Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1902-01-09

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teras breakers? If the oceanic cables could
report all the scattered life and all the
bleached bones that they rub against in
the ocean, what message OF pathos and
tragedy for both beaches! In one storm
eighty fishermen perished off the coast OF
Newfoundland and whole fleets of them
off the coast of England. God help the
poor fellows at sea and give high seats in
heaven to the Grace Dariings and Ida
Lewises and the lifeboat men lowering
around Goodwin sands and the Skerries!
The sea, owning three.fourths OF the earth.
proposes to capture the other fourth, and
is bombardng the land all around the
earth. The moving of the hotels at Brign-
ton Beach backward 100 yards from where
they once stood, type of what is going
on all around the world and on every
coast. The Dead Sea rolls to-day where
ancient cities stood.
But nov 1 turn the leaf in my subject,
and plant the white lilies and the palm
tree amid the nightshades and the myrtle.
This age no more characterized by won.
der3 of disaster than by wonders of bless.
ing-bessng of longevity: the average OF
humsn life rapidly increasing. Forty years
now worth 900 years once.
Now l can travel from Manitoba to New
York in less than three davs. In other
| times it would have taken three months.
In other words, three days now are worth
three months Of other days. The average
of human lie practically greater now than
when Noah lived. with his $50 years, and
Methuselah lived his 500 years.
Blessings of intelligence: The Salmon P.
Chases and the Abraham Lincolns and the
Henry Wilson's of the coming time will not
be required to learn to read by pine knot
lights or seated on shoemaker's bench, nor
viii the Fergusons have to study astrono-'
my while watching the cattle. knowledge
rolls its tides along every poor mans door,
and his children may go down and bathe
in them
If the philosophers of hundred years
ago were called up to recite i'll a class with
our boys and girls, those old philosophers
would be sent down to the foot of the
class because they failed to answer the
questions!
Free libraries in all the Important towns
and cities OF the Land. Historical alcoves
and poetical shelves and magazine tables
for all who desire to walk through them
or sit down at them.
So rejoice day by day. Work for all
to co, 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 the hand Ct the Almighty Col 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 millen-
mum. l have no anxiety about the track.
/ am only afraid that for our Incidence
and unfaithfulness God will discharge us
and get some other stoker and some other
engineer. The train is going through with
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 incognito
AID in workman's dress, that he might
learn snip carpentry. by which he could
supply the needs of his people. A stran-
ger was visiting at that house, Whats
in that box?" The owner said: 81 don't
know. That box was there when | got the
house, and it was there when my father
got it. We havn't had any curiosity to
look at it. | guess there's nothing in it."
- f for t s3a We w FddoRsF doRs The ss e was yoa
paid, and the contents of that box were
| sold to the Gar of Russia for $4,000. In
| it the lathing machine OF Peter the Great,
his private letters and documents of value
| beyond all monetary consideration. And
| here are the events that seem very insig-
| niticant and uninDortant, but they incase
| treasures of Divine Providence and eterni-
| ties of meaning which after awhile God
vii demonstrate before the ages as being
of stupendous value.
When Titans play quoits they pitch
mountains, but who owns these gigantic
natural forces we are constantly reading
| acout? Whose hand is on the throttle
valve of The volcanoes? Whose foot, sud
| denly planted on the footstool, makes the
continents culver? Cod / must be at
| peace with Him.
Through the Lord Jesus Christ this God
| is mine and He is yours l put the earth
| quake that shook Palestine at the cruci-
| tixion againss all the down rocEings of the
centuries. This God on our side, we may
| challenge all the centuries of time and al
| the cycles of eternity.
,f ~, 4 60 al
| thank God that you have seen 50 many
wondrous things, but there are people
| alive to-day who may live to see the slim-
| re-ing veil between the material and the
spiritual world lifted.
Magnetism, word with which we cover
up our ignorance, will yet be an explored
realm. Electricity, the fiery courser of
and Morse and Bell and Edison have
brought under complete control, has
greater wonders 70 reveal.
Whether here or departed this life, We
will see these things. 1t does not make
much difference where we stand, but the
higher the standpoint the larger the pros
pect. We will see them from heaven if
we do not soc them from earth.
Years ago l was at Fire Island, Long
Island, and | went up in the cupola from
| which they telegraph to New York the
| approach of vessels hours before they come
lltO port luCrS Is al opening III lne wall,
and the operator puts his telescope through
that opening and looks out and sees YES
sells far out at sea. While 1 was talking
| with him he went up and looked out. He
said, I'VE are expecting the Arizona to-
night" l said: is it possible you know
all those vessels? Do you know them as
you know mans face?" He said: yes.
| never make mistake. Before | see the
hulls often know them by re masts. /
know them ALL have watc.--d them SO
| long"
Oh, what c grand thing it is to have
ships te,egraphed and heraided long before
| they come to port, that friends may come
down to the wharf and welcome their long
absent ones. So to-day we take our stand
in the watch tower, and through the glass
of Inspiration we look eff and see a whole
| fleet of ships coming in. That is the ship
| of peace, flag with one star of Bethlehem
| foa ling above the topgallants. That is
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