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The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-03
A motto for working men and women;
~ dollars North of dollar for a dollars
Worth of work."


Ia an interview pubhsh9d'TR the
Baltimore Sun, Mr.. William 4.
Walsh, the well known young attor-
ney of Cumberland who has always
been actively identified with Demo
cratic politics in Western Maryland,
states very plainly why he cannot
accept the Chicago platform. Mr.,
Walsh is son of the late Hon. VIM.
Walsh, who was elected to Congress
from the Sixth Maryland District
in 1876. He expresses the opinion
that free coinage of silver would re-
suit in higher prices and fuc-
tuating currency, and he finds even
more objectional features in the
Chicago platform than the money
issue.
An editorial in the Sun, headed
"a Chip of the Old Block" says;
"Mr. William +. Walsh, of Cum
berland, whose sound Democracy
cannot be questioned, declare that
he'cannot subscribe to the doctrines
enunciated by the Chicago platform
and that he will not vote for Bryan
and Sewall. Mr.. Walsh looks upon
a profession of political faith as
something real, not as something
to get into power by protesting. He
says it should be declaration Of
belief in other words a real thing,
not sham, not adopted from mo.
tiyes Of expediency or hope Of pre-
ferment. "
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-03
The Farmer and Free Silver

The Popocratic writers and speak
ers, finding that acknowledgment of
the country are against them, are
now making their incendairy APP
peals exclusively to the agricultural
class, and Mr.. Bryan's oratorical
pyrotechnics are all fired off in
that direction. The assumption
is that the farmers as a class are
heavily in debt and that, no matter
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-03
Death of a Worthy Man,

To the Editor The Republican.
Michael burst died on the 2Sth
of August, 1896, at Preston, Min
nesota. His death came as sur
prise, though it was known to a few
that he had been a sick man for the
whole of the summer, and that he
did not expect to endure much
longer. On the 5th day of this
month he wrote to your contributor
full letter in his usual fair, clear
and distinct hand, from which the
following is extracted: II hardly
expect to stay here much longer. l
am perfectly willing to 60 whenever
my time comes" Still his death
was as unexpected as sorrowful.
He was born in 1919, a few miles
south of Grantsville in Garrett
county. Soon after the death of
his wife in 1890 he sold out his
belongings and moved to the place
where he died. He never since saw
the scenes and faces he so much
loved. In the letter referred to, he
said there was not a single day that
he did not ponder over the precious
things left behind. What a beau
tiful trait in our nature-"Home,
Sweet Home" The many feel it;
the few do not. But he took his
burial thousand miles from the
grave of his Julia, and the noun
tain scenes so familiar to him for
three score and ten years. In such
cases there are unknown and IN
told yearnlngs for realities "once of
mine"
In his long, useful and virtuous
life he held a number of offices,
among them commissioner of Gar
rett county for 1879. In all of
which there were fitness and eff
cheney, with clean record behind.
He left eight living children, four
of each sex, all unusually bright
and well-doing, without a blemish
on their fair characters. All in
the west for some wears except
Daniel H., who is thriving mer-
chant at Frostburg.
Michael burst had bright, in
taking mind; quite intelligent, with
memory that held much and lost
little, and withal clear judgment.
lie had faculty of gaining infor-
nation easily and imparting it to
others readily. 1t was natural to
love and respect such an one. He
Will be greatly missed, not merely
by his large and devoted family, but
by many others here and there, and
by none more than he who pens
these feeble lines. His many i'm
partings will come no more, no not
even to give him some information
sought in a letter written him in
the last week in his life. A friend
in youth, in mid life and old age.
He has left void impossible to fill.
J.B.
Cumberland, Aug. 81, 1896.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1896-09-03
Cumberland, Aug. 81, 1896.

A motto for working men and women;
"A dollars north of dollar for dollars
Worth of york.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05
REV. Il. j. MACKAY,
Episcopal.

Many a clergyman as he looks out today
over the large congregation before him. will
be tempted to reproach those who are not
regular worshippers in his church, who are
only attracted by the beautiful flowers and
the glowing music; but II he stops to think,
no will see in tho large attendance a tribute
to the deepest feelings OF the human heart,
an evidence OF that blessed hope OF immortal
ity, which is as natural to all the human
race 10 the desire for happiness. which
over lures II on. These occasional wor-
shippers show by their attendance on this
joyous day that although they may not be
able TO grasp all the doctrines Of the Chris
tian faith, deep down In their hearts they
ehare with us the joys OF the blessed season.
We dare not reproach them. we welcome
them to share In our joy, and II by any word,
by any strain OF music, by any thought sug-
gested by the lilies, they are awakened to
see the real significance OF the ''life eternal I"
let us be thankful to sow the seed now, as
at all times, leaving results to God | be-
love that we are growing year by year into
fuller and truer conceptions OF the life to
come, conceptions which must commend
themselves to the reason, as well as to the
emotions OF every earnest soul. So grossly
and hell and the future life. that IL was no
wonder intelligent and spiritually minded
men and women shrank from accepting them
The desire for life beyond the grave Is uni
yersal. to clothe that desire with concep-
tion which shall awaken the soul to climb
and strive after It. 10 the duty OF the Chris
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05
REV. II. Il. CRAMBLET,
Christian.

At all times the observation OF SOLEMN
festal seasons has formed part of the public
exercises of religion. pl So also, the most
ancient festival Of Easter, which, dating
from the earliest dayslpf the apostles, is
held in commemoratiop of the resurrection.
The annual remembrance Of this most
stupendous fact of all history, from apostolic
time down to the present form an unanswer-
able argument for the reliability of the New
Testament's statements CONCERNING the resur-
rection of Jesus Christ, To one who will
follow the golden chain Of annual Easter re-
turns. then is the assurance, that after many
years, and many centuries there must come
to his yiew in JOseph's garden. the empty
tomb. He will hear, with the disciples OF
old. the joyous announcement, THE Lord is
risen indeed" He will behold that first
Lords morning which began in gloom. and,
in the dread Of cruel insult, frightened into
hope, and as the day came to an end and the
several disciples who had seen their risen
Lord are gathered together to relate their
experiences, he will behold the clouds rolled
away, the gloom dispeled and the torture
Of suppressed hope melt before the gathered
glory. He will behold gloom Of doubt
flooded with the light OF certainty.
Easter commentaries annually what the
Lords day does weekly. This is fact that
should not be lost sight Of in the worship
of today. To the Apostolic church
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

castle. Without it our religion is house built
upon the shifting sand, ready to fall at the
first tempest of inidelity. The resurrection
of Christ is the final answer to the question
ing about immortality. With death Christ
laid aside the earthly condition of weaknesses
and infrmities of human nature, as the nap
kin and graveclothes, taking on the giorfed
state that shall be ours, but which eye hath
not seen. nor ear heard. nor the heart r!
man conceived. The Easter fact Is the con-
firmation OF our peace, Joy and hope, and
the imparting of the advantage Of the power
to rise again to our human nature.
From the days of Jobs suspectng "in my
flesh shall | see God" clearer and still
clearer has the truth been apprehended with
the widening horizon of prophetic vision
until at last the fulness of the truth has been
demonstrated to the confirming of Christ's
own consolng words, 81 am the resurrection,
and the life; he that beieyeth in Me, though
He were dead yet shall he live" And the
truth of the gospel is established by Christ S
empty tomb and Christians are always and
everywhere convinced that Jesus, as antici-
pated by David long years before. Is The
Son of God with power by reason Of the
resurrection. AS DR.. South says, Thus as
Christ's resurrection irrefragably proves the
resurrection of the rest Of mankind, so 1t
no less proves Christ Himself to have been
the Messiah, for that having all
along affirmed Himself to be SO,
affirmed by His miraculous rising again, and
80 gave as strong a proof of His Messiah
ship as infinite power, Joined with equal
veraclty, could give" From this strong
central artery the life Of Christian faith has
streamed on through the worlds history.
made of sterner stun than the follies OF
knight errantry Cervantes attacked with the
kesn blade Of ridicule and demolished
Through Jesus Christ the apostles preached
the resurrection of the dead, On this historic
fact the preaching OF Paul and the other
apostles rested 1t Is this fact gives today
point and value TO preaching, lifting 1t
above earnest rlfing to something positive
and more than worthless foollshness.
It gives to faith the assurance OF lively
hope toward God. DR.. Mulford says: "The
faith Of the resurrection, therefore. must al
ways come with associations of Joy. II is
the conquest OF life. The final victory is
not with death. For the love that is
stronger than death leado faith to look
through death. Whatever be the confusion
and variance OF the world, and however
widely misery prevail on the earth. the
church Will still strive to celebrate Its sery-
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

with the dawn. This is the brightest and
best OF Easter thoughts. Easter again brings
moral and spiritual relnforcements to every
man struggling for a better life. Christ is
rsenl Do we not conquer the world in the
power OF that fact? Do we not see that man
Is larger than the earth? Mightier than
time? Sovereign over his environment?
Defiant Of chance and change? Because he
is here, scholar in a temporary school,
an apprentice in training, an heir under
tutors and governors; because to him be-
long the gray eternities, the boundless pos
sbility OF endless endeavor, the measureless
spaces and the infinite climbings; because
he is for a day In the shadows and for
evermore in the light that knows no dark
ness; because he belongs to the changeless
things and the abiding, therefore he should
stand upon his high calling and make this
life his servant to help him on--its failures
and successes, its Joy and sorrow, its want
ana It's abundance alike to help him on and
help him up toward the gates Of that high
city that is his home Easter gives to this
life all It's meaning and to human endeavor
all its dignity. What can be more unmean-
ing than mans life if the life of sense and
time be all? Truly it is like "a tale told by
an idiot, full Of sound and fury, signfying
nothing" The white radiance Of eternity
streaming through 1t from above gives all
its meaning to that dome OF many-colored
glass" which men call life.
What kind of life then should Easter in
spire? A life manful, hopeful helpful, cour-
ageous. prayerful. patient, because we are in
world redeemed, in life sanctified by the
Lord who died for u.s. and are to use 1t so
and live 1t so that when the hour comes to
leave 1t we may find the curtains lifted on
no darkness, but the road aglow with the
eternal footsteps Of Him who walked that
way before us, and who shivered all the
night of death with the splendor and power
of His resurrection.
This day we greet each other with the
old Christian salutation-old as the first
Easter, wide as the world-uttered every
Easter morning in all the tongues of men,
Christ is risen"
II say to thee, do thou repeat
To the first man thou mayest meet
In lane highway open street."
Christ is risen!
THAT doubt and trouble, fear and pain
And anguish, all are shadows vain:
That death itself shall not remain;''
Christ is risen!
For you, for me, for al that sleep;
For hearts that sing; for hearts that weep,
Christ is risen!
Careless, happy girl, surrounded by sister
blCssoms joyous, eager boy, intent upon the
first fruit of power; man bowed in grief and
woman blind from tears; Christianity takes
you by the hand today and repeats the
blessed, blessed tidings-"Chrst is risen"
JOHN MQUOID.
Pastor First Methodist Episcopal Church.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

been no Christ to teilt6f without He had a
beginning. we accept--the whole story
Of His birth. We also accept the historic
fact Of His death, and the historic fact OF
His resurrection from death. as we accept
all the history OF His life.
There is no sting In death; there Is no
victory for the grave, when we are resting
our souls on the finished work OF Jesus. and
can look on the grave as the door OF entrance
into Eternal Joy. over the horizon Of the
earth, dawning Frightening, rises another
light. which is not that Of the sun From
the midst Of the clouded glory above. from
the bosom OF its august mystery, come the
warning and the welcome OF heaven to
earth" There is no north pole nor south
pole, no dark side Of the earth, no time
when there Is night, when that light Is shin
ing; but wherever that light has arisen there
has been everlasting day, and 1t will be so
and the day will become brighter, continu-
ally, and the light that came Into the world
with Jesus will drive all darkness from the
whole earth.
Easter means TO all the earth the resurrec-
tion Of hope. We live in a day when all
statements are being tested; men want fact
and not fancy. They want fact when II
comes to questions bearing on eternity.
Here we have the fact Of Christs resurrec-
tion, more certainly established by historic
evidence than many other events, which we
credit. But, after ALL the greatest proof is
in the living examples OF earnest Christians.
Every firesde where there Is the open bible
every chapel and church building and Chris
new life that is exhibited in the Christian
is an eternal beacon light in the world The
new life that is seen in the individual, tho
new life that is exhibited in the Christian
church, the new life exerting its influence in
the world, is an argument for the resurrec-
ton of Jesus. Before such arguments i'm
perlal Rome could not stand" and before
these same arguments all nations Of earth are
sure to bow.
What is the meaning Of Easter? That
there is no night of DEATH but promises of
a golden tomorrow; that there is no victory
over the soul by the powers of darkness and
hell, which Christ has not already turned
to defeat for our great enemy; that there is
no earthly sorrow which Heaven will not
heal. That lost, hopeless soul, drifting on
the borders of eternity, may be resurrected
to joyous and eternal life through Jesus
Christ.
The practical meaning of the resurrection
Of Jesus is seen in the elevation, the up
lifting of mankind. To lift up the fallen, to
restore the hopeless, to point the dying to
living Savior to proclaim the love of God
to all the world. as demonstrated in the
death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Look
up, rise up, lift up.
There is no king of terrors for the believer
in the Lord Jesus Christ; instead of fear
there Is confidence and love for the King of
Kings. the Lord of Life, Our Lord Jesus
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

we shall occupy there. To believe otherwise
and make paradise and heaven a dull and
level plane of mediocrity would bo to cramp
tho mighty intellect of Newton or Shake
speare and transform a Beethoven into
mediocrity worse than annlhilation. Shall
heaven be less interesting than this mother
earth, and souls be compelled to descend, in
stead of continually progressing In the
ampler life of that heavenly cline? oh, no.
there must be degrees in glory there even
more marked than here. All will shine. all
will possess life. but that life transferred
to a broader sphere. will have greatly en-
larged powers, and will live to the utmost of
its desires, no longer cramped by the do
minion of matter. but free as the eagle to
wing its flight into the supreme blue.
Strive, oh. soul! Aspire unweariedly. The
eternal life is within you before you. The
struggle for Immortality Is enabling. Sue
cess must crown your earnest efforts.
For he who asplres unweariedly is ne'er
beyond redeeming."
THOMAS j. MACKAY,
Rector All Saints Church.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05
REV. JOHN GORDON, DID,,
Presbyterian.

mo one is 50 dead, he or she cannot rise
again and live Such is the message Of
hope Easter has for our living dead.
1t has it for the dead woman. She is dead
socially. dead to her family, dead morally,
dead spiritually, living IN a tomb that is full
of horrors and corruption. living a life of
shame that is living death. She dies
daily and only comes TO life to die again.
She has already died thousand deaths.
Worst of all, she is dead 20 hope. Let her
consider the Easter lily more splendid IN its
dress than Solomon, and more wise in
its teachings than was the wlsest man that
ever lived. Its less IN for her is that Though
she has died a thoua,"d times with Gods
help, she may come up out OF her grave and
live henceforth pure, sweet life
1t has message for the drunkard, who is
bound hand and foot in the grave clothes Of
his habit, as was Lazarus. The verdict in
his ca has long been tHat it Ia too late to
resusctate I'm. All that has been said to
him for years has been "Do you not know
that you are dead? Why, thea do you still
walk the face of the earth? Away; back to
your grave" Now, cometh Faster, and
~aith to him. Come forth Burst the grave
clothes of habit There is no death in life
corrupt you cannot be loo9ed from its
power. In the name of God, stand forth!
Livew
1t has lesson for whoever has made ship
wreck of life. For the business man whose
ventures have all failed, who has died out
of the business world where he was once
a power and who feels that for him there 10
no commercial resurrection-to him comes
Easter, saying "As the world around you is
waking from the sleep of death, as the
spring is wrestling victory from winter: 50
out OF your failure and your bankruptcy with
Gods blessing, you can ccnouer fortune
anew. Begin life anew. God may yet J
double all lost things to you, as he did to
job"
1t has the same practical lesson for those |
whose hopes are all broken, whose friends |
are all estranged, or dead, whose homes were |
long ago dismantled, who, like Rip Van Win |
kle have outlved their generation, and VINO |
walk the streets as separate from their ac- |
tivities as those who on the day of cruel |
fixion left the tombs hewn in the slopes of |
the valley of Jehosaphat, and walked the
streets of the Holy City unknown and un-
recognized of those who thronged them.
repair; no death in life but may become
aga'n a fair. full life. You may begin, to-
day, and live another life in this present
beautiful world, fuller, richer than that for
which you mourn. Despair not! EDpe.
This lost life yet to be lived in this world
may be better than that former life of broken
hopes, and desolated homes, and miscarried
ventures and dead friends. Begin anew. If
God please, your last state may be better
than the first as was Jobs"
To every human beng Easter brings this
practical lesson, mo matter how low you
have sunk. by Gods grace a second probation
may begin for you this Easter day, and you
may live a resurrected life In this life and
before the other-the future life"
JOHN GORDON. d. D.,
Pastor Westminster Presbyterian Church.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05
REV. FRANK w. FOSTER,
Baptist.

co. death, where is thy sting? O., grave.
where Is thy victory?"-I Cor. iv; SO.
Queen Katherine:
Spirits of peace, where are yeg
Saw ye not, even now, blessed troop
Invite me to a banquet, whose bright faces
Cast thousand beams upon me, like the
sun?
They promised me eternal happiness.
Every human life is drawing nearer. day
by day. to the dark grave. Every one has
been called upon to pause, and will be called
again to pause, and step aside for a little
while, and stand with the mourners. and
join the funeral train, while the busy crowds
in the marts Of trade and in the activities
of everyday life pass on.
There is nothing in the history OF Jesus
Of Nazareth that is more positively youched
for by those who knew Him, and have left
US the Gospels, than the account OF his resur-
recticn from the dead. Between two stu
pendous mysteries the whole life OF Christ
Is included the mystery of his birth and
the mystery OF his resurrection. We accept.
all the world-that knows of Jesus-accepts
the story OF His life. included between these
two great events; and as there could have
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

every first day Of the week was
an Easter and as such was yemen
bered By the disciples in the observance Of
the Lords supper, that abiding monument
reared by the Savior himself, teaching so
many times each year the great Easter truth
Of the resurrection upon which the hope Of
the world depends. Certainly truth 80
fundamental In our faith aud hope should
have more than an annual remembrance.
On this account, in the primitive church, the
institution Of the Lords supper, commemora-
tive OF the death and resurrection OF Jesus,
was a part Of the worship Of every Lord 5
day. The New Testament has a great deal
more to say about the weekly than the an
nual remembrance OF the great fact OF the
resurrection The old Jewish Sabbath COM
memorated the completion OF the work OF
creation. while the Lords day commentaries
the completion OF a greater work-that OF
redemption. II is not, therefore, sufficient TO
have but one day in year that speaks OF
this great truth. To the Master and His
apostles it seemed necessary to have one day
in seven and particular ordinance observed
on this particular day. both speaking the
same message OF gladsome hope. II this
truth is kept in mind, 1t is proper to make
this annual recurrence Of the time or our
Lords victory over the grave a season Of
special blessing to the church.
One other helpful thought In connection
with this Easter season is that OF living.
not a crucihed Christ. Behold He is alive
forevermore and he ever llveth to make In
tercession for us. Out from that halowed
grave He of the thorned-crowned head is
walking down the troubled ages, lifting from
bruised and staggering man the burden Of his
woes, speaking peace and hope. And here
where chdhood's first lisping learn at
mothers knees and from mothers tongue
we know that the triumph of His love, and
His truth and His type Of manhood. Then
let the song of our Easter joy and hope be
sung until its melody touches every heart,
soothes every sorrowing soul of the race.
gains every victory for right, touches and
soothes and wins. T. L. CRAMBLET,
Pastor First Christian Church.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-05

Christ; for "The Lord is risen indeed"
While death sat victorious, for brief day,
over the tomb of the Lord, and while sin
seemed to claim universal and eternal sway
over the hearts of men, the whole earth was
wrapped in darkness and dreadful doubt.
Near the dawning of the resurrection day
the very earth trembed; and lo the charnel
house lost its gloom and was robbed of its
victim; the glory of heaven encircled Joseph's 5
tomb the king of terrors fell, like the old
time dagon had fallen. in the presence of
God; end the Lord Jesus took his rightful
place on the throne of the earth and in the
hearts of men. Resurrected, exalted, glori-
fled Taedeemer of Men. imperial Son of God.
the hope OF Israel andof all the earth. Be-
cause He lives We shall live also
FRANK w. FOSTER,
Pastor Immahnel Baptist Church.