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THE ASHBURN ADVANCE «
II. 1). SMITH. EDITOR.
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Dewey a Victor
At Manila.
By Hof. Shot from American
Guns—Vessels on Both Sides
Disabled—ltejoicing at
Washington.
Advices received at Madrid from
Manila, say that the American squad¬
ron, under Commodore Dewey, ap¬
peared off the bay of Manila at 5
o’clock Sunday morning and opened a
strong cannonade against the Spanish
squadron and forts protecting the har¬
bor. The Spanish cruiser Don Juan
de Austria was severely damaged and
her commander was killed. Another
Spanish vessel was burned. The
American squadron retired, having
also sustained severe damage.
A second naval engagement follow¬
ed, in which the American squadron
suffered considerable loss, the Span¬
ish warships Mindano and Ulloa -were
slightly crippled.
An official telegram received at a late
hour from the governor general of the
Philippines says that Admiral Montejo
has transferred his flag to the cruiser
Isla de Cuba from the cruiser Reina
Maria Christina, which was completely
burned, as was also the cruiser Cas¬
tilla, the other ships having to retire
from the combat, some being sunk to
prevent their falling into the hands of
the enemy.
The El Heraldo says Admiral Mon¬
tejo changed his flagship during the
engagement, or between tbe two en¬
counters, in order to better direct the
maneuveres. In this way he escaped
the fate of the commander of the Reina
Maria Christina.
In the second engagement the Span¬
ish cruisers Mindano and Ulloa suffer¬
ed heavily.
Rejoicing at Washington.
Washington went wild with enthusi¬
asm over reports of the magnificent
victory which Dewey achieved. No
official advices had been received by
the president or Secretary L ng, but
the Associated Press bulletins telling
the results of the contest were read by
thousands of people, and in all parts
of the city there were those manifesta¬
tions of enthuiasm that go with victory.
At the white house tho bulletins
were received in the war room and
were read with great eagerness by the
president and Vice President Hobart,
several members of the cabinet and
a few of the president’s friends,among
them Chauncey Depew, who happened
to he in the city.
As the news grew better and better,
and the certainty of an overwhelming
victory became evident, there was
great enthusiasm in the crowd, as well
as in those which lined the streets in
front of the newspaper offices and the
leading hotels.
Officials of the navy department
were reticent in discussing the conflict
in'th’e absence of official information,
but they made no pretense of conceal¬
ing their great gratification. It has
been known for days at the navy de¬
partment that a conflict at Manila was
inevitable, and while no great fear of
the result was expressed, there was yet
a deep concern in the heart of every
official. Sunday night’s news removed
a great weight from the minds of all.
Five Thousand Under Nunez.
General Emilio Nunez has secured
the services of 5,000 Cubans at Jack¬
sonville who have volunteered for
service in the Cuban army and are
now waiting orders to leave for the
island.
TO BRING AWAY SPECIE.
Bankers of Uong Kong Send a Vessel To
Manila.
Advices from Hong Kong state that
the steamer Esmeralda, chartered by
the banting companies of that city,has
gone to Manila, capital of the Philip¬
pine islands, to bring away the specie
there, as trouble is apprehended.
It is understood she will be able to
enter and leave Manila before the
United States fleet attacks that port.
She hds, a considerable quantity of
coal on board and also has as passen¬
ger the insdrgent leader Fillipina. She
is said to nave sealed orders to join
the United States fleet after her mis¬
sion is accomplished.
AS1IIUJRN. WORTH CO., GA.. FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1898.
FORMER ARRIVES AT NEW YORK
AND LATTER AT RIO JANEIRO.
BOTH CSUSED APPREHENSION.
Oregon Safely Eluded Spanish Warships.
Probable Blockade of Porto
Itico By New Fleet#
The American liner Paris arrived at
New York Saturday morning from
Southampton after a rough passage of
seven days, seventeen hours and forty-
live minutes, with nine saloon, forty-
two second cabin and ninety-eight
steerage passengers.
She also had ou board 16 cases of
munitions of war and a small quantity
of miscellaneous merchandise.
The Paris left Southampton April
22d at 2:05 o’clock p. m. After clear¬
ing the land Captain Watkins shaped
his course about north and after a run
of thirty miles headed for home, keep¬
ing a distance of about thirty miles
from the usual course taken in previ¬
ous trips.
Captain Watkins had no fear that a
Spanish war vessel would catch his
fleet steamer after she got sea room,
but it was thought possible that some
craft of the enemy might be lurking
in the vicinity of the channel, or in
the neighborhood of the Irish coast to
waylay the American craft. At night
every light on board of the Paris was
extinguished and dead lights were
covered. Strict watch was maintained
to detect the approach of vessels. of
Not less welcome than the news
the arrival of the City of Paris was
that conveyed by cable to Washington
of the arrival in Eio de Janeiro of the
long lost battleship Oregon.
The Oregon, which had been with
the Asiatic sqadrou, was detailed to
replace the Philadelphia at Honolulu.
Later she was relieved by the Balti¬
more and steamed homeward, making
firstfor Valparaiso, during two weeks of
which were eventful with history. She
put to sea again from that port, ac¬
companied hy the gunboat Marietta,
without knowledge that war had been
declared between the United States
and Spain. It was feared at the navy
department that she would be inter¬
cepted by the Spanish flagship Tema-
rario, which happened to be at Monte¬
video.
The news received shows that the
Oregon has passed the danger point
and is now in safety in the port of Itio.
Between her present position and
Sampson’s fleet no enemy can inter¬
pose. Captain Barker was greatly
astonished when told of the events
which had happened and the perilous
escape which he had made. He stated,
however, that his ship could have put
up a good tight.
Another strange development is
about to cuki.-oate in Rio. The Nicthe-
roy, which was purchased from the
Brazilian government, was started on
its way severel days ago for delivery,
accompanied by a Brazilian warship.
For some strange reason, covered un¬
der the plea of returning for repairs,
the vessel returned to port. An ex¬
planation is now furnished of a some¬
what startling nature. Anticipating
the certain arrival of the Oregon, this
government directed the return of the
Nitcheroy to Rio. Now there are gath¬
ered at that port:
The battleship Oregon, Capt. Barker;
the gunboat Marietta, Commander
Symonds; the Nitcheroy, dynamite
gun. to he officered.
Probable Blockade of Porto IMco.
This of itself makes a formidable
fleet. The official staff for the Nicthle-
roy can be recruited from the Oregon
and the Marietta, and as for seamen,
there will be no troulde in surrepti¬
tiously shipping as many as may he
ready.' This fleet directly, may join Bear is Ad¬
miral Sampson or, San as Juan, more
probable, it can blockade
tbe capital of Porto Rico, receiving,
further supplies and men by trans¬
port, which can meet it there.
Press Boys Have New Boat.
The Kate Spencer was chartered at
Jacksonville, Saturday, hy the Associ¬
ated Press as a dispatch boat at Key
AVest. She is a mate of the Daunt¬
less, now iu service, and will aid the
Associated Press in getting news from
the scene of blockade, being a fast
boat.
HURRIED TO PENITENTIARY.
Two Self-Confessed Wisconsin Murderer*
Given Life Sentences.
William Bestor and William Fuller,
two robbers arrested at AYaukosha for
the murder of an aged couple and the
burning of the bodies at Black Earth,
AVis., Wednesday night, pleaded guilty
Saturday to the crime at Madison.
They were sentenced to life impris¬
onment and were taken to AA’appun
prison immediately. They landed in
prison thirty hours after the crime
was committed.
Both rattle a full confession to the
sheriff auf district attorney. They
admitted everything, Cut each, puts ;
"the actual tilling on the other.
TAUIAGR’S SERMON.
THE GREAT DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
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Tlio Sultjcel of tho Address “Tlie Swords
JtH Mission mill It* Doom”—Mighty
AVIion AVIi*lili'il in iv Righteous Cause-
Great Achievements Wrought by Arms.
Text: “My sword shall ho hatliod iu
heaven.”—Isaiah, xxxiv., 5.
“It has come at last—tho war that we
have prayed Almighty Clod might bo
averted. Thu prows of the battle-ships are
cutting the seas, and troops from all the
States of the American Union are on the
way to tho front. All the arts of diplomacy
have failed, and momentous questions aro
to bo decided in battle qu sea and laud.
Three results will be demonstrated—tho in¬
dependence of Cuba, the rebuke of Spanish
cruelty, and the triumph of the United
States army and navy.
“Three hundred and Jlfty-ono times does
the Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved,
inexorable weapon, which dashes upon us
from the text—tho sword. Sometimes the
mention is applaudatory, sometimes and drawn, sometimes
damnatory, as somo-
times as sheathed, flu tho Biblo, and in
much secular literature, the sword repre¬
sents all javelins, all muskets, all carbines,
all guns, all police physical clubs, all battle-axes,
all weaponry for defense or attack.
It would be an interesting thing to give the
history all down of through tlie plow, the and follow from its the furrow
ages, first
crop in Chaldea to the last crop in Minne¬
sota. It would be interesting to follow tho
pen as it has tracked its >vay on down
through the literature of nat ions, from its
llr s t word in tho first hook to the last word
which Some author last night wrote as ho
closed his manuscript. It would be an in¬
teresting thing to count the echoes of the
hammer from tho llrst nail driven down
through all the mechanism of centuries to
tho last stroke iu the carpenter’s shop of
yesterday. I propose done to-day speaking of a
weapon that has a work that neither
plow plished. .nor pen nor hammer ever accom¬
and My theme is tho sword, its mis¬
sion, its doom.
“The sword of the text was bathed in
heaven; that is, it was a sword of right¬
eousness, ns another sword may be bathed
in hell, and the sword of cruelty and
wrong. There is a great difference be¬
tween the word of Winklereiil and the
sword of Cataline, between the sword of
Leonidas and the sword of Benedict Arnold.
In our effort to hasten tho end of war wo
have hung the sword with abuses and exe¬
crations, when it has hail a divine., mission,
as when in many crises of the world’s his¬
tory civilization it has swung and for liberty anil justice,
righteousness and God.
At the very opening of the'Biblo amt on the
east side of the Garden of Eden God placed
a flaming sword to defend the- tree of life.
Of tho officer of the law, St. Paul declares:
‘He beareth not' the sword in vain.’
Through -Moses God commanded:- ‘Put
every man his sword by his side.’ David,
in his prayer, says: ‘Gird Thy sword upo P
Thy thigh, O most mighty-.’ One of tli a
battle-shouts of the Old Testament was:
‘The sword of the Lord and Gideoji.’.
Christ, in a great exigency, said that such
for a weapon he declared: was more important than n coat,
‘Ho that hath no sword,
let him sell his garment and buy one.'
Again lie declared: ‘I come, not to sep'd
-peace, but a sword.’ Of Christ’s second
coming, it is said: ‘Out of His mouth went
a sharp, two-edged sword.’ Thus, -some¬
times figuratively, but often literally, tho
divine mission of the sword is announced.
“What more consecrated thing in the
world than Joshua’s sword, or Caleb’s
sword, or Gideon’s sword, or David’s
sword, or Washington's sword, or Marion’s
sword, or Lafayette’s sword, or AVelling-
ton’s sword, or Garibaldi’s sword, ;or hun¬
dreds of thousands of American swords
that have again and again been bathed in
heaven. Swords of that kind have been
tho best friends of the human race. Thoy
have slain tyrannies, pried open-dungeons,
and cleared the way for nations: in their
onward march. It was better for them to
take the sword and he free, than lie under
the oppressor’s heel and suffer.
“Tliero is something worse than death,
and that is life if it must cringe and crouch
before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of
the world’s history, and find that there has
never been a tyranny stopped or a nation
liberated talking excop't about by the sword. I am not
to you the way things ought
to be, but about the way they have been.
AVhat foroo drove back the Saracens at
Tours, and kept Europe from being over¬
whelmed by Mohammedanism, and, sub¬
sequently, nil America given over to
Mohammedanism? The sword of Charles
Martell and his men. Who can deal enough
iu infinities to tell what was accomplished
for the world’s good by the sword of Joan
of Arc? Years ago I looked off and saw in
the distance the battle-field of Marathon,
nnd I asked myself what was it that on
that most tremendous day in history
stopped the Persian hosts, representing not
only Persia, but Egypt, and Tripoli; and
Afghanistan, and Boloochistan, .and
Armenia; a host that had Asia under foot
and proposod to put Europe underfoot,
and, if successful in that battle, would
have submerged by Astatic barbarism,
European civilization, and, us a conse¬
quence, in after time, American clvllizu-
.tion? Tho swords of Miltiados, rtud
Themostocles and Aristides. Attlia waving
of these swords the eleven thousand lan¬
cers of Athens, on the run, dashed against
the one hundred thousand insolent Persians
and trampled them down or pushed them
back into tlio sea. The swords of that, day-
saved the best part of the hemispheres, a
trinity of keen stool finshing iu tiie two
lights—tho light of tho setting sun of bar¬
barism, tiie light of the rising sun of civil¬
ization. Hail to these three great swords
bathed in lieavenl
“AVhat put an end to infamous Louis
XVI.’s plan of-universal conquest, by which
England would have been aiade to kneel
on tiro steps of tbeTuIlerles, audthe Angio-
Haxon race would have been baited affd-all
Europe borough, paralyzed? The sword of Marl-
at Blenheim. Time came when
the Boman war eagles, whoso beaks had
been punched into the heart of nations,
must be brought down from their eyrie*.
All.other but .the-G.ermaus, attempts tho had mightiest disgracefully nation failed,
for
brawn and brain,undertook tbe work, and,
under God, succeeded. AVhat drove back
the Boman cavalry till the horses, wounded,
flung their riders and the last rider per¬
ished, andtbe Hercynian forest became tho
scone of liome’s humiliation? The brave
sword, the triumphant sword of Arminius.
“ AVh ile passing through France my nerves
tingled with excitement, and I rose in the
car the better to see the battle-fleld of
Chalons, the mouDds and breastworks still
visible, they though nearly live hundred years
ago were shoveled up. Here. Attila,
the heathen monster, called by himself the
‘Scourge of God, for the punishment of
Christians,’ his life a massacre of nations,
came to ignominious defeat,and lie put into
ono great pile the wooden saddles of his
cavalry^affiT tho spoils of the cities and
kingdoms jie had sacked and placed on top
of this'holocaust the woman who bad ac¬
companied UVitn iirkls devastating march,
ordering that the torch be put to the pile.
What powc* broke that sword and stayed
that rod scourge of cruelty that was rolling
ovor burope? Tho sword of TUoodorlo
and Aothis.
"To come down to later ages, all Intel-
llgont Englishmen unite with all iutellt-
gent Americans in saying that it was tho
best thing that the American colonies
-swung off from the government of Great
Krituin. It would luiVo boon tho worst
absurdity of four thousand years if tills
continent should have eontlaued in loyalty
to a throne on the other side of the sea.
• No one would propose a Governor General
for the United States, as there is a Gov-
ernor General for Canada. AYo have had
splendid could Queens in our brought American Capital,
but wo hardly be to support
a Queen on the other side of tho Atlantia,
lovely nnd good ns Victoria Is. The only
use we have for Earls and Lords and Dukes
in this country is to treat them welt when
they puss through to their hunting grounds
in the far AVest, or when their fortunes
have failed, re-enforce them by wealthy
matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation
yet a part of English possessions! Tho
trouble the mother country has with Ire-
land would be a paradisaic condition com-
pnrod with tho trouble she would have with
us. England and the United States make
excellent neighbors, but tho two families
are too largo to llvo in the same house.
AVhat a godsend that we should have parted,
and parted long ago! other in
“But I can think of no way
which wo could possibly have achieved
American Independence. George the
Third, tho half-crazy King, would not have
lot us go. Lord North, his Prime Minister,
would not have let us go. General Lord
Cornwallis would not have let us go, al¬
though after Yorktowu he was glad enough
to have us let him go. Tho battlefields of
the American Devolution were proof posi¬
tive tlmt thoy were not willing to lot us go.
Any committeo of Americans going across
tho ocean to see what could have been
done would have found no better accom¬
modations than London Tower. Tho only
way it could have been done was by the
sword, your great-grandfather's sword.
• Jefferson’s pen could write the Declaration
of Independence, but only AVasbington’s
sword could have achieved It, and the
other swords bathed in heaven.
“Arbitrament will take tho place of war
between nation and nation, and national
armies will disband as a consequence, anil
the time will come—God hasten it!—when
there will bo no need of an American
army or navy, or a Husslau army or
navy. But some time after that cities will
have to keep their armories and arsenals
and well-drilled militia, because until tho
millennial day there will be populations
with whom arbitrament will bo as impossi¬
ble as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or roll a
jungle of snakes. These men who
stores and give gurroter's hug, and prowl
about the wharves at midnight, nnd rattle
the dice In gambling hells and go armed
with pistol or dirk, will refrain from dis¬
turbances of tho public poaoo just In pro¬
portion as they realize that the militia of a
city, instead of being an awkward squad,
and in danger of shooting each other by
mistake, or losing their own life by looking
down into the gun barrel tosco if It Is load¬
ed, or getting the ramrod fast in their boot
leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as the
nortli wind, potent ns a thunderbolt, anil
accurate anil regular and disciplined In
their movements as tho planetary LoKislntuYn* system.
Well douo, then, 1 t'ny to tho
anil Governors nnd Mayors, and all officials
who decide upon larger armories and hot¬
ter places for drill and moro generous
equipment for the militia, Tho soonor the
sword can safely go hack to tho scabbard
to stay there, the better; but until the hilt
clangs against the ease in that ilnal lodg¬
ment, let tho sword be kept free from rust;
sharp all along tho edge and Its point like
a needle and tho handle regimental polished, not only
by the chamois of the servant,
but by the hand of bravo and patriotic offi¬
cers, always ready to do their full duty,
ijueli swords are not bathed in impetuosity,
or bathed in cruelty or bathed la oppres¬
sion, or bathed m outrage; but bathed in
heaven.
"Before I speak of the doom of tho sword,
let me also say that it lias developed tho
grandest natures that the world over saw.
It has developed courage—that sublime
energy of the soul which dodos the uni¬
verse when it feels Itself to he in the right.
It has developed a self-sacrifice which re¬
pudiates tlio idea that our life is worth
more than anything else, when for a prin¬
ciple it throws that life away, as much as
to say: ‘It is not necessary that I live, but
it is necessary that righteousness triumph.’
There are tens of thousands among tho
Northern and Southern veterans of our
Civil AVar who are .ninety-five per would cent,
larger and mightier in soul than they
have been had thoy not, during the four
years of national agony, turned their back
on home and fortune, and at the front sac-.
rifleed all for a principle. doomed. There is
“But the sword is ono
wqrd that will vet bo written iu every
throne-room, in every war office, in every
navy yard, in every national council. That
word is Disarmament. But no government
can a (ToW to throw its sword away until
all the great governments have agreed to
do tho same—until disarmament and con¬
sequent arbitration shall bo agreed to by
all tho great governments, any single gov¬
ernment that dismantles Us fortresses, and
spikes its guns, and breaks Its sword,
would simply Invite Its own destruction.
Suppose, before such general agreement
England should throw away her sword;
think you France has forgotten Waterloo?
Suppose, before such general agreement
Germany should throw lior sword away;
how long would Alsace and Lorraine stay
as they aro? Suppose the Czar of Uussla
before such general agreement eagles should and vultures throw
away hlssword, all the
and lions of European power would gather
for a piece of the Russian boar. Suppose in
somo future time tho United States, with¬
out any sucli general agreement of disarm¬
ament, should throw away her sword, it
would not be long before tlio our great har¬
bors would be ablaze with the,bunting of
foreign navies coming bore to show the
folly of the “Monroe doctrine."
“What a horror is war and its cruelties
was lyell illustrated when the Tartars, after
sweeping through Bussia and Poland, dis¬
played with pride nine great sacks Ailed
with the right oars of the fallen, and when
a correspondent of tbe London Times, writ¬
ing of the wounded after the battle of
Sedan, said: ‘Every moan that the human
voice can utter rose from that heap of
agony, and cries of water! .For the love of
God, watopl A doctor! A doctor! never
ceased. After war has wrought such cruel¬ old
ties, how glad wo will lie to have tho
monster himself die. dismantled Let his dying fortress, couch
bo spread which in somo the stormy winds howl.
through; Give apillown battered shield, and
him for
let his bed be hard with tberusted bayonets
of tlie.slaln. Cover him with the coarsest
blanket that picket ever wore, and let of ids
only cup be the bleached bone of ono his
war-chargers, and the last taper hy his bed¬
side expire as the midnight blast sighs In¬
to his ears: The candle of the wicked shall
bo put out. national trial let
“In this time of our us
dedicate ourselves anew to God anil our
country. In the English conflict, called
fhe War of the Boses, u white rose was tho
badge of the House of York, and the red
rose tho badge.of the- House of Lancas¬
ter, and with these two colors they op¬
posed each other In battle. To enlist jou
-
in tho holy war for all that is good
against all that is vrrontf I pin ovor your
heart two badges, tho one suggestive ef
the blood shed for our redemption, and
the other symhollu of a soul made white
, uu t clean, tho Bose of Sharon and the Lily
0 f the Valley ♦
“And as for our bolovod country In this
crisis, tlioro aro throo reasons why wo
should ilo our best for that. 'Three reasons:
our fathers’ graves, our own cradles, our
( .|,n,iron’s birthright. AVIum 1 s iv your
fathers’ graves sleep your pulses run quicker,
Whether they in etty cemetery or
m village graveyard, They lived their well ashes nnd are they pro-
pious to you.
died right. You will not submit to have
t i 10 ) r tombs dishonored by the foot of any
foreign foe. Then this land has boon our
,. r ,idle. It may have rooked us roughly
| >u t it was a good cradle to be ro -ke I in.
oh , how much we owe it. Dear land of
ouc boyhood and girlhood days! Audit
^ to be our children’s birthright. We will
after awhile he through with it; we will
se „ only a few more blossoms of the
Hpl |n K; wo will gather only a f< ■iv will more pluck of
the harvests of tho summer; we
only a little more of the fruits of the an¬
tutnn; but our children, they must get it
through us, ns wo got it from our fathers
_ „ f reo land, a happy land, a Christian
hmil.
Sinco B. C. 4,005,003,003 mou have been
slain in battle.
MEXICANS ARE NEUTRAL.
Although Mirny Prominent Paper* Up mi
Toward Spaniard*.
The Mexican government has cau¬
tioned all employees to observe in
net nnd conversation entire neutrality
regarding the Ameriean-Spanish war.
The masses of the people are un¬
doubtedly for Cuba, but the Liberal
party papers, like the Universal and
National, as well as Diario del Logar,
are for Spain and show nu unconcealed
dislike for Americans.
Their course creates much comment
and it is suspected that Spanish influ¬
ence is actuating their policy so dis¬
tint from the Liberal party papers.
The clerical papers aro naturally
hostile to the United Stotes.
MUSTER OFFICER FOR GEORGIA.
i’nptaln Oscar Brown Appointed to the
Position.
Captain Oscar J. Brown has been
appointed muster officer of the state oV
Georgia to muster the Georgia volun¬
teers into the sorvice of tlio United
States army. Atlanta was named us
tho rendezvous for tho volunteers of
the state and all troops null he mus¬
tered into the service in that cily.
The appointment of Captain Brown
ns muster officer will not conflict with
his other appointment as colonel of
one of the regiments, as lie will sim¬
ply have to rocievo tho volunteers in¬
to the service and will then take chargo
■s.f his regiment.
TROOPS LEAVE CHICKAMAUGA.
UiHlflr Jtufllt Orders They Aro Hurried to
Tampa, Fla.
Friday was a day of activity and
hurried farewells among the troops at
Camp Thomas, Chickamauga Park.
Batteries of artillery were all on the
go all day as fast as they could get
away and it was a hard day with them.
The railroad from the park was ut¬
terly unable to handle tho soldiers as
they should have been.
The troops that left were rushed to
Port Tampa as fast as the railroads
could get them there. There is evi¬
dently some urgent reason for wishing
to have them at that, point,, lint if
any of the officers at the camp know
that reason thoy will not divulge it.
BANK’S PRESIDENT LEVANTS.
Massachusetts Man Default* Pn (he Sum
of W lOO.OOO.
The comptroller of the currency re¬
ceived a telegram Saturday from Dank
Examiner Ewers stating that he had
taken charge of the Hampshire Coun¬
ty National bank, of Northampton,
Mass.
The president, who, tho examiner
says, is a defaulter to the amount of
$75,000 to $100,000, is reported as
missing. The president of the na¬
tional Lank is said to he also president
of the Hampshire Savings hank.
OFFICERS ASSIGNED.
CommiHFmrloK nnd fju;trternia*t<»iR for
Volunteer Troop# Appointed.
The war department has assigned
the officers who are to perform tho
duties of quartermaster and commis¬
sary for the volunteer troops ut tho
various state rendezvous prior to their
mobilization at the central points. In
a number of states these officers are
the same as those detailed for muster¬
ing duty.
IMMUNKS PROVIDED FOR.
Volunteer* From United State# ut Largo
to I in IncroaHcd Ton Thousand.
A Washington special says: The
house military affairs committee has
agreed to increase the number of vol¬
unteers to be raised from the Unitod
States at large from ",000 to 13,000,
This will allow the enlistment of 10,-
000 immunes.
THE POPE PROSTRATED.
Kxprefli«n Horror »t the Great IjOHU of Fife
at Manila.
Advices from Rome state that the
pope is quite prostrated by the news
from Manila. He has expressed his
horror at the terrible loss of life, and
repeatedly said that he could wish to
have died before seeing such a war.
VOL. VI. NO. 39.
THE SABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENTS
. FOR MAY 8. A
Lesson Text: “Tlio Marriage Feast,”
Matthew nil., 1-14—Golilell Text,
I.nUo xiv., 17—Commentary on ilia
Lesson hy lliu Rev. D. 11, Stearns.
1, 2. “And Jesus answorod and spoko un¬
to them again hy parables, arul said, Tho
kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain
king which made a marriage for Ills sou.”
When the kingdom shall have come for
which our Lord taught us to pray, the will
of God shall bo done ou earth as In heaven.
But while this Is sure, according t# the ltev.
xL, 15; l Uor. xv., ‘24, 25, and other assur¬
ances, there are many seeming delays, and
there shall be until 1 he time when He who
has the title deeds shall exolalm, “Tiler#
shall he delay no longer” (Bov. x., ii, It. V.).
Tho preparations forthnt glorious consum¬
mation ami the many events leading up to
It are so one with It that they seem to be
spoken of as a part of it. The Bible story
begins with n marringo in Eden, and ends
with (he marriagejof the Lamb (Bo v. xix.),of
which many marriage stories like those of
Isaac and llebukali, Joseph and Asenatli,
Moses and Zipporah, Boaz and Ruth, are
very suggestive.
3. “And sent forth his servants to call
them that wor i bidden to the wedding, and
thoyjwould not come.” Not only.wlll there
be the bridegroom and the bride, osseuttaj
to any wedding, but there will bo those who
aro culled “The virgins, her companions"
(l‘s. xlv., 14); perhaps there the wise be virgins who of
Math. xxv. Then nre to some
will be watching for their Lord when he
returns from the wedding (Luke xli., 38)
and wo read In ltev. xlx., !), "Blessed nro
they which aro called to the marriage sup¬
per of the Lamb.” All will ho there either
ns bride or guests who aro redoomed by His
blood up to that time.
4. “Again, he sent forth other servants;
saying, Tell them which aro bidden, Be¬
hold 1 have prepared killed, my dinner. My things oxen
anil my falling* are and all
aro ready. Gome unto the marriage.” Not
until wo shall see the fullness and mag-
niileoneo of nil that is hero signified, when
we shall be at tho real marriage, can wo
begin to imagine what is included in those
preparations. But wo can get somo fuint
idea if we will persistently and prayerfully loved
ponder this great fact, that God so who
that Ho gave His sou, and that lie
spared not Ills own Hon will with Him free¬
ly give all things (John ill., 10; Bom. viil.,
32). These servants may Include the hov-
onty and the apostles, but their the messengers "All
are not so Important ready. Gome!” us message:
things are they made light of and went
5. “But It
their ways, ono to his farm, another to his
merchandise." I atn writing these notes
in the harbor of Colombo, Ceylon, in the
last week of Calcutta, my throe weeks’ trip) from
Shanghai to and I have never
boon more impressed than I have these
weeks at sea, with the awful truth that
they all make light of It, Meeting com¬ from
panies of those who love the book
day to day every day of my life when at
home, it is something now to be asked to
live for weeks witli men and women who
roam tho world over, but euro not for Him
or His affairs whose their breath is.
C. “And tho remnant took His servants
and entreated them spitefully and slow
them.” If those who make light of these
things are allowed to go ou their way, the
way of self and death, they may not show
the reality of the carnal mind that Is in
them, but if the invitation Is crossed upon
them, tho spirit of hatred, which is mur¬
der, may become very manifest.
7. “But when the king hoard thereof ho
was wrath, and he sent forth Ills armies
and destroyed those murderers anil burned
up> their city.” Because there is wrath
beware lest Ho take thee away with His
stroke; then n great ransom cannot deliver
thee (Job xxxiv., IS).
s. “Then saith lie to His servants, The
wedding is ready, but they which were
hidden were not worthy.” He might have
said that they did not consider Ills invita¬
tion worthy of acceptance, but lie seems
to pass by their treatment of Him and
speaks only of their treatment of them¬
selves. It may belike I’aul’s saying to the
people of Antioch, “Ye put tlio word of
God from you ami judge yourselves 40). un¬
worthy of everlasting life (Acts xiii.,
!), 10. “Go ye, therefore, into the high¬
ways, and as many as ye shall And bid to
tlio marriage. Ho those servants went,
and the wedding was furnished with
guests.” Our present commission is to
go everywhere with the invitation that tho
time of the marriage may come.
11. “And when the king came in to see
the guests lie saw tliero a man which hod
not on a wedding garment.” There is one,
and only one, who will judge every one
and everything (Acts xvii.,31). His eyes
are as a flame of lire, and nothing can oa-
cape Him or them. It is a small matter
comparatively what people think of us.
Christ is tho Judge, not they. Ho has, by
being made Bill for us, provided a piorfect
righteousness which Ho gives freely (II Co. to any
one who will truly accept Him v.,
21). It Is Illustrated In the eoats of skins
provided for Adam and Eve (Gen. ill., 21),
and plainly stilted by the believer in Isa.
Ixl., 10. Friend, how
12. “And He saith unto him,
earnest thou in hither not having a wed¬
ding garment? And ho was speechless.” found
As the thief is ashamed when lie is
(Jer. II., 28) so sinners shall ho ashamed
and confounded when brought before His
eyes of lire, and I John II., 28, indicates a
possibility of believers being iu some sense
and measures ashamed also.
13. “Then said tlio king to tho servants,
Bind him hand and foot and take him
away and east liim into outer darkness.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of
tooth.” Only in seven places do we And
this expression indicating great t.„.ment.
The other places are Math, viil., 12; xiii.,
42, 50; xxiv., 51; xxv., 30,and Luke xiii., 28.
In each ease they are from His lips God, who was and
tlio manifestation of tlio love of
who so loved us that He gave Himself for
us and came from the glory of heaven to
thirty-three years of unparalleled humilia¬
tion on this earth that wo might not perish
or know the meaning of this uwful tor¬
ment.
14. “For many are called, but few are
chosen.” The same words are found in
chapter xx., 18, in connection with “the
Inst shall bo first and the first last.” See
also chapter xlx., 30, and notice the con¬
tent concerning the rewards. AVo are often
at fault in our judgment of who aro be-
lievors nnd who are not, of who are really
zealous for God and Ills glory and who are
not. But tho eyes of tho King will mako
no mistake. Let us not judge others, but
as in His sight judge ourselves most so-
verely, and honestly pray the words of Ps.
cxxxix., 23, 24; xlx., 14. When we ure in¬
clined to look at others, "luy wo hoar Him
say: “What Is.that to thee? Follow thou
Me!”—Lesson Helper.
An agricultural Journal pubHshes a
long article on “How to Utilize Spare
Time on a Farm.” Every farmer boy
known that there never is any spare
time on a farm