The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21


dations and took dwelling houses, barns,
men, women, children, horses, cattle and
tossed them into indiscriminate ruin and
lifted rail train and dashed 1T Gown, u
mightier hand than that Of engineer On
the airbrake. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone
in Missouri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyc!on.
in illinois, cyclone in Iowa! Satan, prince
of the power of the air, never made such
cyclonic disturbances as he has in our day:
And am not right III saying that one OF
the characteristics OF the time ia which
We live is disaster .cyclonic!
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
I call the roll Of the dead shipping? Ye
monsters of the deep, answer wlcn l call
your, names. The Vile de llavre, the
Schiller, the City of Boston, the Melville,
the NIohegan. But why should 60 OF,
calling the roll when none of them an
swers, and the roll lis rs long as the white
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Hat
teras breakers? Ii the oceanic cab.cs eou.d
report all the scattered life and all the
blcached bones that they rub against in
the ocean, what n message IF pathos aud
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen persisted off the coast OF
Nswioundlaad N and whole tiscts Of them
poor fellows ct SEA and give high seats in
heaven to the Grace Dar.i1as and Ida
Lewises and the lifeboat men lowering
around Goodwin sands and the S.lcrrics!
The sea, owning three: ::fourths Of the earth.
proposes to capture tae other fourth, and
is hor,harding the land all around the
Garth. The moving o: the hotels ut Brign-
ton Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood, a t-pc OF what is going
on all ar GROUND the world and on every
ancient cities stood
So rejoice day by day. Work for MI
to do, and we may turn the crank OF the
Christian machinery this way or that, for
we are fee agents. But there is the track
by ti,c hand Of the Almighty God in sock
cts that no terrestrial or satanic pressure
can ever affect.
And along the track the car of the
worlds redemption will roll and roll to
the Grand Central depot of the lnl,en-
I ain on:y. afraid that for our ildo!ence
and unfaithfuiness God will discharge ,s
and get some other stoker and some other
engineer, The train is going through with
Us OF without us.
;, There is a house in London where Peter
the Great OF Russia lived awhile when he
was moving, through the land inco11ito
and in workman's dress, that I've might
lcarn! ship carpentry. by which he could
supply the needs of his people. A stran-
fer m ttst wfs box ostnS It 1t hens eSd has doa
know. That box was there when got the
house, and it was there wien NY father
got it. We havn't had any curiosity t.
1913 q at :, 1t. Guess there's nosninG in it,
es io SID .1i tHs 1Sitrdnssr dnss III sSs ", you
paid, and the contents OF that Lox wee
sold to the Gar os Russia for sJ0.O00. In
1T the lathinG machine OF Peter the Great,
his private letters and documents OF va:uc
beyond all monetary consideration. And
niiicant and nniinportnnt. but tl:cv incasc
treasures OF Divine Providence and etcrn:-
ties of meaning which alter awhile c od
will demonstrate before the ages as being
O.: stupcndou. value.
When! Titars p.ay '."oi's they pitch
mountains, but who ""..,s tE,sr y,:y.rtic
natural forces we "a. rca ii~':
about? Whose hani .r :.
veive Of the vo'canos. y
denly painted on ne i9,tsroo ...,.us &c
continents culver? ''o..! ""., t. ~
peace with HIN.
Through the Lord Jesus ''',riss this Cod
is mine and I2e is yours. g., TIC Garth
quake that shook Pa,est..l the cruci-
hNlon against all the down ru:lings Of the
centuries. This God on our side, we 1ray
challenge all the centuries of time aid al
the cyc.es OF eternity
Those of YOU who arc in mi6lifc may vel
thank God that you have seen so many
wondrous things, but there arc peopc
alive to-day who may live to see the shir,-
mering veil between the material and the
Sl'slitudi NOIiu lltLct.
Magnetism, n word with which VIC cover
up our Ignorance, will yet lie al explored
realm. Electricity. the fiery courscr OF
the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassocd
and Morse and Bell and Edison hevc
brought under complete control, has
greater wonders to reveal.
Whether here or departed this life, VIC
will see these things. 1t docs no: make
M ich difference where we stand but the
higher the standpoint the larger the pro.-
rect. We viii see them from heaven il
we do no; see them from Garth.
Years ago was at Fire Is'and, Long
Island, and I went up in TIC cupon f'oEl
which they telegraph to New York the
approach of vessels hours befo:s the. come
into port. There is an opening in the wall, ,
and the operator puts Iii; tees &C .,e through
that opening and loo5s cut and sees yes.
sells far ont at sea. While I was taking
with him lie went up and looked ..t lie
said, eve are expecting In. Arizona to-
night" T said: SIS it possible yoa kEow
all those vessels? Do YOU know ticm us
You knov Q mans face?" Hc said: Yes
{ never make a mistake. Before l see tn.
huEs often know tEera by The nasts I
know. thcEl all have watche them so
long"
On, what a grand thing it is to have
ships te.egraphea and heraldcd lcng before
they come to port, that friends may come
down to the wharf and welcome their long
absent ones! So to-day we take our stand
in the wa.ch tower, and through tho g.ass
of inspiration we look off and sec 4 Who, G