The people's recorder. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1893-1925, 1901-12-21

dations and took dwelling houses, barns,
men, women. children, horses, cattle and
tossed them into indigcriminate ruin and
mightier hand than that Of engineer, on
the airbrale. Cyclone in Kansas, cyclone
in Missouri, cyclone in Wisconsin, cyclone
in illinois, cyclone in Iowa! Satan, prince
OF the power Of the air. never made sISh sue,
And am not right in saying that one OF
the characteristics of the tilne il which
We live is disaster .cyclonic!
But look at the disasters oceanic. Shall
I call the roll of the dead shipping; Ye
Your names. The Vile de Havre, the
Schiller, the City Of Boston, the Melville,
the President, the Cin,brie, the Oregon,
the NIohegan. But why should go OIL
sSns Mes aad tnf tho be ro Mhs is as onr of the ths w
scroll of the Atlantic surf at Cape Flat.
teras breakers? Ii the oceanic cables could
report all the scattered life and all the
bleached bones that they rub against in
tragedy. for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen perished off the coast of
Newfoundland and whole fleets of them
of the coast Of England: Cod help the
heaven, to tue Grace Dar:iags and Ida
Lewises and the ifeboat men lowering
around Goodwin sands and the S.scrrcs!
Tho sea, owning three fourths Of the, earth.
proposes to capture tae other fourth, and
is bor,harding the land all around the
Garth. The moving o: the hotels at Brigh-
ton Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood, t-pe OF what is going
on all around the world and on every
coast coast: Ihe Dead Sea rolls to-day where
So Il rejoice day by day. Work for nil
to do, and We may turn the crank OF the
Christian machinery this way or that, for
we are free agents. But there is the track
by tac hand Of the Almighty God in sock
cts that no terrestrial or satanic pressure
can ever affect.
And along the track the car Of the
worlds redemption will roll and roll to
the Grand Central depot of the mil,cn-
I ain on:y afraid that for our iado!ence
and unfaithfuiness God will discharge is
and get some other stoker and some other
engineer, The train is going through witt,
us or without us.
!, There is a house. in London where Peter
the Great of Russia lived awhile when he
was moving through the land incoz7iso
and in workman's dress, that I've might
learn ship carpentry: by which he could
sarpy the ;1itn NEEDS Of Of his people: stra?-
in that hox?" The owner said: "I dom
know. That box was there when got the
house, and it was there when MY father
got i, We havn't had any curiosity to
tCo.A ~ ~. rueSS lnere nOsn(HG IN IL.
e. for t o Weli S li,'dser dosse The sss ss wos xos
paid, and the contents Of that box were
sold to the Gar OF Russia for sJO.O00. In
it the lathing machine OF Peter the Great,
his private letters and documents of value
beyond all monetary consideration. And
here gre the events that seem very .ins.g-
nilcant and Mniinportant. but tEey incase
treasures OF Divine Providence and etcr1:-
ties Of meaning which after awhile Cod
will leD,nnCfrrfo 1oforn fhn lo;-
OF stupandous value.
When Titans play ruoi,- they pitch
mountains, but who p%'as tEasc g:rsrtic
natural forces we a'.t :. rca tiir,:
about? Whose haui i; + > tn-r :"
yciEe of the ,yo,cnnoes Nc..,0 ;;>,, =.
denly painted on ;;lc io,tsEoo. ..., .gs enc
continents culver: Coz! [ w"s: h. at
peace with Him. ', ,...
Through the Lord Jesus Christ this Cod
E,,1 is mlne .a ana he IS yours. "a TIC Garth
fiSion against all the down roc.sings of the
centuries. This God on our side, we may
challenge all the centuries of time ald al
the cyc,es. of eternity.
those of you who arc in midlife may wei
thank God that you have seen SO many
wyondrons things, but there ere peop.c
alive to-day who may live to see the SHIN
mering veil between the material and the
spiritual world lifted.
aIagnetism, a word with which, we cover
up our ignorance, will yet be III explored
realm. Electricity. the fiery courscr OF
the sky, that Benjamin Franklin lassoed
and Morse and Bell and Edison have
brought under complete control, has
greater wonders to reveal.
Whether here or departed this life, wc
will see these things. II does no. make
m lch difference where we stand, bu. the
higher The standpoint the larger tac pro,-
pect: We viii see them from heaven if
we do no; see them from Garth.
Years ago I was at Fire Island, Long
Island, and I went mp in tlc cupo:n f-orl
which they telegraph to New Ioris the
approach of vessels hours befo:, the. come
into port. There is an opening in the wall,
and the operator puts. hi; Telescope through
that opening and loo'zs out and sees YES
sells far ont at sea. While T was talking
with him he went uo and looked at lie
said, we are expecting The Arizona to-
night" I said: SIS it possible you know
all those vessels? Do you know them us
you knov q mans face:" lie said: "Ycs.
{ never make a mistake. Before 1 see tn.
hul.s often know tEela by The n.asts. I
know. them all have watche them so
long"
Oh, what a grand thing it is to have
ships te.egraphea and heraldcd lc.1g before
they come to port, that friends may come
down to the WAR; and welcome their long
absent ones! So to-day we take our stand
in the wa:ch tower, and through the g.ass
OF inspiration we look of and sec whoe