The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-06-06
(From the Denver RoadD

From the Denver Road.)
large congregation greeted Rev. Myron
heed yesterday morning when he appeared
IN the pulpit of the First Congregational
Chufch for the first time in many weeks.
Inc popular preacher took for his text
samuel l. 46: Things that canont be
spoken" He said in part
There is God in Israel. It is a mis-
fortune for man to think more of him
self than he ought to think, and to do SO
'eaos TO many misfortunes. Capt Cook
permitted the savages of the Sandwich
iSiands to think that he was god, and
'hey examined into the matter with a club
IL ne had been god the club would not
tne huit MIN. II he was not then he was
Har ana ought to have been hurt. Let
nv man persuade the people that he is very
WISE moses was we'll aware that the peo-
pie of Israel could not in every emerpencv
uePend upon him. He was a great man
pu' NE was greater than he. So he began
very carry to educate the people into the
unousnt mat he was over them, so there
was some one over him. He saws to them
pNer ana over again, Thus saith the
Lolu. lie knew very we'll that soon thew
Nouiu pe saying, We follow YOU but Won
are 1allible man. Unless he could point
~ d ieaoer above himself he could not
look by day at a pillar of cloud and h1,
hisht at pillar of flame. He remained in
ms own opinion a man under orders So
.ii as Know he did not know the mean
ing oi all MS commandments He received
anu gave them, and being not his com
nandments he did not need TO exnlain
mem. He could not explain to them. nor
'iihh, 10 himself. the meaning of that
%isZag Journey through the wilderness. A
s.lalsht cut across from the sea to the
n mo
| was made matter of 40 years
It seems to us to have been natter
~ UNI OF marching and camp life, in or
oe, 70 get the slave out of them and the
soldier into them
THE PRESENT IS WHAT pEpD1Ex-r,c
we can see the reason for an event
On TINS side of the event the reason is
Pialn. but IN the time of an event the rea-
son is plain. But in the time of an event
.he reason is not plain. We understand
me eighteenth century better than our own
Ine present Is what most perplexes us.
one reads with some comprehension the his
cory ol the crusades and the peasants war
but the things that are being done TODAY
no one comprehends. Abraham went ont
not Knowing whittier he went We know,
whittier and why. A man feels that he
must go and do. He is not able to ex
PAIN put there Is necessity laid unon
him. what the old prophets called a. bur
oen' and he is in haste to bear it to the
~ anu lay II uoWn me historian comes
along ana the reason is clear to him and
he says: Well done, good and faithful
servant. Hard was the work of Columbus
Out harder for him not to have done it.
Nothlng so convinces me of the great
God as the life of great men. AS they
oecailie great they became unconscious and
simple In their ways. So far as I know
there is not a self conscious great man in
history. They are all great listeners They
are all believers in God-perhaps not in anv
definition of God. but God There is some
tnlnS the matter with the head of an
athelSt. He does not account for the events
Oh history. 1t certainly requires as much
genius to construct the play of Joseph
the son OF Jacob as one of the plays of
Shakespeare The coat of many colors has
as much tragedy in it as the handkerchief
in Othello. 1t is written The fool hath
said in his heart there is no God There
was something the matter with his head
pefore there was anything the matter with
his heart
"A friend of mine began not long ago
10 READ the historical works of Francis
Parkman, which deal, as you know with
the discovery and settlement of America
beng man of business, rather than of
letters, he said to himself, Now will get
good novel to read along from time
to time as 1 read these histories. and so
rest myset to endure the toll of Park
man. He informs me that he has read
ehe Il volumes of Parkman, and has not
read the novel. So much more interest
ing is history. There is a plan and a plot
sequence in it. One event fits into
another Spanish and French and Emo
fish quarrel up and down this continent
lhey are all at cross purposes Settlers
from the same nation are in one anoth-
efs way Some kind of war drum is
neard from Quebec to the gulf But out
VI II come the state and provinces. The
men who figure in these transactions are
unconscious of what they do. They are
as rule compelled men. They die think
ing that they have done one thing. and
sometime find out that they did a better
ana larger. If it had been possible some
native of the wilderness would have sat
on the fence and looked at the strapglinp
mop or Hebrews led by Noses and in
CURED Where you goin'?' No one could
nave answered the one-suspendered cues
.toh' Inc only answer would have been,
alt until the historian comes along
suppose that nothing could have been
more hungry and sore than the ESCAPING.
mob of Moses. They missed their cucum.
| bers and leeks, and said Would God we
| mad died in Egypt And I have no doubt
tnat Moses said softly to himself Womb
| God they had
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON
Men inquire what is to be the end of this
persistent though broken march on Wash
lngton TO me 1t is very interesting When
man can find no work and has no money
| al Is forbidden to take a nap in the nuhic
street the only free land there is. l admire
| MIN for walking. The middle of the road is
dl present MS Tor that purpose, not the
grass. L like the direction of the march T
would like to see half a million of the nm
employed camped in and around the District
OF Columbia From there most of orr woes
have come, there let them return Let tho
chickens Matched in and around Washing
ton go home and roost. Out of the botanical
gardens at Washington $4,000, 900 America MS
have never had a flower. When President
Garfield died, Queen Victoria, we heard
sent wreath to lay upon his casket That
wreath never cost the worthy old lady a
cent. She franked the royal kilograms and
the flowers all came out of the botanical
garden. A great deal too much fuss was
made over that wreath
In 1853 John Brown made a move ONLY
three ministers in New York city Thought
at that time that there was anything in if
We cannot precisely tell what will come of
any current event I do not believe in any
man who does not believe in God, and God
in current events. There is God in Israel
AS he works with a nation he works with
| an individual. In every pain and loss and
sickness and by every grave 1 hear Him
say, What l do We know not how but We
shall know hereafter
Resolutions IndOrsing Gen. Coxev
and the Saltwater Irvine Plant.
Editor Representatve-Dear Sir: Pleas
allow space for the following resolutions
| passed in the Alliance meeting held in
Lake Lillian the I'd day of this month:
Whereas, A number of men under the
| leadership of Gen. Coxey have Travelled to
| Washington to demand of congress the
| rights of the laboring classes, and
Whereas Gen. CoXey and some of b;S