The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1901-12-20
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The Time In Which We Liyeis Won
# tierful FOR DisasteYs and Blessings.

Tho Time In w hioh We Live ID w on.
derful for Disasters and Blessings.
Tn 9thissdiaoourse Dr.. Talmage rooitos
soma great events and shows that the
! world is sdyanoipg in tho right diroe.
q tion; text, Joel ii, 80. II will show
wonders in the heayons and in tho
Dr. Cumming great and good man
would have told us tho exc OF time Of
4 tho osf1lfillmont of this prophecy. AS /
stepped into his Study in London on my
N arrival from Paris, just aftor the Frepch
a had N surrendered st Sedan. the good
S5 cotorS said 60 me |: - It 10 just what
have told you about Franco. People
3 laughed at mo because ] talked about
the seven horns and tho vials, but |
Y foresaY all this from the book OF Dan
& siel and tho book OF Revelation. : Not
taking any suoh responsibility in the
! Interpretation Of tho passege. 1 simps
Il IL assert that thore is in it suggestionn VI
& many things in our timo.
Our eyes dilate and our heart quick.
J ems in its pulsations as we read of
events in the third century, the sixth
century, tho eighth century, the four
teonth oentury, but there woro mora
! farrcaching evenla crowded into tho
\ nineteeonth century than into any
y other, and tho last twonty years eclipse
d any preceding twenty. We read IN tho
& daily newspapers Of events announced
4 in one paragraph and without any spo-
oial emphasis svonts which q Hero.
4 dotus Josephus, a Xenophon, a Glib
i bon would have taken whole obaptels
81 or whoio volumes to elaborate. Look
ing out UPON our timo we must CRY out,
in the words Of tho text, Wonders in
tho heavens and in tho Garth =
I propose to show you that the time
I. in which NO 1.-Two is wond orful for disaa
ter and wonderful far blessing, FIR thors
must be lights and ehsdos in this pic
3 ture az in all Others. Need / argue that
3 our timo 10 wonderful for diesstor2 Our
world has he'd rough timo since by the
hand Of God it wss bowled out into
space. It is un epileptio earth-oon.
vulsion aftcr convuleion; frosts bound
ing it with siedge hammor OF ioeberg
sand fire melting It with furnaces aeyen
times hastod. II is a wondor to mo it
has lasted soNoDg. Moteors shooting
by on this side and grazing it aud metc-
ors shooting by on tho other side and
grazing it, mono Of thero slowing up for
safety. Whole aoets and navios and
argosies and fotillas Of worlds sweepipg
all about us. Our earth like q fishing
smack off the banks Of Newfoundland,
while tho Msj .stio and tho st. Paul
and the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
rush by. Besides that, our world has
by sin been damaged in it's internsl ma
ohinery, and ever and anon the furn.
ACES havo burst, and tho walking beams
OF the mountains have broken, aud the
islands have shipped a sea, and the
great hulk Of the world has boon Jared
with accidents that over and anon
! threatened Immediate demolition.
But it seems to ua rs il tho last hum
! dred yoaIs were especially characterized
4 by disaster voloar;o, ooeauio, cpido-
milo. say volcanic because en- oarth.
When Stromboli and Ootopaxi and
Vesuvius atop breathing, let the foun,
Y cations Of the earth boware! Seven
y thousand earthquakes in two centuries
\ recorded in the catalogue Of tho Brit
ish aGsociostionl Trajan, the emperor,
q goes to ancient Antioch and amid the
q spleNdors.of hipSrsception is met by an
81 Sarth hquske that noafly deatroys tho
n emper on 8 life. Lisbon, fair. and beauti.
seS ful, ,ntI / 'olock on the Let of Novom.
s. ber, 1776, in Six minutes 10000 have
gperished, aud Yoltaire writes Of them,
'i]i' l5st For that region it was the last jadg,
ment, nothing wanting but q trumpet" !"
u Europe and America foeiing the tbrob
ri 800 ohinneys in Boston partly OF
fully destroyed =
But the disastors Of other timos have
K had thoir counterpart in lator tim ss.
In 1912 Caracas was caught in the grip
Of an earthquake, in 1882 ia Ohile 100,.
600 square milos Of land by VOLCANIC
force upheayed to four ar d soven feet
z OF permenent elevation, in 1854 j apan
felt tho geological agony; Naples
shaken in 1867, Mexico in 1858; NJ on
S doza, the capi,a! Of the Argentine r.,
%publio,i in 1861; Manila terrorized In
4 1863;Stho Hawaiian Islands by suoh
force uplifted and lot down in 1871; Ne
! :sssS ss ada shaken in 1871, Autioc IN 1872,
! California in 1872, San Salvador in
1873, whilo in 1883 what subterraneau
u excitement! leohla, an island OF tho
u Mediterranean, beautiful Italian wat
s eriug plaos, vineyard Glad, surrounded
u by all natural obarn and historical re-,
aminiscence; yonder Carri ,iiJAda summer
resort of the Roman nan ymporors; yondor
3 Naples, psfadise Of art this beautiful
isiaR6 suddenly topplcd into the trough
sssofT the Garth, 5000 morry makers per-
Mishing, and some Of them 80 far dow n
4 beneath the reach Of human obsequiss
that it may be said Of many one of
them, as it was said Of Moaes. "Tho
n Lord buried him." Italy, ell Europe
weeping, all Ohriotendom woeping,
where there wero hearts to sympathizo
and Christians to pray. But while the
nations were measuring that msgnitud Q
OF disaster, measuring it not with gol-
Il den rod like that with which The angel
Il measured hoavon, but with the black
rule Of death, Java Of the Indian arohi
4 pelago, the most fertileisland Of oil the
4 earth, ID caught in the grip Of the earth
2 quake, snd mountain sfter mountain
goes down and city after city until that
4 island, which produces the best bever
3 age all tho world. produced the ghast
liest catastrophe. Ono hundred thou
q sand people dying, doadi Coming
4 nearer homo, on Aug. 81, 1886, the
great earthquake which Frustrated ono.
half Of Oharleaton, s. O.
u u. =.