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First Battle of Manassas, July 21,1861
Was there ever a more humiliating scene
enacted in this country of ours than that
as shown by the demoralised and fleeing
United States troops at the first battle
of Manassas? It has been some consola
tion to us old Confederates who have suf
fered so long and patiently since the dose
of the civil war to know that the army
of General McDowell on the 21st day of
July, 1881. composed of several thousand
old regulars and 36.000 volunteers were
badly whipped by the southern troops,
who numbered not over 21.000, and of that
number only about 16.000 were actually en
gaged. They had every advantage of us
in means, ammunition, provisions, trans
portation. etc. Our regiments were made
up of all grades and conditions of men,
educated and uneducated. In the ranks
were lawyers, doctors, merchants and
A. M.’s alongside of our sturdy mountain
eers. The latter were accustomed to hard
ships and with his rifle the head of a wild
turkey at 100 yards was knocked off nine
times out of ten. v Just before entering the
army I was out hunting with my rifle.
I had found a squirrel and was trying to
get a shot at him but as fast as I would
move quietly, around the . tree he would
keep out of my sight by moving around to
the opposite side. Suddenly I heard the
crack of a rifle and the squirrel fell to
the ground, shot through the head. To
my surprise. I found that a young man
(our overseer's son) had shot him from
up the mountainside, some 150 yards from
where I was standing. These men were
independent and courageous, and often
paid but little attention to the discipline
Imposed by their officers. While Colonel
Strange, of Charlotteville, Va„ was drill
ing his regiment In that town a short
time before being ordered to the front,
he said: •
"Mr. Jones, stand square, sir!**
Mr. Jones Immediately replied:
"Colonel Strange. I are squar, sir!"
Mr. Jones was a splendid specimen of
the mountaineer and of such material as
many of the best Confederate soldiers
were made.
Yes, we whipped them badly at Manas
sas, sometimes called the battle of Bull
Run by the Skedadlens. for it was the
battle of Manassas that gave to the Eng
lish language the new word "Skedaddle.”
So much has been written about this bat
tle that I will not attempt any special
description of the disposition of the
troops or their maneuvres, but give you
extracts from papers and reports from
men who were engaged in the battle, that
these facts may be before the eyes of our
citlxens, and not rely, as did a young
lady to a friend of mine a few weeks ago
in Philadelphia, when asked some ques
tion about the civil war, she replied after
some historian: "About what war. Oh,
yes. I remember now,” she said: "you
mean the war in which they hung Jeff
Davis on a sour apple tree?” I was pnly
15 years old when I visited the camps of
Beauregard's army at Manassas. It was
my first sight of such a scene. I was
with ray brother-in-law- Catlett Fitxhugh,
and node horseback about the camps wit
nessing the drilling of troops and seeing
everything that was to be seen about a
large army. General Winfield Scott was
too old to command, hence General Mc-
Dowell was tn charge of the United States
troops on the 21st with the following
brigadiers under him: Generals Burnside,
Porter, Wilcox, Franklin. Howard, Sher
man, Keys. Schencks. Richardson, Blenk
eers and Runyon, while General Beaure
gard had under him Generals Bonham, D.
R. Jones, Longstreet,* Hampton, Ewell
and Holmes. General Joseph E. Johnston,
who was in charge of the Army of the
Shenandoah, reinforced Beauregard on the
21st after a forced match from the Valley
of Virginia, his brigadiers being T. J.
Jackson. Bee. E. K. Smith. The twelve
companies of cavalry were commanded by
Colonel J. E. B. .Stuart.
In examining my file of papers the
Louisville Dally Courier. I find the follow
ing letters in the evening edition of Au
gust 5, 1861. The first is copied from the
Atlanta (Ga.) Confederacy. It reads as
follow*:
"The battle was a decided success, and
was fought with distinguished gallantry
by all our troops who participated in it.
It is but just to say, however, that the
Fourth Alabama regiment. Colonel Jones;
the Seventh Georgia, Colonel Gartrell, and
the Eighth Georgia Lieutenant Colonel
Gardner, both under acting Brigadier Bar
tow; the Fourth South Carolina. Colonel
Sloane; Hampton’s Legion, Colonel Hamp
ton; the Sixth North Carolina, Colonel
Fished, and the Eleventh and Seventh
Virginia did the hardest fighting, suffered
most and bore the brunt of me battle.
Colonel Kershaw's and Colonel Cash’s
(S. C.) regiments came into action late,
but did most effective service in the pur
suit which continued nearly to Center
ville. General E. K. Smith’s brigade
reached Manassas during the battle and
rushed to the field, a distance of seven
miles, through the boiling sun at double
quick. As they neared the field from a
double-quick they got fairly to running,
their eyes flashing, the officers crying out.
On. boys, to the rescue!’ and the men
shouted at the top of their voices. When
General Johnson saw Smith he exclaimed:
'The Blucher of the day has come.’ They
soon arrived in front of the enemy and
with a shout that might be heard from
one end of the battlefield to the other
they launched at the adversary like a
thunderbolt. They delivered but two
fires when the enemy began to give way,
and in a few minutes they began to give
way and were in full retreat. The bri
gade is composed of one Tennessee and
one Misslsstpi regiment and a battalion
from Maryland. As they rushed into the
fight, I could but recall with an appre
ciation. I never felt before the words of
Holy writ, ’as terrible as an enemy with
banners.’ The artillery companies did
good service also. Those engaged were
the New Orleans’ Washington artillery,
Latham's battery from Lynchburg. Imbo
den's from Staunton, Kemper’s from Alex
andria, Thomas' frqm Richmond. Pendle
ton's from Lexington. Rogers’ from
burg and the Wise artillery. Captain Ar
burtus. The Washington artillery and
Latham's battery and Kemper's were in
position to do most, but all the companies
raaneuvred well and delivered their fires
with great effect.
I do not believe that I have informed
you in any of my letters that Colonel
Cameron, of one of the Pennsylvania reg
iments. had been killed, and that his
brother, Lincoln's secretary of war, had
sent a friend, one Arnold Harris, a lobby
member about Washington, to ask for his
body. As he did not come under a flag
of truce. General Johnston ordered him
Into custody and sent him to Richmond.
The Republican secretary chose to ignore
the existence of our authority and the
rank and position of our officers by send
ing a verbal message and without a flag
just as the ministers of King George were
wont to act towards General Washing
on and the continental congress during
the first revolution and therefrom our of
ficers chose to send the aforesaid Mr.
Harris to prison. I have just heard that
five more of Ellsworth’s Zouaves—Old
Abe’s pet lambs—were captured today in
the woods near Centerville, one of whom
was Colonel Farnham, the successor of
Ellsworth. He had been wounded and
the others remained behind to take care
of him.
"While on a visit yesterday to the Sev
enth regiment I had the satisfaction of
examlnging their flag. It has foqrteen
bullet holes in It and the flag staff was
struck in four places. After Colonel Bar
tow's fall I Jeu tenant Paxton, of Virginia,
asked leave, the color bearer being wound r
ed. to tyirry the flag. His request was
granted and he and W. L. Norman, one
of the color guards of DeKalb county,
were the first to place it upon the cap
tured battery./ There is another'incident
which deserves public mention, and which
shows of what stuff the Georgia boys
are made. William Dejarnett, of Rome
Light Guard, having been slightly wound
ed and left behind, concealed himself in
the bushes. The Second Rhode Island
regiment passed by. without seeing him,
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1902.
but Colonel Slocum, who commanded the
regiment, and who came on behind, dis
covered him in the bushes. Attempting
to draw his pistol he said: ’Your life,
you rebel!’ For some reason he could
not get out his pistol easily, and seeing
Dejarnett level his musket at him. he
cried out: ’Don't shoot.’ But the Georgian
did shoot, and killed him. too. I saw
Slocum's grave today in a little cabbage
garden by the roadside and also found
there Major Ballou, of the same regiment,
who had his leg shot off.
"There is still another fact I cannot
forbear to record. After the terrible fire
to which the Eighteenth Georgia had been
exposed and which they recived with
the immobility of a marble statue, Gen
eral Beauregard passed the little rem
nant of the regiment that was still left
and which was ready to strike yet another
blow, and raising his cap with undisguised
admiration and sympathy, he said:
‘Eighth Georgia, I salute you.’ ”
The Canadian Press on the Battle of
Manassa*.
The Quebec Chronicle has the fol
lowing: "The New York press will
be doubtless sadly downcast now. For
ourselVes, we have not exulted over
the much vaunted northern victories, and
see no great reason to rejoice in a north
ern defeat. All our desire is that the
war should cease, and that we should
be spared the spectacle of seeing brothers
in race and language in mortal combat.
Neither the north nor the south can sub
jugate the other. Let them agree to what
we call a separation de bieus, and be at
peace. There is room enough on this
great continent for three great nations—
a union of the British colonies —a union
of the northern states, and a Confederacy
of the southern republic.” The Montreal
Gazette has the following: "The grand
army that was to exterminate the south-,
erners is in full retreat upon Washington,
utterly beaten by the superior tactics of
the southern general, which has enabled
him to man his troops as to do what the
northern general intended—o .’erwhelm the
enemy. It was not a pleasant thing for
philosophic minds to see that the defeat
of the northern army was received rather
with* satisfaction than regret by pepple
on the streets here. The north has brag
ged so much and so loudly, has been so
insolent in its tone, not only towards
the south, but towards Britain; it has
bragged so much about thrashing Great
Britain, and crumpling up poor little
cowards, that sympathy has been alien
ated from the braggart and bully. The
south has been hemmed in by the great
masses of troops, a portion of her terri
tory wrested from her—her ports blockad
ed—her every effort jeered at—her pros
pects of successful fighting for her own
territory turned into ridicule, until no
one could help feeling some desire to see
the braggart worsted, and the much
abused south, driven to bay, achieve a
success.” I take the following from the
same paper: "Stories set afloat by the
black Republican press of the barbarous
treatment of the wounded by the Confed
erate troops is denied by The Baltimore
American, an administrative ’ paper.’
"From troops passing through here, and
particularly from the members of the
Michigan regiments, who have a large
number of wounded with them, we learn
that every attention was paid to the
wounded which the most humane could
have deserved: one soldier affirming that
he called upon a man who had shot him
down, for some water, and that the Con
federate supplied him from his own can
teen.” No country produced a more hu
mane type of men than did the south.
A lieutenant of our own qity. whin fall
ing back under the tremendoc.-i fire at
the battle of Gettysburg, was appealed to
by a Yankee officer for help—when, with
out a moment’s hesitation, he stooped
A GEORGIA YOUTH AT THE
BATTLE OF THE WILDERNESS
I had passed my twentieth year before
the 6th day of Mhy, 1864, the day of the
terrible battle of the Wilderness, and as
we were entering into the battle, a mo
ment before we engaged with the enemy
In deadly conflict, I sent up to Almighty
God a short mental prayer that could not
be surpassed in fervency or earnestness.
I had no time to pray for more than one
thing, nor would I if I had had more time,
for ail my sympathies were concentrated
on that one thing.
It was for the life of my brother I
prayed. ✓.
My brother Henry was two years my
senior. There was an affectionate sympa
thetic attachment between us that Is un
common, except between twin brothers,
and that each of us well knew could never
be broken. I thought he had the finest in
tellect of any one I ever knew; nor was
this partiality in me, for others who knew
him well thought as I did.
One can think fast in time of great
danger. I did not suppose our people at
home would mourn less at my death than
his, but I felt while I prayed that they
could better afford to lose me than to
lose him; besides he would be more useful
in the world than I could ever hope to be.
These reasons, together with my great
love for him and knowing how well he
loved me, was why I felt at the time and
still think it was right and best to plead
Fith the giver of life for his life In prefer
ence to mine. So I appealed directly to
Almighty God that if either of us must
dte on that occasion it should be me
and that he might live.
At Gettysburg, during the severest mo
ments of the second day's battle, when we
of Benning's brigade had advanced so
near the enemy that all on both sides must
be killed unless one side would give way
within a few minutes, I noticed him, to
gether with aqpther young man named
Watson, quietly advance several yards in
front, nearly half way to the enemies
lines, seemingly to get a better view of
their position and numbers, and while I
admired his cool courage, I did not feel
the least uneasiness. It did not seem to
me on that occasion that he would be
hurt. And what made his cool bravery
the more remarkable, it was the first time
he had ever been in a battle.
But I will return to the dreadful scenes
of the Wilderness. We had marched hard
tne day before from the vicinity of Gor
donsville and bivouaced late In the night
near the battlefield. At daylight we
marched rapidly to the assistance of A.
P. Hill. My brother’s feet pained him so
severely from the previous day's march
that it was plain he was in rto condition
to remain in ranks, and we tried to per
suade him to drop out and get in the
rear. On any other occasion he would
have gladly done so, but as we were to
go into battle he held his place In great
pain. It was seein- him suffer so as we
were hastening to the battle that made
me feel uneasy and intensified my sym
patnies.
We soon met Thomas' brigade, which,
after a most heroic resistance, was finally
overpow’ered tjy the weight of the ene
mies numbers and forced from the i,c.d.
We had not a moment's time for re
connoitering or planning. The tremendous
forces of the enemy flushed with victory
were rapidly and confidently moving down
upon us before we were in position to
receive their onslaught. Generals Lee
and Longstreet were in the front with us.
and all they could do was to quickly, hasti
ly, in double quick tlrtie form us across
their front. ’ ,
We did not watt a moment for tM® ® n_
slaught of the advancing enemy, but
quickly and rapidly moved forward to
meet them. We all well knew what was
before us, that our yanks would be quick
ly thinned; that many of us would be
.... BY ....
DR. W. B. CONWAY,
Corp. Co. C, Fourth Regiment, Vir
ginia Cavalry.
down and gently lifted him upon his back
and bore him away to a place of safety.
This was Lieutenant T. P. Oliver, a pros
perous merchant and a most excellent
citizen of the city of Athens. Our soldiers
never resorted to such barbarous treat
ment of men as the water torture, prac
ticed by the United States troops in the
war In the Philippines. Nor did we burn
houses down over the heads of women
And children, (as I witnessed In the valley
of Virginia), by the order of General
Sheridan and approved by the United
States government at Washington. Now
let us see what, on both sides, who were
interested In this first campaign against
Richmond; these extracts are from of
ficial dispatches: General Scott to Mc-
Clellan, July 18: "McDowell yesterday
drove the enetpy beyond Fairfax court
house. He will attack the entrenched
camp Manassas junction today. Beaten
there the enemy may retreat both upon
Richmond and the Shenandoah valley. I
may reinforce htm (Patterson) to enable
you to bag Johnson." Secretary Cameron
to Governor Curtin, July 18: “The Penn
sylvania troops were expected to have
joined the forces going into battle this
week. I trust there will be no delay to
prevent them sharing the honors of the
expected battle.” General Scott to Mc-
Clellan, July 21, a. m.: "Johnston has
amused Patterson and reinforced Beaure
gard. McDowell this morning forcing the
passage of Bull Run. In two hours he
will turn the Manassas junction and storm
it today with superior force.” General
Scott to the commanding officer at Balti
more, July 21: "Put your troops on the
alert. Bad news from McDowell's army,
not credited by me.” Captain Alexander
to Washington: "General McDowell’s
army in full retreat. The day is lost.
Save Washington and the remnants of
this army.. The routed troops will not
reform.” General Scott to McDowell:
"Under the circumstances it seems best
to return to the line of the Potomac.”
President Davis to General Cooper, Ma
nassas, July 21: "Night has closed upon
a hard fought field. Our forces have
won a glorious victory.” Colonel Kerl
gan, at Alexandria, to Cameron, July 22:
"There are about 7,000 men here without
officers: nothing but confusion.” General
Mansfield to Captain Mott at the Chain
bridgt, July 22. "Order the Sixth Maine
to keep these demoralized troops out of
their camps.” General Mansfield to Gen
eral Runyan, July 22: "Why do the regi
ments I sent to you yesterday return so
precipitously to Alexandria without firing
a shot?” W. “T. Sherman to the adjutant
general, July 22: "I have at this moment
ridden in with, I hope, the rear men of
my brigade, which in common with our
whole army has sustained a terrible de
feat and has degenerated into an armed
mob.” General Scott to General McClel
lan, July 22, 1 a‘. m.: f After fairlx beat
ing the enemy and taking three of his
batteries, a panic seized McDowell’s army,
and it is in full retreat on the Potomac.
Almost unaccountable transformation into
a mob of a finely appointed and admir
ably led army.”
These few extracts are enough to show
the Utter rout of the Federal army.
Twenty-eight pieces of artillery, about
5,000 muskets, and nearly 500,000 cartridges,
a gafrlson flag and 10 colors were captured
on the field or in the pursuit. Besides
these we captured 64 artillery horses with
their harness. 26 wagons, and much camp
equipage, clothing and other property
abandoned in their flight. Would that we
could have ended at Manassas, and the
thousands of lives of the heroic men of
the south been spared. *
"Adown the did beat
The pulse of ’hope, life seemed so bright
That little recked we of defeat.
Nor dreamed such days should close in
night ”
Athens, Ga., May 24.
lying dead and many mangled with
wounds within the next few minutes. But
not a man among us faltered, not one.
It was while thus advancing to meet
the enemy, and a moment only before the
firing commenced, that I turned my eyes
and looked into my brother’s face, who
was a few' feet to my right. Our eyes
met, for some influence caused each of
us to look into the other’s face at the
same instant. The lines of pain had van
ished from his features and he looked
calm and at ease. And such tender love
for me as I could see in his eyes. It ap
peared to me as if he feared I would be
killed, and wanted to take one affectionate
look into my face while I was yet alive,
it was during this short space of time
that we were looking into each others
face that I prayed directly to God for his
life.
But we had to look forward how we
went, besides the time had come for dead
ly action, and we had to look away from
each others’ faces and commence firing,
and it was a great mercy on me that I
was forced to look away from his face.
It has never seemed like I could bear
what I would have seen if my eyes had
lingered on his face an atom of time
longer—praying as I was with such earn
estness to the giver of all' good for his
safety.
And here an unaccountably strange
thing happened that I have thought may
have been a mercy to me. As soon as we
looked away from each others’ faces, the
instant my short mental prayer for his
safety was ended, my brother passed to
tally out of my memory, nor did I once
think of him during the whole dreadful
battle, and I do not know when he would
have returned to my memory again if
a comrade had not forced me to think of
him.
The instant we looked away from each
other the firing commenced and we had
advanced some distance by the time the
enemy abandoned the contest and gave
back a half mile or more. But as yet no
one knew whether the enemy were not
preparing for another onslaught with re
doubled fury, and while many of the men
continued lying as they were when the
enemy gave back, ready, some had risen
up and were standing still, and a few were
walking about just in rear of the line,
slowly and aimlessly. There were no staff
officers, couriers or orderlies passing about
with orders. No one seemed to be in
command. Men were not talking to each
other. There ha<4 suddenly come a strange
silence and stillness over that part of
the Vilderness. There were no wounded
within sight or hearing, for the litter
bearers on each side had done their duty
well and promptly, bearing the severely
wounded away to the hospitals as fast as
they fell.
Our dead were scattered about in rear of
the line, silent and free forever from the
strife of horrible war. Commencing a
few yards in front of our line and ex
tending out for nearly a half mile were
lying equally as silent the dead of the
enemy, and also forever freed from hu
man strife. The great number of the
enemy’s dead was truly shocking to be
hold, and when we came to examine the
field it seemed strange that any escaped
from it alive. There were many small
oaks growing there from two or three to
six inches in diameter, and all the bark
was shot off every one of them from the
ground upward into the limbs, and many
of.them three or five inches in diameter
were so completely riddled or shattered
that they were fallen down. Such was
the case*over many acres of the ground
near the main road, and It was all done
by rifle balls in the hands of the infan
try. It was among this destruction of the
forest that such shocking numbers of the
enemy lay dead. Just beyond this de-
struction we came to one long straight
line of their dead, seemingly one-third
of a full line of battle, their heads all
pointing forward in the direction they
were advancing. This was done by
Thomas’ men with one volley before they
were forced from the field, as related
above, having held their fire for the pur
pose. According to the usual proportion
of wounded to killed there could have
been but few, if any, Os that column es
caped unhurt.
It may have been ten or fifteen min
utes after the firing ceased, while the
strange stillness was over the battlefield,
when we seemed to be abandoned or for
gotten toy those In command. I was
standing a few feet in rear of the line,
silent like every one else. I have no idea
what I was thinking about, but my broth
er had not returned to my memory until
a comrade came up to me unseen and said
to me hoarsely: “George, do you know
Henry is killed?"
I remembered looking at him without
speaking, that I did not believe he was
telling the truth, though I did not doubt
he thought he was. I remember the hor
rified look that suddenly came over his
face, his turning away quickly and start
ing off In a sort of sneak, rapidly getting
faster and faster until he was among the
other men. I do not know what he saw
In my naturally mild, harmless look, but
judging from his appearance and motions
I think he was in mortal fear that ,1 would
shoot him on tne spot. He never after
ward mentioned the circumstance to me,
nor I to him.
But there was nothing to do but to
make sure that he had given me a wrong
report, and slowly I went over every spot
of ground where my brother could have
been during the battle, hoping and believ
ing I wouid not find him dead. While
thus engaged I came to a young man of
about my brother’s age, lying dead, with
his brother, who was about my age, sit
ting on the ground beside him weeping
bitterly. While I stood looking down at
them the weeping brother looked up Into
my face steadily, helplessly, appealingly.
Suddenly he ceased weeping; a calmness
came over his countenance; he really look
ed as if he felt pleasant. I have thought
he probably saw greater distress In my
face than he felt, for copious weeping
had been some relief to him, while I felt
too badly dazed and distressed to weep.
Still I did not believe my brother was
dead.
That young man, If alive, is now an old
man, and X he should read thia he will
doubtless remember it.
I could never bear to look Into the face
of the corpse of one who was dear to me
and I do not know what I
would have done or how It would have af
fected me if I had found my brother’s
mangled and dead body lying on the
ground.
The truth was, as I afterward learned,
my brother was one of the first, if not the
first one, in the regiment that was shot,
the cruel ball striking his temple, frac
turing the skull and injuring the brain,
and the litter bearers quickly bore him
away to the hospital, where he slept his
life away without feeling pain. As I
turned my eyes from his face as described
above, the firing commenced, so that the
instant I looked away from him as my
earnest, righteous prayer for his safety
was being ended, that instant he was
stricken down.
And to think that if the cruel ball had
varied from his brow but a fraction of-an
inch in its course he would have es
caped! For many weeks I felt disconso
late and dazed, wondering what was the
use of fervent, righteous prayer when
such results would follow, though I never
for once lost faith in the goodness and
justness of God.
It was years afterward before it ever
occurred to me that while I prayed, that
while my brother was so tenderly looking
into my face, he prayed the same prayer
I did, only in a reversed order, praying
as fervently for my safety in preference
to his own. probably neither of us pray
ing for God's will to be done in preference
to ours.
In those days of war tens of thousands
of people were praying to God in direct op
position to each other, some praying for
the success of the southern arms, while
at the same instant others were praying
for the success of the northern arms. But
as well as I remember, it seemed to me
after my unavailing prayer that God had
nothing to do with the battles, that He
had for the time abandoned the American
people and let them destroy each other
on account of their wickedness, north and
south, and that the prayers of the noble
Christian, Stonewall Jackson, were all
in vain, any farther than they would nat
urally tend to keep him in an humble, de
pendent frame of mind.
For some cause both sides delayed long
after the enemy gave back before putting
out any pickets. Finally I was sent out
with others as scouts to beat up the ene
my, and we found them in double line
of battle about a half mile in our front.
The ground immediately in their front was
thickly covered with scrub oak bushes,
so that we crept very near them
near enough to plainly hear them talking.
I selected a position where I could see
them through a narrow opening in the
bushes. They appeared to be in a very
great flurry of excitement. They were evi
dently in great apprehension that opr line
would advance on them at once, and were
making preparations to receive us in the
greatest haste, expecting our attack to
be severe and determined. They must
have calculated our strength from our de
termined reslstence and from the terri
ble damage we had just done them. If
they had known it we were too badly
crippled, weak and exhausted to think of
renewing the combat by attacking them,
though we were determined to hold our
ground if they would renew the attack
on us.
Mcßae, Ga.
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BY REV. LOY WARWICK,
K Pastor St. James Methodist Church.
Collectors of old books and paintings
have found volumes and pictures of rare
value In hovels and among the dusty
debris of attic and plunder room. The
Sinaitlc manuscript, one of the oldest and
most valued copies of the Bible, was
found in a basket of old papers.
You recall that beautiful quatrain from
Gray’s elegy:
"Full many a gem of purest ray resene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean
bear;
Full many a flower is born to blush un
seen
And waste its sweetness on the desert
air.”
When our Lord comes to make up his
jewels he will gather “full many a gem”
from places that were "dark, unfathom
ed caves to the wordly wise,” and "full
many a flower” from spots that were
"desert air” to the rich and proud.
"Know ye not that a great man and a
prince has fallen this day in Israel” is
often truer when spoken of some of God’s
poor than it was of the mighty Abner.
When a great man dies it is easy to
think of fine things to say. "His life was
gentle and the elements so mixed in him
that nature might stand up and say to
all the world,, “This was a man.” Or,
“He won the white flower of a blameless
life.” Or, “We shall never see his ‘like
again.” Such sentiments are just as true
of many whom the world did not know
and of whom it was not worthy.
All the kings and queens have not worn
crowns of gold. All of earth’s heroes have
not been immortalized in song or story.
Their good works were not down in the
gaze of men, nor their great worth sung
by admiring bards.
But their Father which seeth in secret
shall reward them openly.
God seeth not as man seeth. "Man
looks at the outward 'appearance, but
God looks at the heart.” "I have re
jected him” may be said of .many whom
the world hath idolized.
And those whom the Pharisees have
despised and cast out may enter through
the gates into the city of God. Painted
piety will not deceive the judge of the
quick and the dead. No dark caves or
desert air can hide his jewels from him.
From the uttermost parts of the earth,
from the places of suffering and lowly
labor he will gather them to their great
reward.
The savage, or the unskilled man sees
nothing of value in the dull rock, nothing
of interest in the moth-eaten volume. But
the minerallst sees a diamond in one; the
scholar sees a rare literary treasure in
the other. We see nothing notable in
the men and women we meet every cay.
They seem dull and commonplace to us.
But in heaven, if we get there, we may
see these commonplace people take rank
and place above some whom we now
stand In awe of as the great and ven
erate as the good of earth.
Another thought. Like these collec
tors of valuable books, like the searcher
after goodly pearls we should be on the
lookout for beauty and good in out of
the way places. And can’t we do some
thing to help uncover these hidden beau
ties and bring to active service these lat
ent forces? Many there are who would
like to work if some man would hire
them. They stand idle all the day for
lack of leaders, teachers and encouragers.
Timid ones need encouragement. Un
taught ones need light and knowledge.
“Phillip findeth Nathaniel and sayeth
unto him: ‘We have found him of whom
Moses and the prophets did write.’ ”
Have you found anyone? Are you seek-
Ing anyone? "Let’s do noble things, not
dream them, all day long.”
There are those whose lives are spent
searching for the rare and beautiful.
They explore out of the way nooks and
corners, visit ruins, fathom caves, and
tempt the dangers of the desert and the
ocean. But the brightest jewel, the most
perfect invention, the highest achieve
ment of art will fade and pass away.
But he that winneth souls doeth work
that will "shine as the stars forever and
forever "
There is special providence in the fall of
a sparrow. God gives homes to the foxes
and birds of the air. He clothes the flow
ers of the field. These all have their prop
er sphere and appointed work. Is it any
accident then that we are placed where
we are?
Why not esteem it part of a divine
plan for you to be where you are and to
do what you have to do?
It is no more honor to work for God
among princes than among paupers.
The soul is a soul, a man is a man,
whether richly robed like a king or mean
ly clad like a beggar. It is noble and
Christ-like to give to those who have
naught to give in return, not even grat
itude or thanks.
Like their Lord many of the wise and
great of the earth have given their days
and talents to the cause of the poor and
needy.
Living and laboring unselfishly they
passed into immortality. By losing their
lives they attained to life eternal.
They lived to give and yet they received
vastly more than others who only lived
to get. For the giving hand brings back
more than the hand that goes out to
gather for itself. Victor Hugo and Charles
Dickens among novelists espoused the
cause of the lowly. Gray, Burns and
Whittier. in deathless song, have told “the
short and simple annals of the poor." John
Ruskin gave to poverty and misery his
fortune, his talents and his beautiful Ufa
And all these shine as stars of the first
order in the constellation of the great , .
Some there are whose names will live
Not in the memories, but the hearts of
men.
Because those hearts they comforted and
And when they saw God's images cast
down, Jft . »
Lifted them up again and blew the dust
From the worn features and disfigured
limbs.
A Scattered Sermon.
(Philadelphia Times.)
When the Rev. Madison C. Peters, at
one time a popular Philadelphia divrne,
was, a very young man he was invited to
deliver the sermon in a rural church on a
Sunday in June. The day was extremely
warm; and a window behind the pulpit
had been raised in the interests of ven
tilation. Mr. Peters laid the rather vol
uminous manuscript of the sermon he had
prepared on the desk of the pulpit and
began; but the third word had not pass
ed his lips when a breexe from the win
dow caught the manuscript and blew its
hundred-odd pages of 1 note-slse paper
scatteringly over the expectant congre
gation. Mr. Peters looked flustered for a
moment; then, recovering himself, he
smiled and said:
"Well, pdrhaps that sermon has reach
ed more of you than if it had gone from
the pulpit in the usual manner.”
Evanston. 111., church people are going
to run a billiard and pool room. The moun
tain is gradually coming to Mahomet
