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0i WARNED
(GAINST BATTERIES
Feared the Spanish
uns on Cuban Shore.
IfflUJiNG TO TAKE RISKS
Lley’s Lawyers Succeed In
Lying important Department
Order Read.
lt“ e _ Qrhlev Stiii jr naval court of Inquiry
_ Bristol . . .
ijnesday Lieutenant M. L.
' upieteu 1 tad his ms testimony j begun and
ne w witnesses were Introduced,
46 „ U
Bear „ Admiral A.i-nimi Henry Wonrv r C. Tnv Tay
I« were commanded the
i L«p ' v fi 0 as captain,
wm. «m wm
t ieutenant Commander Tern
who . navigator , , of ,
if. Potts, was
B Massachusetts during
■ battleship Lieutenant Edward L.
penuu, noriori and
net, who was- on the New Orleans
riaf the war, the last named being
1 ! on the stand when the court ad
, for the day.
igned Taylor related incidents . of
.(jujiral
s aid that none of the Spanish ships
j nnv efforts to ram the American
sssels , when U „ rtov they came mma out nuf ntthfl Oi t - har
I at Santiago.
rnmmander Potts’ testimony dealt
ipeciallj oritti With tho the hnmharrlmcnt t u of
Answering question .
e Colon. a
j u( jge Advocate Lemly, as to the
.1 Commodore Schley dorin,
engagement, he said it was that
a man laboring under great mental
citement and of a man who was anx-
18 to discharge as soon as possible
disagreeable duty. Lieutenant Lei
?r #»““
banish shore batteries at Santiago
ad not been at any time formidable.
During 6 Commander Potts' examina
secured . permission . .
Mr. „ Raynor
on
rom the court to introduce as evi
fence the order of Secretary Long to
kdmiral Sampson, dated April 6 , in
Irhich he was admonished against the
MOBiire of the American vessels to
lie fire . of . strongly . , fortified . ports. The .
aragraph in that order which he espe
lially wished to have considered read
:sfollows; ,
I “The department does not wish the |
reasels of your squadron to be exposed
p ,. the Are of the batteries at Havana,
Santiago de Cuba or other strongly !
ratified Cuba, unless the 1
ports in more
*<"* -
ake refuge within those harbors. Even ;
d this case the department would sug
«>“ * »**— - -*■«
Dent of our torpedo boats might ac
omplish the desired object, vie., the
rithout subjecting »' «» unnecessarily our |
ien of war to the fire of the land 1
latteries.” |
The dispatch also contains the tol- I
owing order: 1
“The department further desires
i,of in in case of war you will maintain a
trict the blockade of Cuba, particularly j
t ports of Havana, Matanzas and,
,p .nnccnMzv ssible, of o Santiago ,. de . ^ Cuba, , ,, Man
and
MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED
In Cape Tow n and Fonr Other Dis
tricts Hy British.
Tje Cape Town Gazette proclaims
Ip-arpal iTowa, law in the districts of Cape
lElizabeth Wynberg, Simonstown, Port
and East London.
I The proclamation is the outcome of
pe ICoIony, recent Sir visit John of Gordon the premier Sprigg, of Cape and
pe pMth under Africa, secretary J. Rose of native Innes, affairs to the in
British high commissioner, Lord Mil
i ler - It places under military control
jlaefew points in Cape Colony hitherto
exempted, and the constitution, there
fore, is now suspended over the entire
eolony. Tho action tili-on probablj- ni-nhoWv I
foreshadows wesnaaows tn the commencement of vig
oroug measures which are understood :
to be necessary to end the war.
MarDoi artial i law will ... , be modified ,, !
- in its
PPhcation to the ports by leaving the '
(locks . railroads and harbors under the i
control of f the the C1V1 1 authorities. 4.1 -a.. Mill- j
t ar J rule ^ will be mitigated i
°tiier In some I
respects
MELY is PLACED TRIAL. | [
OX t
Purged With Misappropriation . of . i
Postal Funds in Cuba, !
The war department was informed
ftl4 «y that the trial of C. F. W. Neely j
° n cll arges of misappropriation i
of pos
! al funds in Cuba is in progress at !
Havana,
No law officer of the United States
Sovernment 'hough is engaged “° on the the case case, al- ai
-'-imonj and 0 „ - depositions , ta
ken ' !n 1 t-his country have been forward- j
t° the prosecuting officer in Havana, j I
buggies, 'V UNDERTAK
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DR.TALHAQE’S sermon
The Eminent Divine’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: The Charm of the Christian
Religion —It Illuminates oml Bright
ens the live* ef Men and Women
—The Beauty of God’s Love.
[Copyright. 1901.]
exalted Wasittkoton, religion D. C,—The Dr. charm r»f un ....
is by Talmago in this
discourse illustrated and commended;
text, Job xxviii, 17, "The crystal cannot
equal it.”
Bible Many have of the precious stones of the
but for the come to prompt I take recognition,
valuable present up the lees
saving crystal. Job, with in my text, com
pares wisdom a specimen of
topaz. would An infidel chemist or mineralogist
pronounce the latter worth more
than the former, but Job makes an intel
then ligent comparison, looks nt religion and
looks at the crystal and pronounces
the former as of far superior value to the
text latter, “The exclaiming in the words it.” of my
Now> > it is crystal J cannot of equal
n ot u purt sernion i c do .
sign K?LSrArrass to depreciate the crystal, whether it
the pendants The crystal of tho chandeliers the of a paf
ace. is the star of mount
ain; ft j s the queen of the c^ve; it is the
eardrop of the hills; it finds its heaven in
the diamond Among all the pages of nat
ural history there is no page more inter
esting phic. But to me I than the show page crystallogra- that Job
want to you
was right when, taking the religion in he one
hand and the crystal in other, de
clared that the former is of far more value
and beauty than the latter, recommending
is superior to the crystal in exactness,
That shapeless mass of crystal against
which you accidentally dashed your foot
is laid out with more exactness than any
earthly tallization city. and There all are them six styles divinely of crys
of or
<laln cd - Every crystal has mathematical
precision. . Gocl’s geometry reaches t hrough
it, and it is a rhomboid or in some way it
has a mathematical figure. Now, relig' urn
Sffili
accuracy. God’s attributes are exact,
God’s law exact God’s decrees exact, God’s
management of the world exact. Never
counting wrong, though He and counts the eands tho
grass blades and the stars
and the cycles. jsrstawjs Hia providence never
–J8LS laterally vertical,
when they ought to be without
Everything possibility in our of mistake. life arranged Each life
any a
six-headed prism. Bcrrn at the right time,
dying at the right time. There are no
“happen so’s” in our theology. If I
bought this was a slipshod universe I
is not an An
archist. Law, order, symmetry, perfect rectangle, precision,
perfect a perfect rhomboid square, a perfect circle. The a
a
edge of God s robe of government never
f ra y S out. There are no loose screws in
the world’s machinery. It did not with just
happen that Napoleon was attacked
indigestion at Borodino so that he became
incompetent happen that for John one Thomas, dav. It the did not mission- just
nr y, 011 a heathen island, waiting for an
outfit and orders for another missionary
t ourj received that outfit and thoaa or
ders in a box that floated ashore, while
the ship and the crew that carried the box
»£53J£*!U£SS?;ffl– be in all life behuti
may seen our more
Mly than in crystallography. Job was
’%2?t ; the SSI crystal XtUBlV in transparency. We
r 0 r to
know not when or by whom glass was first
.ftK'Sb oWed'nik h £™ n ^
0 f ^ are brought up from the ruins of
Herculaneum. There were female adorn
ments made out of it 3000 years ago—
those adornments found now attached to
the mummies of Egypt. A great many
commentators believe that my text means
8 Iass -. W. hat w ? ll Id do without the
crystal—the crystal , m the window to keep
ou j; s t 0 rm and let in the day, the crys
tal over the watch, defending its delicate
machinery yet allowing us to see the hour;
the crystal of the telescope, by which the
astronomer brings distant worlds so near
he can inspect them?
Oh, the triumphs of the crystals in the
celebrated windows of Roueu and Salis
bury! But there is nothing holy so transpar- religion.
ent in a crystal as religion. in our You put it
It is a transparent sin,
to your eye, and you see man—ins
his soul, his destiny. You look at God,
and you see something of the grandeur of
His character. It is a transparent reli
gion. Infidels tell us it is opaque. Do
you know why they tell blind. us it is “The opaque?
It is because they are nat
ural man receiveth not the things _ of God
because they are spiritually discerned.”
There is no trouble with the crystal; the
trouble is with the eyes which try to look
through it. We pray for vision, When Lord,
that our eyes mignt be opened!
the eye salve cures our blindness then we
find that religion is transparent. Bible. All the mount
It is a transparent out—Sinai, the
ains of the Bible come
mountain of the law; Pisgah, the mountain the mount- of
ain of prospect; Olivet, of
instruction; Calvary, the mountain sac
rifice. All the rivers of the Bible come
out _ HidekeJ or the ri the ver of paradisaical of holy
beauty; Jordan, or river
chrism; Cherith, or the river of prophetic and
supply; Nile, or the river of palaces,
the pure river of life irom under the
throne, clear as crystal. While reading
this Bible, after our eyes have been
touched by grace, we find it all transpar
ent, and the earth rocks, now with cru
c ifi x iorx agony and now with judgment ter
ror, and Christ appears in some of His 256
titles, as far as I can count them—the
Bread, the Rock, the Captain, the Com
rnander, the Conqueror, the Star, and on
hearse.’ and beyond any capacity religion! of mine to re
Transparent that seemed dark before
The providence pellucid. Now find God is
becomes down you Now
not trying to put you lost that child and you
understand why you property. It to
why you losi your eternal was And
prepare you for treasures.
why sickness came, it being the precursor
of immortal juvenescenee. And now you
understand why they lied about you and
tried to drive you hither and thither. It
was to put you in the glorious who when company he
of such men as destroyed Ignatius by the lions said,
went out to he the teeth of the
u] ftm the wheati and
-^yna peasts must nrst gimu me ncuii.
can become pure bread for Jesus Christ,
Christian Martyr’ amphitheatre 1 " who! standing wait
j n the midst of the
ing for the lions to come out of their cave
and destroy him, and the people in the
galleries jeering and shouting, J he
lions!” replied “Let them come on! and
then, stooping down toward the cave
where the wild beasts were roaring to get
c t, again cried, “Let them come on.
Ah, yes, it is persecution to put you m
glorious company, and, while there are
many things that you will have to post
pone to the that future it is world the for whole explanation, tendency
I tell vou unravel and explain
of your religion and to illumine and irradiate.
and interpret right. It i glorious transpar
Job was 3 a
ency “The crystal cannot equal it.
I remark again that religion The surpasses lump of
the crystal in its beauty. magnifying glass
crystal is put under the
of the crystallographer, and he sees in it
indescribable exquisiteaess—snowdnlt and
splinter* of hoarfrost and corals and
wreaths and stars and crowns and constel
lations of conspicuous beauty. The fact is
that crystal is bo beautiful that I can
think of but one thing in all the universe
that Is ns beautiful, and that is the reli
gion of the Bible. No wonder this Bible
represents that religion ns the daybreak, of
as the apple blossoms, ns the glitter the a
king’s banquet. It is the joy of
whole earth.
People talk too much about their cross
and not enough about their crown. Do
vou know that the Bible mentions a cross
out twenty-seven times, while it mentions
a crown eighty times? Ask that old man
what lie thinks of religion. He has lieen
a close observer, lie has been cultivating
an aesthetic taste. He has seen the sun
rises of half n centnrv. He has been an
early riser. He has been an admirer of
cameos and cornls and all kinds of bounti
ful things. Ask him what he thinks of re
ligion. and he will tell you: “It is the most
beautiful thing I ever saw. The crystal
cannot equal it.”
Beautiful in its symmetry. When it
presents Clod’s character, it does not pre
sent Him as having love like a great pro
tuberance on one side of His nature, but
makes that love in harmony with His who jus
tice—a love that will accept all those
come to Him and a justice that will by
no means clear the guilty. Beautiful reli
gion in the sentiment it implants! Beau
tiful religion in the hope it kindles! Beau
tiful religion in the fact that it proposes
to garland and enthrone and emparadiso it is
an immortal spirit! Solomon savs The a
liiv. Paul says it is a crown.. Apo
calypse says it is a fountain kissed of the
sun. Ezekiel says it is a foliaged cedar.
Christ says it is a bridegroom come the to
fetch home a hride. While Job in
text takes up a whole vase of precious and
stones—the topaz and the sapphire of this
the chrysoprasns—he takes out holds
beautiful vase gleams iust one crystal and light of
it up until it in the warm
the eastern sky, and ho exclaims, “The
crystal cannot equal it!’’
Oh. it is not a stale religion, toothless it is hag, not a
stupid religion, it is not a ns
some seem to have represented it; it is
not a Meg Merrilies with shriveled arm
come to scare the world. It is the fairest
daughter of Ood, heiress of all His wealth, the
her cheeks the morning sky, her voice
music of the south wind, her step the
dance of the sea. Come and woo her.
The Spirit and the Bride say come, and
whosoever will let him come. Do you
agree with Solomon and say it is a lily?
Then pluck it and wear it over your heart.
Do you agree with Paul and say it is a
crown? Then let this hour be your coro
nation. Do you agree springing with the fountain? Apoca
lypse and say it is a
Then come and slake the thirst of your
soul. Do you believe with Ezekiel and
say der it is a foliaged cedar? Do Then believe come with un
its shadow. you
Christ and say it is a bridegroom come to
fetch home a bride? Then strike hands
with your Lord and King while 1 pro
nounce vou everlastingly one. Or if you
think with Job that it is a jewel, then neck put
it on your hand like a ring, on vour
like a bead, on your forehead like a star,
while, looking into the mirror of God’s
word, you acknowledge “The crystal can
not equal it.”
“What,” say you, "will God wear jew
elry?” If He wanted it Ho could make
the stars of heaven His belt, and have the
evening cloud for the sandals of His fe4t.
But He does not want that adornment.
He will not have that jewelry. When
God want 3 jewelry He comes down and
digs it out of the depths and darkness of
sin. These souls are all crystallizations of
mercy. He puts them on, and He wears
them in the presence of the whole uni
verse. He wears them on the hand that
was nailed, over the b“-rt that was
pierced, on the + , 'Tn*''es Cm*’ were stung.
'They day shall be Mine.” Filth the Mv Lord, jewels.” “in
the when J make up
Wonderful transformation! Where sin
abounded grace shall much more abound.
The carbon becomes the solitaire. “The
crvstal cannot equal it.”
Three crystals! John says crystal at
mosphere. That means health. Balm of
eternal June. What weather after the
world’s east wind! No rack of storm
clouds. One breath of that air will cure
the i worst tubercle. Crystal light , on all „
the leaves; crystal light shimmering light on
the topaz of the temples; crystal eouestrians
tossing in tho plumes of the
of heaven on white horses. But “the
crvstal cannot equal it.” John says crys
tal river. That means joy. Deep and
ever rolling. Not one drop of the Potomac
or the Hudson or the Rhine to soil it; not
one tear of human sorrow to inibitter it.
Crystal, the rain out of which it was made:
crvstal, the bed over which it shall roll
says crystal sea. That means multitudi
nously vast, vast in rapture, rapture vast
as the sea, deep as the sea, strong as the
sea, ever changing as the sea; billows of
light., billows of beauty, blue with skies
that were never clouded and green with
depths that were never fathomed; Arctics
and Antarctica and Mediterraneans and
Atlantics and Pacifies in crystalline mag
nificence. Three crystals — crystal light
falling on a crystal river, crystal river
tal^eannot'equaHb 1 But “ the
”
“Oh,” says some one, putting his hand
over his eyes, “can it be that I who have
been in so much sin and trouble will ever
ever we have or have not, and we come
here to get it. “How much must I pay
for it?” you say. You will pay for it just
as much as the coal pays to become the
diamond. In other words, nothing. The
same Almighty power that makes the crys
tal in the mountain will change your heart,
which is harder than stone, for the prom
ise is, “I will take away j-our of flesh.” storiv heart,
and I will give you a heart
“Oh,” says some one, “it is just the
doctrine I want. God is to do everything,
and I am to do nothing.” My brother, it
is not the doctrine you want. The coal
makes no resistance. It hears the resur
rection voice in the mountain, and it
comes to crystallization, but your heart re
sists. The trouble with you. coal. my brother,
is the coal wants to sta"
I do not ask you to throw open the door
and let Christ in. I only ask that you
stop bolting it and barring it. My friends, will
we will have to get rid of our sins. I
have to get rid of my sins, and yon will
have to get rid of your sins. What will
we do with our sins among the three
erystals? The crystal atmosphere would
display our pollution. The touch. crystal river
would be befouled with our Trans
formation must take place now or no
transformation at all. Give sin full chance
in your heart, and the transformation will
be downward .instead will be of cinder. upward. Instead
of a crystal days it of Carthage a Christian girl
In the a
was condemned to die for her faith, and a
boat was bedaubed with tar and pitch and
filled with combustibles and set on fire,
and the Christian girl was placed in the
boat, and the wind was offshore, and the
boat floated away doubt with its that precious boat landed treas
ure. No one can
at the shore of heaven. Sin wants to put
you in a fiery boat and shove you off in an
opposite direction—off from peace, off
from God, off from heaven, which everlastingly would
off. and the port toward you
sail would be a port of darkness, and the
guns that would greet you would be the
guns of despair, and the flags that would
wave at your arrival would be the black
flags of death. Oh, my brother, you must
either kill sin or sin will kill you. It is no
exaggeration when 1 say that any man or
woman that wants to be saved may he
saved. Tremendous choice! A thousand
people are choosing this moment between
salvation and destruction, between light
and darkness, between charred ruin and
glorious crystallization.
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