it was my privilege some days after
ood had done its fatal wuk to be
ti Johnstown and with Hr. Meale to
zo over the awful ruins. While I was
there I saw some bodies, being carried
t > the n.or.ile. I saw where huge tole
I graph poles had been wrenched from
their BUcborages and, head first, had
!.??' h shot through walls us a cannon
ball could crash its way through a
brick wall. I saw where whole streets
had been swept away. The gutters,
tbe cobblestones, the huggings, ail were
gone. You might think that you were
Walking over sand dunes where once
hal been a city street. I saw where a
huge iron locomotive had been rolled
over and over in the Hood as though lt
were a feather tossed by the winds and
then hft stranded in a place far from
the original roundhouse When tho
Hood came down upon these 2,o00
hones of Johnstown, lt swept away
whole families. Father* perished with
their wives ind children. When a
foolish man builds his house upon the
-Sands and is spiritually destroyed, lt
let only means his own spiritual death,
but also thc deaths of SOUM of those
Who ate living near him or with him.
lu 1*74 ihe Ville de Havre in mid
ocean foundered. Mrs. Spafford, tlie
wife of the author of that beautiful
bj mn
When peace, Uko a river, atteada?| my
? nows like aaa billows roll,
wai on board with her four little
Children. All those children were
drowned. The mother was rescued.
