Indianapolis Journal, Volume 52, Number 90, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1902 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURXAL, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1902.

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Ebbltt House, Fairfax Hotel. Wlllard HoteL DENVER. COL. Louthan & Jackson. Fifteenth and Lawrence streets. DAYTON. O J. V. Wllkle. 23 Bo. Jefterson street. COLUMBU3, O. Vladucc News Stand. 2SI High street. The President 13 right in rebuking assistant secretaries and similar officials who advocate policies hostile to those of the administration and the party. O'd General Scott "was considered somewhat opinionated In his day, but he never made the mistake of criticising: or reviewing an Indorsement of the secretary of nar approved by the President. Even If the proposition of the beet-sugar men to take off the differential duty of 12 tents a hundred on refined sugar should be adopted, consumers would not object. The sugar-refining trust has no friends imong those who buy sugar. General Miles cannot see that there would oe anything spectacular in his going to the Philippines on an extraordinary mission with a retinue of Cubans and Porto Ricans ind coming back with a retinue of Filipinos. Dther people will be apt to think differently. An advance of 10 per cent, in the wages 8f 60.1) workers in New England cotton adlls comes In the place of a strike. In orlir.ary tlme3 a demand for an advance of wages would have resulted in a strike or iockout. IJut there are not otdinary times. The "trick ballot" which was put off on ihc colored men in the black counties in Maryland by the Democrats last fall has been defeated by being made a feature of the election Mil which was voted down by l combination of Republicans and antiSorman Democrats. The retirement of Senator Jones, of Arkansas, by the people of that State is attributed to the fact that, while posing as a jut 1c foe of monopolies, he was found to 5e a large stockholder in the round-bale rotton trust. The people will rebuke that rind of hyrocrisy In politics every chance Uiey get. The statement in Lord Kitchener's recent report that In the last pursuit of Delarcy the British columns covered eighty riles In twenty-four hours Is causing Englishmen to wonder why they did not do that long ago. Probably because they had cot learned to discard artillery and impediments. Cecil Rhodes wanted to be rich, and did aiaka an immense fortune, but even his inemlca must admit that he only wanted money to promote bis great ehernes of empire. There is reason to believe the world will be astonished when his will Is published by his munificent girts for the benedc of Couth Africa. The Minneapolis Tribune expresses the opinion that "the price which genuine butter commands leads to the inference that this indispensable table article is abundantly able to take care of itself in the battle with oleo." It is not the genuine that cannot take care of itself, but the renovated and made-up article. A London cablegram says the approaching establishment of the Cuban republic Is discussed with interest by the English pres.. and that "Americans are credited with altruism In refraining from permanent occupation of the Island and with sincerity In redeeming their pledges." It is only Americans who attempt to discredit the government's Cuban policy. One of the steamers that sailed from New Tork on Saturday had as passengers five young neirroes educated at Hooker T. Washington's Tuskegee school, who were going to the German colony in Western Africa to Instruct the natives in cottongrowing. This makes eight American negroes who have g.no there in the employ of the German government. If the- Chicago club women appeal to the attorney general of the United States to decide the question regarding the color line that has been raised at the National Federation of Clubs they will probably get a polite refusal. The law says the attorney general "shall give his advice- and opinion upon ijucstlons of law whenever required by the Pre?ident." and perform certain other duties, but they do not include oilnions construing the constitutions of women's clubs. It is announced that the Republican members of the ways and means committee In favor of Cuban reciprocity are Payne. Grosvenor. Dalzeii, Hopkins, Long. Hancock. Steele. Ru?.-!1 and McCall eight in all. The "Republicans opposed art? Tawney and Metcalf two. They have been relying upon Mr. Babcoek and the Democratic members of the committee to enable them to defeat the bill. With the Democrats the

two will be one short of a majority. The amusing feature in the situation is that these two Republicans who are depending upon free-trad? and antl-protectior. Democrats for success arc called by the correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat "the protection democrats," In contradistinction to the late President McKinley, President Roosevelt and the eight members o? the ways and means committee favoring the sugar concession to Cuba. Tili: .MILKS COHUKSPONDOiCI'. The publication of the correspondence relative to General Miles's request to be sent to the Philippines and his plan for bringing about a cessation of hostilities there places him in an exceedingly bad light. Admitting all that is claimed for him on the score of past military service, this Incident will greatly lower him in the estimation of all who are capable of weighing evidence and Judging character. The correspondence shows that on Feb. 17 General Miles addressed a letter to the secretary of war requesting that he might be pent to the Philippines for the purpose of carrying out a plan he had deviled for putting an end to hostilities and establishing friendly relations between the Filipinos and the United States government. Ilia plan was unique. He was to go in the double capacity of lieutenant general and minister plenipotentiary. In the former capacity he was to have authority, as he put it, "to give such directions as I might deem advisable and Judicious for the best disposition of the United States military forces." In the other capacity he was to be authorized "to take such measures as will tend to restore, as far as possib'e, confidence to the people of these Islands, and demonstrate that the purpose of our government is prompted by the highest sense of justice." In these double capacities he would have outranked and superseded both General Chaffee and the Philippine Commission. He further suggested that he be authorized to take along with him "ten men whom I may select from Cuba and Porto Rico." These Cubans and Porto RIcans to be selected by him were to act as his aids in explaining to the Filipinos the true nature of the United States Constitution and the benefits to be derived from friendly relations with this country. He thought that with the aid of the ten persons from Cuba and Porto Rico he could convince the leading Filipinos of the desirability of establishing friendly relations with the United States. On his return to this country he was to bring with him "such number of representative Filipinos as I may think advisable in order that they may see and know the advantage of our civilization and realize the disposition of our government toward them." In support of this extraordinary proposition he stated that the war In the Philippines had now been going on three years and had been "conducted with great severity," and at "an enormous expenditure of public money as well as the loss of many valuable lives." He thus virtually condemned the policy of the last administration and of the present one. This extraordinary letter was forwarded to the President by the secretary of war "disapproved." The reasons for disapproval, stated briefly and respectfully, were that the military and civil authorities now in the Philippines had made and were making rapid progress toward the complete pacification of the islands; that General Mile,s's rlan Involved practically superseding General Chaffee and the civil commission, and that It would be "a mort unfortunate interference with the present satisfactory progress." To show that the administration was winning the confidence and support of leading Filipinos the secretary gave a list of twenty-three former members of the insurrectionary government who are now holding civil offices under the United States. He declared that, instead of having been conducted "with marked severity, the war had been conducted with marked humanity and magnanimity on the part of the United States." General Miles's letter, with the secretary's disapproval, reached the President on March 3, and on March 6 the President indorsed it "Conclusions of the secretary of war are hereby approved." This should have ended the matter, but on March 24 General Miles addressed a second letter to the secretary of war controverting the points made In the secretary's disapproval of his previous letter, reiterating his assertions and offering new reasons why, in his opinion, his plan should be adopted. This second letter of General Miles was written nearly three weeks after the final disposition of his first letter by the President and after a resolution had been introduced in the House calling for the papers. It is evident, therefore," that General Miles wrote his second letter with a view of strengthening the record in his behalf. The secretary's Indorsement on his second letter left him without a leg to stand on. "Without commenting on the propriety of a military officer undertaking to review the action of the President," he said, "I again submit the paper for such reconsideration as the President may think advisable, with the following remarks." The remarks showed that General Miles had made some very erroneous statements and that his conclusions detracted from the merit and services of others while they unduly exalted his own. This final statement of the secretary of war was indorsed by the President: "The memorandum o the secretary of war is approved as a whole and as to every part. Had there been any doubt before as to the wisdom of denying General Miles's request, these papers would remove such doubt." This is the most stinging rebuke ever administered by a President to a general commanding the army, and it was deserved. Aside from the absurdity of General Miles's proposed plan of pacification and the Injustice and confusion its adoption would have involved he had no business to write to the secretary of war in the advisory way he did, Implying a censure of all that had been done in the Philippines. His first letter was disrespectful, and his second amounted almost to insubordination. Roth letters breathe a spirit of vanity, egotism, arrogance and self-assumption that will make the public doubt whether General Miles is not inherently unfitted for the position he occupies. FOH APRIL FIHST. The latest revelations regarding the Christmas charges of bribery in connection with the negotiation for the purchase of t..e Danish island of Denmark must cause the Democratic leader of the House to feel that he has been anticipating April l by a few days. When he offered his resolutions in'the House calling attention to the charges they were known to all Washing

ton correspondents and rejected because of the absence of any probability. With a prudent man, this attitude of the press, so eager for startling revelations, would have been decisive. Even If the matter had got Into the yellow newspapers a prudent man, before presenting the charge? in the House, would hive inquired of the secretary of state. But Mr. Richardson I. not that ?ort of man. He hoped to be able to create a sensation and to make political capital out of the exposure, regardless of the charges and those who made them. The committee which was appointed has not met, yet the officials of both the United States and Denmark assert that the man making the charges never represented either government and consequently could not have made any secret report to a Danish ministry regarding the negotiations. There is, therefore, no case for the committee to Investigate. As the committee must meet, Tuesday, April 1, Is suggested as a most appropriate day, when It would be in order to confer rpon Mr. Richardson some token indicating the ridiculous character he has assumed before the country. If official titles and decorations were permitted in this country Mr. Richardson should be accorded a title and decoration connecting him with April First. Of all the men in the House of Representatives Mr. Richardson is the one who should exercise charity toward his political opponents in return for the charity of Republicans in the House, which many believe to have been tempered with mercy rather than with Justice. If a Republican had been implicated in the transaction that Mr. Richardson profited by In connection with the publication of "The Messages and Papers of the Presidents" he would have been denounced by Democrats in and out of Congress. In many years so thrifty a performance has not been set down to a member of Congress, but Republican good-fellowship has not only let it pass, but has permitted Mr. Richardson to attempt to fix scandals upon honorable men. It is profoundly hoped by a large majority of the American reople that Chairman Payne, of the ways and means committee, will bo found to be fully justified In his prediction that enough Republicans will sustain his bill for Cuban reciprocity to constitute a majority of the House, for the reason that, as the date for the independence of Cuba draws near, the greater the importance of action by Congress that shall win the good will of the Cuban people by assisting to place them under favorable Industrial conditions. The most reliable reports from Cuba arc to the effect that the situation of the sugar-growers with small plantations who employ many laborers is very gloomy. Such is the representation of Governor General Wood, who must be a well-informed man. Last Tuesday the New York Tribune contained a letter from a correspondent who has been through Cuba, in which he set forth the distressing conditions now existing in tho island. If such conditions exist when independent government shall be set up, with no prospect of relief, the outlook for the new government will be dubious, for the reason that a few thousands of idle and needy people will be an clement of danger. If the small sugar planters can have an assurance of better prices Incident to a cut in the duty on sugar, this danger will bo averted because they can obtain credit. It seems that such facts and conditions should appeal to men of both parties in Congress, since both are responsible for the relation of Cuba to the United States.

During the past few weeks the state tai commissioners, John C. Wingate and Parks M. Martin, have been holding conferences In the different counties with the county and township assessors with a view of securing uniformity In making assessments and of giving suggestions to these officers. This Is a comparatively new departure, but the beneficent results are already apparent in the greater Interest and the better information on the part of assessors. The reports of some of these meetings are published In county papers, showing that all local assessors attend, and that the discussions bring out a large amount of practical information. The fact that county papers give two or three columns to intelligent reports of such meetings Indicates the value placed on the work. Much attention is devoted to descriptions of the property which escapes taxation and the proper manner to assess different kinds of property, particularly personal property. It was evident at the meeting of the county and township assessors in the Statehouse early in the winter, over which the Governor presided, that assessors were taking a deep interest in their work. This indication and the reports of the meetings held the past month show that the assessors are better equalined to begin their work tomorrow than ever before. That is a remarkable statement Issued by the secretaries of the home missionary societies of ten different Protestant churches relative to the alleged alarming growth and dangerous designs of Mormonism. It declares that Mormonism is growing rapidly In some of the new States, that its missionary activity throughout the Union "is almost Incredible," and that it "aims at securing control of State after State until, by means of the balance of power, they can make national legislation ngalnst Mormonism Impossible." The entire statement is of the alarmist kind, and it is signed by the secretaries of the home missionary societies of the Presbyterian, Baptist, Congregational, Methodist Episcopal North and South, Reformed, Cumberland Presbyterian, Disciples of Christ and United Urethren churches. These brethren are probably unduly alarmed. No doubt Mormonism is a corrupt and spurious kind of religion, but there Is not much danger of Its overrunning the earth, especially if the other churches combat it with equally vigorous missionary work. The new army appropriation bill contains a provision authorizing the secretary of war to order the re-examination of any officer on the retired list of the army who was retired for disability, and who, there is reason to believe. Is physically qualified for active service. There are about 4Ö0 officers on the retired list, some of whom. In addition to drawing retired officers' pay, are receiving large salaries for civil work. Under the new provision any retired officer who. uion re-examination by a board, is found physically competent can be ordered to active service. Ilefore granting the demand of the Terminal Company for the free use of city streets It will do no harm for the Board of Public Works to consider whether It is desirable to have car tracks on all streets.

If the demand of the Terminal Companyis granted there will be at least one instance where, of four parallel streets, three will be disfigured, property depreciated and residents distressed and annoyed by the constant rushing of street cars. THE HUMORISTS.

What It Wns. Judge. Nervous Lady (as a large bird flies before the vessel) Oh. captain. Is that an omen? Matter-of-fact Captain No. madame; that Is a seagull. Satisfactory Substitute. Chicago News. Mrs. Odd Mary, where is the whisk broom? Mary Why, mem, we were all out o breakfast food, and I had to chop It up for Mr. Odd-s breakfast. World Politics. New York ?un. Jaspar The say that the peace of the world Is In the hands of the United States. Jumpuppe Well, Uncle Sam had better take care, or he will gtt In trouble for handling high. explosives. Xot Particularly. Philadelphia Press. "Poor man." paid the Inquisitive old woman, "I gue?s you'll be glad when your time is up, won't you?" "No, ma'am, not particularly," replied the prisoner, "I'm up for life." Made n Dlff ereuc. , Life. She I can't popsibly get my ?own for less than 17, dear. He Dut there's Mrs. Rounder. I'll bet she doesn't pay any such price. he But her social position is so much more fecure than ours. Like a Mother. Ohio State Journal. "Aunt Mary seems- almost like a mother to me," Faid little Bobbie, soberly "Does she?" replied Bobbie's mother, very much pleased. "Yes; fhe licks me every time I go to her house," concluded Bobble. The System. Baltimore American. "Life insurance people are queer," observed the man with the Incandescent beard. "Are they?" asked the man who Is Introduced at th'.s point for the purpose of leading up to the next line. "Yes. Fit st they convince you that you may die within a week in order to get you to apply for a policy, and then they must convince themselves that you w ill live a hundred years before they will Issue it." INDIANA EDITORIAL NOTES. The last census shows that Kentucky leads the Union in the number of geese and Missouri in the number of mules. Both States give Democratic majorities. Is this merely a coincidence? Terre Haute Tribune. The Monroe'doctrine, which says to other nations. "Hands off the American continent," does not say to America to put its hands on the African continent, but by inference seems to forbid interference. Terre Haute. Lxpress. W. J. Bryan Is now In favor of Tom Johnson or some other moneyed man managing the next Democratic campaign. Evidently W. J. Is willing to furnish his experience if some other fallow finances the proposition. Richmond Item. Before President Roosevelt "went for" the railroads about violations of law he was charged with favoritism and cowardice; now that he has insisted upon the railroad companies obeying the laws, he is charged with indiscretion and injudiciousness. Laporte Herald. Orders have been Issued to reduce the forces in the Philippines from 45,000 to 22.000 men. The withdrawal will be made gradually, one regiment at a time. In the meantime the force of school teachers has been augmented by another shipment of 3X. This 13 civilization that civilizes. Newport Hoosier State. Illinois Republicans are falling into their old ways of getting all tangled up over the choice of United States senator, which may result In sending a Democrat to the Senate from that strong Republican State. The spirit of disons;on caused by the large number of candidates in the field Is spreading dally and bodes no good to the party in the State. South Bend Tribune. The Times is a Republican paper, and therefore is a tariff paper. We cannot consistently ask that the tariff be taken off of wood pulp simply to favor our business. If the tariff is right on glass, it is right on wood pulp. The Times believes In being consistent and is willing to pay for the tariff on wood pulp because we believe in the great Republican principle of tariff protection. Hartford City Times. William Jennings Bryan left a trail of trouble in Washington as a result of his visit to the national capital last week, a faculty he has in his career. Contrary to the views of leading Democrats, he stirred up the pro-Boer Democrats in the House and incited them to call a caucus to make the South African war an Issue. The Democrats who oppose this plan will likely stay away from the caucus and force adjournment without debate by the lack of a quorum. Goshen News-Times. THE PROPOSED POST CHECK. Currency Intended for Transmission ThrotiKh the Mails. Salt Lake Tribune. Congress is attempting to perfect a design for currency intended especially for transmission through the mails, and the active people of the country wish it a success. The committee on postoffices and post roads have before them a measure providing a post check in denominations of $3 and under down to the denominations of fractional currency. It is proposed to retire the five, two and one-dollar bills now Issued by the government and substitute the post check and make the latter the regular paper money for these denominations. The post check was devised by Mr. C. W. Post, a prominent and public-spirited citizen of Battle Creek, Mich. He was assisted in its perfection by a number of publishers, and the plan has been earnestly indorsed by the American Newspaper Publishers' Association. The general appearance of the post check Is that of the present one or two-dollar bill. On one side are blank lines on which the holder may write the name and address of any one to whom he desires to make payment by mall. Th payee, upon receipt of the money, attaches his signature and collects the money at the office named. To forge the signature of the payee is a penitentiary offense, same as counterfeiting. As rapidly as the signed bills come into the possession of postmasters they are sent to Washington for redemption. So that, by this process, any one can carry about his person paper money in various denominations under $5. and it passe as good as gsld. Should he desire to make remittance by mail he simply takes out a bill or piece of fractional currency, writes the name of his credtior, affixes and cancels the stamp, and It only requires the signature of the latter to again make the money as good as goid at the office named. Since the adoption of rural mall delivery and our farmers are making so many mail orders our rural friends will be greatly interested in this proposition, and they would do well to so express themselves to their senators and representatives In Congress. The design has been dedicated to the government, so that no individual can selfishly profit by the adoption of the "post check." CollrKe Chapel Dedicated. CLEVELAND. O.. March 30 Western Reserve University dedicated to-day for the use of its women's college a beautiful chapel. It Is the gift of Mrs. S. V. Harkness. of New York, and Mr. L H. Severance, of Cleveland, as a memorial to Florence Harkness. The chief address was given by the Rev. Dr. H. C. Hadyn. The architecture is Gothic, with elaborate tracery. It will be used for the dally chapel services and also for the vesper services on Sunday. It la the twelfth building which the university has dedicated within recent years.

EASTER DAY SERMONS

MA!Y ABLE DISCISSIONS ALONG APrnorniATE lines. The Rev. Joshua Stanafleld Heard in the Morning at MeridianStreet Church. CENTRAL CHRISTIAN PULPIT IT IS FILLED RV THE PASTOR, REV. ALLAN B. PIIILPUTT. Iter. C. C. Bacon's Sermon at Roberta Park nnd Rev. T. J. Tillers at First Baptist. The Rev. Joshua Stansfield, rastor of Meridian-street M. E. Church, delivered his morning sermon yesterday on "Now is Christ Risen from the Dead." His text was: "All power is given unto me in heaven and in the earth; therefore go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." He said in part: "On this high and holy day Joyous, glad, triumphant when heaven rings with hallelujah to our Christ, and the church uniaerval takes up the joyous strain; day when the light of immortality scatters forever the darkness of death and the tomb; surely on this greatest day of the Christian year we may well sing: " 'Hall! Savior, Prince of peace! Thy kingdom shall increase. Till all the world Thy truth shall see. ' And righteousness abound. As the great deep profound. And fill the earth with purity.' "On this glad Easter morning, then, I ask your thought to one of the sublimest doctrines of our Christian faith, the resurrection of our Lord; and in so doing we shall seek to deal clearly and closely with, first, the historic fact; second, the doctrinal truth, and, third, the ethics, or outgrowing duties, First, as to the 'historic fact of the resurrection of Jesus; we submit the antecedent facts of His 'death' and 'buriar were attested by the satisfied hatred of the Jews. 'They delivered Him to be crucified.' Second, the observations of the Roman soldiers; for 'sitting down they watched Him there,' and again, 'when they came to Jesus they brake not His legs for He was dead already.' Third, the burial of Jesus was also fully attested by Nicodemus, Joseph of Arlmathea, the disciples, the women; and fourth, the 'resurrection' was attested by the angel, the women, the disciples and the 'five hundred brethren, by whom, as Paul affirms, 'He was seen at one time.' Indeed such was the overwhelming conviction of the disciples upon this matter that the resurrection of Jesus became the burden of their testimony, the basis of their hopes, and the inspiration of their activities. Henceforth, for them. It is not the Jesus who was, but the Christ who is. He was dead: He died for their offenses: 'He was raised again for their Justification.' and 'He is alive for evermore. So that angels and men. earth and heaven, enemies, friends and displcles all witness to the Indisputable fact of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. "Second, the resurrection of our Lord gives to the believer a deep and abiding assurance of human redemption by Him. 'The Ix?rd hath hereby juiven us assurance in that He hath raised Him from he dead.' All that Christ claimed to he, all He came to accomplish, the sacrifice- He came to make for the world's saving; all nre attested by His resurrection from the dead. A PERSONAL RESURRECTION. "The resurrection of Christ gives assurance of a personal resurrection for ourselves and our beloved dead. 'Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first fruits of them that slept.' O the joy' of this truth! How its light pierces the darkness and gloom of an otherwise hopeless loss. Have you ever tried to think what 'no resurrection' would mean? The greatest minds, the largest hearts, the finest natures cut off and ended by an accident, or some other less, startling event of life. Sometimes the greatest dying inglorlously, as Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and even Jesus himself. And are we to think for a moment that th mind and heart of a Gladstone, a Livingstone, a Lincoln, a WHberforce, a Wesley, aye, or your own dear boy so full of promise and of powers; to think that these live are to be ruthlessly ended by an incident called death. "These great Intellects, fine natures, stout hearts, to be put in a box and buried forever, while their words and eleeds are to continue, the text of noblest utterances and orations, and the inspiration to thousands of lives. Is the thought bigger than the thinker? The deed larger than the doer? These to live and he to die! Never! surely, never. The resurrection of Jesus gives assurance that it is impossible for goodness to perish. It was not possible that He should be holden of death. Surely not! There was too much in Him and of Him to stay dead. 'It was impossible that He should be holden 'of death.' "The resurrection gives the fullest declaration of the divine law of life, that to willingly suffer, do and give for others is the sure entrance to glory now and forever. 'Thus it behooved Christ to suffer and to enter into His glory.' As with a corn of wheat: 'Except it fall into the ground and die. It abideth alone; but If it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. It is thus and thus only that life is productive of highest good. "Let us notice the ethics, or outgrowing duties of this great doctrine of the resurrection, for every doctrine ha3 its ethical import, and to eschew that is to strangle the doctrine. "Doctrine is not alone for contemplation, but for conduct; its outlook always heightens the obligations of life. Hear, then, the sublime ethics of this great Easter doctrine: 'If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God.' Let your mind and heart and activities tend and strain to the high, nay to the highest in life, even to 'where Christ sitteth at the right hand of God; that is. set your affections and efforts for all that Christ stands for as exalted to the now place of power. "It was Irt view of this power given Him that He said, after His resurrection: 'AH power Is given to me in heaven and in earth; go ye therefore and teach all nations. Ah! that Is the great truth of His resurrection glory, that the power to which He rises He pours out upon His people and vests in His body of personal believers, which is the church, as Peter forcefully declared in his Pentecost sermon: 'Therefore, being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath shed forth this which ye see and hear.' The power of Christ, now as ever, is for the propagation of His kingdom in the earth, by the allegiance and loyalty of the church, which is His body. Hear Him as He says: 'As I was in the world so are ye in the world. and again. 'Greater things than these shall ye do, because I go to the Father. Hence the three great words of our text to-day: 'Now is Christ risen;' 'therefore be ye steadfast.' and 'All power is given to me in heaven and in earth; 'therefore, go ye and teach all nations.' "He died to save all. His heart yearns for all. His gospel Is to be preached to all. His power Is to be put forth for all. Jesus Christ, 'the same yesterday, to-day and forever, knows nothing of caste or class or family or national or racial barriers or boundaries. All are redeemed; all may be saved; all should be reached, and all need Him and His salvation; and without doubt the three greatest words of our risen Lord to His church are 'Now, therefore, go and preach the gospel to all.' " - CIiniST'S ItESrRHi:CTION. Its Poirer Described lr Her. T. J. Villen at First Haptlst. The First Baptist Church was elaborately decorated for Easter services yesterday and tha auditorium was crowded at both morning and evening services. Five were baptized at the close of evening service. The . Rev. Thomas J. Villers preached at the morning service on the subject "The Power of Christ's Resurrection." In part he said: "Paul here expresses his desire to know Christ; know Him not by acquiring a speculative knowledge of His person, or by gaining an Intellectual acquaintance with the historic facts of His life, but know Him by coming into fellowship with His suffer

ingthat which was the expression of Ills humiliation, and by feeling the power of His resurrection that whleh was the assurance of His exaltation. The apostle longed to experience in his own soul th power which Christ's resurrection has to enlighten, purify, tranquilize; that Inherent force which burst the bars of doath and vanquished all our foes; that resurgent energy which loosed us from our sir.?, and on the grave's broken fetters wrote our title to immortality. "The ancients spoke of their loved dead as a shattered pillar, a crushed flower-bud. a ship gone to pieces, a harp with snapped strings and all its music lost. The Romans thought of death as an Iron slumber, an eternal night, a demon bearing a cup of poison, an inexorable jailer with keys. Not a ray of hope lightened the gloom of the grave. Materialistic thought has done no better. John Stuart Mill, living beside his wife's sepulchre, is the very picture of despair. The earth held not simply her body, but herself. His way of thinking offered no certainty of a richer life or nobler destiny. Standing over his dead brother Ingersoll declared that whether in midsea or among the breakers of the further shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of us all; that each life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love, and every moment jeweled with a joy, will at its close become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death. When a wreck marked his own end. and his own sad tragedy was finished, his body was burned, and the ashes were deposited in an urn. With that handful of dust as her only comfort his wife sits in dumb and hopeless sorrow. "Jesus Christ abolished death and brought life and incorruptlon to light through the gospel. Instead of an iron slumber is an awaking in His likeness. Instead of eternal night Is heaven's radiance. Instead of the inexorable jailer is the Prince of Life, carrying at his girdle the keys of death and hell. We need no longer be agnostic for He has made it possible for us to know God, and that Is life eternal. "Man nee-ds, too, a transforming power, a power which will raise him from a death of sin to a life of righteousness. He may aFsent to precepts; yet understanding the better, he may follow the worse. It is not precept he needs, but power. Such influencing power the risen Christ supplies. It was this thought that filled and molded the early disciples. To them our Lord's resurrection was not primarily a proof that He was divine, or that the soul is immortal, but rather that He was still alive and active in the lives of men. Fellowship with Him, a living personality, emancipates from sin. "Having power to instruct and transform Christ's resurrection also has power to console. If He be not risen our faith is empty drained of its life's blood; and powerless impotent to save. But being delivered for our trespasses. He was raised for our justification; and so we are begotten again unto a living hope, and are assured that our bodies shall be raised and shall be fashioned like unto the body of His glory. This will be the crowning benediction of the Christian's experience. "Why be afraid of death, as though your life were breath? Death but anoints your eyes with clay. Oh, glad surprise! "Is sleep a thing to dread? Yet sleeping you are dead Till you awake and rise, here or beyond the skies. "The dear ones left behind! Oh, foolish one and blind. A day and you will meet a night and you will greet. "This is the death of death, to breathe away a breath And know the end of strife, and taste the deathless life. "And joy without a fear, and smile without a tear; And work, nor care to rest, and find the last is best."

KASTEII HAY SERMON. Itev. C. E. Bacon's Interesting FMseourse in the Morning-. "Easter Day" was the subject of the Rev. C. E. Racon's sermon yesterday morning at Roberts Park M. . E. Church. Dr. Bacon said in part: "This day lightens all hearts. It is the greatest day r. the ecclesiastical calendar. It is the greatest day to the glad. It is the grcate : day to the sad. To the first it send:: a broad gleam of lipht along their path ..-ay. To tho second It gives a new light on their horizon. There are the red streaks of an eternal dawn and the gates of light swing back to reveal a celestial city. The world is elrawn together to-day by common sorrows and by common joys. The risen Christ links heaven and earth. He sent word to His disciples: T ascend to my Father and your Father, to my (Jod and your God.' He is the link between us and the highest things of our holiest ambitions. This is the great hope day. "Easter Is the pledge of a triumphant church. Easter truth has made Christianity a world-wide religion. It separates Christianity from all the false and futile. The church realizes that she worships not a sage, ilor a supreme religionist who lived and died and who remains only In the words He spoke or the books He wrote or the institutions He founded, but that she worships a living Christ. Here she parts company with the cults and philosophies of the world's history. Christianity is not simply a sweet fragrance from the land of Palestine from the matchless life of an Incomparable man. Nor Is it the heart's holy incense to this noblest man who ever walked the earth. The church of this dawn of the twentieth century claims a living person, holy and real, who was dead, but is alive forever. Let us remember on this Easter day that we are not looking into any old record, however trustworthy; that we are not admiring a picture or delving into a poem, or trying to sound the depths of a song that will thrill and fill and then float away, but that we are looking Into the heart of that which is eternally real. If I can impress you with the reality I have begun to help you to other sublime truths. A DAY OF HOPE. "This Is the day of hope because of victory over sin. Christ is victor for us. They killed Him, 'tis true, but He arose, and death has no power over Him. He bore the trophies of His victory, the pledges of His love to the throne of power and demands a safe passage for His brethren. He is victor. Let the flowers bloom it, let the bells ring it, let the children sing It, let our glad hearts shout it. There was triumph in His whole procession from the grave. He rose from the couch of death as one arises from sleep. He made His toilet leisurely. He left His bedroom in order. There is no haste. There is no fear of any power to stop Him. Man's power is infinite puniness compared with His almlghtlness. He starts forth and there is no power of the flesh to divert Him. He no longer flees Into Parea for fear of the Jews. His disciples no longer speak of Him not coming to Jerusalem, where the Jews lately sought to kill Him. Christ was busy for those forty days. He was settling kingdoms, dividing dynasties, shifting crown3, preparing riches, leaving legacies. Among the legacies is the incomparable piece of cumulative testimony. No human lawyer ever got His testimony In such shape that there was no possible refutation in His age or any succeeding one. He guarded every point of rebutting argument. "It must be a part of the divine orderliness with which events took shape bearing upon the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Theory after theory goes down before this cumulative testimony. He appeals to eyes, and hands, and head, and heart, and having1 made up His case He goes aside to Olivet and is received out of their sight. "This is a day of triumphant hope of the church's victories. The great general is on the hilltop. H!s Intellect and heart Is In every advance column. Christ Is present In everv battle. He Is rallying every bttaüon, encouraging and strengthening every soldier. "He Is at the right of God almighty. He Is the heart of power. He is the tremendous power house. The almighty lightnings are stored in Him. He turned on the battery and made connection at Pentecost, and höw the tongues of tire leaped ar.d set on each of them. And how real Christianity has always meant vita! connection with Jesus Christ. HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. "You cannot explain the history of the church since the resurrection without the great fact of Christ at the right hand of power. The general trend of the race has been upward. This is a glorious day of 'hope to the sad. Two worlds are bound together. Hope's gain now spans the grave. We are taught to-day not to seek our loved ones in the cemetery. 'Why seek ye the living among the dead? The world will never be a rrison. The gates have been carried awey like the gates of Gaza by a stronger thn Samson. "This day of message. 'Why wee pest thou?' Either tears are dried or they become telescopes to sa eternal realities. If

heaven hn.s a calendar I wonder If thy nre not more Interested In Kaeter than In other days? Every message Christ give was to remind His dlseipb-s ef what He had said. They were to mft't Iiis fnsage. inents. He especially wanted H's disciples to know that He via mn changed; that His personality ran on lr.t the trrnltis. Those to whom He appeared end the manner cf appearance were to prcsrrve thl continuity of thought. He called Marv 'Mary.' Me s.t word to 'Peter. He helped Hi d!sci;Ics fish. He built a fire and Invited them to eat. O how He wants His di;oij!e feel at home In His presence. He wants them to know that dath. does r.ot break the spirit's sensations, loves and desires. "The r st-xrection Is a more potent fact than events of yesterday. Christ Is more nctueil sovf reign thnn anv earthlv ruler. Whatever trie of individuals is true that tho nation that believes not and serves not Christ perishes. Th resurrection has unbound all thought. It has opened he gates of holy affection. It wjs the rustle of almighty wings that pave the church a wind-rocked and fire-Illuminated cradle. He rules and speaks now from His throne. He speaks of final and absolute victory to His kingdom. He speaks of the conquest of sin. He speaks of perfect victorv over death in an uninterrupted penoncllty. lie , was the magnet while on earth. He is the magnet to draw the world to himself now."

CENTR AL t' N I V E II S A LI ST. The Rev. Marlon Crosley Preaches an Easier Sermon. At the Central Universalist iThurch yesterday morning Rev. Marion Crosley's subject was "The Resurrection and the Immortal Life." He said in part: "The resurrection and the immortal life are coming to be viewed as roandlv natural and reasonable. Instead of looking for proof from the outside of a mechanical or miraculous nature we are beginning to look at life itself. The nature and purpose of life go far to solve the problems of a continued existence. We find in our very being the elements and possibilities of an endle3s life. Human life on the mental or moral side never becomes complete or fully developed here. The body finishes its existence this side of the grave, but the intellectual and moral nature, when In its most advanced stag of development. Is Just beginning to get ready to live and to appreciate and enjjy the fruits of a wellspent life. No Hie can become complete here. None of the hopes, dreams, visions or aspirations of the soul can be entirely revealed here. The work and influence of Jesus did not stop when His life went out on Calvary. The tomb carved out of solid rock, no set of guards could confine His spirit within such narrow limits. "The scientific method of investigation is throwing much light on this matter of life, death and the resurrection. Nothing lives except as It dies, and death itself in the physical world, where natural science does Its chief work, is only a process of change, only a link In the continued chain of existence. Death does not In any case blot out or innihllate anything. In the realm of matter death simply changes the form but does not destroy the substance. Tha answer of nature then. Is, by the way of science, to the effect that nothing Is lost, wasted or elestroyed. and that, with the aid of fact, we can also sing: That not one life shall be destroyed, or cast as rubblh to the wind, when God hath made the pile complete' "The desire to live is so strong that this life of ours, bearing the Image of Its Maker, cannot go out of business at the grave. The elements and resources of faith and hope, the aspirations and the longings within are substantial evidences of an existence beyond the grave. This life of ours cannot be snuffed out by the death angel nor by any power in heaven or on earth. Christ did not come to the earth to make it possible for us to live after death. He was not the author of immortality; 11 simply revealed it, brought it to light, emphasised it. made it all the more real. He was not raised up in order that we mlcht be lifted up from a state of unconsciousness. He was raised and lives to-day localise it was in I Ilm to live. We rise up and live on through the ages to come under the new and Improved conditions of the after death life because we are immortal. Jesus affirmed. 'That as I live ye phall live also.' This affirmation has a double meaning. That because He lived we shall Io live; as He is Immortal, so nre wc. Th other meaning, that when we are raised up we shall be like Him. for we shall see Him as He is. Nature and revelation also declare with one united voice that God is not a God of the dead, but of the living, for all live unto Him. The great apostle e-on firms all this when he says that as we have borne the image cf the earthly we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. And as the twentieth century translation has him say, 'There Is a resurrection if the dead; but that which is sown !s perishable, that which rises Is Imperishable; that which is sown is disfigured, that which rises is beautiful; that which is sown is frail, that which rises is strong; that which i sown Is an animal body, that which rises is a spiritual body. As surely as there is an animal body there is also a spiritual body. This apostle assures us that the dead shall rise, rise imperishable, and we shall all be changed, and thus death shall be swallowed up In victorv. Life is victorious every time and everywhere over death. The life bevond what we call death will in every way be an improvement over this. The faculties and agencies of growth and progress will be more efficient and rapid in their work there than here' CENTRAL CHRISTIAN ClURCII. Rev. Allan n. Thllpntt Addresses a Large Andiene In the Morning. The Easter service at the Central Christian. Church was very largely attended yesterday. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon there was a baptismal service. Rev. Allan R. Thilputt took for the text of his mornlnff sermon the second verse of the fourteenth chapter ofJhn: "I gx to prepare a place for you." The pastor said, in part: "Let us come back this morning to the simple and enduring faith of our race. Let us hear and believe as little children. lt us just rest a while in the Joy of the resurrection, it is all a matter of faith, but what of that? The Just shall live by faith. "There are many things about whhii exact knowledge Is beyond our reach. Reason and demonstration belong to a narrow sphere. De Quincy advised that reason be dispensed with altogether If It proved troublesome. This we could hardly ngree to. But life needs a larger light. Far-away suns, which we canot now measure, shej their radiance upon us. The powers of the world to come arc and have ever been great elemental forces in then spiritual life of man. Jesus said, 'In My Father's house are many abiding places.' This, it has 1k n correctly surmised. I think. rfrs not to rooms or mansions, but to iwclling places. He told his disciples that here were mar.y places besides this little world of ours for man to dwell in. He would go and prepare one such for them. These are words of affection adapted to children. God speaks to us in the language ef a mother. Does tho little child ever hear anything that is going to be described with exactness? Never. It hears in its own tongue. The Bible enables us to hear in our ew n tongue things that no language could describe. "There is a tendency to-day to minimize our Lord'9 original contribution to religious thought. It is said that He mostly affirmed things spoken here and th're by ancient seers, and gave them currency. Here Is one thing original the continuity of life. Paul claims that 'he brought Immortality to light.' The claim Is difficult to dispute. The ancient Hebrews stoppt-d at death. When a man died he 'slept with his fathers.' There Are many impressive situations in the Old Testament where rn n are brought face to face with death, but they never professed to se through It. They burled their dead and kept their sepulchres. Here-kiah pleads to God for life, saying: 'The grave cannot praise The, death cannot celebrate Th e. The living, the living, he shall praise Thee.' Moses, the servant of eid. betrays to knowledge of life after death, liven the Hebrew poets lint at it only to draur back In despair. 'Man Cometh forth as a flower and Is cut down; he fleet h also ;is a shadow and contlneth not.' "Is it too much to claim that Christ has chanKed the thought of the world about d-ath? II' spoke of it as a slp frm which men awake. St. Paul thinks of It as a departure to be with Christ and the higher companionship of heaven, st. John s.-tw the dead, small and great, ftand before God. And yet we come back fr-nj flights of faith anl imagination to the hard ;md fast limitations of thought to lind it but a waking dream. " 'The dreams dc; art an 1 the xision falls. And the sleeper awakes on hl. pillow of stone.' "Death gives bak no word. The world is a elark valley and life a valti shw. If we could hut had the lwller.s In light, if they could but sisr.al tack as thy rach th"e other shore! Sonuhow It cannot l.-. The dragon-fl skimming o.r the sunlit Mir. face of the water c.tiiii.".i down to the lndtom fcui tell the prub what Its ner world I like. The dr.-.go'i-fiy was o?jce a grub. Now It has no linguale to cornmuncate with those like unto Its former self. An acquaintance ef mine tnld hlj wife in his dying hour not to mourn. He said: