Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-23

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the text upon ws.ich Rev DR.. VI Talia-
ferro Thompson, pastor Of the lexington
Presbyterian Church. preached yesterday
morning. After dramatic description of
the happening and It's dire result. Dr..
Thompson spoke Of the lessons to be
learned from IT In part he said:
The brotherhood OF man is the grand
spectacle that - presented to the world
today Of the great American heart touched
to its very depths, 30 that from every quar-
ter OF our country there have gone. and
still are going, words of sympathy, and,
better still. material help by great trains
OF provisions and by telegraphing funds
for thousands. Dollars footing into the
hundreds Of thousands. and even millions.
to meet the necessities OF their brethren.
That's it-their brother men. We recognize
them as brethren. Their hearts have boon
wrung and our hearts have been touched
by the common suffering. We feel with
them. We feel for them That's a picture
for the world. at large that has it's lessons.
aThe day Is coming, friends, when we
viii all need greater sympathy than t raa
day Is coming when all distinctions that
obtain among men will be obiiterated, and
we shall all be down to the common level
as mere sinners in the sight OF God. am
taken away by what events like this fore
cast-a day OF coming judgment And We
win want the sympathy that is divine, for
human sympathy is nerveless. helpless
then, and we will be ready, every one OF
US, to disclaim anything in and OF our
selves growing out of culture or merito-
rious conditions, and in the sight or God
will be ready to cry out, God be mereiiui
to u.s. sinners
That's the common cry. How many men
deny, Judgment! How many men there are.
would-be scientists. who utterly repudiate
that great physical catastrophe. that the
book describes, that even the lips OF in
carnate love foreteli, Is to be witnessed
by all men in the last days; but, friends.
is that impossible?
A Subordinate Judgment.
1.-THE wonder to me is that the surface
of this old earth does not collapse long in
advance of that time and make subor-
dinate judgment. When / think of the
amount of gas that is being taken out of
the great subterranean reservoirs, the
great natural gas tanks of the earth; when
l think of the million upon millions of
gallons of petroleum that are being
drawn necessarily from the bowels of our
world, when reflect upon the necessar-
lily immense cavities thatsmust be thus
great supports Of our country do not give
way and that we do not plunge out of
sight into the depths of the earth. What
holds il up? The cavities are there. We
cannot believe that they are not. All Of
the centuries have contributed to these
immense supplies and what is to take
their place?
But passing that 1 am of those men
who. profess to say that tbs earth of ours
in its interior Is molten fire, liquid flame,
that the crust of this earth in its solt6ity
sustained the proportion to that molten
interior that the rind of an orange sus-
stains to the interior of the orange So
here we are, just on this egg shell of our
earth over all of these molten fires. God
ticular any one of the mutitudinous chem
ical constituents of our world and 1t will
go up like smoke. God has only to utter
His mandate to his servant and the inter-
ior molten mass of our world would burst
like a bomb and send us, with all of Its
fragments. scattering into space and yet
men have the hardihood to sit down and
deny that there can be the least evidence
of the passing away of the great mass OF
our world with all that is thereon, or It's
being burned up at the coming of the
King.
In Colored Churches.
At the services at john Wesley y. NJ +.
Zion Church, on 18th street between l. and
NJ streets, at II O'Clock yesterday Rev. Dr.
w. A. Blackwell preached a sermon, taking
as his text Psalms. xxvi:4-5, subject. 'fhe
Necessity of Being Under Gods Care
After a comment on the text and subject,
he said: Every great catastrophe every
where but demonstrates tie necessity Oh
being in Gods house or under His protec-
ton. Tie sympathies of the Christian
are homeless today in the streets of San
Francisco. Some one said to me that the
destruction OF Frisco was a Judgment OF
God because of the Missouri and other
lynchings. / do not want my people to be-
lieve or be led into such error. God Is just,
and while He says Vengeance Is Mine, II
would be unjust to charge Him with such
a course in human affairs The speaker
then made an earnest appeal for aid for the
stricken sufferers, and the prompt response
of the congregation to the collection for
the fund WAS expressive of their SYM
pathy.
At Galbraith Zion Methodist Church. 9th
street, Rev. DIR. s. l.. Corrothers. at O'Clock
pm. preached a sermon from Revelations,
iii1T-1S He spoke at length on the destruc-
ton of San Francisco. saying that the
whole civilized world joins in tie sympathy
for the victims of the fire. The congrega-
ton was asked to contribute to the relief
fund, and a collection was taken.
Views of Dr. Stafford
At the II o'clock mass at ST. Patrick's
Roman Catholic Church yesterday morning
announcement was made by Rev DR.. ID. J.
Stafford the pastor, that a special colIec-
ton will be taken in that church next Sun
day for the benefit of the San Francisco
sufferers He 50 i'd in part:
THE appalling calamity which has be-
fallen the city of San Francisco touches the
heart OF the whole nation One refuses to
let the mind dwell the details of the sit
uation-they are too narrowing. 1t is our
privilege to aid the unfortunate. The only
features of relief In the situation are the
magnificent and immediate response of the
whole people to the call of the needy and
the courage with which the people of San
Francisco have faced the situation l am
glad the President has refused outside aid.
We must be ratefu to all the nations who
want to help us, but it is duty too sacred
to be shared with any. We can and will
do it. / doubt whether such a quick gen
erous response would be possible in any
other country.
Some foolish people who know the coun-
ellis of the Almighty, and who think the
Omnipotent God sits on His throne only oc-
cupied in wathcing His opportunity to pun
ish sinners will tell you that this is His
Judgment and punishment of the sins of the
people. If you follow that logic out you
would have to have earthquakes all over the
world until the human race is destroyed
Fudge and nonsense!