The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-12-20
barns, mon, women, sohildren, horscs.s
cattle, and tossed thom into indlsorimi.s
INTO ruin and LITE q Atrain and dashed

/ nn.U iuiu buN .AhsSN{{a sAsin ain f3@pttSI
itsdowp, q mightier haad than thst Of
engineer on tho airbrake. Oyclonesin
] Ksnaas. oylone in Missouri, CYCLONE in
/ WISCONSIN, Cyclone in Illinois, oy clone,
| In Iowal Satan, prinoo Of the powor
of tho air, novor made such oyclonic
disturbances as he has in our day.
And am I n OF right in saying that ono
of tho characteristics Of the tilno ia
which we live is disaster oyolonio?
But look at the disas.eru oeeapio
! Shall call tho roll Of tho dead shipping?
Ys monsters of tho daop, anawer whom
i / call your names. The Villo do Havre,
tho SlhiIler, the City OF B.ston, tho
Melville, the President, the Oimbria,
tho Oregon, tho Mohogau. But why
should I go on calling the roll
when mono Of them answers aud tho
roll ia as long as tho white scroll OF tho
Atlantio surf at Oape Hattoras break
or, z If tho oceanic cables could report
all tho scattered life aud all the
bleachod bonee that they rub agaipst in
tho ocean, what meSaage of pathos and
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermon porished off the coast
Of Newfoundland and whole foets Of
thom off tho coast OF England God
help tho poor fellows at sea and give
high seats in heaven to tho Grace DAr-
lings apd the Ida Lowises and lifeboat
meu hovering around Goodwin sands
and the Skerriosl Tho sea, oHnlng
three fourths of the earth, proposes TO
capture the othor fourth aud is bonn.
harding the land ell around tho oarth.
Tho moving Of the hotels ct Brighton
Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood typo Of what ia going
on al around tho world on every coast
The Dead S "a Ills todsy whore tho an
oient citics stood. p liars oe tempoa
that stood on hlls, gaolosists now find
three. quarters under tho wator or alto
gothor submerged. The sos, having
wreck 80 many merohaatmen and f>
tillss, wants to wreck the oontinonts,
snd honoe disasters oceanic. Alas for
Galveston and other oities almost
drownodl
Look at the disaster cpidomio I
speak not of the plague ia the fourth
century that ravaxod Europe and 10
MOSCOW and the Noapolitau dominiors
and Marscilles wrought suoh terror in
the eighteenth century, but look at
tho yellow Sovors and tho oholeras snd
the diphtberias and tho scarlet fevsrs
| and the typbods Of our timo. From
Hudv var Irdie, whore cvary tsolftL
yoar 5000, 600 doyotecs oongroga ato, tho
oaravsns brought the cholera, and that
QUO disease slow 18, 600 in eighteon days
in Boasorsb Twelve thou,and in ono
summon slain by it in India end 25, 900
in Egypt. Disasters epidomio. Some
of the finest monuments in Greenwood
aud Laurel Hill and Mouat Auburn are
to doctors who lost their livos battling
with southern epidemic.
But now | turn the leaf 10 my sub
jeot, and / plant the white lilies and
| the palm tree amid the nigbtshades and
tho myrtle. This ago no more ohhrAc-
terized by wonders Of diasster thar by
wonders of blessing pleasing of lon.
| gevity; tho average Of human life rap
idly increasing. Forty years now worth
400 years onoe. Now can travol from
Manitoba to New York in less than
three days. In other times it would
have takon three months. In other
words, three days now are worth three
month Of other days. The average Of
human life practically greater now than
when Noah lived, with hia $50 years,
aud Methuaaloh lived his $50 years.
| Blessings Of intelligence: Tho Sal.
mon r.. Ohases and tho Abraham LIN.
coins and tho Horny Wilson's Of the
coming timo will not be required to
read by pino knots or seated gu ahoo-
makers benoh, nor will tho Fergusons
havo TO study astronomy whilo Watoh-
ing the cattle. Kno wledge tolls it's
tidea along every mans door, and his
children may 60 down and batho in
them. If tho philosophers of a hun.
drod years ago were called up to recite
in GLASS with our boys and girls, those
old philosophers would be sent down to
the foot of the class beoause they failed
to anewor the q1estionsl Free libra,
rios in all tho important towns and
cities Of tho land, Fl Historical alcoyos
and pootioal shelves and magazine ia.
! blcs for oil who desire to walk through
them or cit down at them.
! Blossinss of quick information:
Newspapers falling all around us thick
as loaves in September cquinootiai.
Neas three days old ranoid and ntale.
We soc the whole world twice day
through the Newspaper at the breskfast
tablo and through the nc ewspapor at the
teatablo, withSan extra" here and
there between. a
Blessings Of gospel PROCLAMATION: Do
you 10 know that nearly oil tho ,mis-
siorary societies have been born within
a hundred years and nearly all the
B bio societies and nearly all tho great
philanthropio movements? Christian-
ity is on tho msroh, while infdelity is
d@indling into iplbecility. While inf
deity is thus dwindling the wheel of
Christianity is making about thous.
and revolutions in minute. All the
copies Of Shakespeare and Tenpyson
and Dioraeli and Of any ton Of tho most
popular writer's Of the day less in mum.
ber than the copies Of the Bible going
out from our printing presses. A few
years ago in six weeks moro than
| 2.000,0 600 copies of tho Now Tostamont
purchased given away, but pur.
chased, because the world will have IL.
The most popular book today is the
Bible, and the mightieat institution ia
tho churcb, and tho greatest name
among tho nations and moro honored
than any is the namo Of jesus.
Wonders Of self ssorifioo: A olergy.
man told me in the north vest that Tor
six years no WAS q missionary at the
extreme north, living 400 miles frolq
8 poatCtfice, and somotimoa, tho ther
mnn,nt or 40 doornra hoIou ,,ro. bo a1ont