Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-12-14

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WASHINGTON. Dec. SIN this dis
course DR.. Talmage recltes some great
events and shows that the world Is
advancing In the right direction; text
Joel IL, 80, Il will show wonders In the
heavens and in the earth"
DR.. Cumming-great and good man
would have told US the exact time OF
the fulillmcnt OF this prophecy. AS |
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: ut Is just
what had told you about France.
People laughed at me because talked
abou. the seven horns and the yials,
Int foresaw all this from the book or
Daniel and the book Of Revelation
Not taking any such responsibility In
the Interpretation of the passage,
simply assert that there are In 1t sug-
gestIons of many things In our time.
Our eyes dllate and our heart quick
ems IN its pulsatIons as we read OF
events In the third century. the sixth
century, the eighth century. the Tour
teenth century. but there were more
farreachlng events crowded Into the
nineteenth century than into any 9th
er. and the last twenty years eclipse
any preceding twenty. We read In the
daily newspapers OF events announced
I'm one paragraph and without any spe-
cial emphasis-events which a de-
rodotus. q Josephus. Xenophon, CID
hon. would have taken whole chapters
or whole volumes to elaborate. Look
ing out upon our time. we must cry
out IN the words OF the text. wonders
in the heavens and In the earth''
propose to show you that the time
I'm which we live Is wonderful for dis
aster and wonderful for blessing, FOR
there must bp lights and shades 10 this
plcture ms In all others. Need ! argue
that our time is wonderful for disas-
ter? Our world has had rough time
since by the hand OF God 1t was Dowl-
ed out into space. 1t Is an epiieptic
earth = convulsloD after convulsion'
frosts pounding II with sledge ham,
mer OF Iceberg and fires melting II WIN
furnaces seven times heated. 1t Is a
wonder TO me II has lasted so long.
Meteors shooting by on this side ana
urazinp II and meteOrs shooting by on
-the other side and grazing IT. none OF
them slowing up for safety. Whole
fleets and navIps and argosies ana no
: tIllas of worlds sweeping all about US
Our earth like fishing shRcK on the
banks OF Newfoundland. while the Ma
iestlc and the st. Paul and the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse rush by. Besides
thai. our world has by sin been dam
agad In It's internal machinery. and
ever and anon the furnaces have burst
and the walking beams Of the noun
taIns have broken. and the Islands have
shipped a sea. ard the great hulk Of
the world has been Jared with acci
dents that ever and anon threatened
immediate demolition.
A Century of Disasters.
But It seems to us as II the last hun
dred years were especially character
ized by dlsaster-volcanic. oceanic. ep
idemIc. say volcanic because al
earthquake Is only volcano hushet
ND. When Stromboll and Cotopax
and yesuvlus stop breathing, let thu
foundations Of the earth beware! Sew
en- thousand earthquakes In two cen
turtles recorded In the catalogue Of thu
British association! Trajan. the em
peror, goes to ancient Antioch ant
amid the splendors OF his reception i
met by an earthquake that nearly de
stroys the emperor's life. Lisbon. fal
and beautiful. at o'clock on the lst o
November. 1855. In six minutes 6O.OO
have perished. and voltaire writes o
them. "For that region It was the las
Judgment. nothing wanting but trum
). petp Europe and America feeling tn
throb-1,5OO chlmneys In Boston partl
or fully destroyed.
But the disasters Of other times hav
had their counterpart In later times
In 1912 Caracas was caught In th
grip OF an earthquake. In lSS2 in Chll
100000 square miles OF land by vo
canlc force upheaved to four and seve
y feet OF permanent elevation. In lSo
japan felt the geological agony: M
ples shaken In 1851. Mexico In lSoe
Mendoza. the capital OF the Argentin
RepublIc. in 1861: Manila terrorized !
1868: the IlawalIan Islands by sue
force upllftcd and let down In lSH
Nevada shaken in 1871. Antioch
q 1879. California In 1872. San Sa.vadc
70 In 1873, while In 1893 what suDte
ranean excitement. lschia. an islam
OF the Mediterranean. a beautiful lta
, ian watering place. vineyard clad, su
rounded by all natural charm and hi
~ torlcal remIniscence; yonder Capri, IL
summer resort OF the Roman emperor
IN yondrr Naples. the paradise OF art
as this beautiful island suddenly topple
Of into the trough OF the earth. 5000 me
Oh rynfakers pprIshng. and some OF the
10 so far down beneath the reach or h
man obseques that II may lie said
2 many n one OF them. as II was said
Moses "T5, Lord buried him" ltal
Tall Europe weeping. all Christendo
- weeping where there were hearts
sympathize and Christians to pra
But while the nations were measurir
that magnitude OF disaster. measurir
II not with golden rod like that Wi
- which the angel measured heaven. D.
with the black rule Of death. Java
the Indian archipelago. the most re
tile island OF all the earth. Is caught
;. the grip Of the earthquake. and mou
tain after mountain goes down al
city after city until that island. Will
produces the best beverage OF all {
world, produced the ghastliest cata
trophe. One hundred thousand pc
BILE dying, deadl Coming nearer hon
on Aug. 81, 1886, the great earthqua
- which Frustrated one-half of Charl
ton, s. G.