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TAMPA'S MILD EPIDEMIC.
PHYSICIANS STILL DIVIDED AS TO
ITS EXACT NATURE.
Only Three New Cases and No Deaths
Since Thursday—The Sick all Doing
Fairly Well—Dr. Stoner Gives a Little
History of Broken Bone Fever Out
breaks.
Washington, Oct. o.—The Marine Hos
pital Bureau has received a telegram from
Deputy Collector Spencer, at Tampa, Fla.,
,f which the following is a copy: “There
are twenty-six cases in all. Two deaths
bave occurred. It is questionable as to the
cause of the death of the two. A majority
of the sick are convalescing. The town is
depopulated, and very little material is left.
Doctors disagree as to whether the disease is
dengue or yellow fever.”
PRECAUTIONS ADVISABLE.
Dr. George W. Stoner, Chief of the
Quarantine Division, says that if is it dengue
there is no cause for alarm nor necessity for
rigid quarantine, hut if doubt exists it is
proper to act on the side of safety. Dengue,
nr ns it is sometimes called break bone
fever, is a very distressing infectious dis
ease. not contagious in the usual accepta
tion of the term, and rarely fatal unless
complicated with other disease.
WHEN n> WAS EPIDEMIC.
Dengue prevailed in the West Indies and
many places in the South about fifty years
ngo. and was prevalent in several Southern
cities in 18.50, especially itf Charleston,
where about four-fifths of the population
were attacked, but only a few deaths rela
tively occurred. In yellow fever, on the
other hand, the mortality is sometimes as
high as 75 per cent., and if not controlled
hy proper quarantine restrictions the
disease may spread from place to place
during warm weather. Frost kills it. I)r.
Stoner believes the disease at Tampa to be
yellow fever.
FUMIGATING THE MAILS.
The acting surgeon has also received the
following telegram:
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 9.
fi. IF. Sinner, Acting Surgeon (feueral:
Arrangements will be made to fumigate the
mails between Plant City and Lakeland on the
line of the noad. Through mails from Havana
o Key West are fumigated on board the ships,
die same as has been done all summer.
J. P. Wall.
THREE NEW CASES AND NO DEATHS.
Tampa, Fla., Oct. 9.—Three new cases
if fever are reported to-day, but no deaths.
The sick are nil doing fairly wpll. Many of
he oldest citizens claim that yellow fever
ioes not exist in Tampa. More than half
he physicians are of the same opinion.
NO ALARM OUTSIDE TAMPA.
Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 9.— Reports
■rom Tampa say that there have been only
four deaths to date and none since Thurs
day. The fever is of a very mild type,
with only three doubtful cases out of about
twenty-five. The Florida Health Protective
Association to-day sent representatives to
Tampa to organize a Howard Asso
•iation, maintain order and nurse
the sick. There is no alarm outside
of Tampa at any point to-day and no danger
s apprehended. Experience proves that
yellow fever cannot exist in the interior of
Florida nor in the seaports which are in
toed sanitary condition. Trains and steam
ms from northern points are crowded with
oeople coming home and the advance guard
>f tourists and immigrants.
RANDALL AT ATLANTA.
Officers of the Exposition Meet Him
on His Arrival.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9. —Samuel J. Ran-
Jall, accompanied by his wife, and Fred
Serker and wife, of Philadelphia, reached
Atlanta to-day at 1 o’clock, by the Atlanta
ind Charlotte Air Line. They were met at
the train by President Collier and Vice
President Grady, of the Exposition, and es
,'orted to the Kimball House.
I'hore an informal reception was tendered
In Mr. Randall and his friends. During the
afternoon and evening Mr. Randall had
piite a number of callers. To-night Senator
Cobjuitt and ex-Congressman Hammond
Jailed together. Mr. and Mrs. Randall
Occupy the best rooms in the Kimball, and
the same ones that will be placed at the dis
posal of the President and his wife when
they reach Atlanta.
FORAKER NEARLY KILLED.
A Train on Which He Was Riding
Meets With an Accident.
Columbus, 0., Oct. O.—A train contain
ing Gov. Foraker, State Librarian Doane
Wd a large delegation of Zanesville people
tn route to Zanesville, where the Governor
delivered an address, was derailed near
Roseville, ten miles south of Zanesville
last night, by a defective switch.
The engine and baggage car
kept the track, but the smoker left it, drag
ging with it Gov. Foraker’s car, which went
to the brink of a twentv-foot embankment,
and was only prevented from going over by
the strong coupling to the rear of the coach.
Gov. Forater and party escaped by crawl
ing through windows.
FISHERY NEGOTIATIONS.
Commissioner Putnam Has an Inter
view with Secretary Bayard.
Washington, Oct. 9.—William L. Put
ham, of Portland, Me., who is, together
with President Angell, of Michigan Univer
sity, to act with Secretary Bayard in the
coming negotiations with the Chamberlain
commission, and who arrived yesterday,
l ,;i already had an informal talk
"dli Secretary Bayard about the
position to be taken by the
J nited States. President Angell will
b here in a day or two, and the course to
■’ followed by the Secretary of State and
li s associates will then be determined. It
'•'ill l>e, of course, on the extension of the
Inc on which tiie administration has been
Raveling in this regard.
Utah’s Application for Admission.
Salt Lark City, Oct. 9.—The Mormon
constitutional Convention reassembled yes
terday and shaped a memorial to Congress
praying for the admission of Utah into the
1 moil, declaring their good faith and pur
l'"sr> to carry out the provisions of the con
stitution as adopted. As one inducement
admission, Congress is informed that by
admitting Utah the nation will be relieved
W the troublesome questions.
Seizures of Sealers.
S\n Francisco, Oct. 9.— Revenue cutter
Richard Rush, arrived from the Arctic to
day v ’ia Victoria. She reports that during
lln season slie seined twelve scaling schoon
'i s with a total of nearly 7,000 skins. The
o iissian authorities have seized three sealers
!l| > the Siberian coast, one American, one
‘ii'itish, and the nationality of the third is
unknown.
Paris Papers Ruled Out.
Rkiilin, Oct. 9.— The circulation of the
Paris paperß La. Sieclr and La Lanterne
ws been prohibited in Alsace and I/Orraine.
She looming ffrto#.
CLEVELAND’S QUIET SUNDAY.
Unpleasant Weather Keeps Them
From Attending Church.
Madison, VVTs., Oct. 9. —President and
Mrs. Cleveland have remained in their
quarters at the Vilas mansion, resting all
day in preparation for the fatigues of an
other week of journeying. It was expected
that they would go to church this morning
and Mr. Vilas’ pew in the Episcopal church
was reserved for them, but a heavy,
threatening sky and a raw, chilly wind,
fresh laden with spray from the lakes, mud
in the unpaved streets and clouds of falling
leaves from every tree top were forbidding,
while the grate fires in their parlors were
very tempting.
ALL BV THEMSELVES.
They have no one there except their
fellow travelers and members of the Vilas
family, including the mother and brothers
of the Postmaster General, who were in
vited to a family dinner with the President
and Mrs. Cleveland at 4 o’clock. They could
not have been freer from interruption at
the White House or at Red Top than in
Madison. A little group of a dozen or more
individuals have been seen nearly
all day in front of the mansion awaiting a
possible glimpse of them, but the towns
people for the most part have respected
their wish to be left in quiet. They will leave
here on a special train at 9 o’clock to-morrow
for St. Paul. A concession has been made
to LaCrosse, at which point the train will
tarry about twenty minutes tomorrow
noon and the party will take carriages to
see the place and be seen by the people.
EMMA ABBOTT FLASHES FIRE.
A Clergyman’s Attack on the Theatre
Denounced in His Own Church.
Nashville, Oct. 9.—McKendree church,
the leading Methodist Episcopal church of
this city, was the scene of quite a sensation
to-day. The pastor, Rev. W. A. Candler,
delivered a very severe and bitter sermon
on the sub|Mt of theatres. Miss Emma
Abbott occupied a seat in the rear of the
church, and at the conclusion of the sermon
arose, and in a short speech entered a pro
test against the very general character of
the pastor’s denunciation. It produced the
greatest sensation, and has since been the
one topic of conversation in the parlors,
family circles, upon the streets and in pub
lic places.
OPINION DIVIDED.
Many members of his church uphold the
pastor, but many others commend the
course of Miss Abbott. Her appearance
showed much suppressed indignation, but
her words were very clear and distinct and
were heard by all present. She declared
that the minister’s charges were unfounded
and that her life was as free from blame as
that of any living woman. In all the operas
of the past week to which the minister re
ferred, there was no impure or improper
thought. Great lights of the stage, such as
Jeuny Lind, Modjeska, Albani and count
less others had been good women and
model wives and mothers.
HER OWN FAIR FAME.
She defied anyone to say that aught had
ever been said against the fair fame of
Emma Abbott. There was considerable ap
plause at the conclusion of her remarks.
Before it subsided Rev. Mr. Candler an
swered that he could not answer the lady,
because she was a lady. During the day as
the affair became known, a great many
ladies who had met Miss Abbott socially,
railed on her and commended her spirited
defense of herself and her profession.
BULGARIA’S ELECTION.
The Government Candidates Elected
at Sofia.
Sofia, Oct. !t. — The elections to-day were
orderly. Soldiers patrolled the streets, and
guarded the public buildings.
All the government candidates here
are elected. Stambuloff received 4,020 votes,
Stransky 2,915 and GueshofT 2,873. None of
the Radoslavist candidates received more
than 20 votes, and the Zankoffists received
only one or two each. Zankoffists are elected
at Rahova. The results in the provinces
are favorable to the government.
Election affrays in which blood was shed
are reported at Plevna. Cuttovitza aud
pßahovitza. A crowd of citizens made an
enthusiastic demonstration this evening at
the palaces of the Premier and Prince Fer
dinand. The Prince, in a speech, praised
the loyalty of the people.
The Svoboda says that Russo-Turkish
negotiations have been labor in vain, and
that it should lie known once for all that
Bulgaria will not be abandoned by the
Prince it has chosen.
ARRIVALS FROM EUROPE.
Several People of Prominence Land at
New York.
New York, Oct. 9.—Among the arrivals
by the steamship Etruria from Liverpool
to-day are the following: Ftyrle Bellew.
Rev. Morgan Dix and family, John H.
Roots and family, Gen. W. H. Seward
and H. McK. Twombly and family.
Other steamers brought Gen. Comte
deßeaumout, Viscomte deßeaumont, Man
ton Marble, Lady Louise Ashburton, Sir R.
R, Fowler, ex-Lord Mayor of Lon ion, and
James Gordon Bennett.
N. L. McCready, President of the old
Dominion Steamship Company, died 011
shipboard soon after the steamer left
Queenstown. His remains were brought
here.
AN EXPLOSION IN A MINE.
One Man Killed and Three Fatally and
Twelve Seriously Injured.
Chicago, Oct. 9. —A special from Dixon
ville, Ky., says: “A terrible explosion oc
curred at Renoke’s mine last evening. One
man was killed, three were fatally injured
and twelve seriously hurt. The cause of
the explosion was an accumulation of the
dust of bituminous coal, supplemented by
several simultaneous blasts, which were
fired as usual when each shift leaves the
mines. In this instance the blast had been
premature and a number of miners were in
elosa proximity to the explosion, not less
than sixty men being in the mine at the
time.”
Suez Canal Neutrality.
Rome, Oct. 9. —Premier Crispi and Prince
Bismarck, in their recent interview, dis
cussed the Suez canal uuestion and agreed
that as England and Italy were in accord
on the subject, the three powers should act
uniformly in connection with the canal.
Killed by a Negro.
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 9. —John F.
Oxner, a white farmer living in the Broad
river section of Newberry county, was
killed yesterday by a negro whom he had
ordered off hispluce. Tho murderer escaped.
A Town Marshal Shot.
Charleston, 8. C., Oct. 9.—At Ward’s,
Edgefield county, to-day Henry Booth,
Town Marshal, was shot by a negro who
was resisting arrest . He will probably die.
Maurice Strakosch Dead.
Paris, Oct. 9.—Maurice Htrakoseh, the
I manager of lime. Patti, is dead.
SAVANNAH, (tA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1887.
RECRUITS FOR CHRIST.
CHURCHES SHOULD INVADE THE
UNOCCUPIED FIELDS.
Talmage Tired of Seeing the Different
Denominations Dipping into Each
Others Ponds for New Members
Transferring Men from One Division
of Christ’s Earthly Army to Another
a Waste of Time.
Brooklyn, Oct. o.—The audiences at the
Brooklyn Tabernacle this autumn are larger
than at any time during the history of this
church, and greater numbers go away, not
able to get in. Led by cornet and organ,
the congregation sang with great power the
hymn:
The morning light is breaking,
The darkness disappears,
The sons of men are waking
To penitential tears.
The Rev. T. De Witt Taimage, D.D., read
and explained passages of Scripture con
cerning the dawn of universal righteous
ness. The subject of his sermon was “Un
occupied Fields,” and the text from Romans,
xv., 20: “laist I should build upon another
man’s foundation.” Dr. Talmagesnid:
Stirring reports come from all parts of
America showing what a great work the
churches of God are doing, and I congratu
late them and their pastors. Misapprehen
sions have been going the rounds, saying
that the outside benevolences of this par
ticular church are neglected, when the fact
is that large sums of money are being
raised in various ways by this church for
all styles of good objects, not always
through the boards of our own denomina
tion. This church was built by all denomi
nations of Christians and by many sections
of this land and other lands, and that obli
gation has led us to raise money for many
objects not connected with our denomina
tion, and this accounts for the fact that we
have not regularly contributed to all the
boards commended. But 1 rejoice? in that
you have done as a church a magnificent
work, and am grateful that we have
received during the year by the confession
of faith in Christ 725 souls, which fact 1
mention, not in boasting, but in defense of
this church, showing it has been neither
idle nor inefficient. The most of our acces
sions have been from the outside world, so
that, taking the idea of my text, we have
not been building on other people’s founda
tions.
In laving out the plan of his missionary
tour, Paul sought out towns and cities
which had not yet been preached to. He
goes to Corinth, a city mentioned for splen
dor and vice, and Jerusalem, where the
priesthood and the Sanhedrim were ready
to leap with both feet upou the Christian
religion. He feels he has especial work to
do, and he means to do it. What was the
result! The grandest life of usefulness that
a man ever lived. We modern Christian
workers are not apt to imitate
Paul. We build on other’s people’s
foundations. If we erect a church
we prefer to have it filled with families all
of whom have been pious. Do we gather a
Sabbath school class, we want, good boys
and girls, hair combed, faces washed, man
ners attractive. So a church in this day is
apt to be built out of other churches. Some
ministers spend all their time in fishing in
other i>eople’s ponds, and they throw the
line into that church pond and jerk out a
Methodist, and throw the line into another
church pond and bring out a Presbyterian,
or there is a religious row in some neighbor
ing church, and a whole school of fish swim
off from that pond, and we take them all in
with one sweep of the net. What is gained!
Absolutely nothing for the general cause of
Christ. It is only as in an army, when a
regiment is transferred from one division to
another, from the Tennessee to the Potomac.
What strengthens the army is new re
cruits. What I have always desired is that
while we are courteous to those coming
from other flocks, we build our church not
out of other churches, but out of the world,
lest ive build on another man’s foundation.
The fact is, this is a big world. When, in
our schoolboy days we learned the diameter
and circumference of this planet, we did
not learn half. It is the latitude and longi
tude and diameter and circumference of
want and woe and sin that no figures can
calculate. This one spiritual continent of
wretchedness reaches across all zones, and
if I were called to give its geographical
boundary, I would say it is bounded on the
north and south and east and west by the
great heart of (rod's sympathy and love.
Oh, it isja great world. Sincefi o’clock this
morning sixty thousand eight hundred
persons have been born, and all these mul
tiplied populations are to be reached of the
Gospel. In England, or in our Eastern
American cities, we are being
much crowded, and an acre of
ground is of great value, but out West five
hundred acres is a small farm, and twenty
thousand acres is no unusual possession.
There is a vast field here and everywhere
unoccupied, plenty of room more, not build
ing on another man’s foundation. We need
as churches to stop bombarding the old iron
clad sinners that have been proof against
thirty years of Christian assault. Alas for
that church which lacks the spirit of evan
gelism, spending on one chandelier enough
to light five hundred souls to glory,and in one
carved pillar enough to have made a thou
sand new “pillars in the house of our God
forever,” ami doing less good than many a
log cabin meeting-house with tallow candles
stuck in wooden sockets, and a minister who
lias never seen a college, or known tho dif
ference between Greek and Choctaw.
We need as churches to get into sympathy
with the great outside world, and let them
know that none are so broken-hearted or
hardly bestead that will not be welcomed.
“No!” says some fastidious Christian, “I
don’t like to be crowded in church. Don’t
put any one In my pew.” My brother, wiiat
will you do in heaven t Wbeji a great mul
titude that no mail can number assembles
they w ill put fifty in your pew. What are
the select fewto day assembled in the Chris
tian churches compared with tli<* mightier
millions outside of them, *00.900 in Brook
lyn, but loss than 100,000 in the churches!
Many of the churches are like a hospital
that should advertise that its patients must
have nothing worse than toothache or “run
rounds,” but no broken mwhp 110 crushed
ankles, no fractured thighs. Give us for
treatment moderate sinners, velvet-coated
sinners and sinners with a gloss on. It is as
though a man had a farm of 3,000 acresand
put all his work on one acre. He may raise
never so large ears of corn, never so big
heads of wheat, he would remain poor.
The church of God has bestowed its chief
care on one acre, and has raised splendid
men and women in that small inclosure,
but, the field is the world. That means
North and South America, Europe, Asia
and Africa, and all the islands of the
sea. It is as though after a great battle
there were left 50,000 wounded and dying
on the field, and three surgeons gave all
their time to three patients under their
charge. The Major General coints in and
says tolhe doctors: “Come out here aud
look at the nearly 50,000 dying for lack of
surgical attendance.” “No,” say tho three
doctors, standing there fanning their
patients, “we have three important cases
here and we are attending to them, and
when we are not positively busy with their
wounds, it takes ail our time to keep the
flies off.” In this awful battle of sin and
sorrow, whew millions have fallen on mil
lions, do not let us spend all our time in
tailing care of a few people, and when the
command comes: “Go into the world,” say
practically: “No, I cannot go; 1 have here
a few choice cases, and I am busy keeping
off the flies,” There are multitudes to-day
who have never had any Christian worker
look* them in the eye, and with earnestness
in the accentuation, say: “Come!” or they
would long ago have been in the kingdom.
My friends, religion is either a sham or a
tremendous reality. If it be a sham, let us
disband our churches and Christian asso
ciation. If it be a reality, then great popu
lations are on their way to the bar of God
unfitted for the ordeal, and what are we
doing!
In order to reach the multitude of out
siders we must drop nil technicalities out of
our religion. When we talk to people about
the hypostatic union and French Encyolo
pedianism, and Erastiuianism, and Coin
plutensianism, we are as impolitic and
little understood ns if a physician should
talk to an ordinary patient about the peri
cardiuni, and intercostal muscle, and scor
butic symptoms. Many of us* come out of
the theological seminaries so loaded up that
we take the first ten years to show our j>eo
ple how much we know, and the next ten
years get our people to know as much as we
know, and at the end find that neither of us
know anything as we ought to
know. Here are hundreds and thou
sands of sinning, struggling, and
dying people who need to realize just one
thing—that Jesus Christ canto to save them,
and will save them now. But we go into a
profound aud elaborate definition of what
justification is, and after all the work there
are not, outside of the learned professions,
five thousand people in the United States
who can tell what justification is. I will
read you the definition:
“Justification is purely a forensic act, the
act of a judge sitting in the forum, in which
the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ac
countable to none, and who alone knows
the manner in which the ends of His uni
versal government can best be obtained,
reckons that which was done by the substi
tute in the same manner as if it had been
done by those who believe in the substitute,
and not on account of anything done by
them, but purely upon account of this grn
eious method of reckoning, grants them the
full remission of their sins.”
Now, what is justification ? I will tell
you what justification is—when a sinner
believes, God lets him off. One summer in
Connecticut I went to a large factory, and
I saw over the door written the words: “No
Admittance.” I entered and saw over the
next door: “No Admittance.” Of course I
I entered. I sot inside and found it a pin
factory, and they were making pins, very
serviceable, fine and useful pins. So the
spirit of exclusiveness has practically writ
ten over the outside door or many a church:
“No Admittance.” And if thearanger enters
he finds practically written direr the second
door: “No Admittance,” and If lie goes in,
over all the pew doors seems written: “No
Admittance, ’ while the minister stands in
tho pulpit, hammering out his htlle niceties
of belief, jioundingout the technicalities of
religion, making pins. In thoraurt practi
cal, common sense way, and laying aside
the non-essentials and the hard definitions
of religion, go out on the God-given mission,
telling the people wbat they need and when
and iiow they can get it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has been
made to save that large class of poisons in
our midst called, skeptics, and he who goes
to work here will not be building upon an
other man’s foundation. There is a great
multitude of them. They are afraid of us
and our churches, for the reason we don’t
know hqw to treat them. One of this class
met Christ, and hear with what tenderness,
and pathos, and beauty, and success Christ
dealt with him: “Thou shait love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
thy strength. This is the first command
ment, and the second is like to this; namely,
thou shait love thy neighbor as thyself.
There is no other commandment greater
than this.” And the scribe said to hiuu
“Well, Master, thou hast said the truth, ft#
there is one God, and to love hint with all
the heart, nnd all the understanding, and
all the soul, nnd all the strength is more
than whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
And when Jesus saw that he answered dis
creetly, he said unto him: "Thou are not
far from the kingdom of God.” So a skeptic
was saved in one interview. But few
Christian people treat the skeptic in that
way. Instead of taking hold of him with
the gentle hand of love, we are apt to take
him with the iron pincers of ecclesiasticism.
You would not he so rough on that man
if you knew by what process he had lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from the fact that they grew up
in houses where religion was overdone.
Sunday was the most awful day of the
week. They had religion driven into them
with a trip-hammer. They were surfeited
with prayer meetings. They were stuffed
and choked with catechisms. They were
often told they were the worst hoys the
parents ever knew, because they liked to
ride down hill better than to read Bunyan's
Pilgrim’s Progress. Whenever father and
mother talked of religion they drew down
the corners of their mouth aud rolled up
their eyes. If any one thing will send a
boy or girl to perdition sooner than another
that is it. If 1 had hud such a father and
mother I fear I should have been an infidel.
Others were tripped up of skepticism
from being grievously wronged by some
man who professed to be a Christian. They
had a partner in business who turned out to
be a first-class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Twenty years ago they lost all
faith by what happened in an oil company
which was formed amid the petroleum ex
eitement. The company owned no land, or
if they did, there was no sign of oil pro
duced; but the President of the company
was a Presbyterian elder, and the Treasurer
was an Episcopal vestryman, and one
director was a Methodist class leader, and
the other directors prominent members of
Baptist and Congregational churches. Cir
culars were gotten out, telling what fabu
lous prospects ojiened before this company.
Innocent men and women who had a little
money to invest, and that littlo their all,
saiil: “l don’t know anything about this
company, but so many good men are at the
head of it that it must be excellent, and
taking stock in it must be almost as
good as joining the church.” So they
bought the stock, and perhaps received one
dividend so as to keep them still, but after a
while they found that the company had re
organized, and bad a different president,
and different treasurer, and different direr
tors. Other engagements, or ill health, had
caused the former officer- of the company,
with many regrets, to resign. And all that
the sulmcribers of that stock had to show for
their investment was a beautifully orna
mented certificate. Sometimes that man,
looking over his old papers, comes saw
that certificate, and it is so suggestive that
he vows he wants none of the religion that
the presidents, and trustees and directors of
that oil company professed. Of ooursethe r
rejection of religion on such grounds was
unphilosophical and unwise. lam told that
one-third of the United States army desert
every year, and there are twelve thousand
courtmartial trials every year. Is that
anything against the United States govern
meat that swore them in! And if n soldier
of Jesus Christ desert, ie that anything
against tho Christianity which they swort
to support and defend! How do you judge
of the currency of a country! By a coun
terfeit bill i Ob, you must have iiatience
with those who have been swindled bv re-
ligiotts pretenders. Live in the presence f
others u frank, honest, earnest, Christian
life, that they may he attracted to t he same
Saviour upon whom vour hopes depend.
Remember skepticism always has some
reason, good or bad, for existing. Goethe’s
ii rcligion started when the news came to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
1, 177.5. That 60,000 people should have
perished in that earthquake and in the after
rising of the Tagus river so stirred his sym
pathies that he threw up his belief in the
goodness of God.
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence in asking the reason
why. They have been fearfully stubbed of
the interrogation point. There are so many
things they cannot get explained. They
cannot understand the Trinity or how God
can be sovereign and yet man a free
agent Neither can I. They say;
“I don’t understand why a good God
should have let sin come into the world.”
Neither do I. You say: “IVhy was that
child started in life with such disadvantages,
while others have all physical and mental
equipment!’ 1 cannot tell. They go out
of church on Easter morning and say:
“That doctrine of the resurrection con
founded mo.” So it is to mt' a mystery be
yond unrnvelinent. I understand all the
processes by which men get into the dark. I
know them all. 1 have traveled with burn
ing feet that blistered way. The first, word
that children learn to utter is generally
papa or mamma. I think the iirst word 1
uttered was “Why!” 1 know what it is to
have a hundred midnights pour their dark
ness into one hour. Such men are not, to be
scoffed but helped. Turn your back upon a
drowning man when you tiavo the rope
with which to pull him ashore, and let that
woman in the third story of a house perish
in the flames when you have a ladder with
which to help her out and help her
down, rather than turn your back
scofliugly on a skeptic whose soul
is in more peril than the bodies
of those other endangered ones possibly can
be. Oh, skepticism is a dark land. There
are men in this house who would give a
thousand worlds, if they possessed them, to
get back to the placid faith of their fathers
and mothers, and it is our place to help
them, and we may help them, never through
their heads, but always through their
hearts. These skeptics, when brought to
Jesus, will be mightily affected, far more so
than those who never examined the evi
dences of Christianity. Thomas Chalmers
was once a skeptic, Robert Hall a skeptic,
Robert Newton a skeptic, Christmas Evans
a skeptic. But when once wit h strong hand
they took hold of the chariot of the Gospel,
they rolled it on with what momentum! If
I address such men and women to-day, I
throw out no scoff. 1 implead them by the
memory of the good old days, when at their
mother’s knee they said: “Now l lay me
down to sleep,” and hy those days and
nights of scarlet fever in which she watched
you, giving you the medicine at just the
right time, and turning your pillow when
it was hot, and with hands that many years
ago turned to dust, soothed away your pain,
and with voice that you will never hear
again, unless you join her in the better
country, told you to never mind for you
would feel better by-nnd-by, and by that
dying couch where she looked so pale and
bilked so slowly, catching her breath be
tween the words, and you felt an awful
loneliness coming over your soul; by all
that, I beg you to come back and take the
same religion. It was good enough for her.
It is good enough for you. Nay, l have a
better plea than that. 1 plead by all the
wounds, and tears, and blood, and groans,
and agonies, and death-throes of the Hon of
God, who approaches you this moment with
torn brow, and lacerated hand, and whipped
back, and saying: “Come unto me, all ye
who are weary aud heavy laden, and 1 will
give you rest.”
Again, there is a field of usefulness but
little touched occupied by those who are
astray in their habits. All northern na
tions, like those of North America, and
England and Scotland, that is, in the colder
climates, are devastated by alcoholism.
They take the fire to keep up the warmth.
In Southern countries, like Arabia and
Spnin, the blood is so tliey are not tempted
to fiery liquids. The great Roman armies
never drank anything stronger than water
tinged with vinegar, but under our
Northern climate the temptation to heating
stimulants is most mighty, and millions
succumb. When a man’s habits go wrong
the church drops him, the social circle drops
him, good influences drop him, wo all drop
him. Of all the men who get off track
but few ever get on again. Near my sum
mer residence there is a life .living station
on the beach. There are all the ropes and
rockets, the boats, the machinery for
getting people off shipwrecks. Summer
before last I saw there fifteen or twenty
men who were breakfasting, after having
just escaped with their livi'S and nothing
more. I p and down our coa-is are built
these't.usctill structures, and Uiu mariners
know it, and they feel that if they are
driven into the breakers there will lie apt
from shore to come a rescue. The churches
of God ought to be so many life-saving
stations, not so much to help those who are
in smooth waters but those who have lieen
shipwrecked. Come, let us run out the life
boats! And who will man them! We do not
pleach enough to such men, we have not
enough faith in their release. Alas, if when
they come to hear us, we nre lalioriously
trying to show the difference between sub
laps&rianiam. and supralupsarianism,
while they have a thousand vipers
of remorse and despair coiling
around and biting their immortal spirits.
The church is not chiefly for goodish sort of
men whose proclivities are all right, and
who could get to heaven praying and sing
ing m their own homes. It is on the beach
to help the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that God likes to take hold of. He
can save a big sinner as well as a small sin
ner, and when a man calls earnestly to God
for help ho will go out to deliver such a one.
If it were nec 'ssary God would come down
from the sky, followed bv all the artillery
of heaven and a million angels with
drawn swords. Get one hundred such re
deemed men in each of your churches, arid
nothing could stand before them, for such
men nre generally warmhearted and en
tbusiastic. No formal prayers then. No
heartless singing then. No cold conven
tionalisms then.
Furthermore, the destitute children of the
street offer u Held of work comparatively
unoccupied. The uncared-for children are
in the majority in Brooklyn and most of our
cities, when they grow up, if unrefoi med,
they will outvote your children, and they
will govern your children. The whisky
ring will hatch out other whisky rings, and
gbig shops will kill w ith their horrid stench
public sobriety, unless the Church of Goit
rises up with outstretched arms and enfolds
tins dying population in her bosom. I’ublic
schoois cannot do it. Art gallorics cannot
do it. Blackwell’s Island cannot do it.
Almshouses cannot do it. New York Tombs
and Raymond Street Jail cannot do it.
Sing Sing cannot do it. Church of God,
wake up to your magnificent mission! You
can do it. Get somewhere, somehow to
work.
The Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while the
American cavaljy mount by putting their
left foot into the stirrup. I don’t care how
you mount your war charger, if you only
get into this liattle lor God and get there
soon, right stirrup, or left stirrup, or no
stirrup mi all. Ihe unoccupied fields are
all around us, and why should we build on
another man * foundation! That God has
caned this church to especial work no one
can doubt. Its history has been miraculous,
(tod has helped us at every step, and though
the wheels of its histooy have made many
revolutions, they have all been forward, and
never backward, and now with our bor
ders enlarged, and with important rein
forcements we start on anew campaign.
At Sharon Springs, nineteen years ago,
walking in the park, I asked (tod if he hud
any ((articular work for me to do, to make
it plain and 1 would do it. He revealed to
me the stylo of church wo were to have, and
Ho revealed to me the architecture, and He
revealed to me the modes of worship, and
He revealed to me my work, and, as far as
In my ignorance and weakness I have seen
the right way, I have tried to walk in it.
We decided that we wanted it a
soul-saving church, and it has been
almost a constant outpouring of the Holy
Ghost. Ye powers of darkness, ye devils in
hell, we mean to snatch from your dominion
other multitudes, if God will help us. I
have heard of what was called the “thun
dering legion.” It was in 179, a part of the
Homan army to which some Christians be
longed, and their prayers, it was said, ware
answered by thunder and lightning and hail
and tempest, which overthrew an invading
army and saved the empire. And I would
to (iod that this church may lie so mighty in
prayer and work that it would become a
t hundering legion before which the forces of
sin might, be routed, and the gates of hell
might tremble. Now that the autumn has
come, and the Gos]iel Ship has been repaired
and enlarged, it is time to launch her for
another voyage. Heave away now, lads!
Shake out the reefs in the foretopsail!
Come, O heavenly wind, and (ill thecanvasl
Jesus aboard w ill assure our safety. Jesus
oil the sea will beckon us forward. Jesus
on the shining shore will welcome us into
harbor. “And so it came to pass that they
all escaped sale to land.”
DIPLOMACY AT THE CASINO.
Some of the Plots of the Schemers.
New York, Oct. 8. —The Casino is rap
dly becoming the home of diplomacy. No
where outside of the Press Club is politics so
rampant, and the amount of scheming and
manoeuvring that go on in the leading light
ojiera house in America would put even the
suave and polished fellow's of the Theatre
Francois to the blush. The Casino engages
a great many people for its various compa
nies and the struggle of outsiders to get
w ithin the charmed circle is only equaledby
the labni-s of those already in the companies
to get, hold of the managerial reins. The
most consummate and fathomless of these is
the comedian Francis Wilson. He is a tac
tician of the deeperfeehool. While merrily
capering about the stage, and apparently
giving himself up to abandon, hilarity and
glee, he is in reality laying deep and cun
ning plans for the entrapment of Rudolph
Aronson. The latter gentleman is mean
while tucked snugly away in his office,
keeping a wary eye on Wilson and di
recting a wealth of legal ability toward
forming a contract that no actor can break.
When Wilson recently made an arrange
ment with Col. McCaull to play at Wallace's
Theatre next summer in opposition to the
Casino,despite the fact that he was drawing
$‘.15,000 a year salary from that house, he
achieved what was generally regarded as a
triumph of diplomacy by the McCaull party
and a dastardly bit of double dealing by the
Aronson faction. The news of the arrange
ment was being carefully nurtured into a
boom for publication the following Sunday,
when the facts came to my knowledge and
I printed them a week ahead. The secret
had been carefully nursed, and there was
soinespoculation as to my sources of inspira
tion. Then* was no mystery about it. One
ot the interested parties called on nie and
gav e me the details before the ink on the
contracts was dry.
1 discovered last night through a similar
ly responsible source that there has been
another move on the part of the schemers.
Wilson’s old contract with the Casino ends
May l next. His new Casing contract be
gins Sept,. 19. This gives him four months’
vacation, which he told Mr. Aronson he
would spend in l'.urope Instead he buys
Sydney Rosen fold's opera, “The Lady or
the Tiger,” takes it to McCaull and agrees
t f> pluy the lending role during his so-called
“vacation.” This action in running in
active rivalry to the house where be was
already under all enormous salary caused
an immense amount of talk Everywhere
the action of Wilson has been commented
ui>on freely, and the squabble over
the new opera of “The Lady or the Tiger”
has been telegraphed all over the American
continent and cabled to Europe. The piece
has received a free advertisement of tre
mendous value. It is already well known
to newspajier readers, though it will not be
produced for seven months. Now it begins
in look as though the scheming was deejier
than even the most careful observers
thought, tor l learn on excellent authority
that Wilson is not going to play the part at
nil and his whole action in tue matter was
in tiie nature of a bluff. Mr. De Wolf
Homier will create the role in “The Lady or
the Tiger,” despite all the talk to the con
trary.
All of which teaches us that there are
several ways of achieving notoriety and
getting free advertising. But one thing
remains to tie noted, and that is that if “The
Lady or the Tiger” should be a failure what
an exceedingly neat grind it will lie on the
conspirators and diplomatists who have
been engineering this mighty plot. As Mr.
Rosenfeld s operas are prone to failure, it
may be that, more wisdom will lurk in Wil
son’s head seven months hence than lurks
there now—though it’s a wise head just the
same. Blakely Hall.
IN A VIRGINIA PRISON.
Messrs. Ayres and Colt Taking Life as
Easy as Possible.
Richmond, Va., Oct 9. —Hon. Rufus S.
Ayres, State Attorney General, and Col.
John S. Colt, Commonwealth Attorney of
Kauquler county, who were committed to
jail last night under the order of Judge
Bond, punishing them for contempt of
court, still remain in confinement. They
are made us comfortable as money can make
them under the circumstances. Their
meals ami liquid refreshments are furnished
from a hotel, and barring the fact that they
arc prisoners, they are having as good a
time as possible. They were visited during
the day by a number of friends, which
served to make the time pass pleasantly and
confinement bearable. Their counsel will
to-morrow commence proceedings for a
writ of habeas corpus.
Irish Visitors at Boston.
Boston, Oct. !t. —Sir Thomas Grattan
Esmonds and Arthur O’Connor, Irish mem
bers of Parliament, addressed a large audi
ence in Boston to-uight.
Suspension of the Freeman.
New York, Oct. The World, says:
“After four years of existence the Freeman,
the organ of the colored people in this city,
has suspended.”
A Gunboat Believed to be Lost.
Shanghai, Oct. o.—lt is believed that
the British guulsiat Wasp, from Singapore,
was lost with, all hands in the recent ty
phoon.
Signal ropes for mines are on the Conti
nent made of ditta metal, for the reason
that this metal resists corrosion. It is said
to have a tensile strength of more than fifty
tons per square inch of section.
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SOCIALISTS UP IN ARMS.
THE UNION SQUARE INCIDENT EN
RAGES THEM.
An Indignation Meeting to be Held
Next Monday Night in the Same
Place -Henry George Denounces the
Action of the Police—An Investiga
tion Demanded.
New York, Oct. 9.—The trouble with
the police at the Progressive Labor Party’s
mass meeting at Union square, Saturday
night, restored the wrangling factions of
the Central Labor Union to at least tem
porary harmony. At their meeting to-day
Delegate Hawks, a pronounced Georgs
man, offered resolutions denouncing
the police for interfering, and they were
seconded by several George men.
Delegate Hay burn, in speaking on the
resolution, said the circumstances which
had brought about the Chicago Haymarket
bomb throwing were identical with those
that precipitated last night’s onslaught
upon peaceably assembled workingmen of
New York.
MADE stronger.
The resolutions first offered were not
deemed sufficiently strong, and they were
rewritten and unanimously adopted. They
declared that the meeting in Union square
had been called to discuss political ques
tions; that it was a peaceable meeting; that
it hsl lwen interrupted by the police in a
brutal and unwarrantable manner, and
such action on the part of the police was apt
to bring about a state of affairs when
citizens would Is? compelled to repel such
brutal attacks by unlawful means in defense
of their constitutional rights, and that the
action of the police must be condemned, as
t hey had instead of protecting peaceable
citizens infringed u|mn their rights, and
provoked a bloody riot. A committee was
appointed to present, the resolutions to the
Board of Police Commissioners.
HENRY GEORGE AROUSED.
William T. Croasdale presided at. the
regular Sunday night meeting of the Anti-
Poverty Society, at the Academy of Music
to-night. Henry George was the first
speaker. His speech consisted principally
of a denunciation of the police for their in
terference at Union square last night.
“The people who met there,” he said, “dif
fer from us. They entertain a bitter feel
ing toward us. Nevertheless, they have as
good a right as we have, as good a right as
any body of American citizens, to peace
ably meet and express their feelings
and wishes. It was not, Anarchists
and Socialists who wore dubbed in Union
square last night. It was the genius of
American liberty. A crime like that differs
only in decree from the crime for which six
men in Chicago lie under sentence of death.
If we would stand against, anarchism w-e
ought to enforce the law against the custo
dians of the law when they transgress thrir
proper privilege and make assaults upon
citizens.”
TO TAKE UP ARMS.
The Executive Committee of the Pra
gressivo party were in session from early
this afternoon until late to night. They
adopted resolutions denouncing the police
attack made at the mass meeting last night,
and demanding from the Mayor and Gover
nor vindication of t heir constitutional rights
by the dismissal and punishment of every
policeman engaged in it. A law committee
of five was appointed to take the measures
necessary to secure the results required to
fullv vindicate free K|ieech. A number of
affidavits were taken from men who were
themselves dubbed and who sav others
were dubbed. It was also decided to hold
an indignation meeting ia Union square on
Monday night, Oct. 17. The Socialist*
openly say they will go to this meeting
armed.
RADICALS SYMPATHIZE.
London, Oct. 9.—The London Radical
clubs are making arrangements to bold a
general meeting to urge another trial of the
Chicago Anarchists and to consider the ad
visability of sending a delegation to Ameri
ca to speak in behalf of the condemned
men. Several Radical clubs at meetings
to-day adopted resolutions condemning tba
sentence.
THE BOTTOM FALLING OUT.
A Tract on an Illinois Farm Slowly
Sinking Into the Earth.
Chicago, Oct. 4. —A correspondent of the
Hr raid at Sterling, 111., tells the following
storv: The people of this locality have been
for some time exercised over an earthly
phenomenon, visible about four miles due
north. Elkhorn creek meanders for about
fifty miles through the most fertile portion
of this continent, emptying itself into Rock
river, 4 miles west of Sterling. It is hard
by this stream that the phenomenon oc
curred, or is occurring. It Is a sinking of
the ground—a subsidence that has been
going on ever since April 14, ISkfi. On that
night Benj. Bressler. whose grist mill is run
by the waters of the Elkhorn, was awakened
by a loud, rumbling noise, and by the rat
tling of the windows as well as a general
ris king of his little cottage. A few weeks
later, the frost having disappeared,
he instructed his hired man to plow a
small field lying on the south side of a road
running by his cottage, and was astonished
an hour later when the man informed him
that a portion of the field had sunk “3 or 4
feet,” as he said, “with great cracks along
side its edges what seemed to run clear down
to nowheres.” And this was true. The
news soon spread, and muuy visited the spot.
Interest in the phenomenon might have died
out, hut the sinking has been slowly going
on ever since. A day or two ago your
correspondent visited the depressed soot, and
observed that it was ribout 5 inches lower
than when he saw it some three months
since. The depression is now about 5 feet
in depth, and its east tioundary is about SO
feet from the watei-s of the creek Its great
est width is about 71V feet, and it* length,
north to south, about 500 feet. The 00 feet
of earth lietween the creek and the sunken
area is not distnrlied in the slightest. The
greater part of the depressed land is covered
with trees, which, formerly erect, now in
cline, without exception, westerly at an an*
gle of about 45’.
A Thrifty Man.
From the Arkansaw Traveler.
A white man, upon meeting a negro
whom he had not seen for many years, vig
orously shook his head and said:
“Spencer, I am delighted to see you.
How have you been getting along P* .
“Woulder been gittin’ erlong
Mr. Jim, ef folks had ertended ter dar own
bizness an’ er let me erlone.”
“Did they not let you alone f”
“No, .-ah, da didn. Da tuck me frum the
ferryboat whar 1 wuz doin’ well ernuff an’
made a Justice o' de Peace outen me."
“it was a case where the office sought the
man. It was a high compliment. Spencer.
You should not hesitate to serve the public.”
“Oh, I didn’t mind goin’ inter ae office,
sail, ef da’ jes let me erlone aider dat. Da
came erroun’ cuzen me o’ fakin’ >r bribe o’
SSO an’ sent me tor a nenitenohy fur er year,
da did. Come ’stroytn’ er man’s prospecks
dater way. Da ’lowed w’en I tuck de office
dater thrifty man could niakeer libin’ outen
it, an’ jes ir. I got tor be sorter thrifty da
whirled in an’ sent me ter dat penitenchy,
’mong dem thievin' niggers an; low down
white folks. Dat sin’ no way ter ack in er
er country like dis ”