The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-12-19

course Dl. Ialmage recites some great
events and shows that the world is ad-
vancing in the right direction; text
Joel IL. 80 a win show wcnders IN the
heavens and in the earth.
There were more far-reaehing events
crowded into the nineteenth century
than into any other and the last 20
years eclipse any preceding 90 We
read in the daily newspapers Of events
announced in one paragraph and with
out any special emphasls-events
which a Herodotus. q Josephus. a Ken
ophon. 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
/ propose 10 show you that the time
In which we live is wonderful for dis
aster ana wonderful for blessing, for
there must be lights and shades in this
picture as in all others. Need / argue
that our time is wonderful for disas-
teri Our world has had a rough time
since by the hand Of God Il was bowled
out into space. II Is an epileptic earth
--conyulsion after convulsion, frost
pounding it with sledge hammer Of Ice
berg and fires melting IL with furnaces
seven times heated. Il is wonder TO
me It has lasted SO long. Meteors
shooting by on this side and grazing il
and meteors shooting by on the other
side and grazing IL. none Of them slow
ing up for safety Whole fleets and
navies and argosies and hoillas Of
worlds sweeping an about u.s. Our
earth like a fishing smack Of the
banks Of Newfoundland, while the Ma
iestic and the ST. Paul and the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse rush by Besides
that our world has by sin been dam
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 a sea. and the great bulk
OF the world has been Jared with acci-
dents that ever and anon threatened
immediate demolition.
But It seems TO us as II the last hun
dred years were especially character
ized by disaster 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-
ceptlon is met BY an earthquake that
nearly destroys the emperor's life Lis
bon, fair and beautiful at ] o'clock on
the lst Of November. l775, IN six min
utes 10000 have persisted Europe and
America feeling the throb-1 500 chin
neye In Boston. partly or fully de-
stroyedl
But the disasters OF other times have
had their counterpart IN later times. In
1912 Caracas was caught in the grip OF
an earthquake. in 1882 IN Chile 100000
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 1885, 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, Call
fornia Ia 1872, San Salvador in 1873,
while in 1888 what subterranean ex-
lschia, an island OF the
a beautiful Italian. wat
ering place, vineyard clad. surrounded
by all natural charm and historical
yonder Capri, the sum
mer resort Of the Roman emperors;
yonder Naples. the paradise Of art
this beautiful island suddenly toDpIed
Into the trough OF the earth, 5000 mer-
,ymakers perishing. and some OF them
30 far down beneath the reach OF hui
man cbsequies that It may be said Of
many OF them, as it was said OF Moses,
The Lord buried him" Italy. all Eu-
rope weeping. all Christendom weep
Ing, where there were hearts to SYM
Dathize and Christians to pray. But
while the nations we're measuring that
magnitude of disaster, measuring It not
With golden rod like that with which
he angel measured heaven, but with
he black rule Of death, Java Of the In
liam archipelago. the most fertile IS
and Of all the earth, is caught in the
nip Of the earthquake, and mountain
.fter mountain goes down and city
.fter city until that island, which pro-
,noes the best beverage Of all the
world. produced the ghastliest catas-
rophe. One hundred thousand people
lying. deadl
But look at the disasters cyelonic
cyclone In Kansas. cyclone in Missouri
,yclone in Wisconsin. cyclone in nH-
iois. cyclone in Iowai Satan. prince OF
he power Of the air. never made such
.yclonic disturbances as be has in our
lay. And am not right in saying
hat one Of the characteristics Of the
ime in which we live Is disaster cy-
Ionieg
But look at the disasters oceanici
lhall call the roll Of the dead ship
,ingg T. is as long as the white scroll
4 the Atlantic surf at Cape Hatteras
If the oceanic cables could
eport al the scattered life and all the
n. .