Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-13

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WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. - In this dis
course DR.. Talmage recites some great
events and shows that the world is ad-
vancing in the right direction: text. Joel
ii. 3d. II will show wonders in the heav-
ems and in the earth"
DIR. Cumming-great and good man
would have told us the exact time of the
fulfllment Of this prophecy. As l 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 Reve-
lation." Not taking any such RESPONSE
bility in the Interpretation Of the passage.
! simply assert that there is in it sugges-
tons of many things in our time.
Our eyes dilate and our heart quickens
in its pulsations as we read of events in
the third century. the sixth century. the
eighth century. the fourteenth century.
but there were more farreaching events
crowded into the nineteenth century than
into any other. and the last twenty years
eclipse any preceding twenty. We read
in the daily newspapers Of events an
nouneed in one paragraph and without
any special emphasis-events which a
HerodOtus a JOsephus. a Xenophon. 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 heav-
ems and in the EARTH
| propose to show you that the time in
which we live is wonderful for disaster
and wonderful for blessing for there
mus be lights and shades in this picture
as in all others Need | argue that our
time is wonderful for disaster? Chr world
has had a rough time since by the hand
of God it was bowled out into space. 1t is
an epileptic earth -cOnvulsion after con
vulsion; frosts Dounding it with sledge
hammer of iceberg and fires melting il
with furnaces seven times heated. It is a
wonder to me it has lasted so long. Mete-
ors shooting by on this side and grazing il
and meteors shooting by on the other side
for safety. Whole fleets and navies and
argoSins and flotillas of worlds sweeping
all about us. Our earth like a fishing
smack off the banks of Newfoundland
while the Majestic and the st. Paul and
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse rush by
| Besides that, our world has by sin been
damaged in its internal machinery. and
ever and anon the furnaces have burst
| and the walking beams Of the mountains
have broken. and the islands have ship
ped sea. and the great hulk of the world
| has been Jared with accidents that evei
and anon threatened immediate demoli
/ ton.
A Century Of Disasters.
But it seems to us as if the last hundred
/ years were especially characterized b!
disaster-volcanic. oceanic. epidemic.
| say volcanic because an earthquake is onl.
a volcano hushed mp. When Stromboli an,
/ CotOpaxi and Vesurius stop breathing. le
tle-fouadations of the earth beware! Sew
en- thousand earthquakes in two centurie
/ recorded in the catalogue Of the Britis
association Trajan. the emperor. goes t
ancient Antioch and amid the splendOr
Of his reception is met by ali earthquak
that nearly destroys the emperof's life
Lisbon. fair and beautiful. at o'clock o.
the LIST of November, 1TT5. in six minute
10000 have persisted. and Voltaire write
Of them. For that region it was the las
| Judgment, nothing wanting but a trum
pet. Europe and America feeling th
throb-1,500 chimneys in Boston partly o
fully destroyed
But the disasters Of other times hav
had their counterpart in later times. L
1917 Caracas was caught in the grin O
an earthquake. in 1882 in Chile 10000
square miles of land by volcanic force ur
heaved to four and seven feet of perma
nent elevation, in 1854 Japan felt the 20
illogical agony; Naples shaken in 1851
Mexico in 1858: Mendoza. the capital a
the Argentine Republic. in 1861: Manil
terrorized in 1868: the Hawaiian Island
by such force uplifted and let down /
1871; Nevada shaken in 1871. Antioch i
1872. California in 1872. San Salvador I
1873. while in 1888 what subterranea
excitement. Ischia. an island Of the MED
iteTranean. q beautiful Italian waterin
place, vineyard clad. surrounded by a
natural charm and historical remini.
cenee; yonder Capri. the summer rcSoi
of the Roman emperors; yOnder Naples
the paradise of art-this beautiful islam
suddenly tOpped into the trough of I'll
earth, 5000 merrymakers perishing, an
some of them so far down beneath tn
/ reach Of human obsequies that it may 1
said of many a one of them. as it wa
said Of Moses. THE Lord buried him.
Italy, all Europe weeping. all Chri
tendon weeping. whore there were hear
to sympathizP and Christians to pra.
But while the nations were measurin
that magnitude of disaster. measuring
not with golden rod like that with whiC
the angel measured heaven, but wit
the black rule of death. Java of IL
Indian archipelago. the most ferti
island of all the earth is caught in Il
grip of the earthquake. and mountain az
er mountain goes down and city after eli
until that island. which produces the be-
beverage Of all the world. produced Il
ghastliest catastrophe One hundred tho
sand people dying. dead! Coming near
home, on Aug. 81. 1886 the great cart
quake which Frustrated one-half
Charleston. S. c.
Swept by Cyclones.
But look at the disasters cyclonic.
the mouth Of the Ganges are three islam
the Haitian. the Sunderp and the Oak
ShahaZpOre In the midnight of Octnht
1871. on al! those three islands the e
was, "'rhe waters" A cyclone arose M
t rolled the sea over those three island
end of a population of 340.O0O 215.O
, were drowned Only those saved VI
{ had climbed to the top Of thp highc
trees, Did You ever see a cyclone? y
Then ! pray God you may never seq OF
= ] saw n cyclone on the ocean. and
swept us SEQ miles back from our cour.
a2d for thirty-six hours during the {
clone and after it we expected every N
ment TO 20 to the bottom. They told
before we retired at 0 O'Clock that the |
rometer had fallen, but at IL O'Clock
night we were awakened with the shO
, Of che waves. All the lights out. era
went all the lifeboats. Waters rushi
through the skylights down into the CO
in and down on the furnaces until tn
Missed and smoked in the deluge. Sew
hundred people praying, shrieking. 0
great ship poised a moment on the top
: a mountain of phosphorescent fire a
then plunged down, down, down, until
seemed as if she never would again
righted. All, you never want to see a {
clone at sea.
BUT / was in Minnesota, where the
was one of those cyclones on land tn
swent the city of Rochester from its fou
latiJhs and took dwelling houses. barr
men, women, children. horses. cattle, a
tossed them into indiscriminate ruin a
lifted a rail train and dashed it down,
mightier hand than that of engineer
the airbrake. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclic
in Missouri. cyclone in Wisconsin. cyclic