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TALMAGk’S SEKMO.N
THE GREAT DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE.
An Appropriate Topic—The (treat Need o)
Reform—Churches Must Change t<
Work For Rood—Religion That Will
Make a Revolution in the Family,
Text: “These that have turned the world
upside down are come hither also.”—
Acts xvii., 6.
There is a wild, bellowing mob around
the house of Jason, in Thessalonica, Wbaf
has the man done so greatly to offend th«
people? his He has been entertaining Paul
and comrades. The mob surround the
house and cry: “Bring out those turbulent
preachers! They are interfering with pur
business! They are ruining our religion!
They are actually turning the world upside
down!”
The charge was true, for there is noth¬
ing that so interferes with sin, there is
nothing so ruinous to every form of estab¬
lished iniquity, there is nothing that lias
such tendency to turn the world upside
down as our glorious Christianity. The
fact is, that the world now is wrong side
up, and it needs to be turned upside
down in order that it may be right side up.
The time was when men wrote books en¬
titling them “Apologies for Christianity.”
1 hope that day has passed. We want no
more apologies for Christianity. Let the
apologies believe be on the part of those who do
not in our religion. Wo do not
mean to make any compromise in the mat¬
ter. We do not wish to hide the fact that
Christianity is revolutionary, and that its
tendency is to turn the world upside down.
Our religion lias often been misrepre¬
sented ns a principle of tears, nnd mild¬
ness, and fastidiousness; afraid of crossing
people’s somebody prejudices; afraid of making
mad; with silken gloves, lifting
the people up from the church pew into
glory, us though they were Bohemian
glass, so very delicate that with one touch
it may be demolished forever. Men speak
of religion as though it were a refined im¬
becility; as though it were a spiritual
chloroform, that the people were to
take until the sharp cutting of life were
over. The Bible, so far from this, repre¬
sents the religion of Christ as robust and
brawny—ransacking and upsetting ten
thousand tilings that now seem to be set¬
tled on firm foundations. I hear some
man in the house say, “I thought religion
was peace.” That is the final result. A
man's arm is out of place. Two men come,
and with great effort put it back to the
socket. It goes back with great pain.
Then it gets well. Our world i9 horribly
distorted and out of joint. It must como
under au omnipotent surgery, beneath
which thero will be pain and anguish be¬
fore there can come perfect health nnd
quiet. I proclaim, therefore, in the name
of my Lord Jesus Christ—revolution!
Tliv 0^ O'” Bible will make a
re,elution in the family. Tb0£3 circle will things
that art* wrong in the family justice har¬ bo
overthrown by it, while
mony will take the place. Tlio husband
will bo tlio head of the houeshold only
when ho is fit to bo. I know a man who
spends all nil the money ho makes in drink, as
well as the money that his wife makes,
nnd samctiines sells tho children’s clothes
for rum. Do you tell mo that ho is to be
the head of that household? If the wife
have more nobility, more courage, more
consistency, more of all that is right, she
shall have tho supremacy. You say that
the Bible says that the wife is to bo subject
to the husband. I know it. But that is a
husband, not a masculine caricature.
Thero is no human or divine law that
makes a woman subordinate to a man un¬
worthy of her. When Christianity comes
into a domestic circle it will give the do
minancy to that one who is the mo3t
worthy of it.
lution Again: in commercial Christianity will produce a revo¬
circles. Find me fifty
merchants, and you find that they have
fifty standards of what is right and wrong.
You say to some one about a merchant, “Is
lie honest?” “Oh! yes,” the man says, “ho
Is honest; but he grinds the faces of his
clerics. He is honest; but lie exaggerates
the value of his goods. He is honest; but
he loans money on bond and mortgage,
with the understanding that the mortgage
can lie quiet for ton years, but as soon as
lie gets the mortgage, he records it and
begins a foreclosure suit, and the Sheriff's
writ comes down, and the day of salo ar¬
rives, and away goes the homestead, nnd
the creditor buys it in at half price.” Hon*
eat? When ho loaned the money he knew
that he would get the homestead at hall
price. Honest? But he goes to the insur¬
ance office to get a policy on bis life, ami
tells the doctor that he is well, when lie
knows that for ten years be has bad but
one lung. Honest? Though he soils prop¬
erty by the map, the forgetting to tell the pur¬
chaser that ground is all under water;
but it is generous in him to do that, for bo
throws tho water into tho bargain.
The fraudulent rann piles up liis gains,
bond above bond. United States security
above United States security, emolument
above emolument, until his property lias
become a great pyramid; ana, ns he
stands looking at it, he thinks it can never
be destroyed; but the Lord God comes, and
with His lit tic finger pushes it all over.
You build a house ami you put into it a
rotten beam. A mechanic standing by
says: “It will never do to put that beam
in; it will ruin your whole building.” But
you put it in. The house is completed.
Soon it begins to rock. Y'ou call in th<
mechanic and ask: “What is the matte,
with this door? What is the mutter with
this w-us Everything seems to bo giving
out.” Says the mechanic: “You pnt a
rotten beam into that structure, and the
whole tiling lias got to come down.” Here
is an estate Unit seems to bo all right now.
It has been building a great many years.
But ‘fifteen years ago there was a dishonest
transaction in that commercial house.
That one dishonest transaction will keep
on working ruin in the whole structure mi
til down the estate will come in wreck and
ruin about the possessor’s oars—one dis
honest dollar in the estate demolishing all
liis possession. I have seen, it again and
and so have
You have an ol.l photograph or the signs
l on your street. Why havethosesigns near
J aU changed within tlio last twenty years?
count for itToh.no?* Do^tUe^faet^hat
tlierearo hunilroits of honest men who go
down every year account for it? Oh.no.
This is the secret: The Lord God has been
walking through the commercial streets of
our great etttes; and he has been adjusting
tilings according to the principles of eter¬
nal rectitude.
The time will come when, through the
revolutionary power of the Gospel, a false¬
hood, instead of being called exaggeration,
equivocation, or evasion, will be branded a
lie! And stealings, that now sometimes
go under tho head of percentages and
commissions, and bonuses, will be put into
the catalogue of State-prison offenses.
Society wilibe turned inside out and up¬
side down, aud ransacked ot God’s truth,
until business dishonesties shall come to
an end, and all double-dealing; and God
will overturn, nnd overturn, and overturn;
and commercial men in all cities will throw
up their hands, crying out, “Those that
have turned the world upside down are
come hither.”
The religion of Jesus Christ will produce
a revolution in our churches, The non
committal, do-nothing policy of the Church
of God will give way to a spirit of bravest
conquest. Piety in this day seems to me It
to be salted dowD just so as to keep.
seems as if the church were chiefly anxious of
to take care of itself: and if we hear
want, and squalor, and heathenism outside
we say: ‘‘What a pfty!’” and we put around our
hands in our pockets, and we feel
for a two-cent piece, and with a great
flourish we put it upon the plate and are
amazed that the world is not converted in
six weeks. Suppose there were a great
war and there were three hundred thou¬
sand soldiers, but all of those three hun¬
dred thousand soldiers, excepting ten men,
were in their tents, or scouring their musk¬
ets, or cooking rations. You wouid say:
‘‘Of course, defeat must come in that
ease.” Is is worse than that in the church.
Millions of the professed soldiers of Jesus
Christ are cooking rations, or asleep in
their tents, while only one man here and
there goes out to do battle for the Lord.
I saw in some paper an account of a
church in Boston in which, it is said, there
were a great many plain people. The next out
week the trustees of that church came
in the paper, and said it was not so at all;
“they were elegant people nnd highly
conditionedpeople that went there.” Then
I laughed outright; and when I laugh, I
laugh very loudly. “Those people,” I
said, “are afraid of the sickly sentimen¬
of the eliurokes.”
Revolution! The pride of the church
must come down. The exclusiveness of the
church must come down! The financial
boastings of the church must come down!
If monetary success were the chief idea in
the church, then I say that the present
mode of conducting finances is the best. If
it is to see how many dollars yon can gain,
then the present mode is the best. But if
it is the saving oC-souls from sin and death,
and bringing the mighty population of our
cities to the knowledge of God, then I cry,
Revolution! It is coming fast. I feel it in the
air. I hear the rumbling of an earthquake
that shalj shake down, in one terrific
crash, the arrogance of our modern Christ¬
ianity. talk is, Protestant churches
The whether
or Roman Catholic churches are coming
out ahead. I tell you, Protestants, this
truth plainly: that until your churches arc
as free as are the Roman Catholic cathe¬
drals they will beat you. In their cathe¬
drals the millionaire and the beggar kneel
side by side. And, until that time comes
in our churches, we can not expect the
favor of God or permanent spiritual pros¬
perity. and when will that Revolution be¬
Where
gin? Here, and now. In your heart and
miue. Sin must go down, our pride must
go down; our worldliness must go down,
that Christ may come up. Revolution!
“Except a man be bora again, he can not
seethe Kingdom of God.” Why not now
let tlio revolution Degin? Not next Sab¬
bath, but, now! Not to-morrow, when
you go out into commercial circles, but
now!
Al'chias, the magistrate of Thebes, was
sitting with many mighty men, drinking
wine. A messenger came in, bringing end a
letter informing him of a conspiracy Archias to
liis life, and warning him to flee.
took the letter, but, instead of opening it,
put it into Uls pocket, and said to the mes¬
senger who brought it: “Business to-mor¬
row!” The next day he read it. Before he
opened the letter, the Government letter it was
captured. When he read the was
too late. To-day I put into the hands of
every man and woman, who hours or
reads these words,a message of life. It says:
"To-day, if ye will hear His voice, harden
not your heart.” Ho not put away the
message and say: "This business to-mor¬
row.” This night thy soul may be required
of thee!
Advertise with n* If you wish ti
keep tho people posted as to tht
amount, the character, the quality
and prices of goods you have for sain
An ad will bring ’em every time.
FRANCE IS SUSPICIOUS.
Parls Paper Says We Have Formed
Alliance With England.
The Eclair (Paris newspaper) says
negotiations are pending between
Great Britain and the United States
which will resuU in the former sup¬
porting the* latjter if others support
Spain by attempting to stop the war
before the United States has received
satisfaction.
The United States, it is added, has
promised in return to capture the
Canary islands and cede them to Great
Britain.
SOLDIERS FOR PHILIPPINES,
Preparations Well Under Way For an
Expedition to Islands.
The details for the proposed expedi¬
tion to the Philippines under the direc¬
tion of the war department have been
advanced materially as a result of
conferences held Saturday between
Secretary Alger, General Miles and
other officers of the army.
This expedition, which will carry in
all about 5,000 men, will start from
San Francisco as soon as arrangement?
can be perfected.
FRANCIS JOSEPH DONATES.
Helps Out Spanish Navy to Extent of
$100,000.
The Vienna correspondent of The
London Morning Post says: “Emperor
Francis Joseph privately J contributed
£20,000 _ , A (olOt , A; , .00 n , v .. ) to , the . national , na
VaI subscn P tlon 111 s P aU! > aiul has fur
ther shown his sympathy by permit
tiug a number of Austro-Hungarian
officers to join the Spanish flag.
ONLY PARTLY INVALID.
—
Supreme Court Decision Regarding
South Carolina’s Dispensary Law.
\ Washington dispatch says: The
supreme SoJt’vs court Monday Vaidercook in the case of
Vance & the Co
of C ahforma, held that the new
Carolina state dispensary law was in¬
valid as to its inspection features, but
valid as to that part regulating the
sale of original packages within the
state.
JOINT RESOLUTION
OF GRATITUDE
To Dewey and His Valiant Men
Is Passed By Congress.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Recommending That the Honor
Be Conferred.
President McKinley sent the follow¬
ing message to congress Monday:
To the Congress of the United
States:
On the 24th of April I directed the
secretary of the navy to telegraph or¬
ders to Commodore George Dewey, of
the United States navy, commanding
the Asiatic squadron, then lying in the
port of Hong Kong, to proceed Islands, forth¬
with to the Philippine there
to commence operations and engage
the assembled Spanish fleet.
Promptly obeying that order, the
United States squadron, consisting of
the flagship Olympia, Baltimore, Ral
eigh, Boston, Concord and Petrel, with
the revenue cutter McCulloch as an
auxiliary dispatch boat, entered the
harbor of Manila at daybreak on the
first of May and immediately engaged
the entire Spanish fleet of eleven ships,
which were under the protection of the
fire of the land forts. After a stubborn
fight, in which the enemy suffered
great loss, these vessels were destroyed
or completely disabled and the water
battery at Cavite silenced.
MAP SHOWING THE SCENE OF COMMODORE DEWEY'S NAVAL OPERATIONS
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Of our brave officers and men not
one was lost and only eight injured,
and those slightly. All of our ships
escaped any serious damage.
By tlia 4th of May Commodore
Dewey had taken possession of the
naval station at Cavite, destroying the
fortifications there and at the entrance
of the bay and paroling their garri¬
sons. The waters of the bay are under
his complete control. He has estab¬
lished hospitals within the American
lines, where two hundred and fifty
of the sick and wounded are assisted
and protected.
The magnitude of this victory can
hardly be measured by the ordinary
standards of naval warfare. Out
weighing any mat rial, ad van age is
Removal effect of this initial success
Mith this unsurpassed achiexemen ,
the great heart of our nation throbs
not with boasting nor with greed of
conquest but with great gratitude
that cause this and triumph that y has the grace come o in a o just an
pe T To n T ,„„ s . skill, c„»,
age and devotion have won the fight,
to the gallant commander and the
brave officers and men who aided him,
our country owes an incalculable
de ■
Feeling people . , feel . and . speak- .
as our
ing in their name, I at once sent a
message to Commodore Dewey
ing him and ins officers and men foi
their splendid achievement and over
whelming victory and informing him
til at I had appointed him as
rear admiral.
I now recommend that following onr
precedents and expressing the fervent
gretitude of every patriotic heart, the
thanks of congre-s be given Acting
Rear Admiral Dewey, of the United
States navy, for highly distinguished
conduct in conflict with the enemy,
j and to the officers and men under his
command for their gallantry in the de
^ struction of tbe enemy’s fleet and the
,-aptuve of the enemy’s fortifications in
j the bay of Mauila. McKinley.
William
Executive Mansion, May 9, 1898.
Fusses Both Houses.
In both branches of congress a joint
resolution followed the reading of the
j 1 message was adopted as*follows:
“Joint resolntion tendering the
thanks of congress to Commodore
! George Dewey, United States navy,
1 to the officers and men of the
squadr(m under his command;
“Kesolved, By the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled,
That in pursuance of the recommenda¬
tion of the president, made in accord
ance with the provisions of section
1508 of the Revised Statutes, the
thanks of congress and of the Ameri
can people are hereby tendered to
Commodore George Dewey, United
States navy, commander-in-chief of
the Asiatic squadron, for highly dis¬
tinguished conduct in conflict with the
enemy as displayed by him in the de¬
struction of the Spanish fleet and bat¬
teries in the harbor of Manila, Philip¬
pine Islands, May 1, 1898.
Sec. 2. That the thanks of congress
and of the American people are hereby
extended through Commodore Dewey
to the officers and men under his com¬
mand for the gallantry and skill exhib¬
ited by them on that occasion.
“Sec. 3. Be it further resolved, That
the president of the United States be
requested to Cause this resolution to
be communicated to Commodore
Dewey and through him to the officers
and men under his command.”
The following bill was also passed
raising the number of admirals from
six to seven to provide for Commodore
Dewey’s promotion:
Section 1. That the number of rear
admirals in the United States navy
now allowed by lav/ be, and is hereby
increased from six to seven, and this
j act shall be construed and taken as
validating and making in force and ef
feet any promotion to said rank of
rear admiral in the United States navy
made heretofore or hereafter and dur
ing the existing war, and based on the
thanks of congress.
Secretary Alger sent in the draft of
a bill for the protection of harbor de¬
fenses and fortifications of the coun¬
try, recommending early action.
The house passed the senate bill
authorizing the army to feed Cubans
and arm people in the island of Cuba.
Senator Lodge presented and the
senate passed a resolution to present
a sword to Dewey and medals to offi¬
cers and men under him who ware In
the battle at Manila. It appropriates
$10,000 for the purpose.
THE OPPOSING FLEETS.
Make-Up of Sampson’s and the Cape
Verde Battleships.
Now that a battle between the North
Atlantic squadron under Sampson and
the Spanish flotilla, known as the Cape
Verde fleet, is looked for, the make-up
opposing naval forces is here
^ ^
American ships—New York,armored
iger 22 guns; flagship, Captain E.
R Chadwick; fow a, first-class battle
j. 32 fa guns; Indiana, first-class bat
j £ ” Terror, double tur
reted onit r> 12 guns; Casting gun
boat 14 gun8; S Marblehead, cruiser, 19
De troit , cruisei . i 8 guns; May
dow torpedo boat destroyer, used as
•«*?■“» ,$«•“ r* *• ■•»«—*
gj^-elass MariaT.reea,
armored cruiser; Vizcaya,
first _ (;]as9 armored crniser; Almirante
\ d first-class armored cruiser;
Cr (4tobal Gololl) fi rst ,eiass armored
cruiser; Alfonso SHI, second-class
, . Reiua Mercedes, unarmored
j cruiser; Arieie, torpedo boat;
torpedo 1 boat; Azor,
' oa *
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j ACTIY IT V AT CHslICAMAUGA.
j An Arm V cf s °’ c ^ 0 n ^ ° .... bi * 5Ze at .
j the Park.
t It omcialiy . ^ ^ Monday ^
was given ou
j that would *0,000 os moonized men of the at yolumeer Chiekamauga army
j park just they have been
! as soon as
mustered into the'government service.
i With tne regiments of regulars now at
the park filled to war strength, the
\ army at tnat point wi.l numoer Ov,C0u
j men. It also announced that Major
was
General Fitzhngh Lee, Major General
Joseph Wheeler and Major General
James H. Wilson would be in com
maud, the purpose being to form the
volunteer men into three army corps.
The first regiments that are raised
in each state will be hurried forward
| to Chiekamauga Park and will be kept
there a sliort while, during which
I time they will be whipped into shape.
The second divison of regiments will
go to Washington, while the third is
to remain where they are mustered,
to be held there subject to call for
duty in the Philippines or for general
reserve purposes.
A oo
| tXSKM
i-.
f Ty.i
A Naval Victory
Unparalleled!
HI IN HI! IPII
Eleven Spanish Warship
Souk and Hundreds at
the Enemy Killed.
REPORT RECEIVED AT WASHINGTON
After a Long Delay, and Causes
Unbounded Enthusiasm and
Rejoicing Throughout the
Whole Country.
The state and navy departments re¬
ceived several dispatches Saturday
morning from Hong Kong announcing
the arrival there of Dewey’s dispatch
boat, the McCulloch, and subsequent¬
ly two reports direct from Commodore
Dewey.
Secretary Long gave the newspaper
men at 10:30 o’clock the following
translation of the first report, written
by Dewey immediately after the great
battle:
Manila, May 1.—The squadron ar¬
rived at Manila at daybreak this morn¬
ing. Immediately engaged the enemy
and destroyed the following Spanish
vessels: Beina Christina, Castilla,
Ulloa, Isla de Cuba, General Lezo.the
Duero, Correo, Velasco, Mindanao,
one transport and the water battery at
Cavite. The squadron is uninjured
and only a few men were slightly
wounded. The only means of tele¬
graphing is to the American consul at
Hong Kong. I shall communicate
with trim.
Signed, Dewey.
The second report from Commodore
Dewey was given to the public an
pom- later. It read as follows:
Cavite, May 4. — I have taken pos¬
session of naval station at Cavite on
Philippine Islands. I have destroyed
the fortifications at bay entrance, pat
rolling garrison. I control bay and
can take city at any time., The squad
ron in excellent health and spirits,
Spanish loss not fully known, but
very heavy; 150 killed, including cap¬
tain of Beina Christina. I am assist¬
ing in protecting Spanish sick aud,
wounded. Two hundred and fifty sick
! and wounded iu hospital within our
lines. Much excitement at Manila.
I Will protect foreign residents,
j Sighed, Dewey.
I i Other dispatches announced that
Dewey cut the cable himself and that
! ho in complete command of the
was
situation. It was also stated in private
”* W'Vr “ ”** «“* how "
Whs Joyful News.
„ Notwithstanding + the fact that . every
! body , had been in momentary expect.
tl0n of cable advices from Commodore
Dewey, Washington was thrown into
wildest excitement by the issue Ox
extra papers early fcauirday McCulloch morning
announcing the arrival of
at Hong Kong with dispatches for the
government from Commodore Dewey.
The publication of newspaper dis¬
patches Uong telling of terrible mortality
the Spanish and the escape of
ihe American men and ships froth se
r j oua injury, added to the excitement
and to t be intense satisfaction with
^Bich the long expected news was re
ceived>
The — first dispatch was the merely
formas report written by Admiral
Dewey the day cf the battle. The in¬
formation it contained of the condi¬
tion of the squadron and the men
seemed almost too good to be true.
The fact that such a battle could
»ecur without serious injury to the
ships of our squadron and* without
so«ie loss of life had never been enter¬
tained.
At the navy department it was ccm
"Gently expected that there would e
forthcoming a list of officers and me
who had died doing battle ior t
ft seemed almost beyond who
belief that of .11 the 1,600 men
a f eat for less extent expos
*° y 1 ® e e eJ ) em 7 8 ships an
powerful shore , , batteries, not one was iff*
killed, and none were seriously
ytred.
