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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?" 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