Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 5, Petersburg, Pike County, 9 June 1899 — Page 3

FAVORS EXPANSION. Dr. Talmage Discusses an Absorbing Theme.

.Points Oat tne Wajr for too American People to Perform a Might? Work—A Splendid Opportunity. •t Copy right, 1899, by Louis Klopsch.] Washington, Juno 4. In this discourse Dr. TaImage steers «clear of the political entanglements of •our time and recommends that which ' will meet the approval of all who hope .for the perpetuity of our republic and «the welfare of other lands; text, Genesis 28:14: “Thou shall spread abroad to the west and to the east.” Since the Ameriean-Ilispanic war is «oneluded and the United States ambassador is on the way to Madrid and the Spanish ambassador is on the way sto Washington the people of our country are divided ini? expansionists and anti-expansionists. From a different standpoint from that usually taken I •discuss this all-absorbing theme. I leave the political aspect of this subject •to statesmen and warriors and pray .Almighty God that they may be enabled to rightly settle the question "whether the islands in controversy shall be finally annexed or held under protectorate, or resigned to themselves, while I call attention to the fact^at •a campaign of moral and religious expansion ought to be immediately opened on widest and grandest scale.' At the close of this war God has put into the hands of this country the key to the world’s,redemption. .Heretofore the religious movement in pagan lands bad to precede the educational. After in China and India and the islands of the sea the missionaries have labored over 50 or 75 years the printing press aind the secular school came in. Now to better advantage than ever befefre reli^ous and secular enlightenment may go side by side, and so the work be -accomplished in short time aud more thoroughly. Starting with the fact that an Cuba and Porto liico and the Philippine islands at least three-fourths of the peojfle can neither read nor write, ■what an opportunity for school and . printing press! Within five years every man in those islands may be taught to read not only the Bible, but the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States and the biography of George Washington and of Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that thp government of the United States ought by vote of •congress afford common schools and printing presses to those benighted regions. Our national legislature by one vote appropriated $50,000,000 tagive bread and medicine to Cuba. Why not by a similar generosity give $30,000,000 for feeding and healing the minds and ;souls of those ignorant and besotted archipelagoes. In the name of God, 1 nominate a school for every neighborhood of Cuba, Porto Pico and the Philippines. As soon as the gavel falls at 12 o’clock of next December 4 on the table of senate and house of representatives and the roll lias been called and the preliminaries observed let some member of our national legislature, with mind and soul and voice strong •enough to be heard not only through those halls? but through Christendom, proi>ose a measure for the mental and moral disenthrallment of the islands

m controversy. 11 hat has made American civilization the highest civilization the world lias ever seen? Next to the Bible and tlie church, schools, common schools, .schools reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from British America to the gulf of Mexico. Five years un■■der such educational advantages and the whole subject that keeps our public men agitated, some of them to frothing at the mouth, will settle itself. Give those islands readers, spellers, arithmetics, histories, blackboards, maps, geographies, globes. Let the state legislatures at their next meeting, some of them assembling in early autumn, take parts of those islands under their especial educational patronage. What is meeded is state and national action in Tthis matter of schools. Still further, here is a wide open door Lor Christianity. First of all, we have ~<the attention of those people. The heathen nations are for the most part :soporihc. The American missionaries heretofore had great difficulty in getting heathendom to listen. They excited some comment by their attire, so different was the parting of the hair, -and the shape of the hat, and the cut of the coat, and the formation of the «shoe of the evangelizers, but the questions constantly arose in regard to the missionary: “Who is he?” “What is she here for?” And then the interrogator would relax into the previous stupid indifference. But that condition of things has passed. The gun9 of our American navy have awakened those ^populations. They do hot ask who we -are. They have found out. They are snow listening to what American civilisation and our Christian religion have to say on any subject. Now is the time, "while their ears and eyes are wide open, to tell them of the rescuing and salvage and inspiriting power of the Gosjpel of Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. The steam printing press which ^secular education plants there may be •used and will be used to print religious (newspapers and tracts and sermons and mighty discussions of questions temporal and eternal. Now, church of God, now all Christian philanthropists, is your opportunity. Nothing like it has occurred since Christ came. Perhaps there may be {nothing like it until His second coming. .Here is a definiteness of aim that is most helpful and inspiring. The millions of dollars given for the redemption of the world and the thousands •of glorious missionaries who have as volunteers gone forth among barbaric •nations, were given and enlisted under

a great and immeasurable idea. But when they come to add to the great and immeasurable idea the idea of definiteness we will infinitely augment the work. More than 300,000,000 of heathen in India, more than 300,000,000 of people in China, and more than millions of heathen than can be guessed outside

oi inose countries, sometimes stagger and confound and defeat our faith. But here in these islands of present controversy we can farm out the work among the churches, and in five years, under the blessing of God, not only fit the people for the right of suffrage, but prepare them for usefulness and Ueaven. The difference between the general idea of the world’s evangelization and some particularized field of evangelization is the difference between the improvement of agriculture among all nations and the improvement of 75 acres put under one’s ^special care and industry. By nil means let the general work go on. But here Is the specific field for religious concentration and development. This is not chimerical or impractical. I read this morning that the American Missionary association of the Congregational church has already begun the work at San Juan, Utuado and Albonito, and all denominations of Christians, in six months, will be in those islandy fields, and we will need with our prayers and contributions to cheer them on to take for God and righteousness those regions which our American navy has captured from Spanish perfidy. It has been estimated that this Amer-ico-Spanish war cost us $1100,000,060. It would not cost half of that to proclaim and carry ott and consummate a holy warthat will rescue those archipelagoes from satanic domination. Who will volunteqf? I beat the drum of a recruiting station. Who will enlist under the one starred, blood striped banner of Immanuel? Cuba and Porto Rico and the Philippines are stepping stones for our American Christianity tacross over and lake the round world for God. We need a new evangelical alliance organized for this one purpose. In all denominations there are those with large enough hearts and who have been thoroughly enough converted to join in such an advanced movement; men who, putting aside all minor differences of opinion, “believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, and iu Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son,” and who would march shoulder to shoulder in such a Gospel campaign. The result would be that those islands, after a scene of gospelization, would assort themselves into denominations to suit themselves., and* some would be sprinkled in holy baptism, and others would be immersed in those warm rivers, and some would worship in religious assemblage silent as the Quaker meeting house, and others would have as many jubilant ejaculations as a backwoods eamp meeting, and some of those who preached would be gowned and surplieed for the work, and others would stand In citizens’ apparel or in their shirt sleeves preaching that Gospel which is to save the world. Mark you well that statesmanship, however grand it is, and wise men of the world, however noble, cannot do this work. Mere secular education does not moralize. Some of the most thoroughly educated men in all the world have been

the worst men. Quicken a man s intellect, while at the same time you do not make his morals good, and you only augment his power for evil. Geography and mathematics and metaphysics &nd philosophy will never qualify a people to govern themselves. A corrupt printing press is worse than no printing press at all, but let loose an open Bible upon those islands and let the apocalyptic angel once fly over them and you will prepare them to become either colonies of the United States government, or, as I hope will be the case, independent republics. God did not exhaust himself when he built this nation. Those islands will yet have their Thomas Jeffersons, qualified to write for them declarations of independence; and George Washingtons, capable of achieving their liberties; and Abraham Lincolns, strong enough to emancipate their serfdoms; and Longfellows and Bryants, capable of puttingtheir hills and their rivers and their landscapes into poems; and their Bancrofts and PrescottS to make their histories; and their Irvings to write their sketch books; and their Charles O’Conors and Rufus Choates to plead in their courtrooms; and their Daniel Websters and John G. Crittendens to move their senates. The day cometh—hear It all ye who have no hope for those islands of bedwarfed and diseased illiterates—the day cometh When those regions will have a Christian civilization equal to that which this country now enjoys, while I hope by that time this country will be as superior to what it now is as to-day Washington and New York are better than Manila and Santiago. Christ has started for the conquest of the nations, and nothing on earth or in hell «an stop it. The continents are' rapidly rolling into His dominion, and why not those islands, which, for the most part are only fragments broken off from continents, the intertal lands having been sunk by earthquakes, allowing the ocean to take mastery over them? Each mother continent has around it a whole family of little continents. If the continents are being so rapidly evangelized, why not the islands? If America, why not Cuba and the Bahamas? If Asia, why not the Philippines and the Moluccas? If Europe, why not the Azores and the Orkneys? If Africa, why not Madagascar and St. Helena? The same power that broke them off the mainland can lift them into evangelization. In the old book, which has become a new book by reason of modern discoveries, especial attention is called to the islands. “Declare the Lord’s praise in the islands,** commands Isaiah. “Let the multitudes of the islands be glad thereof,** says the Psalmist, “All the islands of the heathen shall worship

Him,** writes Zepbaniah. ”*:e shall turn His face to t be islands,” prophesies Daniel. “The inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee,” foretells Kzekicl. “Hear it and declare it to the islands afar off.” exclaims Jeremiah. You see from this the islands are not to be neglected. l'erhaps they are the Lord's favorites, as in households if

there is any favoritism at oil it is for the weakest. The islands too small to take care of themselves have the eternal God to take care jf them. Let nations look out how they tread on the islands, however small and weak,' for they are omnipotently defended. They may not be able to marshal large armies or to s«fud out navies to sweep the sea, but better than that, they have the chariots of Heaven on their side and the drawn swords of the Almighty. 1 have as much faith in the salvation of the smallest island of the Falklands, of the Canaries, of the Ladrones, of the Carolines, of the Fijis, of the Harbadocs, of the Cape Verdes, of the Society islands as 1 huve in the salvation of America. The continents themselves are only larger islands, and the world in which we live is only a still larger island, and the solar system i& a group of islands, and the universe Is an archipelago studded with islands of worlds surrounded by the great ocean of infinitude and immensity. So you see when God planned the universe He diagrammed it into islands, and He will look after the interest of each of those islands, howeversmall.and England and France and Germany and America- must not treat the smallest and weakest island that*comes under their sway any different from the way they treat the strongest nation of all the earth. God may chiefly deal with Individuals in the next world, but He deals with nations only in this wx>rld, and when persistently a nation practices injustice against other people it is only a question of time when the offender 'will find his doom. The path of time is strewn with the carcasses of nations that because of their maltreat ment of other nations perished. The higher such offending empires rise the harder will be their fall. I believe the United States government will last as long as the world lasts. I believe the fires of the judgment day will leap on the domes of our state and national capitols while yet they are in their full power. I believe the last earthquake will put In its explosion under our national foundations while yet they stand firm. I believe the republican and democratic form of government ^will be the universal form of govurnment for all nations when they have been evangelized, for then the nations will be capable of self-government and will have demanded and secured that right. It will be either that or a theocracy, which will be the direct government of Christ in His personal reign on earth, as many llible students believe. Yet that jubilant expectation is founded not on the skill of human statesmanship or human legislation, but upon the belief that this nation w ill submit to Divine guidance, and obey the Divine law, and carry out its divinely imposed mission. Hut if we defy the God of nations our doom is fixed. We concluded a few days ago the an

huui uecoruuon or nortnern and southern graves. Three years ago, at this season, in memorial sermon 1 proposed the twisting of two garlands, one to be put upon the grave of the northern solr dier and the other to be put on the grave of the southern soldier, but this year we need three garlands, the third to be put upon the graves of those who fell in this Americo-Hispanic conflict. The third garland needs to be quite as fragrant and as radiant as the other two. These last heroes braved more than bayonets; they braved the pestiferous breath of the tropics, whole battalions, whole regiments, whole brigades, whole armies of deathful malaria. They confronted those oppositions of the torrid climes which no sword can pierce, no agility climb, no stratagem flank, no torpedo explode, no courage conquer. Under the awful charge of visible and invisible hosts about 6,000 men went down, some to instant death and others through lingering pangs in hospital. If in this third wreath you twist the cr|mson rose, suggestive of sanguinary sacrifice, and the white calla lily, suggestive of glorious resurrection, put in also & few forgetmenots, suggestive of remembrance, and a few passion flowers, suggestive of the love that mourns the slain, and a few heliotropes, suggestive of the fragrance of their memory. Th$n let the night's dew put the tears intd the blue eyes of the violets and all the soldiers' cemeteries be so many censeTs burning incense before the throne of that God who has been the friend of this nation from the time of Lexington to the time of San Juan hill, from the guns of the United States warships Constitution and Constella- ! tion, at the beginning of the century, to the guns of the United States warships Olympia, Oregon, Brooklyn and other loaded thunders, at the close of this century. Week before last, in this capital of the nation, we set three nights oh fire in celebration of naval and soldierly heroics, and there were rockets of fire, and spouting fountains of fire, and bombardments of fire, and ships of fire sank in billows of fire, and those three nights were three garlands of fire; but now we.are in softer and quieter mood, and the three garlands of to-day are woven of blossoms and corollas of all colors and all pungencies of aroma, and we bethink ourselves that this third garland was needed to chain together the northern garland of" other decorative times to the southern garland of other decorative times. Floral chain of three links! For the first time in 60 years the north and south stand in complete brotherhood. Heroes of Vermont and Alabama, bf Massachusetts and South Carolina, of Maine and Louisiana, shoulder to shoulder. May that alliance remain until the last oppression is extirpated from the earth and all nations stand in the liberty with which (jhrint would make all people free.

MARION CLARK RECOVERED. Tl»*» Child Abducted from Sew York City Found at a Farm Itoue Hear Sloatsburs, N. Y.

Garnerville, N. Y., June 2.—Marios Clark, 'the 21-months-old child, kidnapped from her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Clark, of New York, on Mar 21, was discovered two miles south of Sloatsburg, a village about eight miles from here, yesterday afternoon. She was found at the farm house-of Charles Youmans, and was in the custody of Mrs. Jennie Wilson, who took the baby to that place during the early part of last week. Mrs. Wilson was accompanied by her husband, and slated to Mrs. Youmans that she wanted board for the little girl for the summer. A Grapevine Postal Service. Mrs. Wilson said that she had made arrangements with her husband to send all correspondence to he* by way of the St. Johns post office, which is a few’ miles from Sloatsburg. Mrs. Wilson called at the St. Johns post office b number of times during the past few days. The Child Attracted Attention. Wednesday morning Mrs. Wilsdn went to the post office, taking Marion with her as she had done on several occasions before. The Clark liaby attracted the county people by her appearance, her large blue eyes and pink complexion being particularly noticeable. The curiosity which the child aroused made her captors grow uneasy and they kept her closely confined at the Voumans’ home. Suspicion Aroused. As-soon fis the notices of the abduction reached the neighborhood the people began to suspect thar the child was Marion Clark. They felt positive of it because the child wore the same clothes as at the time when, she was stolen, Demanded the Child. As soon as Deputy Sheriff Wm. H. Charlston learned of the abduction. he, taking his clues from pictures of the child and the descriptions given him by people who saw her, went to the farm house of Charles Youmans and found Mrs. Wilson, from whom lie demanded the child. i Mrs. Wilson was indignant and claimed that she knew nothing whatever of the child. The deputy sheriff produced a warrant, arrested the woman an demanded information an to the whereabouts of the child. Weakened and Confessed. At this Mrs. Wilson weakened and made a confessiQn. The baby was 1 aen produced, and the sheriff took l oth prisoner and child to Magistrate ierbert at West Haverstraw’. Mrs. Wilson refuses to make a full statement. She is the daughter off Mrs. J. J. McNally, of Goshen, N, Y, to whom she wrote a letter explaining her plight. Identification Complete. Marion Clark, the child, is in food health. She has no hat and her shoes show much rough handling. Her clothing ia also much soiled. The ides lidcation is complete, even to the red birthmark described in the circu am issued by the chief o| police of I evr York.

Father Receives His Babe. Arthur Clark, the father of the abducted baby, arrived here at fi:30 last evening, accompanied by Sergeant Morris, of Capt. McCluskys staff. Mr. Clark immediately identified thb child fcund in the custody of Mrs. Jennie Wilson by Deputy Sheriff Charlston, a-i his lost Marion. FOUND NOTHING SUSPICIOUS. Reassuring Telegram from the Los< lsiana State Board of Health— No Fever in New Orleans. New Orleans, June 3.—By direc ion of the Louisiana State board of health at their meeting yesterday the following telegram was forwarded to the several state boards of health interested in the reported case of yellow :’eter in this city: ^Representatives of this hoard trith representatives of Alabama and Mississippi, accompanied by Surgeon Murray, of the United States Marine hospital service, inspected all hospitals and hospital records in New Orleans and found nothing suspicious. It is probable that the several hospitals will make their final report to-day. Nothing justifies the slightest apprehension.” ARE NOT CONTRACT LABORERS. The Filipino Actors Detained at Son Francisco Will he Allowed to Land. Washington, June 3.—It 1ms been decided to allow the company of Filipino actors now detained at San Francisco, to enter the United States for the purpose of giving exhibitions. They will be required, however, to furnish a bond that they will return to their homes after the expiration of their engagement. This case has been a difficult one to decide, because of the fact that these Filipinos came to theis country under contract to give exhibitions. It will be held, however, that they are not contract laborers within the meaning of the contract labor law, and hence may be admitted under the conditions which the secretary will impose. Always Knew It. London, June 2.—The Rome correspondent of the Daily Mail says: j “Lieut.-Col. Panizzardi( military attache of the Italian embassy in Paris when Dreyfus was condemned), informs me that the Italian embassy always knew that Esterkazy wrote the bordereau.” Swept by a Tornado. Marion, Ind., June 2.—A tornado swept the outskirts of Sweeter, six | miles west of Marion, yesterday. Ths | Brickner window glass iactorr was doI etroyed.

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