The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-03-01

ders are to build the best / know how,
and 1 will"
He dug deep and laid the founda-
ton upon the base of the mountain.
lie erected the bridge. There ii stood
Tor years and years, with nothing to
test 1t more than the ordinary routine
Of the trains hurrying back and forth.
Years and years & 1t drizzled
and rained and rained day and night
for " weeks . Every little ripple
was a racing torrent. The Allegheny
- ~ Aa,Ap ~ X
panse OF sea and way back on the
AIfeghary mountains, hundred
miles and more, East Of Pittsburg
was an artificial lake, three miles
long and a hundred and fifty feet
deep, used for hunting and fishing
purposes. n the water mad run
down and percolated from the hill
sides into Ills lake until the water
reached an unprecedented height and
then the water begun to slop over
the top,
The Youngstown Food.
A man discovered it and leaped
upon his horse crying as he rode,
The lam is breaking!"
They'd heard that sound before.
Some Of them laughed him to scorn,
others needed his warning and took
their child. e. and q les he. ! looms
and they clamored up the mountain
sides to poin's OF safety.
On he went through the streets
and tCn<- cryIns to the tccpie. Some
feared anc some Ancc,eo By and
by that dam gave way. down the
IN nyr ~nHuH rra~>A <hat k4~oA~x
until you could have dropped this
tabernacle into 1t. You could have
lost the flatiron building in It On
1t rushed. 1t took gigantic engines
Of the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany that weighed tons and tons.
used for hauling freight over the
iAlleghany mountains and twisted
them as you would a suing.
On IL rushed IT its mad, wild dash
to death and destruction n 1t seized
the beautiful CRY OF Johnstown and
hurled that against the bridge. 1t
never moved a stone out of that
bridge. h stood there like a thing
of life and the waters striking the
bridge shot back.
Oh, it wrought destruction and the
/ waters piled higher and higher ana
by and by 1t shot oye the top of
that bridge but never O a stone.
1t struck the Cambria Iron works and
.ileveled them. They took twenty
three hundred and eighty bodies out
OF the wreck.
They had heard the sound of the
trumpet, but they took not the warn
ing and on the hill at Johnstown to-
night in unknown graves by the side
OF which ! have stood with uncovered
head. sleep eight hundred and twenty
un Unknown dead. They heard the sound
of the trumpet
Some Of the greatest c~ala1nities the
world has ever registered have come
through neglect No wonder men
neglect salvation and il causes the
~rutnation and the wreckage of their
souls. No wonder God is desperately
in earnest to try and get us to flee
from the wrath to come. It Is Il
great salvation for three reasons.
First, because it is the only salvation.
And the reason men are not
saved is not because OF Gods desire
to punish them, and the bitterest
dreg you will ever find in the cup
will be that you have nobody to
blame but yourself .
Years ago -four men up at Niagara
rented a boat, hired fishing tackle and
bought bait. They went to fish and
had several quarts of whiskey with
them They rowed over to the Ca
madam side n drank wniskey. lay
ing down In the boat, they fell asleep,
and In some unaccountabie way the
rope became united, and the boat
started down until it was caught In
the water where she runs twenty miles
an hour. n yer the falls three of
them shot on the American side.
One OF them, a man named Avery.
seized a rock some fifty fee above
The yawning abyss on the American
side, Soo the word spread. Man
on the rock" and in a little while
ten thousand men and women and
cildren lined the banks, eyes wet with
tears, and some of his friends, look
ing through a telescope, discovered
who he was. and they raised It up and
said:
Cheer up, Avery. We Will save
Iyou."
But they never fulfilled that prom
ise. For twenty,six hours Avery
chung to that rock. when by and by.
7 weAkeftu by long exposure, an extra
large wave struck the rock and EVIL
IDENTITY. strangied him. He threw his
hands to his head and with shrieks
OF agony. heard above the roar and
plunge Of the cataract he shot over
the falls to his death.
Poor Avery vas not In one-niil-
lionth part the danger you are, with
hell Xawning Just in front OF you
and nothing but the power of God
that can ever pull you back away
from It. and yet men sit.
How shall w escape IL we neg
lect so great salvation ," and It is
la great salvation. because God saves
US from great sin.
All sins are great. I don't care
how little your sin, 1t won keep
you out of hell IL you don't repent.
They don't go to hell because they