The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-08-12

if. 'tNow, here Is the dining room, where I can eat with my dear ones, and here Is the nursery, where my babies can play. Now, here is a room for my sister Here Is my wife's room. There is to be the guest chamber" Yes. he built his house as a home, and when that deluge broke loose it not only destroyed the foolish man, but also the members of his own house No man spiritually can be saved alone or destroyed alone. He either takes others with him to glory or else he drags others down with him into eternal de- spair.
 Man in the spiritual sense Is destroyed AS many families were destroyed in the famous Iohnstown flood. When the last sun of May, 1889, set behind the western hills of Pennsylvania, Johnstown was filled with hundreds of peaceful homes and happy 1resides. Suddenly during that awful night the Conemaugh dam broke, and the water of a whole lake came tump- ling down upon that doomed city. With in 2 few moments" said pr. David Beale, an eve witness, nearly 5000 human beings had been launched into eternity and 250O homes had been utterly demolished' In the twinkling of an eye whole families were clasped together in thes arms or death. Fathers, mothers. brothers, sis- ters, children, all were gone. Hundreds who were not drowned were carried down inc raging rivers upon the roofs or noat- ing logs until that debris was halted at the bridge below the city, where 1t was ignited and the men and women and the children upon 1t were slowly roasted to death and their bodies cremated.
 Families Swept Away.
 It was my privilege some days after ] ho1 q to he in Johnstown and with Dr. Beale to go over the awful ruins While I was there 1 saw some bodies being carried to the l morgue I saw where huge telegraph poles had been wrenched from their an | chorage and. head first, had been shot through walls as cannon ball could crash its way through brick wall. saw where whole streets had been swept | away. The gutters, the cobblestones. the nagglngs, all were gone. You might think 1 that you were walking over sand dunes | where once had been a city street. l saw where a huge iron locomotive had been rolled over and over in the flood as though 1t were a feather tossed by the winds and then left stranded in place far from the original roundhouse When the flood came down upon these 25O0 homes of Johnstown, it swept away whole fami- ! lies Fathers perished with their wives and children When 0 foolish man builds ! his house upon the sands and Is spiritually ! destroyed it not only means his own spir- itual death. but also the deaths of some of those who are living near him or with him.
 In 1874 the Vile de Havre in mid-ocean foundered. Mrs. Spafford the wife of the author of that beautiful hymn:
 When peace, like a river. attendeth my way,
 l When sorrows like sea pillows roll,
 was on board with her four little children. l All those children were drowned. The
 mother was rescued Ten days later Mrs. Spafford was landed at Cardiff, Wales,
 and she cabled this message to her hus-
 band in Chicago: Saved alone Pa
 thetic," you say. "Heartrending! Appall- ingrs Yes But no mother, no father. no
 sister, no brother. can ever telegraph from 1 heaven to earth such message as Mrs | Spafford sent. We are never spiritually 1 saved alone We are saved with others | or we are spiritually destroyed with oth- CTS. The wise man built a house upon | the solid rock. The foolish man biult house upon the sand. Why? A home