Pike County Democrat, Volume 26, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 17 January 1896 — Page 6

DUN’S COMMERCIAL REVIEW. IssImm OMwn lljr Retarded by a Feeltaa •f (locertalatjr Uuvd by the Fluaclal Outlook—The Proposed Sale of Bonds Ceases Hesitation Rether then Hopefaloees Speculation In Products Ball, end Price* Generally Lower. New York, Jan. lL—R. G. Dun & Co. it; to-day: > Liabilfties in failures for the first two days of January amounted to $918.7#5, of which $240,407 were of manufacturing and #678,aSS of trading concerns. Failures for the week have been 431 in the United States, against 420 last year, and 63 in Canada, against 54 last year. . f The new year begips with suph uncertainty that business is somewhat retarded.. The proposed sale of bonds offers ground’ for confidence *in the future,-but no one is able to determine what its earliest effects may be on the money market, and for the time it is a cause of hesitation rather than hopefulness. Speculation in products has not been active. Cotton is unchanged, although the receipts for the week have not been very large, but some slackening appears in the foreign demand. Wheat is about one cent higher, and eorn the same, without distinct reason in either case. Wheat receipts at western points were almost double last year's, being 2,505,702, against 1.305,704 last year; but Atlantic exports were a little larger than last year's, being,dour included, 2.337.936 bushels, against 2,010,755 a year ago. Corn receipts are about a quarter larger than a year ago. while Atlantic exports are about four titues as large. The movement of stocks has been downward, notwithstanding fair reports of earnings, which show an iucrease of 8.8 per ceilt. iii transactions over last year. The industrial situation has not materially changed. There is niheh agitation in the iron business, with some adrance in lle-seiuer 'pig iron because of the expectation" tnat Connellsyille coke and lake ore will both be dearer? and Vet finished products of iron and steel are on the whole quoted a little lower, and the nail association1 is still in session t.x determine . whether it will abai#ion the effort. t to main tin n a fixed price. That branch of business is extremely slow, nothing is doing in rails, and while there is a - rather better demand for sheets and plates, and- several thousand orders are reported for structural works, angles are quoted a shade lower. Everything turns on the contracts for ore, which are still unsettled, but the great excess in production of pig iron over the present demand is no longer denied, and it is expeetVd that quite a number of -the furnaces will presently discontinue production. In boots and shoes the average ol prices is a shade lower., Leather is a little lower, but hides are. on the whole, about five per cent, stronger at ^ Chicago, with scanty offerings. The demaud for boots and shoes falls far. behind exal tations, and many of the shops hawPcdoSed for a time. Sales of wool are large, 6.699,300 ; 6pounds for the week, against 5^;35.715 last year, although a large pfffR’if the j purchase is of a sp-^ulalivc character. The opening of woolen goods shows a further .tendency toward lower prices, in spite of the prevalent belief that higher prices would Ik* realized before long ifthe revenue bill which passed the house should become a law. The cotton mills an- generally run niug, though not all- with full force, and some are piling up goods without regard to tin- immediate demand, which is comparatively slack, as they apparently believe that the short supply of cottdh this year will insure them profits in the end. us it lias during tlRr past half year. Nevertheless go l ave b.- 'idediy .weakened in price, quite a number of yhanges having beeu recorded during the jwist ■ week. •. ’ The volume of domestic trade iudi cated by payments through the principal clearinghouses shows the unusual large increase* of 14.6 per cent, over last year, but iu comparison with the same week ;* l- <3. shows a decrease < >F 13.1 j>er cent l'art of this difference„ must be attributed to the shrinkage in prices, but thery is also without doubt a considerabledecrease.in the distribu- i tiou of seasonable goods to -the tiuaJ customer.

GOV. BRADLEYS MESSAGE. & Number of Retonunfiulatloni Showing lirrat of Krforma. FkaXKFUKT. Ky., Jau.'ll,—tluv. llrad ley's* message was received at 11:3C i yesterday morning and read in the house. It recommends a new state ; capitol building and a new governor's mansion. It condemns mob law and. asks for the passage of laws imposing rigid penalties. It also recommends new judicial and 5 legislative appointment laws aud the abolishment of the ’bureau of agriculture. register, of lands and commonwealth's attorney. It asks for the p. -age of laws imposing severe penal..es for violation of election rule* hr. i that foreign corporations be compejled to organize under the law* of thus state Is.-fore being allowed Vo <i® httinees here. It estimates aa lifecreased deficit in the state treasury next June and indicates that it will lx* impossible to reduce the rate of state taxation. It propo-.es a out ;a the salaries of stab- o;licia:s au.i t iyTTncre-.,-e o: lice;: -e fees of all kinds in order to replenish the state treasury. JOHN M’BRIDE. Will Never Ac»ln Seek or Accept Official ■Jj Kr-poi»ibnilv. M assuxon. <>.. Jan. 11.—John Me llride has completed his formal farwell to the American Federation of Labor in an official capacity. He writes in generous terms and says: **l shall never again seek or accept official life or official responsibility in the labor movement; but whenever opport unity offers or occasion demands, my voice and pen will be used to aid and relieve suffering humanity and oPDress*-<l labor.”

THE CUEANS’ CAUSE. Tk« Tint* Not Yet Ripe for ReeojrnltioOwn Slip* Oat of Campos’ Trap— OaanaJajr 1* Now the Center of Active Operations and the Cloud of Apprehension Has Been Lifted From Havana. Nkw York. Jan. 11.—A Herald special from Washington says: Friends of Cuba are bringing tremendous pressure to bear in favor of congressional action looking to recognition of the rebels as ' belligerents. Their chief spokesman appears to bo Mr. Sulzer, of New YoHc The question of Cuban recognition is a serious one and is receiving much consideration. It is conceded^ that congress can do nothing except express its opinion. The administration's position has not been changed. It has said that the time to recognize Cuban belligerency has not yet come. The president believes recognition of belligerent rights would hurt the eause of free Cuba instead of helping it. The" president has other viewfc concerning the proper method of getting at the Cuban question, as will be made | known in good time. If the Cubans will only be patient 1 and keep up the fight it is the general belief in well-informed circles that the I president will in due time make a move ; in their behalf much more important and far-rearchiug than 'the doubtful expedient of formally recognizing, belligerency or an expression of sympathy in congress. The New Theater of Active Operation*. New York, Jan. 11.—A special cable dispatch to the Herald from Havana says: • " Guana jay. just across the border of Dinar Del Ilid province, is now the center «f active operations, the cloud of exciteihdut which has hung over this city for days having gradually drifted westward. The capital being now no longer menacejil. less anxiety is shown about ' the ipfiicial headquarters, and many *»f the precautions hurriedly taken for the city's defense are being as quickly relaxed. live- report was spread here Thurs day that President Cleveland had volunteered his good offices, through Consul Williams, to bring about a conference between Capt.-Gen., Campos and Gen. G> mcz. Tjhe purpose- was said .to be to effect a peaceful compromise, which would give the Cubans autonomy, and the United States indirect economic control of Cuba, while at the same tim* assuring the perpetuity, under American protection, of the^, Spanish flag over the island, t onsul Williams will not tal*k on the subject. ‘ _____ - t CRAFTY GOMEZ. r He I>«.*cllne« to Walk Into the Trap Prej . pared by Campos. Havana, Jan. 11—News has been received that Maximo Gomez, with *-\- Ooo of the insurgent force, has again passed the plantation of San Antonio and the towns, of Alquizar and Guira Meiaua. His present whereabouts and his proposed destination are not at present known, but his movement is practically a counter march over the same route \ by which he entered the province of Dinar del Rio. ' Guira Melana is on a line almost directly south * of Havana. Gomez is therefore well out of the region in the province of l'inai del Rio. in which it was said he was being enmeshed Sc> in a trap. The 'i u >u r g#b t .s£a ce< >hli n g to late-ad-vices from thXjFr<«nl. arc still moving in the province of l’inar del Riq,4and a> they are keeping near the coast, it is -.believed that they are awaking the arrival *»f an! expo,litem. having with it a large supply of ammunition, arms, etc;

TWO EARTHQUAKES Result In the I .*»<■* of Twelve Hundred IJvys in lVfsi*. Tkhkhax. .Tan. II.—Two earthquakes hare iwiirm! in the district of Khalkhai. the first in the night of January-, Upon that occasion the large village of j Janjahad was destroyed. several others ; were partially destroyed and obi) persons were-killed. The second earthquake occurred during the morning, of January 5. and was i very seyere. It was felt over an area of 100 miles. The town of Goi was de- • stroved and 1.»h*-> h, uses wi re dfmoh iSbed. In addition greiit damage was done to many villages. The loss of > life was very great. There wer*? s* >0 pet's* ins killed in Goi alone, and large numbers ol cattle and sheep also perished. HE DIDN’T MEAN IT. The “War Lord” Surrender* at DUrretloh tn 111* Vrnerable <t» rand mot her. hoxiHix. Jan. 11.—The Telegraph publishes’a dispatch from Iterlin stating that Emperor Willytm received by special messenger on January > an autograph letter from Queen Victoria., The emperor's autograph reply Ls ftow in; the queen's hands. It is understood that the emperor remarked to his eat* at rage that he .believe-i the terms • If his reply would Ik- acceptable. The writer of the -dispatch afliruis the t the letters referred to the political situation and treat Lis 1 majesty in his reply in br>ef. general terms, proffered his hand to the ilng!i%h people. The letter, it is jiii-d, also e <nArms the assurances given by the German * ministers that the empfror had no intention of casting a slur on tjho dignity of England. COOKED WITH COAL »OIL. I Hw. C. A. Xushtll'i Horrible Fete at C'lrVrlud. O. CUVF.UXD, Q.. Jan. 11.—Mrs. C. A. • Marshall, a widow, who lived at ^o. 16 Mill street with her two. brothers, | was literally cooked to death. While ! getting breakfast she . poured coal ; oil on the f re. An explosion occurred and she was enveloped in | flames. She ran screaming to the j yard, and when her brothers arrived i she was rolling oh the ground a sheet ' of flames. All the clotbifur was burned I from her body. A

TALMAGE’S SERMOX. . j_^_ ■ ■ ■ *' Turkish Excesses in Armenia Vividly Portrayed. | Dr. TalmaR-f> Tells Why He DM Not Go to Armenia with the Relief Fund— Wonl* of Commendation for Clara Barton. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage told the 6torv of the Armenian massacres to vhis Washington congregation,; predicating his remarks on the text: They escaped into the land of Armenia.—II Kinjfs. xir . ST. In Uiblieal geography this is the first time that Armenia appears, called then by the same name as now. Armenia is chiefly a tableland, 7,000 feet above the level of the sea. and on one of the peaks Noah's ark landed, with its human family and fauna that were to till the earth. That region was ‘ the birthplace of the rivers which fertilized the Garden of Eden when Adam and Eve lived there, their only roof the eiystal skies, and their carpet the emerald of rich gnfss. Itsinhabitunts,. the ethnologists tell us, are a superior type of the Caucasian race. Their religion is founded on the Bible. Their Saviour is our Christ. Their crime is that , they will not become "followers of Mohammed, that Jupiter of sensuality. - To drive them from the face of the earth is the ambition all Mohammedans, i To accomplish this, murder is no crime, and wholesale .massacre is a matter of enthusiastic approbation and governmental reward. The prayer sanctioned by highest Mohammedan authority and recited every day throughout■ “Turkey and Egypt, while styling all those hot Mohammedans as infidels, is as follows: *ij> Lord of all creature^! O Allah! • Destroy the infidels and l’olythe- j ists, thine enemies, the enemies of the j religion! O Allah!, Make‘-their children ! orphans and defile their bodies: cause j 4heir hyt to slip: give them and thyir j families, tlukir liousehol 1" and their j women, ami their relatives by mar- j riage. their brothers and their friends, i their pos .ey.ions and thy race, their j wealth and their lands as booty to the .Moslems. 0 Lord of all creatures!” j Tile life of an Armenian in the pres- I cnee of those who make that prayer is j of tio more value than the life of a j summer bisect. The'sultan'of Turkey ; sits on :t throne impersonating „that j brigandage and assassination.. At this? | time all civilized nations an.* in horror j at the attempts of that Mohammedan government to destroy all the Christians of Armenia. I hear somebody talking as though some new (thing Were happening, and that the Turkish government had taken a'n<fvc rule of tragedy-on the stage of natiops. No. no! She is at the same old business. Overlooking her diabolism of other centuries. we come down to our century to find that in 1ST! the Turkish goveenment yslew 50.000 anti-Moslems, and in 1850 she slew 10.000, and in 1800 site slew 11.000. and in 1870 she slew 10.000. Anything short of the slaughter of thousands of human beings does not put enough red wind into her cup of abomination to make it worth quaffing. Nor is this the only time she has proiuj. ised reform. In the , presence of the war ships at the *mouth of the Dardanelles. she has' -promised the civilized nations id the earth that she woukl stop her uutcheries. and the international and hemispheric farce has been enacted of believing what she says, when pll the past ought to persuade us that she is only pausing in Kt«r atrocities to put nation# olY the j track and then resume the work of I

!u 1S2QTurkey, in treaty with Russia-, pr imUei t » alleviate the condition of Christians; hut the .promise was broken. In !S.t'i the tlien sultan promised proto. : ion of slife and property w^out reference to religion; arulthe promise was' brokejn In 1SI4. at the demand dVsdaister plenipotentiary, j the, -ulujn deeufivd. aftCr - the public execution of an Amieni:' IV at Constantinople. that no Jvtch death penalty i should again be Inflicted, apd the proin-1 is - was broken. In 1^0, at the demand j yf foreign nations, the Turkish gov-i eminent promised protection' to Pro* j test ants, but to this "day the Protes- j tail’s at Stamlsutl are not allowed to ' build a ‘church. although they have j the funds ready, and the Greek j Protestants, who have a ekureh. ' are not permitted to Worship in j it. hi 1 s.‘,C. after the Crimean war. Turkey promised that ho one] should be hindered in the exercise of ! the religioh he professed, and that promise has been broken. In 1STS, at ■ the memorable treaty of Berlin. Tur- ] key promised religious liberty to all j her subjects,in every part of the Otto* j man empire, ami the prmni.-w was broUen. Not .once in all the centuries has the Turkish government kept her promise of mercy. So far from any improvement, the Condition of .the Ar- j met iaas has become worse and worse year by year, and all the promises*the * Turksdi government now makes an* only a gaining of time bv which she is i A extermination of Christianity from her Manyp f the chiefs of the massacres were sent straight from Constantinople t * d<p th- r work, and, having returned. were decorated by the saltan. To four < f ti e worst murderers the sultan sent silk 'banners, in delicate appreciation of their services. Five hundred thousand Armenians put to death or dying of starvation! This : moment, while X speak, alt up and | down Armenia sit many people, fr-e/.-ing in th.- ashes of their destroyed homos.1 bereft of most of their! households. and aw aiting the club of •tussasr-t sination to 'put them out of their niiser3*. ko wonder that the physi- • eians of that region declared that among ail the men and women that were » down" with wounds and sickness and .under their eary not me wanted to get well, lletncmbe that nearly all the reports th* t have '*ome to us of 4the Turkish outrages nave been manipulated

modified and softened by the Turks themselves. The story is not half told, or a hundredth part told, or a thousandth part told. None but God and our suffering brotiiers and sisters in that far-off land know the whole story, and it will not be known until, in the coronations of Heaven. Christ shall lift tp a special throne of glory these heroes and heroines, saying: “These are they who came out of great f tribulation and had their robes washed, and made white in the blood of the Lamb!" My Lord .apd my God! Thou didst on the cross sufferfor them, but Thou, surely, oh, Christ! wilt not forget how much they have suffered for Thee! I dare not deal in imprecation, but I never so much enjoyed the. imprecatory songs of David as since I have heard how those Turks are treating the Armenians). The fact is. Turkey has got to be divided up among other 1 nations, t.Of course, the European nations must take the chief part, but j Turkey ought to be competed to pay America for the American mission buildings and American school houses she has destroyed, and to support the wives and children of the Americans ruined by this wholesale butchery. When the English lion and' the Russian bear put their paws 'on that Turkey the American eagle ought to put in its bill. Who are these American and English and Scotch missionaries who are j Wing hounded among the mountains of Armenia by the* >|ohammedans? The noblest men and women this side of Heaven. Some of them, men who took the highest honors at Yale and Princeton, and Harvard, and Oxford, and Edinburgh. Some of them worn? en. gentlest and most Christ like, who, to save people they never saw, turned their backs on luxurious homes to spend their days in self-expatria-tion.saying good-by to father and mother, and afterward good-by to their own children, as circumstances-compel them to send the little ones to En- j gland. Scotland or America. I^iave seen these foreign missionaries in their homes ' all around the world, and I stamp with indignation upon the literary blackguardism of foreign correspondents'who have deprecated thesy heroes and heroines who are wiitjgg to live amfdie for Christ's sake.T-T.hey will have the highest thrones in Heaven, while their defamersWill not | get near enough to the shining gate to set' the faintest glint of any one of the twelve pearls which make up the twelve gates. This defamation of missionaries is augmented by the dissolute English. American and Scotch merchants who go, to foreign cities, leaving their families behind them. Those dissolute merchants in foreign cities lead a life of such gross immorals that the pure households of the missionaries are a perpetual rebuke. Buzzards never did believe in doves, and if there is anything that nightshade hates it is the water lily. What the . 550 American missionaries have suffered in the Ottoman empire since 1820 1 leave the archangel to announce on the day ot judgment.^ You will see it reasonable that I putTso much emphasis on Americanism in the Ottoman empire when I tell you that America, notwithstanding all the disadvantages named, has now over twentv-seven thousand students in day

schools in that empire, and 33.000 children in her Sabbath schools, and that America has expended in the Turkish empire forits betterment over ten mil- j lion dollars. Has not America aright I to lx* heard? Aye! it will be heard! I am glad that great indignation meeting's are being held all over this country. That poor. weak, cowardly sultan. whom 1 saw a few rears ago ride to mosque for worship, guarded by 7,000 ' armed men. many of ^ them mounted on ‘prancing chargers, will hear of these sympathetic meetings for the Armenians, if not through American reporters, then through some of his 360 wives. What to do with him? There ought to be some St^ Helena to which he could be exiledwjirfe the nations of Europe appoint a ruler of their own to clean out anil take possession of the palaces of Constantinople. To-night this august assemblage in the capital of the United Stajtes. in the name of the God of Nation^. indicts the Turkish government for the wholesale assassination of Armenians. and invokes;the nterferenee pf Almighty God and the protest of eastern and western hemispheres. Hut what is the duty of the hour? Symputjfn^ deep,' wide, tremendous, immediate! A religions paper! "The Christian Herald," of New York, has , led the way withmunfficent contributions collected from its subscribers. Hut the Turkish government is opposed to any relief of the Armenian sufferers, as I personally know. Last-, August, before I had any idea ofitecoming a fellow-citizen with ytashington.' S3O.000 for Armenian relief was offered me if I would •personally take that relief to Armenia. My passage was to be cn- j gaged on the City of Paris, but a tele- j gram was sent to Constantinople, ask- ! ing if the Turkish government would i grant me protection on such an errand of mercy. A cablegram said the Turkish government wished to know V> what points in Armenia I desired to f go with that relief. In our reply four i cities were named, one of them the scene of what had been the chief massacre. "A cablegram came from Constantinople saying that I had* better send the mo ney to the 4 Turkish government's mixed commission. and they .would distribute it. So a cel-wi n of spiders proposed a relief committee for unfortunate files! Well, j ;i man who vo t’ d start up'tllilrotigh the !' mountains of Armenia with $30,000 and nafegovernment protection would be j guslar of monuments1 foolhardiness. The Turkish government has in every possible way hindered Armenian re- j lief. Now. where is that angel of mercy, ; Clara Burton, who appeared on the j battle-fields of Fredericksburg. Antie- ; tarn. Falmouth and Cedar Mountain, j and under the blaze of French and Ger- j man guns at Metz and Paris, and in | 1

Johnstown floods, and Charleston earthquake, and Michigan fires, and Russian famine? It was comparatively of little importance that the German emperor decorated her with the Iron Cross, for God hath decorated her in the sight of all nations with a glory that neither time nor eternity can dim. Born in a Massachusetts village, she came in her girlhood to this city to serve our government in the patent office, but afterward went t forth from the doors oi thajb patent office with a divine patent signed and sealed by God himself, to heal all the wounds she could touch, and make the horrors of the flood, and fire, and plague, and hospital fly her presence. God bless Clara Barton! Just as I expected, she lifts the banner of the Red Cross. Turkey and all natii^l^ are pledged to respect and defeno^that Red Cross, although that color of cross does not, in the opinion,of many, stand for Christianity. . In my opinion it does stand for Christianity, for was not the cross under which most of us worshiped red with the blood of the Son of -God. red with the best blood that was ever shed, red with the blood poured? out “for the ransom of the world? Then lead on, oh. Red Cross! and let Clara Barton carry it! The Turkish government is bound to protect her. and the chariots of God are 20,000. and their charioteers are angels of deliverance, and • they would all ride down at once to roll over aajd trample under the1 hoofs of their white horses any of her assailants. , May the $500,000,she seeks be laid at her feet! Then may the ships that carry her across Atlantic and Mediterranean seas be guided safely by Him who tfod into sapphire pavement best orined Galilee! Upon soil ineardined with martyrdom let the Red Cross be planted. untiLJevery demolished village shall be rebuilded, and evwy'pang of hunger be fed. and every wound of cruelty be healed, and Armenia stand with as ranch liberty to serve God in its own way as in this the best land of all the earth, we, the descendants of the Puritans and Hollander* and llugenots. are free to worship t&pt Christ who came to set all nations free!

It hai been said that if we go over ! there tfo' interfere on another eon- j tinent.jthat will imply the rig-lit for other nations to interfere with affairs on this continent. and so the Monroe doctrine be jeopardized. No.no! Hres-j ident Cleveland expressed the sent,i- J ment of every intelligent and patriotic American when he thundered from the White House , a warning- to all nations, that tin .•? is not one acre ojrl one inch more of ground on thi$» continent for any transatlantic 'government to occupy. And by that doctrine we stand now and shall forever« stand. Hut there is a doctrine as much higher than the Monroe doctrine as the heavens are higher than the earth, and that is the doctrine of hurnanitarianisln and sympathy and Christian helpfulness which one cold December midnight, with loud and multitudinous chant, awakened the shepherds. Wherever there is a wound it is our duty, whether as individiSls or as ^nations, to balsam i|. Wherever there is a knife- of assassination lifted it is our duty to ward off the blade. Wherever men-are persecuted for their religion it is our duty to break that arm of power, whether it lie thrust forth from a Protestant church or a Catholic Cathedral, or a Jewish synagogue or a mosque of Islam. We all recognize the right on a small scale. If going down the road, we find a - ruffian maltreating a child. or a human brute insulting a womlan. we take a hand in the contest if we are not cowards, and. though we be slight in personal presence, because of our indignation we come to weigh about 20 tons, and the harder ! we punish the villain the lo'uder our I conscience applauds us. In such ease j we do not keep, our hands in our pock- j cts. arguing that if we interfere with ! the brute the brute might think he v would have a right to interfere with us. and so jeopardize the Monroe doc trine.' , ' • The! fact is that that persecution of the Armenians bv the Turks must be stopped, or God Almighty will curstnil Christendom for its damnable indifference and apathy. But the trumpet of resurrection is about to • sound for Armenia. Did I say in open - ! ing that on one of the peaks of Ar- i menia. this very Armenia of which j we speak* in Noah’s time the i ark landed, according to the ! myth, as some think, but according | to God's "say so." as I know, and that it was after a long storm of 40, days. :nd 40 nights, called the Deluge, and .iiat afterward a dove, went forth from that ark and returned with an olive Leaf in her beak? Even *so now, there \ another ark being launched, but this one goqs sailing. not over a deluge of water, but a deluge of blood—the ark of American sympathy—and that ark.! landing on Ararat. from its window shall fly the dove of kindness and peace, to find the olive leaf of returning prosperity, while all the mountains of Moslem prejudide, oppression and cruelty shall stand 15 cubits under. Meanwhile, we would Ut<9 to gather all: the dying groans of all the 500.000 victims of: Mohammedan oppression, and intone them into one prayed that would move the 'earth and the heavens, hundreds of millions of Christian voices. American and European, crying out: **0, Liod Most High! Spare Thy children. With mandate from the, throny hurl back upon their haunches the btfrses of the Kurdish cavalry. Stop the rivers of blood. With the earthquakes of Thy wrath shake the foundations pf the palaces of the sultan. More all the nations of Europe to command cessation of cruelty. If need be, let the war ships of civilized nations boom their indignation. Let the crescent go down before the cross, and the Mighty One who hath on His venture and ,o°n His thigh a name written “King of Kings ancLLord of Lords,’ go forth, conquering and to conquer. Thine, O Lord, is the kingdom! Hallfee lujah! Ament”

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