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IN STRENGTH OF GOD. i
WE MUST STRIVE TO OVERTHROW
every abomination.
Hew. nr. TMmntce Prrnchra n Pnw
rrfnl Sermon tunlnst Evll-Wc
Mum 11,. Pol He. nw <lle Wrentier. of
Old, In Combating; Sin.
[Copyright. by Am riean Pr*'Sj» Asso
ciation.)
" amhngton, Nov. 6. —ln this discourse
I>r. 1 ahnafre selects one «>f the boldeet fig
ures of the Bible to present most practical
and ' Ticonraging truths; text, Ephesians
vi, 12. “We wnstio not against flesh and
!'lo<«l, but against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places.”
Squeamishness and fastidiousness were
never charged against Paul's rhetoric. In I
the war against < vil he took tho first
Weapon he could lay ids hand on. For il
lustration, he employed tho theater, the
an ria, the foot ra<-<-, an<l there was noth
ing in the Isthmian game, with its wreath
of pine h aves, or Pythian game, with its
wreath of laurel and palm, or Nernean
game, with its wreath of parsley, or any
Roman circus, hut he felt he had a right
to put. it in sermon or epistle, anti are you
not surprised t hat in my text he calls upon
a wrestling bout for suggestiveness? Plu
tarch says that wrestliyjg is the most ar
tistic and cunning of athletic games. Wo
must make a wide difference totwecn
pugilism, tho lowest of spectacles, and
wrestling, which is an effort In sport to
put down another on floor or ground, ami
w<—ail of u«—indulged in it in our lx»y
hood day-if wo were healthful and plucky.
The am-icnt wr< -tiers were first bathed in
oil and then sprinkled with sand. Tho
third throwdwtided tho victory, and many
a man who went down In the first throw
or s< oml throw in the third throw wason
♦ op, and In opponent, under. The Romans
did not like this game very much, for it
w i-i n< t savage enough, no blows or kicks
being allowed in the game. They preferred
the hr t of hungry pantheron the breast
of fallen martyr.
Tn wrestling, the opponents would bow
In apparent, suavity, advance face to face,
put. «!<.•<, n I " ’h foot solidly, take each other
by the artm. at;d push each oi her backward
and forward until the work Legau in real
earnest, end there were contort ions and
Htr.'iiigulations and violent strokes of the
foot of one cont'-stunt against the foot of
the other, tripping him up, or, with strug
gle that threatened apoplexy or death, tho
defeatcii fi JI and the shouts of the specta
tors greeted tho vict< r. I guess I’aul had
seen i,onio such contest, ami it reminded
him of the struggle of the soul with temp
tation : nr! the druggie of truth with error
and th' struggle of heavenly forces against
Apoliyonie powers, ami he dictates my text
t<> an amanuensis, for all his letters, save
the one to Philemon, seem to have been
dictated, and as the amanuensis goes on
with his work I hear the groan and laugh
ami shout, of < art hly anil celestial belliger
ents. “\Vn wr< tie not, against flesh .and
lile .d, Liit, against principalities, against
powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of t his world, ,against, spirit uni wickedness
in high places.”
Polite Atliletcn.
1 notice that as these wrestlers advanced
to throw ea< h other they bowed one to tho
other. It was aci vilify, not, only in Gre
cian and Roman games, but in later day,
in all the wrestling bouts .at. Clcrkenwell,
England, and in tho famous wrestling
match during the reign of Henry 111, in
Ft Giles’ Field, between men of Westmin
ster and people of London. However
rough a twist, and hard a pull each wrestler
contenuiLateil giving his Opponent, they
approii lied each other with politeness and
suavity. The genuflexions, the affability,
tho courtesy in nowise hUidered the de
cisiveness of tho contest'. 'Veil, Paul, I
see what you mean. In this awful strug
gle between right and wrong, we must
not forget to ho gentlemen and ladles.
Affability never hinders, biitsalways helps.
You are powerless as soon as you get mad.
Do not call rumsellers murderers. Do not
call infidels fools. Do not. call higher
critics re] >nb.at. s. Do not. call all card
players .and t heater t'oers children of the
devil. Do not, say tiiat, the dance breaks
through into hell. Do not deal in vituper
ation ami billingsgate and contempt and
adjectives dynamitic. The other side can
beat, us at that. Their dictionaries have
.'mere objurgation and brimstone.
Wo are in the strength of God to throw
flat on its back every abomination that
curs. ; tho earth, but. let. us approach our
mighty ant nirt witli suavity. Her
cule.-:, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, will
by a precursor of smiles bn helped rather
than damaged for the performance of his
•“ 12 labor.:.” Let us bo as wisely strategic
in religious circh s as attorneys in court
rooms, who are complimentary to each
other in the opening remarks before they
como into legal struggle such as that
which left Rufus Choate or David Paul
Brown triumphant, or defeated. People
who into a rage in reformatory work
.-accompli h nothing but the depletion of
rJts'ir own nervous system. There is such
a thing as having a gun so hot, at. the
touehhole that it explodes, killing the one
that, sets it. otf. There uro some reforma
tory meetings to which I always decline
to go and take part, because they art) apt
to become demonstrations of bad temper.
I never like to hoar a man swear, even
though ho swear on tho right side. Tho
very Paul who in my text employed in
illustration the wrestling -match behaved
on a memorable occasion .as we ought, to
behave. Tho t ranslators of the Bible made
an unintentional mistake when they rep
resented Paul as insulting tho people of
Athens by speaking of “the unknown god i
whom ye ignorantly worship.” Instead j
of charging them with ignorance the orig- i
Inal indicates be complimented them by 1
suggesting that, they were very religious,
bur as they confessed that there were some
things they did not understand about God
he proposed to say some things concern
ing him. beginning where they had left j
otf. Thesame Paul who said in one place, i
‘ Ho courteous ” and who had noticed the :
bow preceding the wrestling match, here
exercises suavities before ho proceeds prac- ‘
tically to throw down the rocky side of
the Acropolis the whole Parthenon of
idolatries. Minerva and .Jupiter smashed :
up with the rest of them. In this holy
war polished rilles will do mon\execution
than blunderbusses. Ixd our wrestlers
bow as they go into the struggle which
will leave all perdition under and all I
heaven on top.
The Test o€ Strength.
Remember also that these wrestlers
went through severe and continuous cotfrse
of preparation for their work. They were
put upon such diet as would Ix'st develop
their muscle. As I'aul says. ‘‘Every man
that, strive h for the mastery is temperate
in all things.” The wrestlers were put
under complete discipline—bathing, gym
nastics. struggle in sport with each other
to develop si • ngt.h and give quickness te
tkid' O oi bi .■■■•! trip of foot, stooping to |
lift < eh otli rot? the ground, suddenly
rushing form rd !enly pulling back
ward putting the 1< : f ci behind the oth
er's r'-h to ■ : an i :,.' i . g his --ppenent
otf I’.i- I ;.’ >me, hard tn; .ling for days and
week- and month-, so that when they met
it was giant clutching giant. And, my
friends, if v.e d< n t want ourselves to be
thrown in this wrestle w :h the sin and
error of the world " bad totter get ready
b< Christian discipline, by holy self de
ni;.], bv eor< mt practice, by submitting
to .1 vine supqrvi-;d and direction. Do not
bev'rudge the time a ul the money for that
yo’in n :u» who is in preparation for the ;
j n it , . • i.two yuirs in grammar
seh -ill and lour years in college and three
veers in th.. logical seminary. I know
that nine years are a big slice to take off
o' a man's a-tix. life. b'i’ if you realized
the i. ’r ,O -tn - 'LI of the archangels
of evil : n *-ur tii .<? vvi’h which that young
man i< .•)■ .' to wrestle you would uot
this k nine of I''?-'’' on were too
muc . , .• ~t.d ministry was e y-
cu- 1 - iri r but not in this
til . ... . .. ■ im ,’S -■•••d colleges. A
I, . . v... : • the Other day a letter
}l < ; ,.. x .... },. i b called topreach
ti> - ■ \ - ~’n t’-.e word • iod” with a
Bini-.U .7! .ii.u of a man i« not called
to . . h t <p, 1. Illiterate men,
pre u; i r ■ - -i, . in.to for their own
i >, . ■ tural ’.osago,
“C. • v. co, n ;-l 1 till it.”
Y ' b • it , .-.h <!. i’rvpara-
tju.. iv- d ; ah.suluUly neees-
«
sary. rg-j Rr. Uewnian and |
F-r. Fundinand, on the platform of Brig- j
ham Young's tabernacle at Salt Lake i
City, gained the victory because they had i
so long txven skillful wrestlers for God. '
Otherwis<- Brigham Young, who waa him- •
self a giant, in somts things, would have
thrown them out of the window. Get j
ready in Bible claKse<»: Get ready in Chris- I
tian End.-tvor meetings. Get ready by |
giving testimony in obscure places lieforo .
giving testimony in conspicuous places.
1 Vltahly Mrtsj ssle.
Your going around with a Bagster's
Bibl. , with flapa at the edges, under your
arm does not qualify you for the work of I
an evangelist. In this day of profuse gah I
rememlx-r tiiat it is not merely capacity •
to talk, but. the fact that you have some- I
thing to say, that is going to fit you for I
the struggle into which you are to go with i
a smile on your face and illumination on
your brow, Imt out of which you will not
come U4>til all your physical and mental
ami moral,anil religious energies have
hen taxed to tho utmost ami you have
not a nerve left nr a thought unexpended
or a prayer unsaid or a symjmthy unwept.
In this struggle Is-tween right and wrong
acxsqit no challenge on platform or in
newspaper unless you are prej:ared. Do
not misapply the story of Goliath the
Great and David the Little. David had
lieen practicing with a sling on dogs and
wolves ami bundits, and a thousand times
had he .-wired a stone around his head be
fore he aimed at, the for. head of the giant
and tumbled him backward, otherwise
the big foot, of Goliath would almost have
covered up the crushed form of the son of
•lesso.
Notice also that the success of a wrestler
•lepemied on his having his feet well
planted F iore he grappled his opponent.
Much depends njion the way the wrestler
stands. Standing on an uncertain piece
of ground or bearing all his weight on
right foot or all his weight on left foot,
he is not rea<ly. A slightcuff of hisantag
onist, will capsize him. A stroke of tho
h< <4 of the other wrestler will trip him.
And in this struggle for God and right
eousness, as well as for our own souls, we
want our feet firmly planted in the gospel
—bol ii feet on the Rix-k of Ages. It will
not do to believe the Bible in spots or
think some of it true find some of it un
true. Yon just make up your mind that
the story of the garden of Eden is an alle
gory, and the epistle of James an interpo
lation and that the miracles of Christ can
be .-wconnted for on natural grounds, with
out any belief in the supernatural, and
the first, time you are interlocked in a
wrestle with sin and satan you will go un
der and your feet will be higher than your
head. It will not do to have one foot on
a rock and the other on tho sand. Tho
old book would long ago have gone to
pieces if it, had been vulnerable. But of
the millions of Bibles that have been
printed within the last 25 years, notone
i-hapter has be< n omitted, and the omis
sion of one chapter would have been the
cause of the reject ion of the whole edition.
Alas, for those who while trying to
prove that Jonah was never swallowed of
a whale, themselves get swallowed of the
whale of unbelief, which digests but never
ejects its victims. The inspiration of the
Bible is not more certain than tho preser
vation of the Bible in its present condi
tion. After so many centuries of assault
on the book would it not boa matter of
economy, to say the least—economy of
brain and economy of stationery and econ
omy of printers' inst—is tho batteries now
assailing the book would change their aim
and be aimed against some other books,
and the world shown that Walter Scott
did not write ‘‘The Ixuly of tho Lake,”
nor Homer “The Iliad,” nor Virgil ‘‘Tho
Georgies,” nor Thomas Moore “Lalla
Rookh,” or that Washington’s farewell
address was written by Thomas Paine,
and that the war of t ho American Revolu
tion never occurred. That attempt would
be quite as successful as this long timed
attack anti-Biblical, and then it would bo
new. Oh, keep out of this wrestling bout
with the ignorance and the wretchedness
of the world unless you feel that both feet
are planted in the eternal veracities of the
took of Almighty God!
Science of Wrestlinß.
, Notice also that in this science of wres
tling, to which Paul refers in my text, it
was the third throw that decided tho con
test. A wrestler might be thrown once
and thrown twice, but tho third time he
might recover himself, and by an unex
pected twist of arm or curve of foot gain
the day. Well, that is broad, smiling, un
mistakable gospel. Some whom I address .
through ear or eye, by voice or printed
page, have been thrown in thoir wrestle
witli evil habit.
Ayo, you have been thrown twice, but
that does not mean, oh, worsted soul, that
you are thrown forever! I have no au
thority for saying how many times a man
may sin and bo forgiven, or how many
times he may fall and yet rise again, but
I have authority for saying that he may
fall -190 times, and 490 times get up. Tho
Bible declares that God will forgive 70
times 7, and if you will employ the rule of
multiplication you will find that 70 times
7is 190. Blessed be God for such a gos
pel of high hope and thrilling encourage
nient and magnificent rescue. A gospel
of lost sheep brought homo on shepherd’s
shoulder, and the prodigals who got into
the low work of putting husks into swines’
troughs brought home to jewelry and ban
queting and hilarity that made the raft
ers ring.
Three sketches of the same man: A hap
py home, of which he and a lassie taken
from a neighbor’s house are the united
head. Years of happiness roll on aftei
years as happiness. Stars pointing down
to nativities. And whether announced in
greeting or not every morning was a
“Good morning” and every night a “Good
I night.” Christmas trees and May queens
I and birthday festivities and Thanksgiving
i gatherings around loaded tables. But
! that husliand and father forms an unfor
tunate acquaintance who leads him in cir
cles too convivial, too late houred, too
scandalous. After awhile, his money gone
: and not. al.le to bi'ar his part of the cx-
I pense, he is gradually shoved out and ig
■ tiered and pushed away. Now. what a
I dilapidated home is his! A dissipated life
, always shows itself in faded window cur
| tains, and impoverished wardrobe, and de
jected surroundings, and in broken pal
! ingsof the garden fence, and tho unhinged
I gate, and the dislocated doorbell, and the
disappearance of wife and children from
! scenes among which they shone the bright
est, and laughed the gladdest. If any
, man was ever down, that husband and fa
; ther is down.
A Powerful Foe.
Tho fact, is he got into a wrestle with evil
! that pushed and pulled and contorted and
exhausted him worse than any Olympian
game ev< r treated a Grecian, and he was
thrown—thrown out of prosperity into
gliii.in, threavn out of good association in
to bad, thrown out • health into invalid
ism, thrown out of happiness into misery.
But one day while slinking through one
; of the back streets, not w ishing to to rec
i ognized, a good thought crosses his mind,
| for lie has heard of men flung flat rising
again. Arriving at his house, he calls his
wife in and shuts the door and says:
“Mary,l am going to do differently. This
is uot what I promised you when we were
married. You have Ikoii very patient
with n o and have borne everything, al
though I would have had no right to com
plain if you bad left me and gone home to
your iaiher's house. *lt seems to me that
one? or twice when I was not myself I
struck you. and several times, I know. 1
celbal you hard Fames. Now I want you
to forgive me. I niu going to do better,
and I want you to help me.” “Helpyou?”
' sh ' says. “Bless your soul, of counsel
wi;. help you. I knew you didn’t, mean it
when you treated me roughly. All that j
is in the past. Never refer to it again.
Totiay let ns begin anew.”
Sympathizing friends come arennd and
kind business people help the man to
sometbiug to do. so that he can again
earn a living. The children soon have
clothing so that they can go to school,
j The old songs which rhe wife sang years
ago come back to her memory and she
sings them over again at the cradle or
while preparing the noonday meal. Do
mestic resurrection! He comes home j
earlier than he used to, and he is glad to !
spend the evening playing games with the '
children or helping them with arithmetic \
or grammar lessons which are a little too
hard. Time passes on, and some outsider i
suggests to him that he is not getting as i
much out of life as he ought and proposes !
an occasional visit jo acenes of worldlings® '
and dissipation. Tie consents to go once,
and, after much solicitation, twice. Then
his old habit comes back. He says he has
been lielat.d and could not get back until
midnight. He had to see some western
merchant that*had arrived and talk of
business with him before he got out of
town. Kindness and geniality again quit
the disposition of that husbandand father.
The wife’s heart breaks in a new place.
That man goes into a second wrestle with
evil habit and is flung and all hell cackles
at the moral defeat. “I told you so!” say
many good people who have no faith in
the reformation of a fallen man. “I told
you so! You made a great fuss about his
restored home, but I knew it would not
last. You can’t trust these fellows who
have once gone wrong.” So with this un
fortunate, things get worse and worse,
and his family have to give up the house,
and the last valuable goes to the pawn
broker’s shop. But that unfortunate man
is sauntering along the street one Sunday
night, and he goes up to a church door,
ami the congregation are singing the sec
ond hymn, the one just before sermon, and
it is William Cowper’s glorious hymn:
There is a fountain filled with blood
Drawn from Emmanuel’s veins.
And sinners plunirM beneath that flood
Lose all their guilty stains.
Victory tfirouuli t hrisf.
He goes into the vestibule of the church
and stops there, not feeling well enough
dressed to go among the worshipers, and
he hears the minister say, “You will find
the words of my text in Luke, the nine
teenth chapter and tenth verse, 'The Son
of Man is come to seek and save that which
was lost.’ ” The listener in the vestibule
says: “If any man was ever lost, I am
lost, and the Son of Man came to save
that which is lost and he has found me,
and ho will take me out of this lost con
dition. Oh, Christ, have mercy on me.”
The poor man has courage now to enter
the main audience room, and he sits down
on the first seat by the door, and when at
the close of the sc -vice the minister comes
down the aisle the poor man tells his
story, and he is encouraged and invited to
come again, and the way is cleared for
him for membership in a Christian church,
and he feels the omnipotence of what
Peter the apostle said when he spoke of
those “kept by the power of God through
faith unto complete salvation.” Yet he
is to have one more wrestle before he is
free from evil habits, and be gdes into it
not in his own strength, for that has fail
ed him twice, but in the strength of the
Lord God Almighty. The old habit seizes
him, and he seizes it, and the wrestlers
bend backward and forward and from side
to side in awful struggle, until tho mo
ment conies for his liberation, and with
both arms infused with strength from
God he lifts that habit, swings it in air
and hurls it into the perdition from W’hich
it came and from which it never again
will rise. Victory, victory, through our
Lord Jesus Christ! Hear it, all ye wres
tlers! It threw him twice, but the third
time he threw it, and by the grace of God
threw it. so hard he is as safe now as if he
had been ten years in heaven. Oh, lam
so glad that Paul in my text suggests the
wrestlerand the power of the third throw.
But notice that my text suggests that
the wrestlers on tho other side in the great
struggle for tho world’s redemption have
all the forces of demonology to help them,
“We w’restle not against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of tho darkness of this
world, against spiritual wickedness in
high places.”
All military men will tell you that
is nothing more unwise than to under
estimate an army In estimating what
wo have to contend with the most of the
reformers do not recognize the biggest cp
posers. They talk about the agnosticism,
and the atheism, and the materialism, und
the Nihilism, and the Pantheism, and the
Brahmanism, and the Mohanu'iedanisni,
as well as the more agile and organized
and endowed wickednesses of our day.
But these are only a phri of the hostili
ties arrayed against God and the best in
terests of humanity. The invisible hosts
are far more numerous than the visible.
It is not so much the bottle; it is the de
mon of the bottle. It is not so much the
roulette table; it is + he dem vof the rou
lette cable. It is not so muc'i the act of
stock gambling as it is the demon of stock
gambling. It is the great host of spiritual
antagonists led on by Aziel or Lucifer or
Beelzebub or Asmodeus or Ahrimanes or
Abaddon, just as you please to call the
leader infernalistic. Can you doubt that
the human agencies of evil are backed up
by Plutonic agencies? If it were only a
aommon war steed, with panting nostril
and flaunting mane and clattering hoof,
rushing upon us, perhaps we might clutch
him by the bit and hurl him back upon
his haunches, but it, is the black horse
cavalry of perdition who dash down, and
their riders swing swords which, though
invisible, cleave individuals and homes
and nations. I tell you Paul was right
when he suggested that we wrestle not with
pygmies, but with giants that will down
us unless the Lord Almighty is our coad
jutor. Blessed bo God that wo have now
and further on will have in mightier de
gree that divine help!
Tritinipli of Righteonsnens.
Tho time is coming—I know it will
quicken your pulses when I mention it—
when tho last mighty evil of the world
will be grappled by righteousness and
thrown. Which of the great evils will
survive all the others I know not, whether
war or revenge or fraud or lust or intem
perance or gambling or Sabbath desecra
tion. It will not be “tho survival of the
fittest,” but the. survival of the worst. It
will be the evil the most thoroughly in
trenched, most completely re-enforced,
most patronized by wealth and fashion
and pomp, most applauded by all the prin
cipalities ami powers and rulers of dark
ness. It will stand, with grim visage,
looking down upon the graves of all the
other slain abominations —graves dug by
the hot shovels of despair and surmounted
by such epitaphiology as this: “It biteth
like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.”
“The wages of sin is death.” “Her house
inclineth unto death and her paths unto
the dead.” “There is away that seemeth
right to a man, but the end thereof is
Swath.” Yes! I imagine we have arrived
at the time when we may say, Yonder
stands the last and only great evil of all
the world to be wrestled down. It stands,
not only looking upon the graves of all
the entombed and epitaphed iniquities of
the world, but ever and anon gazing up
ward in defiance of the heavens and shak
ing its fist at the Almighty, saying:
“Nothing can put me down. I have seen
all the other enemies of the human race
wrestled down and destroyed, but there is
no arm or .foot, human or angelic or de
illc that can throw me. I have ruined
whole generations, and I swear by all the
thrones of diabolism that I will ruin this
generation. Come on, all ye churches and
all ye reformatory institutions and all ye
legislatures and all ye thrones! I chal
lenge you! I plant my feet on this redhot
rock of the world's woe. I stretch forth
my arms for the mightiest wrestle any
world has ever seen. Come on, come on !”
Then righteousness w’ill accept the chal
lenge, and the two mighty wrestlers will
grapple, while ail the galleries of earth
and heaven look down from one side, and
all the fiery chasms of perdition look up
from the other side. The two wrestlers
sway to and fro and turn this way and
that, and now tho monster evil seems the
mightier of the two. and now righteous
ness seems atout to triumph. The prize
is worth a struggle, for it is not a chaplet
of laurel or palm, but the rescue of a world
and a wreath put on the brow by him who
promised, “Be thou faithful unto death,
and I will give thee a crown.” Three
worlds—earth, heaven and hell—hold their
breath while waiting for the result of
struggle, when, with one mighty swing of
an arm muscled with omnipotence, right
eousness hurls the last evil first on its
knees aval then on its face, and then roll
ing off and down with a crash wilder than
that with which Samson hurled the tem
ple of Dagon when he got hold of its two
chief pillars, but more like the throwing
of satan out of het-ven, as described by
John Milton:
Him the Almighty power flung
i Headlong flaming fu ni the ethereal sky,
With hideous rv.in and combustion, down
I To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
. In adamantine chains and penal fire
I Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Nine times the suace that measures day and
night
i To mortal man, he, with his horrid crew,
! Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,
| Confounded, though
MACON NEWS MONDAY “EVENING, NOVEMBER 7 1898.
A Bonnie World.
Aye, that suggests a cheering thought,
that if all the realms of demonology are
on the ether side all the realms of angel- I
ology are on our side, among them Gabriel ,
and Michael the archangel, and the angel
of the new covenant, Snd they are now
talking over the present awful struggle
and final glorious triumph, talking amid
i the alabaster pillars and in the ivory pal- j
aces, and along the broad ways anti grand j
avenues of the great capital of the uni- I
verse, and amid the spray of fountains
with rainbows like the ‘rainbow round
the throne,” and as they take their morn
ing ride in tho chariots with white horse®
bitted with gold that were seen by John
in vision apopalyptic, and while waiting
in temples for the one hundred and forty
and four thousand to chant, accompanied
by harpers and trumpeters, and thunder
ingsand halleluiahs like the voice of many
witters. Yes, all h aven is on our side,
and the “high places of wickedness” spo
ken of in n»y text are not so high as the
high places of heaven, where there are
enough rest-rve forces if our earthly forces
should to overpowered, .or in cowardice
fall back, to sweep down some morning at
daybreak and take all this earth for God
before the city clocks could strike 12 for’
noon. And the cabinet of heaven, the
most august cabinet in the universe, made
up of three—God the Father, God tho Son
and God the Holy Ghost—aro now in ses
sion in the King’s palace, and they are
■ with ns, and they are going to see ua
I through, and they invite us as soon as we
1 have done our share of the work to go up
• and .leth Jl snd celebrate the final vic
i tory, taut i.-, more sure to como than to-
I morrow's sunrise. While I think of it, the
; Scotch evangelistic hymn conies upon me
I and stirs tlio strong tide of Scotch blood
that rolls through ley arteries:
Its a bonnie, bunnie warl’ that we’re livin in
, the noo,
An sunny is the lan’ that noo we aften traiv’ll
throe,
1 But in vain we look for something here to
1 which oor hearts may cling,
1 For its beauty is as naething tae the palace o’
1 the King.
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: For. tho’ liuiniie are the snaw'flakes an the
1 dimn on winter's wing,
1 i It's fine to ken it daurna touch : the palace o’
the King;
| Naenicht shall to in heaven an nae dcsolatin
1 sea,
1 An nae tyrant hoofs shall trample i’ the city :
1 o’ the free:
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The Investigating Commission
Will Go io Cuba Soon.
By Associated Press.
New York, Nov. s—iA5 —iA special to the
Herald from Washington says:
The army investigation commission will
soon go to Santiago and very probably,
though not certainly, to Porto Rico.
This is according to the announcement
made several -weeks ago. They met no
opposition on the part of the president
who .was understood to acquiesce perfectly
in the decision of the commission. As
much information as possible will be gath
ered and it is believed that the evidence
to be taken subsequently will then toe bet
ter understood. The time of going has not
yet been decided upon.
Information from a member of the com
mission is that the reports from the heads
of staff departments will be first read.
; General Corlinz’s report has not yet been
received and it contains over 300,000
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after .Which the commission will hold ses
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the commission will go to Santiago until
after the New York sessions.
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Register.
By Associated Press.
1 Seattle, Wash., Nov. 5. —Japanese ad
vices received on the steamer Rio Jun Ma
ru say that a bill has been submitted by
the government to the diet providing for
the registration of foreign firms establish
ing branches in Japan.
Since the amendement of the currency
regulations the Nippen Ginke has with
drawn one yen paper notes to the amount
of seven million yen, leaving about fifty
five million yen still in circulation.
The charter granted for the construction
of the Formosan railway expires on th
15th of November and an arrangement
has been made for a foreign loan for a
| period of ten years. Work will be started
at once.
The adoption by the Formosa authori
ties of the gold standard is another reform
which the Gotoshimpel. chief of the For
mosa administration bureau wishes to
bring about.
It is estimated that it will cost 1,700.000
I yen to repair the damages caused by the
recent typhoon in Formosa.
The purchase of public loan bonds un
dertaken by the Japanese government as
a means of relieving the financial strin
gency and which was introduced by Count
Inouye. ex-finance minister, was suspen
' ded on the 10th instant. The total of the
1 bonds purchased amounts to 38,000.000 rn
face value, about 36,000,000 yen in cash
1 paid. The average amount of daily pur
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RESCUE FROM
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Thrilling; Account of the Sink
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By Associated Prere.
Ft. Monroe, Va., Nov. 7. —Ensign James
C. Summers', who was officer of the deck
of the \ ulcan when the Maria Teresa was
abandoned, describes the scene thus:
The gale in which the Teresa was
tossed began with a fierce squall five
minutes before 1 o’clock on the morning
of November 1. The wind and sea rose
at 1 o’clock. From the Teresa’s bridge
came the wig wag signal by lamp “Signal
Merritt to steer to windward.” The Mer
ritt ait once changed her course to north
east. It had been north.
To us the fact that the Teresa must be
kept head to sea was in itself ominous.
All signals were made to us by wigwag
flag from the Teresa. We repeated them
to the Merritt or Leonidas.
“At noon the gale had increased to vio
lence and all three vessels labored heav
ily in the sea. The Teresa plunging deep
ly, took much water on board over the
boks, and often when righted she shipped
seas amidships. Her starboard engine only
was being used. It was turning thirty
eight revolutions when last reported. The
forward wrecking pump was sending out
a large stream over the bow.
“At ten minutes past noon the Leonidas
then fully a mile ahead was signaled ‘do
not go so far ahead.’ Thirty minutes
later the Teresa signaled, ‘can Merritt run
to Walling’s Island safely.’ The 'Merritt
answered ‘no,’ promptly. This was the
first intimation of the real danger at hand.
“Almost simultaneously with the Mer
ritt’s next signal, ‘give your orders,’ came
this from the Teresa, ‘tell Merritt to cast
off and come within hail.’ This was done
and her crew hauled in one hundred
fathoms of hauser while on the way to as
sist the Teresa. The latter then signaled,
‘w'e shall abandon ship. Tell Leonidas to
stand by us to windarwd. Do not oast off
our lines.’ Lieutenant Geo. P. Blow im
mediately planned the Vulcan’s part in
the scheme of rescue. Being almost-sure
that the Teresa’s starboard engine would
be kept working to the last, it was decid
ed to hold on to the hawser, thereby giv
ing the Teresa sufficient steering way to
enable her helmsman to keep the heavy
sea on her starboard ibow and still be to
leeward of the Vulcan, enabling the latter
to use oil to advantage where the rescuing
boats began.
“From the first the heavy laboring of the
Teresa gave the impression that she would
founder suddenly and that all of her peo
ple would be overboard at any moment,
either swimming or drowning before our
own eyes. Assistant Paymaster Robert IH.
Wood. United States Navy, was detailed to
note the time that each signal was sent
and repeated. Oil was the first requisite.
Mechanics passed it up in buckets from
the hole. Those on deck filled small rub
ber bags with it. The effect was imme
diate in smoothing the heavy sea near the
wreck.
“Rubber life belts were brought on the
deck and filled with air ready to throw to
men in the water. A bow line was made
in every rope’s end by which the men
could be hauled out of the sea. If the ship
had foundered before her people were ta
ken off. it was the commanding officer’s
intention after cutting the hawser, to
place bis vessel to leeward and then work
up to the windward of the men in the
water and pick them up.
“Half the charges were extracted from
some six-pounder shells and they were fit
ted over the ends of ears to Which small
lines were attached. These were to have
been find from the gun across the spot
where the men might have been seen in
the water.
“After the Teresa began to fill it be
came impossible for the Vulcan to keep
her head to windward, but being practi
cally waterlogged -she made an excellent
breakwater for the boats, even after she
fell off in the trough of the sea.
“(Directed by Lieutenant Gilmer, the
crew and engineer force equipped two life
boats with oars, life preservers and oil
bags. They were launched from the top of
the deck house and by means of long lines
were veered astern, in the 'hope that they
would reach the Teresa, but the heavy sea
carried them far to windward; they fouled
the hawser and were finally cut adrift.
“At 2 o’clock in the afternoon the ‘were
ship,’ just astern of the Teresa 'and came
up under her lee just in time to -take off
the first boatload of rescued persons. The
wreckers and volunteers from the naval
vessels had succeeded in lowering one of
the two surf boats hanging from davits on
the Teresa’s port side. Pulling quickly
clear.of the ship’s side, the boats crew
composed of the wreckers men, went about
saving the people in a systematic way.
“There was less than four hours of day
light left in which to rescue 114 persons,
including eighteen Cuban sailors, and such
a sea as was running would have daunted
any life boat crew. To have attempted to
go near enough the ship’s side to let her
people climb down into the boats meant
certain destruction to the rescuing party.
3o while the boat was towed by its painter
from the ship’s lee quarter and was kept
clear (by two men at the oars and by the
steerman in the stern, another line was
used to send down the men from the
ship.
“Each man slung in the center of this
rope was hauled through the water in
most cases to the boat and then tumbled
in over the bow. It was slow but a safe
process, as the result proved, for by 5
o’clock every man as far as we could see
was safe on board the Merritt.
“The force of the gale and height of the
sea may be best understood by the fact
that although nearly 230 fathoms of haw
ser separated the Teresa from the Vulcan,
the watchers on the latter vessel, owing
to the heavy seas, driving rain and spray,
were only able to see the boats of the res
cuing party at long intervals when they
came out of the trough of the sea. The
Merritt herself, although a splendid sea
boat, was buried in the trough of the sea
at times so that only the ends of her
mastheads were visible. The first boat
lowered made in all four round trips be
tween the Teresa and the- Merritt and the
second made three trips, so that to rescue
all hands the boats had to make the pas
sage through those heavy combing seas
fourteen times, and right gallantly did
those brave fellows accomplish the work.
Lucky indeed was it for those rescued
that the boats were manned by pastmas
ters at the oar and helm.
“For two hours men with axes, under
the direction of the executive officer had
been statibhed aft, ready to cut away the
hawser at a moment’s notice, in case the
Teresa should founder during the transfer
of her men. Every Vulcan man watched
the ship with an anxious eye as she
plunged ‘forecastle under’ the head seas
clear to the turret coming out again with
the water streaming from her hawser
pipes and showing the heel of her ram
above the big sea. Forty-four Shipmates
of theirs were aboard the doomed vessel,
and it was yet a question whether their
rescue could be effected before dark.
“Heavy rain squalls beat the seas down
a little at this time, but the wind blew
harder than ever. Struggling for a foot
hold on the Teresa’s rickety bridge her
signal man, Crossett, wigwagged to the
Vulcan at 4 o’clock, ‘don’t cast off the tow
lines yet, two more boatloads will clear
the ship.’ We replied, ‘all right; will hold
on until the last.’
“High upon the bridge, eilhoutted
against the leaden sky and bracing him
self against the fearful rolling of the Te
rasa as she wallowed in the seas, stood
the man at the wheel. He was alone and
probably the last perron to leave his post,
for it was not until the final boat was re
• ceiving tts quota of men that he lashed
the wheel, came down the bridge and lad
der and went aft to leave the ship.
“It was not until 5:11 o’clock when
Lieutenant Blow and his officers were cer
tain that last boat load had been taken off
that the order was given to ‘cut away.’
Two blows of an axe severed the lines,
and as the links of the chain bridles cut
through the stern chocks, the Vulcan’s
crew, led by Chief Engineer Gardiner C.
Sims, United States Navy, gave three
ringing cheers as a salute to the stars and
stripes flying as if in defiance of the ele
ments at the Teresa jackyard and also to
the bravery of the Merritt’s men. who had
made such a gallant rescue of their ship
mates. «*
“Twenty minutes later it was so dark
that the Teresa was only a black speck
against the horizon and at 6 o’clock noth
ing could be seen, while the gale howled
and the sa rose higher than ever.”
BLACKMAILERS.
Newly Appointed Consul and His Wife Ar
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By Associated Press.
1 New York, Nov. 7. —William A. E.
Moore, who has been staying at the Gren
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were arrested by Central office detectives
last night on the charge of atempted ex
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i Martin Mahon, the proprietor of the New
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and with attempting to extort an addi
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Moore had in his possession the appoint
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States consul to Durban, Indian River,
South ,r I-;.-; wife is said to be the
1 daughter of ex-Ohief Justice Sitrahn, of
the supreme court of Oregon, her home
‘ being in Salem. Ore. Moore said he had
not yet gone to the station in South Africa
to which he had been appointed, as he
i expected -another appointment in the place
> of lit as consul to Budapest. Hie home is
i said to be in Cleveland.
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