Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-12-09

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Joe II. 80. Il will show wonders in the
heavens and in the earth"
DIR. CummiDg-greaf and good man
would have old us the exact time OF
the fulfllment of his prophecy. AS 1
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 I had told you about France.
People laughed at me because / talked
abOu the seven horns and the Walls,
but | foresaw all this from the book of
Daniel and the book of Revelation"
Not taking n such responsibility in
b Interpretation of the passage. /
simply assert that there are in ii sug~
gestions of many things in our time
Our eyes dilate and our heart quick
ems I'm its pulsations as we read Of
events in the third century. the sixth
century. the eighth century. the four
teenth century. but there were more
~farreaching vents crowded into the
nineteenth century than into any 9th
er. and the last twenty years eclipse
n preceding twenty. We read In the
daily wspaper of vents announced
in one paragraph and without any spe-
cinl emphasis-eventS which a He
rodOtus. a ~JOsephus, a Xenophon, a Glib
bon. 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 earthr"
I propose to show you that the time
In which we live is wonderful for dis
o-J .-o,Jo,frI 60. HIoee;1x fO,
there must be lights and shades in his
picture as In all others. Need l argue
that our time is wonderful for disas-
ter? Our world has had a rough time
since by the hand of God it was bowl
ed out into space. 1t is an epileptic
earth CONFUSION after commissions;
frosts pounding it with sledge ham,
mer of iceberg and fires melting 1t with
furnaces seven times heated, 1t Is a
wonder to me ii has lasted so long.
MeteOrs shooting by on this side and
grazing it and meteors shooting by on
h other side aud grazing it, none of
them slowing up for safety. Whole
fleets and navies and argosies and flo
Itillas Of worlds sweeping all about US.
Our earth like Il fishing smack off the
banks of Newfoundland. while the Ma
jestic and the St. Paul and the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse rush by. Besides
that, our world has by sin been dam
aged in its internal machinery. and
ever and M the furnaces have burst,
and the walking beams of the noun
tainS have broken. and the Stands have
shipped Il sea. and the great hulk of
the world has been Jared with acct
dents that ever and amor threatened
immediate demolition.
A Century of Disasters.
. But it seems to us as if the last hun
dred years were especially character
lied by disaster-volcanic, oceanic, ep-
idemic. ] say volcanic because an
earthquake is only a volcano hushed
up. When Stromboli and Cotopaxi
and Vesuvius stop breathing, let the
foundations of the earth beware, Sew
en- thousand earthquakes in two Gen.
turies recorded in the catalogue of the
British association. Trajan. the en-
peror, goes to ancient Antioch and
amid the splendOrs of his reception is
met by an earthquake that nearly de-
Stroys the emperOr's life. Lisbon, fair
and beautiful. at l ( o'clock on the 1St of
November. 1855. in six minutes 10000
have persisted, and Voltaire writes of
them. For hat region it was the last
Judgment, nothing wanting but a trum-
peti" Europe aud America feeling the
throb-1.50 o chimneys in Boston partly
or fully destroyed, /
But the disasters of other times have
had their counterpart in later times.
In 1910 CaraonS mos oo1nhf in tho
grip of an earthquake. in 1882 in Chile
100000 square miles of land by vol
canic force upheaved to four and seven
feet of permanent elevation, in 1854
Japan felt the geological agony; Ma
pies shaker in 1857. Mexico in 1858;
Mendoza, the capital of the Argentine
Republic. in 1861; Manila terrorized in
1868: the Hawaiian Islands by such
force uplifted and let down in 1871;
Nevada shaken in 1871. Antioch in
1872. California in 1872. San Salvador
In 1878, while in 1893 what subter-
ranean excitement. Ischia, an island
Of the Mediterranean, a beautiful Ital-
Ian watering place, vineyard clad, sur
rounded by all natural charm and his
eorical Renaissance; yonder Capri, the
gumme resort of the Roman emperors;
yonder Naples, b paradise of art
this beautiful island suddenly toppled
into the trough of the earth. 5000 mer-
Tymakers perishing, and some Of them
so far down eneath the reach Of hu-
man o~bsequies hat IL may be said of
many a one of them. as it was said of
Moses. The Lord buried him." Italy,
all Europe weeping, all Christendom
weeping where there were hearts to
sympathize and Christians TO pray.
But while the nations were measuring