The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1901-12-20
SOME GREAT, EVENTS.
DR.. Talmage Discourses on the
Worlds Advancement.
Says 1t Is in the Right Direction
Present Time Wonderful for
Disaster and Wonderful
for Blessing.
copyright. 1901, by Louis Klopsch. N. VI
Washington,


In this discourse DR.. Ta.mage recites
some great events and shows that the
world is advancing in the right direc-
ton; text, joel $3.50: Il 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 fulfllrnent of this prophecy.
As I 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: 1T is
Just what have told you about France.
People laughed at me because talked
about the seven horns and the walls,
but / foresaw all this from the book
of Daniel and the book of Revelation"
Not taking any such responsibility in
the Interpretation of the passage, l
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 ~
years eclipse any preceding 20. We
| read in the daily newspapers OF events
announced in one paragraph and with
out any special emphasis-events
which a Herodotus, a Josephus, a
Xenophon, 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
I propose to show you that the time
in which we live is wonderful for dis
aster and wonderful for blessing, fol
there must be lights and shades in this
ucture AZ in all others. Need argue
| that our time is wonderful for disas
ter? Our world has had rough time
since by the hand of God it was BOWED
out into space. 1t is an epileptic eartf
--convulsion after CONFUSION; 1rost'
pounding it with sledge hammer O.
iceberg and fires melting it with fur
naces seven times heated. 1t IS
wonder to me it has lasted SO long
| Meteors shooting by on this side ant
grazing it and meteors shooting D.
on the other side and grazing it, non
of them slowing up for safety. Who'll
fleets and nayies and argosies an
fiotillas of worlds sweeping all abou
us. Our earth like fishing smack OF
the banks of Newfoundland, while tn
Majestic and the St. Pau, and tn
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse rush by
Besides that, our world has by sin pee
damaged in it's internal machinery
and ever and anon the furnaces nav
burst, and the walking beams OF tn
mountains have broken, and the Is
lands have shipped sea, and the grea
hulk of the world has been Jared wit
accidents that ever and anon nav
threatened immediate demolition.
But it seems to US as if the last hui
bred years were especially character
lied by isaster-volcanic, oceanl
epidemic. I say volcanic because a
earthquake is only a volcano hushe
up. When StromDoli and Cotopa1
and Vesuvius stop breathing, let tn
foundations of the earth beware
Seven thousand earthquakes in tW
centuries recorded in the catalogue
the British association! Trajan, tt
emperor. goes to ancient Antioch an
: amid the splendors of his reception
met by an earthquake that nearly d
, stroys the emperor's life. Lisbon, ia
+ and beautiful, at one O'Clock on II
, LIST of November, 1775, in six minute
GO 900 have persisted, and Voltail
, writes of them: "For that region
+, was the last Judgment, nothing wan
! ing but a trumpet" Europe al
America feeling the throb-1 500 CHR
news in Boston partly or fully d
u stroyed!
Look at the disasters epidemic.
sneak not of the plague in the four
!, century that ravaged Europe and
= Moscow and the Neapolitan domi
J, ions and Marseilles wrought SUI
terror in the eighteenth centur
Init I look at the yellow fevers, al
the choleras and the diphtherias al
: the scarlet fevers and the typhoi
u of our time. From Hurdwar, lndl
: where every twelfth year 10000
I deyotees congregate. the caraVa
brought the cholera, and that o
e disease slew $4,000 in is days in {
II Rossorah. Twelve thousand in o
e summer slain by it in India and IL
Y 900 in Egypt. Disasters ePidem
:. soma of the finest monuments
It Greenwood and Laurel Hill a
IL Mount Auburn are to doctors w
II lost their lives battling with southe
!, epidemic. -,