destroys the emperor's life Lis
| bon, fair and beautiful, at 1 O'Clock on
| the LIST of November, IT'S, in six min
| utes 10000 have perished, Europe and
| America feeling the throb-1 500 chin
| neys in Boston partly or fully de-
| StrOyed,
/ But the diSa SterS of other times have
| had their counterpart in later times. In
| 1872 Caracas was caught in the grip of
| an earthquake. in 1882 in Chile loo, 900
| square miles of land by volcanic force
| upheaved to four and seven feet of per-
| manent elevation, in 1854 Japan felt
| the geological agony; Naples shaken
| in 1857. Mexico in 1858: Mendoza. the
| capital of the Argentine Republic, in
| 1861; Manila terrorized in 1868: the
| Hawaiian Islands by such force up
| lifted and let down in 1871; Nevada
| shaken in 1871, Antioch in 1872, Cali
| fornia in 1872, San Salvador in 1873
| while in 1883 what subterranean ex-
| element Ischia, island of the
| Mediterranean, beautiful italian wat
ering place, vineyard clad. surrounded
| by all natural charm and historical
| "Reminiscences; yonder Capri the sum
| mer resort of the Roman emperors
| yonder Naples, the paradise of art
| this beautiful island suddenly topp1e6
| into the trough of the earth, 5000 mer-
| rymakers perishing. and some OF then
so far down beneath the reach of hu.
| man obsequies that it may be said Of
| many of them, as 1T was said of Moses
1.-The Lord buried him" Italy, all Eu
| rope weeping, all Christendom weep
| ing, where there were hearts to sym
| pathize and Christians to pray. Blu
| magnitude of disaster, measuring it no
| with golden rod like that with which
the angel measured heaven, but will
the black rule of death, Java of the In
| dian archipelago, the most fertile is
land of all the earth, is caught in tn.
| grip of the earthquake, and mountain
| after mountain goes down and cit,
after city until that island, which pro
| duces the best beverage of all tn.
| world, produced the ghastliest catas
| trophe- One hundred thousand peopI.
| dying, dead.
| But look at the disasters cyclonic
| Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone in Missouri
| cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone in I'LL
| nois cyclone in Iowa, Satan, prince O
| the power of the air, never made sucl
| cyclonic disturbances as he has in GU
| day And am 1 not right in sayins
| that one of the characteristics of tn.
| time in which we live is disaster cy
| cIOnic2
| But look at the disasters oceanic
| Shall 1 call the roll OF the dead ship
| .