The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21
STEADILY IMPROVES
DR.. TALMAGE'S SUNDAY SERMON.
Argues That the World Grows Better
Day By Day Many Opportunities
For Improvement.

For Improvement.
WASHINGTON, d. C.--In this discourse
Dr. Talrlagc rccitrs some great cyonts and
right direction; text. joel ii, 80, Il will
shoH wonders in the heavens and in the
earth"
Dr., Cumming-great and good man
wcn!d have told us the exact time of the
!n.Giilmcnt or this prophecy. As stepped
into his study in London on my arrival
from Paris just after the French had sur
rendered at Sedan the good doctor said to
ne: 1t is just what had told YOU about
Fralce. People laughed at rae because I
talked about the seven horns and the vials.
but ioresaw all this from the book OF
Daniel and the book uf Revelation" Not
terp:c:ation Of The passage, / simply as
cert that there nrc in it suggestions of
manly things in our tiiac.
Oar eyes tlilatc and o:r heart uuickens
in its Tusaticns rs VIC read OF events in
the third century, tho sixtl, ccutury. the
eEIth century, the fourteenth century,
bat here wSre more far-rcachiny events
crowded int, Shc nineteenth century than
1uto amy otter, aud toe last twenty ycars
ccirs" any preceding twenty. We read in
the tn;y newspapers 0t events announced
IL one paragraph and without amy special
cmphlsis-cvents which Il Herodotus, i
.IosrDtus, Nenophon. u Cihhon, would
hav. taken whole chapters or whole vol
-
time, we must cry out in the wo"ds Of the
text; "Nonders i'll the heavens and in the
earth"
propose to show you that the time in
and wonderful for blessing, for there must
hH lights and shades in This picture rs in
All others. Need l argue that Our time is
wonderful for disaster? Our world has
had =. rough time since. by thu hand of
Eod it was bowcd out into space 1t is
an cni;eptic earth--convulsion after convui-
sion; irosts pounding IL with ledge ham
me: "f icebrrss and fires melting it with
furnaces seven times heated. IL is = VOL
sir: - nc it has lasted 80 long. NIascors
sh i,.;Ag !!y on this side a'l;l grazing it and
me-, ,ors silaotiTg by ", ihc hrr side and
grazing It,. none OF them slowing up for
safety. Nhp.c fleets and Eavics and argo-
Fos'cs and foiillas OF worlds, sweeping all
or the hanks Of Newfoundland, viii e the
hi:lestic and the st. Paul and the kaiser
Mi!kcim der Crcsse rush by. L sides
That. onr word has by sin been damaged
~ us !nternal machinery. and ever and
anon the furnaces have burst. and the
walking Ecam1 OF the mountains have
broken, and the islands have shipped Il
sea- and the great hulk o; the world has
Dcen Jared with accidents that ever and
anon threatened immediate demolition
Ent 1t seems to us as ii the last hundred
years were especially characterized by dis,
as;c'--vo,canic, oceanic, epidemic. say
fo,cahlc because an earthquake is only
Volcano 1E:sh"d up. when SLronboii and
Cotopa:;i and Vcsuvus s.on brea thinc. let
tho foundations OF the earth bcwarei Sew.
rn thousand earthquakes in two centuries
recorded in the catalogue of tic British as
focatlon! -!ralan, the emperor, goes to
o1 hls recep:ion is met by an, cartho,1a
'' that ncar.Y destroys the empcrors life.
LiSbon, fair and beautiful. ct l O'Clock
o.. o? 'hc c. iSs Sdo Of November, l755, in six min
y 80 Of them, "Tor that region it was
- st ,iudrmcnt; nothing wanting but a
I! .mnct :" Eurape and America feeling
the th8oh-l5oo chimneys in Boston party
or. iully destroyed!
Eut the disasters of other times have
md their counterpart in later times In
1872 Caracas was caught in The grip Of an
earthquakc. in 1882 in Chile 100 900 square
miles Of land by volcanic force uphcaved
70 iour and seven feet of permanent e!c.
:vat,o7, IN 1874 Japan felt the geological
aEon:.: Naples shaken in 1857. Nte.,ico in
1s3S; Mendoza. the cani:al Of the Argentine
Republic, i'll 1861; Manila tcrrorizch in
!sG3 he Hawaiian Islands by such force
.np!,ltcst and let down in 1871; Nevada
mia in 1872, San Salvador in 1873. wife
iH:3 what subterTanean excitement! Is.
CHA. an island OF the Mediterranean, a
,beantIful Italian watering place. vineyard
s;;as sSi;aas surrounded by all natural charm and
NA'Se''i ~ ~ SOnuSr CaDrl, the
Summer resort Of the Rorlsn empcror::
yondcr Naples. the paradise oi art-this
.braut!ful isaEd suddenly topped into the
trough Of the earth. sOOO mcrrymalcrs
:periSh'nc., and some OF thcEl so far down
beneath the reach of human o,,saouics that
1T nay he said Of many I. one OF them. as
81: v':;s said Of Moses, "Thc Lord buried
him; Italy. all ljuro1e weeping, all Chris
"tcndom weeping where there were hearts
tc ssymnathiEc and Christians to pray But
'Whic the nations were measuring that
INA, ,:nitudc OF disaster. measuring il lot
will! golden rod like that with which the
angel nieasared heaven. bat with the back
rule Of feath, Java. of the Indian arch.
pe.aTo. the Host fertile i:land ~ all the
earth, Is caught in the grip of tne earth.
quake, and mountain after mouu;ain GOES
clown, and city after city until That island.
whic'i produces the hest beverage of ali
the word: produced the shast!iest catas-
trnphc. One hundred Thousand peoplc
dying, dead! Coming nearer home, on
Augnht 81 1898. the grcat carthouaka
which prost:ated oEchaif of Charleston,
IS. G.
But ioo.s at the disasters cycionic. At
the mouth of the Cangcs are three islands.
the 1iattiah, the Sundccp and the Daki!,
.Shahaznore: In the midnight OF October.
,1S77, on nil those three stands the crv
was. T:c watcrA!" a cyclone arose and
.roI.ed the scl over those three islands.
and OF a population of 349 0Gn. 2l5 900 we're