The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1902-03-07
SOME GREAT EVENTS.
Dr.. Talmage D.scourses on the
Worlds Advancement
says Il .. in the Right Direction
Present Time Wonderful for
Disaster and Wonderful
Tor blessing.


some great events and shows that tA,
World is advancing in The right dircc
tiou; text, Joel 2:3O: 81 will show
Wonders in the heavens and iu the
earth
DIR. Cumming-great and good man
would have told Us the exact time
+ OF the fu.h.lment of this prophecy
As stepped into his study ia London
Oh my arrival from Paris, just after
tAe French had surrendered at StCan.
The good doctor said TO me: 81 is
just whatI have told you about France.
People laughed at me because a'k,a
about the seven horns and the ,ials,
uut 1 foresaw all this from the book
OF Daniel and the book Of Revelation.
Not taking any such responsibility in
The Interpretation of the passage
simply assert that there are in 10 sug-
gesiious of many things in our time.
Our eyes diiate and our heart quick
ems iu its pulsations as We read Of
events in the third century. the sixth
century, the fourteenth century. but
there were more far-reaching events
crowded into the nineteenth century
than into any other, aud the last 20
years eclipse any preceding 20. We
read in The daily newspapers Of events
announced in one paragraph and With
ont any special emphasis--e,cnis
which a Herodotus, a Josephus. a
Ncnophon, a Gibbon would have taken
whole chapters or whole volumes to
elaborate. Looking out upon our
time we must cry out, in the word, of
The text: WONDERS ia the heavens
aud IN the earth"
propose TO show you thai the time
in which We live is wonderful for dis
uster and wonderful for blessing. for
there must be lights and shade, iu This
picture as In all others. Need argue
that our time is wonderful for di-as-
ter? Our world has had a rough time
since by the hand of God it was bowed
out into space. 1t is an epiepiice earth
-conyulsion after conyulsion; frosts
pounding it with s.edge hammer Of
iceberg and fires melting 10 with iur-
naccs seven times heated. il is
wonder TO NE 80 has lasted 80 long
Meteors shooting 10y On this side and
grazing 10 and mcteors shooting by
on the other side and grazing it, none
of them slowing up for safety. Whole
fleets and navies and argosies and
fotillas Of worlds sweeping all about
us. Our earth like q fishing smack of
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 fits internal machinery. .
and ever and anon the furnaces have .
burst, and the walking beams Of the F
mountains have broken, and the is- .
lands have shipped sea, and the great .
bulk Of the world has been Jared wish F
accidents that ever and anon have .
threatened immediate demolition.
But IL seems TO us as IL the last hume
drcd years were especially character
led by disaster-yolcauic oceanic.
epidemic. 1 say volcanic because an
earthquake is only a volcano hushed
up. When Stromooli and COtopaxi
and Nesuyius stop breathing. let the
foundations Of the earth beware,
Seven thousand earthquakes in two
recorded in the catalogue OF
he British association Trajan. the
Emperor, goes to ancient Antioch and
imid the splendors Of his reception is
net by an earthquake that nearly de-
.troys the emperor's life. Lisbon, fair
md beautiful, at one O'Clock on the
st Of November, 1775, in six minutes
000O have perished, and Noiairc
writes Of them: "For that region il
vas the last judgment, nothing want
ng but a trumpet" Europe and
America feeling the throb-1 800 chin
eys in Boston partly or fully de-
troyed.
But the disasters Of other times have
ad their counterpart in later times.
% 1912 Caracas was caught in the grip
( an earthquake. in 1ss2 in Chill lO0.-
90 square miles Of land by volcanic
orcc upheaved TO four and seven feet
permanent elevation, in 1854 Japan
eli the geological agony; Naples
hakcn in 1851, Mexico in 1Sjs; Men
oza, The capital OF the Argentine Re
ubiic, in 1SCl; Manila terrorized in
s63; the Hawaiian islands by such
lrce up.iftcd and let down in ISL;
c,ada shaken in 1871. Antioch in 1872.
alifornia I'm 1872. San Salvador in 1873.
bile in 1883 what subterrancan eN-
cement. Ischia, an island of the J
.editerranean, beautiful Italian wa
.rinG place, vineyard clad, surrounded J
y all natural charm and historical {
yonder Capri, the sum- c
cr resort Of the Roman emperors; :
lndcr Naples. the paradise OF art q
lis beautiful island suddenly TOPPED j
TO the trough Of the earth. 5000 y
crrymakers perishing. and some OF {
lem so far down beneath the reach OF 9
imam obsequies that 80 may be- said a
many q one Of them. as ID wa, said {
Moses: The Lord buried him." q
ally. al Europe weeping. an Chris C
ndom weeping, where there were Z
'arts 20 sympa hize and Christians to "
av. But while the nations were h
tasurine that magnitude OF disaster. 81
assuring it not with golden rod like il
at with which The angel measured o
.aven. but with the black rule oi Il
ath. Java. OF The Indian archipelago. u
c most fertile island of all the earth. 81
caught in ihe grip OF the earthquake. c
% mountain after mountain goes n
.wn and city after city until that is- d