St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-26

knows the ten-thousandth part of the
length and breadth, and depth and height
of anguish of Northern and Southern bat
tlefelds. Why did these fathers leave their
children and
GO TO THE FRONT?
and why did these young men, postponing
the marriage day, start out into the proba
bilities OF never coming back? For the
country they died. Life for life. Blood
for blood. Substitution. But we need not
go so far. What is that monument in
Greenwood? 1t is to the doctors who fell
i'll the Southern epidemics. Why go?
were there not enough sick to be attended
to in these Northern latitudes? Oh yes;
but the doctor puts few medical books in
his valise and some vials of medicine. and
leaves his patients here in the hands Of
other physicians, and takes the rail train
Before he gets to the infected regions he
passes crowded rail trains, regular and eX-
ira, taking the flying and atfrghted popula-
ton. He arrives in a city over which a
great horror Is brOodlng. He goes from
couch to couch, feeling of pulse and study
ing symptoms and prescribing, day after
day, night after night, until a fellow phySi
clan says: doctor, you had better go
home and rest; you look miserable" But
he cannot rest while so many are suffering.
On and on until some morning finds him in
delirium, in which he talks of home, and
then rises and says he must go and look
after those patients. He is told to lie down,
but he fights his attendants until he falls
back, and is weaker and weaker, and dies
for people with whom he had no kinShip
and far away from his family, and is hastily
put away in strangers tomb, and only the
fifth part OF newspaper line tells US of his
sacrifice; his
NAME JUST MENTIONED
among five. Yet he has touched the fur
theSt height of sublimity in that three
weeks of humanitarian service. He goes
straight as an arrow to the bosom of Him
who said, Il was sick and ye visited me-"
Life for life. Blood for blood. SubStitu-
ton. The most exciting and overpowering
day of last summer was the day 1 spent on
the battlefield of Waterloo. Starting out
with the morning train from Brussels,
Belgium. we arrived in about an hour on
that famous spot A son of one who was
in the battle and who had heard from his
father thousand times the whole scene re-
cited. accompanied us over the field. There
stood the old Hougomont Chateau, the walls
dented and scratched and broken and shat
tered by grape-Shot and cannon-ball. There
is the well in which 800 dying and dead
were pitched. There is the chapel with the
head of the infant Christ shot off. There
are gates at which for many hours English
and French armies wrestled. Yonder
were the 160 guns of the English and the
250 guns of the French. Yonder the Han
overlan Hussars ied for the woods. YOn-
der was the rayine of Ohaine. where the
French cavalry, not knowing there was a
hollow in the ground, rolled over and
down, troop after troop, 1900 horses and
l, 500 men tumbled into Ole awful mass of
suffering; hoof of kicking horses against
brow and breast of captains and colonels
and private soldiers, the human and the
beastly groan kept up until, the day after,
all was
sHoYELED UNDER,
because of the malOdor arising in that hot
month of June. There" said our guide,
1.-THE Highland regiments lay down on their
faces waiting for the moment to spring upon
the foe. In that orchard $500 men were
cut to pieces. Here stood Wellington with
white lips, and by that knoll rode Marshal
Ney on his sixth horse, five having been
shot under him. Here the ranks of the
French broke and Marshal Ney with his
body slashed by sword and his hat off and
his face covered with powder and blood,
tried to rally his troops as he cried: Come
and see how marshal of France dies on the
battlefield From yonder direction
Grouchy was expected for the French re-
enforcement, but he came not. Around
! those woods Blucher was looked for to re-
! inforce the English, and just in time he
came up. Yonder is the field where Napo
leon stood, his arm through the reins of the
horses bride, daZed and unstrung, trying
to go back. Scene of battle that went on
from 11:35 o'clock on the 18th OF
June until 4 o'clock, when the English
seemed defeated and their commander cried
out: boys! can you think of giving
way? Remember old England" and the
tides turned, and at s o'clock in the evening
the man of destiny, who was called by hi,
troops Old Two Hundred Thousand, turned
away
| WITH BROKEN HEART,
and the fate of centuries was decided NJ
wonder a great mound has been rearet
there hundreds of feet high, mound a
the expense of millions of dollars and many
years in rising, and on the top is the grea
Belgian lion of bronze, and grand old lioI
it is. But our great Waterloo was in Pal
estine. There came day when all hel
came up led by Apollyon, and the Captain
OF our salvation confronting them alone, th
Rider on the white horse of the Apocalyp
going out against the black horse cavalry o
Death. From II o'clock at noon to o'clocl
in the afternoon, the greatest battle of tn
universe went on. Eternal destinies wer
being decided. All the arrows of hel
pierced our Chieftain, and the battle-aXe
struck Him until brow and cheek an,
shoulder and hand and foot were incarna
dined with oozing life, but He fought OF
until He gave final stroke with swort
from Jehoyah's buckler, and the command
er-in-chief of hell and all his forces fel
back in everlasting ruin, and the victory
ours, and on the mound that celebrates th
triumph we plant this day two figures, no
in bronze or iron or sculptured marble, bu
two figures of living light, the Lion o
Judah'S tribe and the Lamb that was slain
Beecher's Sermon.
Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, Oct. 25.-The Fisk jubile
singers occupied the front seat in MI
Beechers church to-day and sang some O
their melodies after the service. MI
Beecher said they got their first start i
Plymouth church, and he was glad to Sc
them back again. Mr.. Beechers text com
prised Matthew XII, 1924. and Luke xix.
41-41-the lament of Christ over Chora
zin. Bethsaida and Capernaum, and hi
sorrow over Jerusalem. 1t would seem t
the superficial observer, said Mr.. Beecher
as if the weeping over Jerusalem stood i
sharp opposition to the denunciation G
Capernaum and Chorazin. But they ar
part of one and the same thing. The de
nunciations of our Savior were not loud
harsh and red-faced. There is nothing in tn
text which prevents as mild an impression
connected with one as with tn
other. The compassion of Chris
is for self-deStroyed city,
b,oo+bol ;,,,+ ,,,,ob -, +I,o boo,t ~.