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EARTHQUAl
Bishop Moreland's Sermon
Sacramento Un
"Wholesome " Leesons from the |
Earthquake," was the topio of the
sermon delivsred at St. Paul's Epis
copal Church yesterday morning by
Right IJev. W. H. "Moreland, Bishop
of Sacramento. II J took for his test
I Kicgu, xix: ll; "The Lord was not
io the earthquake; tho Lord was not
in tho fire; and after tho fire a still,
small voice." The reverend ?speaker
?said:
I do not wish to press the text with
literal exactness, but it makes a olear
distinction. God is not to be looked
for in the physical conditions of na
ture so much as in the spiritual re*
Bults which follow.
First, we must noto that God was
not tho author or causo of thin awful
calamity. I do not forget that all na
ture's laws are the creatures of God:
that He is the origin and source of
the life of this globe. But God is not
the author of evil, although he per
mits evil; Ged is not the cause of suf
fering, although Ho calls us to suffer.
In all times pf tragedy we hear the
cry, "Why does God send this calam
ity?" The answer, is. God does not
send calamity, although he permits it
to oe our. Suffering and} death are not
in God's original plan, just ss Easter
bids ns look for?ord and see that they
are not in. His final purpose for mani
God does : not make oar pain;- He is
our comfort snd solace in thc midst
of pain.? God in not tho creator of
evil; He is our Saviour and deliverer
from evil?, You have only to think
of Jesus Christ, shedding compassion
ate tearsfover human misery, pouring
out His blood on Calvary, relieving
?lok and Borrowing, raising tho dead
from .their graves, to perceive God's
attitude to tho woes tb?t. afflict hu
manity. : ' \ ' ?
But you may ask, Why does God
permit such a catastrophe? Is it con
sistent with His justice and mercy?
?The answer is that God is always a
being ol' law sod order, an i if law ?B
to prevail it ia perfectly l?a possible,
-without a miracle, to prevent its some
timeshurting innocent people. With
out a fixed order. Of nature existence
would bo impossible:. 8upposa it wars
not absolutely certain that the earth
would revolve upon its asia and
around the sun: that night wqnJd fol
low day, pr the?)awa of grayitati?n.sot
universally upon all 6ltko-thoro could
be no.secimty about anything. Busi
ness, all undertakings} weald b* ne??:
?fi??; suppose a child, igu?rant of
gravitation, leaps from a precipice and
fire and io burned..' Shall God sus
pend or annul His natural laws?
What WO?ld seem like marey to tbs
i o di vidual would be cruelty to mil
lions. If bad drainage.produces diph
theria, the innocent must suffer with
tho guilty. % "':J': v "<"'^1
t>o you think ; that an exception
should be made in your favor ? . .That
; your houie ought to be marked by
God so the typhoid might pass over it ?
If God should , break tho operation of
Bis-laws for you, he ought to for the
next one; Think how terrible would
bje oar fate if we fere iii the bands pf
a being who had bis pets and favor*
i tea; who was ruled by. oaprio.O instead
of eternal principies of rightepu?aesa
and love. Be thanVfultha^the Fath*
.;or:in^:Ho?sven;'is:?
not lot thin keep you from prayer.
There ia a law for that, too. fie has
biddpn us, to pray,land; ?To knows;fcpw
to harmonize our prayers with His
lawB. ' ;?* ?
But when o ca?smity opoure, pcati
i Jobee . or epidemic, \fimigo ipr; ebip
v wreck* earth quake or ?rev bo sure th e
; te*^bT?.re^f^^
to God's ledigeren oe, bot to our igoo^
atice ; cr oar neglect sud disobsdsen oe. '1
God has git*? .us.bralos aad ;booo??
CE LESSONS.
In Sacramento, California.
lion, April 30. .
minding us of tho frailty and uncer
tainty of human affairs. The work of
mao, costing him years of toil and
millions of dollars io create, is dis
solved in forty-seven seoonds by the
touoh of an Almighty finger. Tho
things that arc seen aro temporal.
The material creation, tho buying and
selling, eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage must shortly
cease. Thank Qed, there is an in
visible that abides. Aro you build
ing your lifo on the Hook of Ages?
Character is tho only edifice that
earthquake cannot shako down or fire
destroy, and character is built on tho
grace of Jesus Christ.
Tho still, small voice is also teach
ing us the lesson of faith, of depen
dence upon God. I was in tho city
on Monday, before the earthquake in
tue court of the Palaoo Hotel. What
a ' ?oeas of. gayety and lighthearted
ness! I we3 there on the Friday after,
looking out from Nob Hill upon a vast
ssa of smoking ruin. The Bilanoo of
death brooded over the once busy city,
broken only by tba rattling of bones
cf sino or tin which swung in the
wind from the blackened skeletons.
In ?"few days r/hat a,, marvellous con*
tract! -Who would have believed it
possible? The. op?rai season had be*
gun. Tuesday night a. brilliant throng,
sparkling with jewels, radiant with
pleaoujro, filled tho play, huuoe. Who
could foresee that in a few hours the
very ohairs they occupied would be in
flames, tho glittering city Surrounding
them be laid in ashes, and themselves
fleeing aa from a mysterious, supernat
ural horror! As plain aa day tho
still, small voice is telling us to walk
by faith. This, is ? "hard lesson for
mao to learn-dependence upon God.
Ho layo hisp?aos as if he had no mas
ter but himself. He muBt bo taught
by painful experience that he is in the
hollow of God's hand. "It i? good
for me that I have been in trouble,
that I may learn Thy commandments."
This has boen the story of thousands.
"Before I was afflicted I went wrong,
but now have I kept Thy word."
"Wbat, then, waa the purpose of
God in permitting this visitation?
Was it because 8an Francisco was
wicked beyond other cities? I oanno*
think so. Jesus Himself ia the an
swer to th I calumny that suffering is
io s o nt to po opie i o pro po? t io n to thc Ir
sin. He waa sinless, yet was made
peri cot through suffer i og. His teaoh
!sg is plain: "Think ye. that, those
uponwhomthe tower in Siloam fell
end ehw them were sinners above all
others? ? tell ye, nay* but except ye
repent yo shall., all likewise perish."
(St. Luke x?i:4) San Francisco, 8an~
ta-Bosa, San Jose are no worse cities
than Sacramento. Which escaped. The
still, small voice Speaking in the
earthquake "and fire ?B for us. all? for
every city, for our whelp American
a?TdV 0*od stiess His voice o? ??vi;
ing Warning to this nation. In their
abounding ?roaperky have not my
people been forgetting Me? In; th?
mad, worr-hip of tho almighty dollar
haye they; not forgotten that; they-are
the children bf 0od? Have they not
been setting up their Babel Towers of
trade and pleasure, while My houBo
is neglected, My altars deserted?
We cannot road tho 'secrets of the
Omnipotent. But on?^th?cg wo may
bo sur? of: Whatever His purpose, it
was permitted in love, to draw ns;
closer to the Father's heart, to shake
us loose from vanity and sia, to make
us moro humble, obedient ohildron of
Look about you, brethren, for the
spiritual blosBlngs of this oalamifcy,
and y ou will see tb em on every side,
?j; Baw milUfjuMres; clergy, wage earn
ers and Chinese in line asking for
bread. The earthquake levelled all
distinctions. VVheja, men are ell poor
^?^I?P^?>^tN?- : I* .? ;whe?
CQQgeta raoro raoocy ichis purao th*4n
another iba*, separations creep ? in.
people themselves will be better.
There wss never any strength of ober*
actor developed without struggle.
San Franoisoans will rise above their
difficulties, will gain in heroic endur
ance, patience, oapaoity for meeting
new conditions.
Oh, shall we not all listen to the
still, small voice, and learn the lessons
of human brotherhood, man's insig
nificance, God's supremacy 1 All must
boar trouble. We cannot esoapo it.
How shall we take it when it comest
Cursing the Almighty in blind rage,
going down to the grave in impotent
madness? Rather will wo place om
hand in the pieroed hand of Christ,
walking with him calmly through th?
furnace's of affliction, and in th<
brightness of his face lie down t(
pleasant dreams.
Robbed Safe as Cops Watched.
"It wouldn't havo been any bac
thing if United States troops had beet
in ohargo of things during thc bij
Baltimore fire," said a Baltimorean
"The militia and Baltimore polio*
showed considerable laxness in lettinj
crooks through the fire lines when ou
town was burning, and this mado i
pretty easy for tho crafiy ones, wh
always happen to be on the spot whet
anything big is happening. One o
these robberies was unique.
"Among the first of the big plant
to go in the Baltimore fire was a bi
wholesale hardware establishment
B?oause it had caught so early, th
fife in the ruins of this plant wa
pretty well oooled out and der. i insid
of two days. A couple of oops wer
pat to guard tho big steel safe of th
fi'tin. The safe had fallen through t
the basement with tho collapse af th
building, and bsd struok pldmp on il
lego on the basement's cemented fido:
A number pf the office employees (
tho firm, who had boen standin
around watching the XU?OB of the of!
Ces, were Gammoned, along about noe
two days after the fire, to a newly ron
offioe out of the fire swept distrio
td help in the reorganization of tl
fdroes. That left the two cops onl
to guard the safe.
"The policemen were strollii
around, stamping their feet to kee
warm, when a swell looking elder
man, with mutton chop whispers, a
preached them,, carrying a fine b
Gladstone bsg. He was aooompanii
by another man of somewhat insist
ficant appearance.
" 'Officer,' pompously said tl
elderly man with the bsg, add rossi
one of the oops, 'I went to open o
safe sod sse how things sre inside
it,' and ha flashed a pi?ce of pap
signed by ono of the members of t
big hardware firm-a tidy forgery,
cou ree-giving him permission,
manager of the establishment, to op
the safe. Ho bsd got a pass throu
tbs main fire linea easily esosgh-!
easily-and tho framing up of the 1
gos letter' was mer el ya minor de ti
The two ?ops were impressed with 1
dignified and importsnt appearan
and they told him to go as far ss
liked.
"The porn i/0us men hogan to f
with the Rafe's combination, keep:
his esr glued to tho front of it td Hs
to the olioks as he turned the ki
forward and bao kw ard, but Alt the ?
of fi?t??n minutes be wss unable
open the safe.
."'Warped by the head, I presu'o
he said affably to the oops, 'and
combination thrown out of pion
and he resumed bia Joby
."As he worked away at the sal
considerable crowd of men possess
fire badges and passes through the
lines assembled, and this aroused
wrath of the man with tho white w]
itera?'. . , >.: s
" 'Officers!', ho demanded, ?I *
you to -.hase these people away f:
here, if ydSi^ phrase 1^ lam^ftjfij
for sn aud?eiioe?v ';^hmb1was?theJ
enough' truth, although the police!
dittV t understand it the way he mc
it. The cops dispersed the /oro
and the; man with the. Gladstone
Wnt on tinkering with the comb
lion. /? '1-/-V"
k "After about twenty minutes' a
work ibero was a rattle and a si
clatter within the safe, sod the
W4B done. Th? portly msn swung
vast door open with tho sssistane
hts companion. J "v";
r**'Ahi everything seems tb b<
right-uo damage whatever,' hs
in t pleased sort of wsy to his ?
pinion, and then, polling dut a I
bunch of keys froms his pocket
fitted several of them in to the key
of one cf the inside steel ?oora,
presently opak&d ?the "door, revs?
bf g packages of currenoy lying sn
upon tba^jjjy^ Tba ciderly
?nd his companion quickly stuffed
ourreney into the Gladstone. bag,
theo closed tho safe, remarking
they'd back for the checks and pa
and bocks Ittcr on. :,
?l??jj?wa^
that the genuine representative oj
5rm turned up to open the safu,
when he mado his appearance he
promptly arrested by ?he two eoj
s trand. yfcoja:?f?\ bad establi
sis identity and WOB released th*
30ps told t h a s to ry of h ow 'the sais
^O;0p??e^^ before,
fte ?su; they dee?rib?d, one of
morl Doted safe manipulators ia tho
business, a m&n who had undo good,
time and again, the boast o* bia pals
that be could open any safe in the
world not fitted with a time look, in
side of half aa hour, merely by toying
with the combination and listening to
the pulse and heart-beats inside.
"The fire started on a Sunday, so
that tho safe contained a great part of
tho Saturday collection of the big
hardware firm, a sum said to havo
boon more than $30,000, all of whiah
tho white whiskered crook took away
in his nico Gladstone bag. He had
suoh a good start that it waB impossi
ble to nail him at the time, but ho
was sent away in England last year for
a jewel robbery and is to be extradited
for trial in Baltimoro when his bit ia
done in England."
- m ?t mt -
Went Mad for Lore and Drink.
Atlanta, Ga., May 15.-Crazed by
drink and by disappointment in a love
affair, James H. Clark, a telegraph
operator at tho little town of Cham
blee, a dozen miles north of Atlanta,
began late yesterday afternoon a ram
page of crime. In ICBS than twenty
four hours he killed ono man, severely
wounded three others, slightly wound
ed a fifth and dubbed a sixth with a
shotgun, set fire to the home of one of
his victima, and, when surrounded by
a posse shortly after noon today, shot
himself through the heart.
Clark, who came some monthB ago
from Baldwin, Ga., paid marked .at
tention to the niece of E. Purcell, but
waa discouraged. IK went to the
Purcell home last eveniog and de
mended admittance, whiob waa re
fused. He set fire to thekitoben, inc
when Puro oil and a son, W. J. Pur
Cell, appeared to fight tho flameo CJlarl
fired i upon them, wounding 'joth
Returning about midnight, Clari
made another attempt to set fire to th?
house, and when an attempt was mad'
to seize him he shot W. S. Mask, rail
road station agent, in the neck.
. Clark then fled to Dunwoody, abeu
five miles distant, where he arrived
early today. He went to the store oi
Nash & Cheek, and demanded ammu
nition. The store people had beei
warned by telephone and refused ti
sell the required cartridges. Clari
immediately fired, killing Cheek wit!
a bullet through tho heart. He Gre?
also at Mr. Nash, inflicting a danger
ous wound. He then ran to th
woods. On the way do rn the rail
road tracks he met W. J. Coker, whoi
he attaoked, wounding bim slightly
Officers were raised at once an
hounds were put on the traok of th
insane man. Ho waa eeen in ti
roadway, near Chamblee, abort
ly after noon today, and when b
found, himself surrounded he code
bis wild career. '? CH W w
I v,: v>-5. m/t - H-v
-! Two Irishmen' were moving aa?
kegs of powder when One noticed thi
the other was amoking^and tho fo
lowing" conversation- ensued: "Loo
here," aaid ono, "ain't ye got any bei
ter sense than to'be smoking Wain
we're handling these 'ere.kegs of poa
der? Don't you know that there wi
an explosion yesterday whioh blew u
a dozen men?" "Faith, but that on
never happen here," replied the othe
"Why not?" "Bekase there's on)
two of UH on ibis job."
Aro Japs Heathen.
Th oso who faooy tho Japanese arc a I
sort of heathenish nation r,hould study I
their oode of morals c. \d their prinoi '
pies of living. j
For instance, they have what is
known as the moral oode. It ia not a
Sunday or a parade affair. They do
not forget it for six days and then
brush the dust off it when the minis
ter oomes to dinner ou Sunday. Th*
code is a part of the national life, and
here it is:
Diligence in ouo's profession.
Lovo and loyalty between master
and servants.
Decorum and propriety.
Gallantry and bravery.
Trustfulness and juatice.
Simplicity nod frugality.
Coutcmpt of meanness.
The best thing iu religion is Love.
For it combines- tenderness, charity,
companion, courtesy, deeency, re
spect. It is a combination of all t' o
virtues, and tho Japs have laken tl o
best thing and molded it into their
life until tho people have become ar
tists, lovers of the beautiful. They
regard gardens as their choicest pos
sessions, and believe that caro for the
aged ia a privilege inatead of a duty.
It was the emperor of this heathen
land who commanded his soldier** to
not only fight valiantly for their native
land, but to lovo their enemies.
And the prisoners of Japan found
better treatment than their homes
afforded.
Professor Nitobo says: "What
Christianity has done in Europe to
wards arousing compassion in the
midst of belligerent horrors, love of
musio and letters has done in Japan."
Yes, the Japs are heathen.
They are also as consistent Chris
tiana aa the world knows today, and
they live their religion in their daily
lives.
Is lhere a greater test?-Atlanta
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