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Home! What n cltv it w.is when Paul
visited it! What a city it is now! RouH
The plana where Virgil sang and Horton
mi tinted, and Terence lunghc I and Catiline
conspired, and Ovid dramatiz*! tut I Nero
hddlcd, and Vos nM-in pros?,hi to I and s tt lh
legislated, and Ckvi\> thun tore I. an 1 Aural-
lusand Deciu* and Caligula an I Julian and
Hmlvind and Constantine and Augustu-
reigued, ami Paul the Apostle preached the
gospel.
1 am not much of a draftsman, hut l have
in my memoranda n hooka sketch which 1
made in the winter of 18*», when l wont out
to tho gute through which Paul enteral
Homo on l walked u• > the vary street he
walked Up to see somewhat, how the city
must, have looked to him ns lie came in oli
the gospel errand proposed in the text.
Palaces on either side ot the street through
which the little missionary advanced. Pile!
up wickedness. Enthroned accursed ness.
Templed erueltie-. Altars to slmm deities.
Glorified delusions. Pillared, arched,
domed, turreted abominntion*. Wickedness
of ail sorts at a high premium and righteous
ness W >f per cent. off. An I now he passes
by the foundations or a building which is to
bo almost unparalleled for vastness. You
can see by Mu* walls which have begun to
rise, that here is to be something enough
stupendous to astound the centuries. Aye,
it is the Coliseum started.
Of tho theatre at Ephesus where Paul
fought with wild beasts, the temple of Diana,
of the Parthenon, of Pharaoh's palac;) at
Memphis and of other great buildings, the
ruins of which l li tvr seen, it has been my
privilege to address yon, but a member of
my family asked me recently why f hail not
spoken to you of tho Coliseum at Rome,
siuco its moral and religious lessons are so
impressive-
Perhaps while in Homo tho law or contrast-
wrought upon me. 1 had visited the Mam-
or tine dungeon where Paul was incarcera
ted. 1 had measured the opening at the top
of the dungeon through which Paul had
been let down, and il was twenty-three
Inches by twenty-sir, The ceiling at- its
highest point was seven feet from the door,
but at tho sides of the room the ceiling was
five feet seven inches. The room at tho
widest was fifteen feet. There was a seat of
rook %}.{ feet high* Thore was a shelf lour
feM high. The only furniture was a spider's
web suspended from tho roof, witch l saw
by tho torchlight 1 carriod, Thore was the
subterraneous passage from the dungeon to
the Romnn forum, so that the prisoner could
be taken directly from prison to trial.
The dungeon was built, out of volcanic
•tone from the Alb ino Mountains. Oh, it
was a dismal and terrific place. You never
saw coal hole so dark or so forbidden. The
piece was me a nervous shook, for I re
member that was tho boat thing that the
world would afford tin most illustrious Be
ing, except one. that f ever saw, and that
from that place Paul went out to die. From
that, spot I visited the Coliseum—one of tho
most astounding miracles of architecture
that tho world over saw. Indeed. I saw it
morning, noou and night, for it threw a
spell ou me from which 1 could not break
away.
Although now a vast rum, tho Cjiiseum
is so well presorved that wo can stand in tho
center and recall all that it 01100 was. It is
in shape ellipsoidal, oval, oblong. It. is at
its greatest length 612 feat. Aftor it had
furnishod scats for 87,O K) people ft had 1*00m
for 15,000 more to stand, so that, 100.000 peo
ple could sit and stand transfixei by its
scenes of courage an 1 martyrdom and bru
tality and horror.
Instead of our modern tickets of admis
sion, they entered by ivory check, and a
check dug up near Rome within a few yearn
was marked “Section fl, Lo west Tier, Boat
No. 18." You undo stand that the building
was not constructed for an audience to be
addressed by human voice, although I tested
It with some friends and could bo heard
across it* but it was made only for seeing
and was circular, und at any point allowed
full view of tho spectacle.
The arena in tho centre in olden times was
strewn with potiu.lo l stone or sand, so as not
to be too slippery with human blool, for if
it wero too slippsry it would spoil the fun.
The sand flashed here and thore with
sparkles of silver and gold, an 1 Nero added
cinnabar and Caligula a lde 1 chrysocolla.
The sides of the arena were composoi of
smooth marble eleven feet high, so that the
wild beasts of the arena could not climb up
into the audience. On the top of tha3J sides
of smooth marble was a metal railing, hav
ing wooden rollers, which easily revolved,
so that if a panther should leap nigh enough
to ncale tho wall and with his paw touch any
one of those rollers It would rovolvo and
drop him back again into t.he arena.
Bao c of this marble wall surrounding the
arena was a level platform of stone, adorned
with statues of gods and godessis and the
artistic effigies of monarchs and conquerors.
Here wore movnblo seats for the emperor
and the imperial swine and swinesses with
which he surrounded himself. Re fore the
place where the emperor sat the gladiators
would walk immediately after entering the
arena, crying: “Hail, Cub sari Those about
to die salute thee.”
Tho different ranks of spectators were di
vided by partitions stuidej with mosaics of
emerald and beryl an i ruby aud diatnon J.
Great masts of woo l arose from all sides ot
the building, from which festoons of flowers
were suspended, crossing the building, or in
time of rain awnings of silk wore suspended,
the Coliseum having no roof. The outside
wall was iuorusted with marble and had
four ranges, and tho throe lower ranges had
80 columns each and arches a* to.- arches,
and on each arch an exquisite statue of a
god or a hero.
Into 180 feet of altitude soared tho Colis
eum. It glittered aud flashed and shone
with whole sunrises and sunsets of dazzle-
ment, After tho audience had ossemoled
aromatic liquids oozed from tubes distilled
from pipes and rained gently on the multi
tudes and filled the air with odors of hya
cinth and heliotrope aud frankincense an 1
balsam and myrrh and saffron, so that Lu
can, the poet, says of it:
But where was the sport to come from?
Well, 1 went into the cellars opening off
from the arena, and I saw the place whore
they kept, the hyenas an 1 lions and panthers
and wild boars un i beastly violences of all
sorts without food or water until made fierce
enough for the arena, and I saw tho under
ground rooms where the gladiators ware
accustomed to wait until the clapping of the
people outside demanded that thoy come
forth armed—to murJer or be murderei.
Adi the arrangements were complete, as
enough of the cellars and gallarie* still re
main to indicate. What fun they must have
had turning iious without food or drin c up
on an unarmed disciple of J^sus Christ!
At tho dedication of this Coliseum 9030
wild beasts and 10,000 immortal men wero
slain, so that blood of rneu and beast was not
a brook, but a river; not a pool, but a lake.
Having been in that way dedicated, be not
surprised when I tell you that Emperor Pro
bus on one occasion threw into that area t of
the Coliseum 100) atagw, 1000 boars aud 1000
ostriches. What fun it must have been—the
sound of trumpets, the roar of wild beasts
and the groans of dying men while Ira tho
gallery the wives and children of those dovru
under the lion’s paw wrung their hands an 1
tbrieked out in widowhood and orphanage,
while 100,000 people clapped their band.-., an l
there was a “Ha! ha I” wide as Homo un i
deep as perdition!
The corpses of that arena were put on a
cart or dragged by a hook out through what
was called the Gate of Death. What uti
excitement it muflj have been if bw two com
batants entered the arena, the one with
sword and shield and the other with net
and spoor. Tho swordsmen strikes at the
man with the net; and shear “ He dodges the
sword and then flings th«Ftw l|pver the head
of tho swordsman nml jjnu nun to the floor
of the arena, atnl tho ■Bat- Who
not. puts his foot on thag
swordsman, and spear 1?
tho galleries, as much as 1
him up, or shall I plunge
body until he is dead?”
Vho flung the
»5k of tho fallen
■land looks up to
Wav, “.Shall t lot
this spear into his
Tho audience had two signs, either of
which they might give. If they waved their
flags, it meant spare the fallen contestant.
If they turned their thumbs down, it meant
slny him. Occasionally the audience would
wave their flags, aud the fallen would bo let
up, but that was too tame sport for most oc
casions, aud gonorally t.hfe thumbs from the
galleries were turned down, and with that
sign would bo hoard the rcconipauying shout
of “Kill I Kill I Kill! Kill!”
Yet it was far from being a monotone ot
sport, for there was a change of programme
in that wondrous Coliseum, Under a strange
nml powerful machinery, beyond anything
of modern invention, the fl »or of the arena
would begin to rock and roll and then give
away, and there would appear a lake of
bright water, and on its banks trees would
spring up rustling with foliage, and tigers
appeared among the jungles, and armed
men would come forth, and there would be
11 tiger hunt. Then on the-lake ill tho Colis
eum armed ships would float, and thore
would bo a sen fight. What fun I What.
Jots of fun! When pestilortce came, iu order
to appease the gods, iu this Coliseum a sacri
fice would bo made, and tho people would
throng that groat amphitheatre, shouting,
‘The Christians to tho wild boasts!” ami
there would be a craoklih/ of human bones
in tho jaws of leonine ferocity.
But all this was to bo stopped. By the
outraged sense of public decency? No.
There Is only one thing t\v,t hosovor stopped
cruelty ami sin, and that Christianity, and
it was Christianity, whether you like its
tonn or not, that stopped this massacre of
centuries. One day while in the Coliseum
a Homan victory was being celebrated; and
100,000 enraptured spectators were looking
down upon two gladiators in the arena stab
bing and slicing each otfhor to death, an
Asiatic monk of tho name of Tetomaohus
was so overcome by the cruelty that he
leaped from the gallery 1 lu to the arena and
ran in between the two swordsmen and
pushed first one back ffhd then the other
back and broke up the eontosl.
Of course the audience was affronted at-
having tlmir sport stopped, an l they hurled
stones at tho head of Tetomaohus until lie
fell (load iu the arena, But when tho day
was passed, and the pais ions of tho people
bad cooled off, t hey deplored the martyrdom
of tho brave and Christian Talemaahus, aud
ay a result of tho over lone cruelty the
human sacrifices of the t 'olisouin wore for
ever abolished * * t
Wlint a good thing, .s ty you. that such
cruelties have ceased. JJ y friends, tho same
spirit of ruinous amusements and of moral
sacrifice is abroad In tlij* world to-day, al
though it takes other ^hapys. Last Hummer
in our southwest theretoj-eiirrod a scene of
pugilism on which ttllTOhri-toudom looked
down, for I saw the paper's on tho other side
of the Atlantic Ocean giving whole columns
of it. Will some one t<3t nw in what respect
that brutality of last summer was superior
to the brutality of a Etonian Coliseum? Iu
Konm respects it wu by so much ns
tho Niuetoouth Ceutury^prol.inds to be more
merciful and ntoru defeat than tho Fifth
Century. \
That pugilism is winning admiration in
this country is positively prove l by the fact
that years ago such ccmUion was reported in
a half dozm linos of aanrspiper, It reported
at all, an I n 'iw it taldjrthe whole side of a
newspaper to tell wbrtt transpire 1 between
tiio flrit blood drawn >by one loafer and the
throwing up Of tifce jjpoiig# by the other
loafer, aud It is net fclto newspaper’s fatilt,
lor tho newspapers Sms only what tho peo
ple want, and when igP’spaparA put carrion
on your table it ia Imfeaim yoU prefer car
rion. ‘
Tho same spirit of Brutality is booh to-day
in many an ecctosiasHisal court when a min
is.er is nil ton trial. at tho dnuilton*
anoes of the pro* routing ministers, and no!
in all cases, out ill 111*0v dues, you will flu I
nothing but diabf inspires them. Taot
let out on one p j >r pt ulster who cannot no-*
fond himself the ltooruf ejolesUstiolsm and
the tiger of bigotry, and the wild boar of
jealousy, and i. they can get the offending
mister flit on his buck sj ue on9 puts his
feot on the neck 6f the overthrown gospel-
izer and looks up, »p?ar in hand, to sie
whether the galieriek and ecclesiastic* would
have him let up or dfoin. Aud, lo! iiuny of
tho thumbs arc down.
In the worldly realms look at the bruta’l*
is or t.he presidential election eight years
o. ltoaa the blpgraphles of D inlet \Vob-
stor and Alex in le? IL Stephens and Horace
Greeley anl Cijlrtos B11 inner and Lucius
(J lintlh Ciociiiiia&ti Lunar anl James G.
Blaine, and if the story ot defamation and
calumny and ssatilallzition and diatribe
an I scurrility and ijnnpoon a 11 billingsgate
and damnable perfidy be accurately re
corded,tell me iu what respects our political
arena and the howling an i blaspheming
galleries that and again look down
upon it are better than tho Roman Colis
eum.
When I read a few days ago that the Su
premo Lourt of fch- United States had ap
propriately ad journal to pay honors to the
two last dlstln^utyhei men mentioned, an 1
American Journal) m North, South, East
an 1 West went into lamentations over their
departure and Adi all complimentary
thing* in regard in them, I asked: “When
did mo Nation lie$ibout those men? Was it
when during their life it gave them male
diction or no v sin e their death when be
stowing upon them beatification?”
The h imes lirJfof cruelty tint you de
plore in the ltoniku Coliseum is seen iu the
sharp appetite the world seems to have for
the downfall of #>> 1 men, and in the divorce
o£tho*e whoso mirital life was thought ac
cordant, an l in She absconding of a bmk
cashier. O.i, my friends, the world wants
more of the spirit of “Let him up” and less
of the spirit of “Thu in os down I” There are
hundred* of mou in the prisons of America
wno ought to be discharged, because they
were the victims of circumstances or have
Buffered enough.
There are in ui professions and occupa
tions men who arc do-jBnoerji over by
others, and who *. life is a struggle with
rnoncrous onpeftition, an i circumstance*
have tb'.*ir h.-ei upon the throbbing and
broken hearts. For Ged’s sake, let them
upl Away wdii- the spirit of “Thumbs
down l” What the world want* is 10)0 men
like Tojamaohns to leap out of the gallery
into tho arena, whether ho 1)3 a Roman
Catholic monk, or a Methodist stewar 1, or
Presbyterian elder, and go in between the
contestants. “Blessed are the peacemakers,
for thev shall be called tho children of Goi!”
Om-half oi' the world is down an l the
other half is up, and the half that Is up ha*
itff beef on the half that is down. If you. as
a boss work nari, or as a contractor, or as a
Bishop,or as a Btatc or National official.or as
a potent factor in s >cial life, or in any way
are oppressing any one, know that the sa ne
devil that possesse l the Roman Coliseu n op
presses you. The Diocletians are not ail
dead. The cellars lea ling into the arena ol
lilir’n struggle are not alt emptied of their
tigers. Thcfrivisectio 1 by young doctor*
of dog* and out- and birds most ol th * time
adds, nothing to human discovery, but is
only <a continuation o.‘ Vuspasian’s Colis
eum.
The crueltftoof the worli generally bsgin
in nurseries, an l in ho ne circle.*, and iu day
echooic. Tho child that transfix3* a fly with
p. u, or the low feeling that sot* two do'*
Hi to combat, or that bullies a weak or crip
pled playnun?, or th:* in liffereuce tlia’.
? turves u canary birJ, nee is only 1 > be de
velope i in i ; r ier to make a first elm* Nero
<ra»ul. armed Apollyon. fr, wmud be a
■, o t sen tape e t> be written oa tlii t >p line
.»* a chiio’s bouh. an i u lit (ascription to tie
embroidered in the arm ciiiir o. tho sit tin;
room, and an approps i ite motto for ju tg>;
aud jury an? district attorney an I >h®riff 1-
Jook nt. in r.ttUcourt lipufti*, ‘ Rio-rted are the
merciful, for they shall obtain mercy!”
And 90 the rqlps of that preach
tome. Indeed tin most imnresdvs things
on earth are ruin*-*. The four greatest struc
tures ever built are in ruins. The Parthe
non in ruins, the temple of Dinna in ruins,
the temple of Jerusalem in ruins, the Coli
seum in luln?. Indeed the earth itself will
yet be a pile of ruin?, the mountains in
ruins, the seas iu ruins, tho cities in ruins,
tho hemispheres iu ruins. Yon, further
than that, nil Up and down the heavens nro
worlds burnod up, worlds wrecked, worlds
extinct, worlds abandoned. Worlds on
Worlds in ruins!
But I am glad to say it is the same old
heaven, and in all that world there is not
one ruin and never will ha a ruin. Not ono
the pearly gates will over become un
hinge.! . Not on9 of tho amethystine tower.*
will ever fall. Kot one of the mansions will
ever decay. Not one of the chariots will
• ver be un wheeled. Not one of tho-thrones
will ever rock down. Oh, make sure of
honven, for it is an everlasting heaven.
’Through Christ the Lord get ready for
residence iu tho eternal palaces.
The last evening before leaving Rome for
Brindisi and Athens aud Egypt on 1 Pales
tine 1 went alone to the Coliseum. Thore
was not a living soul in all the immense
ares. Even t.hoso acciHtomed to sell curios
at* the four entrances of the building had
gone away. The place was so overwhelm
ingly silent 1 ooul 1 hoar my own heart beat
with the emotions aroused bv tho place and
hour. I paced the nrenn. I walked down
into the ileus where the hyena* were once
kept. 1 ascended to the place where the
enmeror used to sit. I climbed u;> on the
gft’l-MUes from which th ‘ mighty throngs of
poonlo had gaz*d in enchant mmt.
To break the silence ! shouted, anl tnat
seemed to awaken the echoes, echo upon
echo. And those awakened echoes seemed
to address me, saying: “Men die, but their
work lives on. Gaudentius, tho architect
who planned this structure; the (JO.OfX) en
slaved Jew* Drought by Titus from Jerus
alem, and who toiled on these walls, tho
g.adiators who fought in thisarena, the em
perors and empresses who had place on yon
der platform, the million* who during cen
turies sat and rose in these galleries, have
passe I away, but enough of tho Coliseum
stands to tell the story of cruelty an 1 pomp
aud power—500 years of bloodshed.”
Then, ns I stool there, there came to me
another burst of echoes, wh ch seemed
throbbing with the prayers and song* and
groans or Christians who had expired In
that areni, and thay nonAnd to say, “How
much it. cost to serve Go I iu age* pa*t, on 1
how thankful mo torn centuries ouerht Lo lie
uje puiaL'Ciuioil wiuoa t‘e:iu*etira‘«u0
unp'iltheater have been abo!-
BILL ARP’S LETTER.
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sand-ol th
ished.”
And then I questioned the echoes. Baying,
“Whero is Emperor Titus, who snt h-iv?”
Tho answer came, “Gone to judgment.”
“Where is Emperor Trajan, who sut here?”
“done to judgment.” “ \\ here is Maximi-
nus, who sat here?” “Gone to ju Igment.”
“Where are all the multitudes who clappsd
and shouted and waved flags to let t he van
quished up, or to have them slain put
tmimbsdowD?” The echoes answered, “Gone
to judgment.” I inquired, “All?” And they
answered “Alb”
And I looked up to tho sky above the
ruins, and it was full of clouds scurrying
swiftly past, and those clouds seemed as
though they had faces, and some of the facaa
smiled and some or tUbal frowned; an 1 cnoy
seemed to have wings, a id some of the
wings were mooagilt aud otllyrs thun ier
chorgod, and the voice overpowered the
echoes beneath. “Behold lio cometh with
clouds, and every eye shall see Him.”
And ns 1 stood looking uo along tho walls
of the Coliseum they rose higher and high r,
higher and higher, until the amnhitlieat.ro
seemed to bo filled with all the Nations of
the past, and all the Nation* of the present,
aud all t he Nations ot tile future, those wuo
went, down under the paws of wild blasts,
and those who sit waving flags to let id the
conquers 1, and those who held thumbs down
to command their assassination, an l small
and groat, and emperor and slave, and pas
tor and people, and righteous nud wicue l,
tin amphitheatre aeetuiug to rise to in
definite heights ou all side* of me, an l
in the Cent or or that amphitheatre, instead
of tho arena ot Combatants, a greu throne
stood, rising higher and higher, higher
und higher, and on it ant the Christ
lor When toe martyr.* died and
against, whom the Diocletian* plot
ted their persecution*, and wavin r
one hand towird the piled up splendors to
the right of Him He criei, “Jo ue, ye bless
ed,” and Wiving the other hand toward the
piled u.» glooms on Ml3 loft of Him H* cried,
“Dapart, ye cursed.”
And so the Coliseum of Romo t.hit, even
ing of 1839 see ue I enlarged into tue amphi
theater ot trie last ju igment, au I I passed
from under tue arch of that mighty *truc-
tur *, mighty even in it* ruin*, praying to
Almighty God. through J**U3 Christ, for
ruercy in that, day for which all other days
were mad*', and that an I expenco 1 mercy
from Goi d might ex'rclie mercy toward
others anl have more au i more ot the
spirit- "Let him up” and lens of the spirit of
“Thumbs down! 1 ’
\Ve may not all be able to do u sum in
higher mathematic, out thers is a sum in
the first role of gospel arithmetic wltiuu we
ail may do. It 1* a sum in simple addition;
“Add to your faith virtu \ and virtue
knowledge, aud to knowle Ige temp ?runoe,
and to temperancj patience, and to pat.once
go Illness, an l to godlines* brotherly Hind*
lies.*, anl to brotherly kindness charity.”
Cured of u Broken ltne’k.
Drs. James and Thomas McCann, of
Pittsburg, are about ready to report to
tho medical fraternity the case of John
Mulligan, who was cured ol it broken
back. In October, 1888, Mulligan re
ceived a fracture of the vertebra.*, and,
as usual with such coses, wus paralyzed
from the loins down.
Eight days after Mulligan’s entrance
lo the hospital the physicians, in the
presence of seventy-five students of tho
West Pennsylvania Medical College,
made an incision eight inches long in
the man’s back. The vertebra; were ex
posed. A fracture of the arches of the
tenth and eleventh vertebra) was found.
Fragments of bone were pressing ou the
spinal cord. This pressure wus relieved.
Two months later Mulligan could move
his right leg.
In ten months the patient walked out
of the hospital. Ho is now at work.
The report of the operation was kepif
secret until it was proved a perfect suc
cess.—New York Mail and Express.
He
He Spos in Hip I-roposptl Annexation
(lie Work of Schemer!).
Everrtiuoo I was a boy the Sandwich islands
hffvt» attract si peculiar nttontinn from tho civ
ilized world. Captain Cook, tho great naviga
tor, discovered them nml gavo thorn that name,
ami, by reason of tho discovery, England laid
claim to them, which was tho custom in that
• lav. Cook wont back there the next year, and,
because some of tho natives stolo a boat from
him, lie took his marines and went ashore and
so zed the king, and was faking him a prisoner
to his vessel, when they all got. into a fight and
Cook was killed. This was in 1778, whon thors
wero over one hundred thousand inhabitants,
aud Cook roported after his first visit that they
wero of a facile, yiolding, imitative disposition.
Within tho next fifty years the population was
reduced to half that number, for tho European
and American sailors introduced vile diseases
among their women and carried away thoir best
young men on whaling voyages. They loarned
to drink rum nml chow tobacco, aud Anderson
says that, in 1820, they wero a nation of drunk
ards, thieves nml debauches. But, about that
time, tlio missionaries got there and treated
them so kindly that the natives fell in lovo with
them, and very soon a wonderful
change came over tho people; schools
wore established, und they eagorly
embraced the religion r.nd the manners and
customs of the mugionaries. They had oourts
and prisons and churches and a code of laws.
They adopted farming implements aud ma
chinery, and became a happy and prosperous
people. Thore aro thirteen islands, but only
seven sro inhabited. Hawaii is about twice as
large as all the others put together, and it is
only about as largo au flvo of our average coun
ties. Tho population is now about one hun
dred thousand.
Well, now tho missionaries’ work is done-
ami it was well done. The island wag not only
civilized, but it was Christianized, aud its com
merce became inviting to our people. In 1841
the king gavo to his people a written constitu
tion and established a limited monarchy after
tho English model. In fact, ho wont over to
England to loam how to govern ills people.
When this was douo, Great Britain aud tho
United Htatea simultaneously agreed to recog
nize tho Hmidwich islands as au independent
kingdom.
What is tho causo of tho mosent trouble over
there I do not know, but I’ll bet a dollar that
there is a job in it somewhere for somebody,
aud I’ll bet anothor dollar that Mr. Cleveland
finds it out. Already soma of our Yankee cous
ins have “snuffed tho battle from afar," and
are talking about a war with England like it
was a small affair and a desirable thing. They
sec contracts iu il and Jobs aud big money for
nortliorn nmnufucturm'H like they had in tho
war with us. England hasent said a word,
aud yet politicians aro talking
about gutting ready for a fight.
If they didout have a sneaking
suspicion that they wore going to do something
wrong, what aro they putting on their war
paint for? My opinion ia that there aro aomo
shrewd white men at tho bottom of this busi
ness for personal advantage, and, with the
lights before me now, 1 am opposed to the
whole business. Tim queen has resigned under
protent, and has published it to the world.
Now, if all that the malcontents say is true,
why not let them Hettlo their own quarrels, or
why not let England and the United States
Join in a protectorate that will keep tho peace
on the islands, and keep pcaco and good fellow
ship bo I ween England and America. Wo es
tablished tho Monroo doctrine, and England
lias not sought to violate it; but hero are some
little Mauds, 2,000 miles from our coast, that
we have no right to in the world, and that have
been used peacefully as a coaling station, a
resting place for a'l tho ships that sail on the
Pacific ocean, and if we annex them they will
ooet us more than they aro worth, for thoy will
have lo be protect! d and defended, und, before
wo know it, we will be in a wwr whli somebody.
England will have a right to complain. Sho
yielded he r right of discov. ry and joined with
the United BtHtes iu declaring Hawaii au Inde
pendent kingdom. Hi r missionaries were the
first to go there aud ours followed. Tho French
tried to force their Roman Caiholic missiona
ries upon King Kamelmmcha HI.,but bo didn't
want them, and appealed to the English
government for ho p, nud England sent
troops over thore iu 1848. In 184C, the
king made a liberal treaty with England, in
consideration of receiving protection against
France. In 1849 Franc j became more beliger-
ent, and tho United States threa'ened to takea
hand in tho fight; and, iu 1851, tho king made
a treaty with tho United Htates on re
quest ot the Amerioan missionaries, In 18!6,
King Kannhamehtt IV. married Miss Eratna
Rookor, of England, aud children wero born to
them.
And so it looks liko th - United Htates ought
to keep bunds off and toto lair with England,
und let us have pcaco, and keep tho peace. We
don't want any more war with anybody, and es
pecially with England -our mother and our co-
worker in good works and in advancing civili
zation all over tho world. War honeilt* somo
folks, but it is a public calamity, and every war
is a poor man’s light, Tho south bus enough
patriotism to join tho north in any war for tho
common def« iihu <.f our country, but the south
knows by bitter experience that tho burdens
will ho ours and tho profits go to tho north.
The idea of preparing to fight England about
tho possession of a little coaling station away
off in tho Pacific ocean is absurd and ridicu
lous, and I hope that Mr. Cleveland will put
liis foot on it and smash it. Wo want peace—
peace on earth and good will among men.
•mere is no exense Tor oivWzea nations over
having any more war with each other, and, if
they do, tho devil is at the bottom of it.— Rtxl
Arp, iu Atlanta Constitution.
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