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JL. M B X ▼ B B A w .JB. A w J J A Bk. MIX. No. 198. fB IS JECLARED. PERNORS NOTIFIED OF THHR QUOTA OF TROOPS. Sampson’s Fleet Fired on from Moro Castle -Secretary Sherman Resigns, Washington, April 25—President McKinley today sent « meioafe to congress asking that body to declare war existing between this country and Spain. He closed hie message with the following words: “I will reoomrhend to your honora ble consideration the adoption 9? a joint resolution declaring that a state of war exists between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spilpi and I urge speedy thereon to the end that the definition of the national status o! the United States as a belligerent power may A» known, and the assertion of slruA rights apd the maintenance of all its duties io the conduct of a public war may be assured.” Acting upon the recommendation of the president, the following bill, re ported by the foreign relations com mittee in the lower house of congress, was passed immediately, and without division: 41 A bill declaring that war exists be tween the United Slates of America «ad the Kingdom of Spain. . •'Be it enacted, etc. .* "First —That u*r be aud the same is hereby declared to exist and that war has existed since the 21st day of April, A. D., 1898, including said day, be tween the United States of America , and the Kingdom of Spain. “Second —Thqt the president of the United Blates be, and he hereby is di rected and empowered to use the en tire land and naval forces of the United Stales and to call into actual service of the United States the militia of the several states, to such extent as may be necessary to carry this act into effeoi.” The foreign affaire committee in the senate has not yet reported a bill, but Senators Morgan and Turpie have agreed to the report of the house war declaration ; they reserve the right to amend in the senate. They want a recognition of the belligerent rights of the Cubans. The war department has prepared and Secretary Alger has signed notifi cations to the governors of the several states io accordance with the presi dent’s call for 125,000 volunteers. Identical telegrams will be sent to each governor, eave that there will be, of course, differences as to the details, each state's quota., of troops being named, together with the points of as x semblage. When the call to governors is issued the following provisions for comhoand ing officers will be made: Five brigadier generals, command ing army corps. Fifteen major generals, commanding divisions. Forty-eight brigadier generals, com manding brigades, with inspector and adjutant general engineers and sur veyors. Os the commanders of army corps only one is known, General John C. Breckinridge, and possibly Joe Wheel er. General Lee will be made a briga dier general, though it is thought there will be sufficient strength to have him made a major general. About ten sbftts were fired Saturday night from Moro oastle\at the Ameri can fleet which is now blockading Havana, but no damage was done and the fire was not returned. Oapt. Sampson’s fleet continues to capture a Spanish fieigbtier every Secretary of State, Mr. Jobfi Sher man, handed in his resignation to the president today at a special meeting of the cabinet, assigning as his reason for to doing that hili’ impaired health wouldjmt permit him to attend to the •idu6ueiMhQrs of the office. The res ignation wasbqcepled and the presi dent appointed Judge William R. Bay, the assistant secretary of state, <0 succeed Mr. Sherman. . ***** Cenatlpation Forever*. n Candy Cathartic. 10c or Be. C, C. fail to cure, druggists refund money. AN IMPRESSIVE SERMON. THE GRIFFIN RIFLES ADDRESS ED BY THEIR CHAPLAIN. - Headed The Rifles Band They At tendetlhvine Services At the Prensterian Church Sunday. The Gfciffin Rifles, uwder command es Oapt.B I- Burr, attended services at the Hesbyteriari church Sunday morninrand listened to a sermon by their cbaksin, Re/. VV. G Wood bridge, that was replete with words of patriotisrit/ifer their country and love for whose soldiers shall never kt*w defeat. . ' The Rifles were beaded by their band which played beautiful marches to an<Ffrom the church. It was a solemn spectacle and many I mothers and sisters who witnessed it were moved_ <0 tears. All realized tbdt the RiMe might soon beeailed to the deleosetfbf their contftry when IF *** their ranks aaotfld be jggifgiUed by sickness anflKbe deattedea&tog ma 9hiaery of r I We regret bur limited will not per mit our givingTtbe full text of Mr. Woodbridge’s flfermon, but the follow ing isa brief synopsis, using as hie tejrt’fs&ftns 2Q: s—"ln the honor of of o ur-God we will set up our ban ners.” Tennyson says: “Nature red in tooth and claw.” Wherever on earth peace prevails, there has been war. Peace is always a conquest. Out of chaos came order in the primeval world Peace with God is at the price of blood—the cross is red, its back ground is white. To be£r a cross is to fight—the cross, then the crown In the;. Gospel perfected salvation is parallelism of wills that aforetime; crossed Life must be developed towards peace All development is towards an ideal and away from an existing con dition. What every individual unit passes through is the experience of tlw whole. 'Every individual who attains to glory, honor, immortality, bas thus attained in the face of opposing forces. Be we believers or not, a study of the life of the man of Naz areth,” who to me is the son of God, the divine Captain of human salvation, is summarized in tbe words “For the joy that was set before him be endured tbe cross, despising the shame.” His last word was a cry of triumph, of victory, ere he entered the dead portals of the grave, where greater victories awaited him. In tbe moment of supreme triumph when tbe victory was in his grasp, that victory was well worth the agony of the via dolorosa, the torment of tbe cross, tbe ignominy of a seeming defeat. All national peace, prosperity, glory is a conquest—a victory gained over opposing forces. America was born in an agony of blood, was nurtured amid struggles for existence, fought her way to the forefront of nations while as yet the dew of youth was on her brow. America today, the wonder of the nations, has far 50 years shown to tbe world her strength only, in a struggle of section against section ; each section fighting for a principle as for life. Appomattox that to the South imeant submission to the inevitable; became but the point of departure for tbe na tion’s greater glory; and tbe countless dead that are sleeping their last sleep on tbe "martyr patriot’s bed,” betoken to the world that ont of tbe grave of the past bas come forth a people, one people, who loving peace fought be cause they must, fought because tbe cause was just. To the arbitriment of battle bad all issues been left, to the decree of battle, as to tbe decree of God, all have yield ed submission—out of diversity bas come Not tbe defeat of the south nor tbe victory of tbe north, but the blood of Americans, almost sacramental, bas made of this country a nation, an in dissoluble union of sovereign states. s Her intensity of purpose, her adher ence to principle, her willingness to suffer and to die, hence her devotion to her idea of right emphasized by the rbar of battle, and underscored in blood, is the more apparent to tbe world in that after only 30 years, tbe shafts that mark the spots where southrons fell are erected close be side tbe monoliths on which are graved the names and deeds of north ern men. The flag that was furled al Appomattox is a draped memory of glory, while the flag that 70 years be- ft RIFFIN, ftKORftlA, TUESDAY,.MORNINft, APRIL 2«, 1898. A.lf . . - * fore waved over Yorktown is the old I Glory of the South, is the banner of a renewed nation—the banner which consecrated by prayer, and baptize*! I by martyr blood, was followed byj Puritan and Caviller, Covenanter, an<l Huguenot, through the valley of suffer*] ing, up the mountains of sorrojr.iil. the s.nnke of battle. Tbe flag of our country stands for God, and right and freeman liberty. When that flag comes to stand for aught else than God and right, it bse comes an insult to tradition, and a flaunting lie. ’Tin not for one listed under the banner of the Prince of Peace, stand ing in such a place as thia, to urge o»r ' men to red war, to call to n but at such a time aa thia, when the ’ next breeze may bring to our ear tbe t clash of resounding feel it to 1 be my duty to speak a word in refer* < ence to this war, whose foregleams I have already come. t I am not of the number who cry,' I “My country, if right; if right or I wrong, my country.” If my' country < be wrong, if to m j conscience the j wrong appear, it becomes my duly to j be true to my conscience, and turn my «< back on my country ; even 4f I • die ’ with my back to my ooutMry, I shall 4 die with my face towards my Gbd,who J is always right. Were this a matter of commercial or 1 financial expediency—were it a ques- ' tion of territorial aggrandizement—l 1 could sit by a protestant on principle; 1 an opponent of war, but I say that our J country goes into this war its banner 1 standing for God and right aud hu* J man liberty. If the principles which ! moved our forefathers were righteous, 1 then the very genius of America com* 4 mits us to war. Our country is territorially self suffi- I eisnt—so peculiarly situated that we ’ eould live separate from the rest of tbe ' world, and still grow stronger. As to 1 this we need tbe outside world less < than the world needs us; in a word, J we are practically/ independent of the whole world But this is a Christian, YrttlOT,mllgiaUtflfSllon. Tft STtUo? we believe in God—we accept tbe Bible as His word. Just as tbe moral influence of Amer ica is felt throughout tbe world, so is tbe influence of Christianity felt in America. Ac open Bible and per petually preached gospel have made of us—unconsciously, perhaps, to our selves—a .people whose thinking is dominated by tbe gospel. The first principles of gospel ethics is unsel fishness. Nono hveth to himself. Whenever a cry of anguish goes up from another people, America is re sponsive with a gift. Whether it be Ireland, or China, or India, or Russia, America sends a gift that tells of her sympathy with tbe suffering. Now, just off our shores, on Ameri can soil, almost within reach of our ears, has gone up one long, low wail of anguish. When we cast our eyes whence the sound comes we see hud dled together, Tike sheep, helpless hu man beings. Have you beard of the reconcentradoes? Cubans, they— born on tbe soil of the new world. Brothers, they are dying; helpless, they are starving; wan faces, bony fingers, lustreless eyes, bodies all ema ciated ; old tpen, helpless women, lit tle children, dying, dying, being slow ly murdered by what is called a gov ernment. Driven from their homes to starve, and they call it war. War? War against women, children, de fenseless men, decrepit age. Warl No war, that; it’s barbarism— aye, worse. ’Tie tbe spirit of tbe inquisia tion. Tbe ghosts of Pizarro and Cor* tez are abroad. Under crosses uplift ed in tbe name of the King, they are digging graves as they’ve ever dug them to bury tbe victims of their malevolent greed in, Soldiers, hear it, a cry for help I Americans, listen, on American soil, wailing women, weeping babes, starv ing men, crying for a deliverer from tyranny I lam told ’tie no matter of ours—’tie Spain’s war. No, friends, it’s God’s war. It’s every one’s war who loves righteousness, Who is the friend of the friendless; who believes in liberty; who bates tyranny; who knows it is wrong not to be in the right l) He wTio died on Calvary came to deliver the lost—he was rich, knew no want, bad all things—but the world cry for a savior, a deliverer went up, and be came, leaving glory, even the sov ereignty of bis father’s broad domain, and on a little island in tbe ocean of immensity, he found people etarv* I Royal makas th« fooS ewa. ~ I 1 ROYAL BAKING POWDER QOa t MKW YONC | ing, dying, and for them be gave him self. He died to eave Let it be tbe glory of our land that she has been called to war by tbe cry of tbe op* pressed, that she is awaking in her Strength only to.give liberty to the Captive, to give bread to the starving, find to bid go, a tyrant, pitiless, mer ciless, whose ears have long ago grown -accustomed to tbe groans of the Weak and tbe helpless This war means unselfishness,’ means human tove, human help, means right, means liberty, means death to tyranny. In it all nothing to gain save the appro val of conscience, and the smile of tbe God of our fathers. Never I seem in the history of tbe world bas a nation risen in its might in a cause that seems so much like God’s—to seek and to save fbe lost. The whole ma terial strength of the nation pledged to resist tyrany—our -fathers cried “Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.” That word that is being sig nalled from ship to ship "Remember the Maine” is a call to revenge; in tbe vocabulary of my Master thfre is no such word as revenge. ’ I love my Idunlry today as I’ve never loved her Before for that she bas drawn her ■word, her reluctant sword, ii» honor if God, for what, as I see it, God ap- To you who are listed neatb your country’s flag, whose livery is that of your government, the wearing of which betokens your immolation of yourself in behalf of others, go to where your country calls you looking to tbe God of battles, whose Son is the Prince of Peace, saying to Him, “we will triumph in thy victory, in the honor of our God will we set up our banner.”. Your call is to highest duty —to consecration—l want tbe God of our fathers to be ever near you, and I want you to get close to God. I serve a King who died for men, who died to deliver yon and me, and as one com missioned by my King, I beseech as through Christ did speak through me, be reconciled with God. The hand that is extendid to you is a wounded hand, wounded in a wgr for human deliverance. My King died for men, pierced with many a wound—after the war be entered into glory eternal, where he ever liveth to make intercession for us. He is King eternal, invisible. Take the Christ hand that will lift you into fellowship with the Divine—believe on him, trust in him, make him yours and be will make you God’s. And now as a final word: Take Christ as your savior, His word as your guide, his Father as your sovereign, and know that going forth in his name you will triumph in his victory—Then even amid the roar of battle no harm oan come to you. 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