The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1906-05-23
EARTHQUAKE LESSONS.
Bishop Ioreland's Sermon in Sacramento California
Sacramento Union, April 80.

man, costing him years OF toll and
millions of dollars 20 create, is dis
solved in forty-seven seconds By the
touch Of an Almighty finger. The
things that ere seen ars temporal.
The material creation, the buying and
selling, eating and drinking, marrying
and giving ic marriage must shortly
cease. Thank God, there is an in
visible, that abidcs. Arc you build
ing your life on the Rock of Ages?
Character is the only edifice that
earthquake cannot shake down or fire
destroy, and character is built on the
grace Of Jesus Christ.
The still, small voice is also teach.
ing. US the lesson Of faith, of depen-
dence upon God. I was in the city
o9 Monday, before the earthquake in
the court Of the Palace Hotel. What
scene Of gayety and lighthearted-
ness! I was there on the Friday after,
looking out from Mob Hill upon vast
sea of smoking ruin. The silence of
death brooded over the once busy oity,
broken only by the rafting Of bones
CT zine or tin which swung ia the
wind fEom the blackened skeletons.
In q few days what Q. marvellous con.
trast! . Who would have believed it
possible2 The. opera season @hsd be.
gun. Tuesday night 3 brilliant throng,
sparkling with jewels, radiant gith
pleasures filled the play :;aaoaee.3 Who
could foresee tks. in Q Few hours the
very chairs they occupied would be in
flames, the glittering city ysurroundiug
them be laid in ashes, and themselves
fleeing az from mysterious, supernat-
ural Ihorror! AS plain 5as day the
still, small voice is telling us to walk
by faith. This. is hard. lesson for
man to learn-dependenoe upon God.
He lays his plans as if he had no mas.
ter but himself. He must be taught
BY painful experience that he is in the
hollow Of Gods hand. SIT ia good
Tor me that I have been in trouble,
that may learn Thy commandments"
This mas been the story Of thousands.
Before / was afflicted I,went wrong,
but now. have I kept Thy word" -,
What, then, was the purpose Of
God In permitting this visitation?
Was it because San Francisco was
wicked beyond other oities7 oannoe
tehhiuk 80. Jesus Himself is tie an.
swsr to thrt salumny ssbas' suffering is
IL semitic paobleipsprop postion,fotEe. r
Sin. BE Was sinless, yet was made
FFe==ssecs through auffsring. His teach.
sss55 ;5 piiaiin: ::Think y,e. that thoael
upon ~ zshom .he tower ii SSiioam seli
and sslsN them were sinners above all
'otNhers9 g'tNh II tell ye, nay; but except 70
repent sye shall: all likewise perish. j
.tst. Luke xii:4 y: San Francisco, San
e Rose, San Jose are no, worse sv5iy cities
than Sacramento, which escaped. The
still, email voice speaking in I The
earthquake and fire ia for as, an, for
every oity, for our whole American !.
.aannle GedE e. :ss 7S:s5 vf E,.s Eov.
Ing warning to. this nation Instheir
abopnding prosperity have not my:
people been forgetting Met y Tn the
mad worehip Of the: almighty dollar
have they mot forgotten that they q, are !,
the children ofSGoda Have they not 1,
been aetting2up their Babel Towers Of
trade Ea and pleasure, while Ny house.
is neglected, Ny altars ,desertea z q :#. 55&
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be5aure of: hataser His purpose: i, & I! IL
wag permitted EinS love- to draw . I'd I,
closer 20 the Fsth hair s heart. ?tos sshakia.
]. us n loose q from yanity sin : lto 10 make
sas q more humble, obedient children iof.
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