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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
PRAYER.
Written for the Sunday Light.

Written for the Sunday Light.
The question what is the Almighty
that we should serve Him and what
profit shall we have If we pray unto
Him" is to say the least, is not an or
iginal one with our San Antonio friend
Please read Job, 21st chapter
Gods people have always believed in
the effacacy of prayer. Why believe
in prayer do you ask? 1 answer, be-
cause there is that in every man that
under extreme circumstances, such as
joy, sadness, danger, ETC., will cause
him to pray and because this principle
accords with the good book, which says
men ought always to pray" BY the
term men none are excluded, and
Christ says, " ask and we shall re-
ceive." Paul says, pray without ceas-
ing" and 1 could almost fill up your
Daily Light with exhortations to pray
er and with examples of Gods people
of every age, praying and showing
the answers to their prayers. But does
prayer change God? No one believes
it 4. Let me illustrate. A fond parent
has son whom he wishes to raise to
mans estate, to be a credit to himself
and an honor to his country. He maps
out a course to pursue with regard
his boy, all along life from boyhood to
manhood. At sometime or other the
child comes to the parent with request
(prayer) that he be'allowed to visit a
young friend, go hunting or something
Of that kind. The parent grants the
prayer But this answer to the child's
prayer does not in the least change the
parent, for part of his original plan
was to allow the child all reasonable
pleasures. Just so. although God is
constantly granting our requests, he
is not changed. But suppose the child
asks for a sharp tool or a blaze of the
lamp or anything which the paren,
knows would be an injury, the prayer,
in mercy to the child is not granted.
These are faint illustration to the mind
that would learn, for the mind that
will not learn I, make no argument.
1t is not contended that God does not
know all our wants before we ask
his; but as he has instructed his child
rem to let their wants be made known
to him by prayer" we take it that it
is his will for Us TO pray and not 20
pray would be to live in open rebellion
against his authority. But what bene-
fit is there in prayer? 1t cannot bene-
fit God. Then can it benefit man?
would answer, most assuredly it can.
In the first place prayer keeps God in
the human mind. n we did not go TO
God in prayer, He would soon pass
from memory and we would have no
more knowledge OF Him than the
theathen has, In the second place
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
AN UN-BELIEvER QUOTES SCRIP
TURE.

To the Sunday Light.
Noticing that your Sunday edition
has become the theatre of quite an en-
Pertaining polemical discussion 1 de-
sire to intervene with plea against
the orthodox idea of the so-called pro-
phecy of Isaiah concerning the Mes
siah. Both the Protestant and Catho-
lie catechism teach with startling en-
phasis, that Isaiah directly predicted
the coming of Christ when he used the
exclamation, Behold a virgin shall
conceive and bear a son and his name
shall be called Emanuel" The book
of Matthew which reiterates and is
founded upon these words, claims that
the child referred to was Christ, while
the Christian pulpits throughout the
world have re-echoed with each recur-
ring Christmas tide, the same words
giving to them the same meaning. 1t
is my purpose to prove and prove with
the certainty of mathematical demon
stration that the alleged prophet had
no reference to Christ when he spoke;
that he was dealing with a contempt
raneous event; that his words have
been tortured into their present mean
ing; and this will do from the Bible
itself.
BY referring to the book of Isaiah,
chapter it will be seen by the opening
paragraphs that the king of Syria, al
leging himself with the king of Israel
Zone of the two tribes into which the
Jewish nation was at that time divid-
ed made war jointly against Ahaz
lit ~ I'd LII.
Jewish tribe. According to the ac-
count, verse 2, Ahaz and the people of
Judah were very much alarmed when
they heard that the allied sovereigns
were advancing upon Jeruselam. In
this dilemma Isaiah addressing himself
to king Ahaz, assured him that the
Lord would not allow the allied armies
to prevail against him and to satisfy
him that he was no false prophet,
Isaiah tells Ahaz to ask a sign of the
Lord, but upon Ahaz declining, Isaiah
says, verse IA, chapter Z: Therefore
the Lord himself shall give you sign;
behold virgin shall conceive and bear
son and his name shall be called
Emanuel; he shall eat butter and hon
ey that he may know to refuse the evil
and choose the good and verse 16 con-
tinuing says for before this child
shall know to refuse the evil and
choose the good, the land Q.ae. Syria
and Israeli which thou abhorest shall
be forsaken of the face Of her two
kings" This so-cailed prophesy was
made over 200 years before Christ ac-
cording to Bible chronology and could
not in any event have referred 70 him.
SIS its fulallment would have been in
the natme Of divine favor to Ahaz
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
BROWNS IRON BITTERS CO..

213 Presa and Sunset track.
214 Garden and Sunset track.
215 Camargo and San Juan.
PIG Camargo and Barrera.
PIT Labor and Santos.
21S Goliad and Plum.
219 Goliad and Newton.
220 Centre and Santa Clara.
221 Montana and Santa Clara.
222 Centre and Matagorda.
223 South and Rusk.
224 Water and Goliad.
225 Victoria and Matagorda.
226 Mission Hose company.
227 Alamo and Areceinega.
22S Alamo and Goliad.
229 Casino and Market.
230 Corcoran and Market.
231 Main plaza and Market.
232 Dolorosa and South Flores street.
233 Nueva and South Flores.
pa Guilbeau and South Flores.
235 Guilbeau and Dwyer avenue.
236 Nueva and Dwyer avenue.
237 Main plaza and Galan.
23S Main plaza and Main avenue.
239 North Flores and Commerce.
240 Main plaza and Soledad.
241 Houston and Soledad.
242 st. Mary's and Commerce.
243 st. Mary's and Houston.
Pa Corcorap and Commerce.
245 Navarro and Commerce.
246 Garden and Villita.
247 West Commerce and Alazan.
PAS Pereida and Garden.
249 Kingsley and California.
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giving him victories over enemies then
living-the fulfillment of the promise
being expressly limited as to time, viz:
before the child should know to refuse
evil and choose good'' To further con-
firm and ridiculous and barefaced per-
version which theologians have made
of this passage, Isaiah, in the next
chapter. verse 2, manoeuvred to pro-
duce the child sign certainly not
Christi which he had promised Ahaz
and says, And I took unto me faith
full witnesses, Urias the priest and
Zacharias the son of Barachias, and 1
went to the prophecies and she con-
ceived and bore son." So the virgin
of this foolish Bible story was not
Mary, nor the child Christ, yet minis
tiers have the effrontery to palm this
fraud off upon their congregations as
a direct illusion to Christ and Mary.
But let us charitably assume that
most of them are as deluded as their
listeners. / respectfully invite any
Catholic or Protestant, against whose
creeds the writer has no prejudice, to
take up their Bible and examine this
story of Isaiah for themselves, but 1t
may be as well to warn them that
when they do they will have to part
with one of their pet delusions. Much
more might be said against the unten-
ableness of the orthodox view of pro-
phesy, but have chosen to show the
false application of this one of Isaiah,
because it is the one most Wanted by
priests and preachers, and upon which
they and their followers have for CEN
turtles founded the gospel theory.
BRUCE WALLACE.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

prayer keeps the heart humble. In
confessing our dependence on Super
Tor Being, pride is banished and graf
itude is cultivated and naturally-or
would say spiritually-where there
is gratitude, love is forgotten for the
Being on whom we depend. Prayer
keeps men at one with another. 1t
promotes a friendly disposition from
man to man. 1t consigns to Oblivion
enmity and malice. We only ask of
God: .lfdE
THE mercy, to others show
That mercy show to me-
Why is it that so many prayers are
not answered?
How do you know that any prayer
is not answered? Gods ways are not
sur ways" He suits His own good
time and will serve His own purpose
in answering our prayers. The desire
of every Christian heart is that Gods
will shall be accomplished and this vein
of submission runs through all his
prayers. Is that If God sees proper 10
answer his prayers in some other way
he says Amen. One fond old parent
asked God to spare his dying boy, and
God took the chiIa to Himself-was
not the prayer granted? Did God not
spare the boy from the evil to come?
The ultimate good of his SON was the
true desire of the parent and God
knowing this answered the prayer, but
not as the parent expected-sparing
the boy to live might have been giving
Gods child (the parenD the blaze of
the lamp or an edged tool.
Enmity will reveal. Let me close
with a verse or two from a Christian
standpoint of loving submission to
God:
l saw young bride, in her beauty
and pride,
Bedecked in her snowy array,
And the bright flush of JOY mounted
high on her cheek
And her future looked blooming and
gay,
And with woman's devotion she laid
her fond heart,
At the shrine of idolition's love,
And she anchored her hopes in this
perishing earth,
By the chain which he tenderness
wove,
But l saw when those heart strings
were bleeding and torn,
And the chain had been severed in
two,
She had changed her white robes for
the sables of grief,
| And her bloom for the paleness of woe,
But the Healer was there pouring
balm on the heart
And wiping the tears from her eyes,
He had strengthened the chain, He
had broken in twain,
And fastened it firm to the skies.
There had whispered voice, twas the
voice of her God,
love thee, love thee, pass under the
rod.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
OUR PARKS
Written for Sunday Light:


San Antonio is justly proud of its
many public parks and plazas-thc
breathing places of our crowded city.
Without these parks the city WOULD be
half century behind modern reuuire-
ments. 1t is not many years ago that
the ground where now Alamo, Main
and Military plazas are situated was
nothing more than swampy open
space with lots of stagnans water,
toads and frogs; and Paschal square
was one of the largest open lots in
the city, filled up with weeds and
swampy pools of water. How times
have changed since those years! Our
large plazas now surrounded by pala-
tial buildings and all modern improve
ments, have been converted into pc
rennial flower gardens with fine gray
eled walks among a large variety of
tropical plants and ornamental shade
trees, here, at night tide, sweet mu-
sic greets the parading public. But
alas, these fine parks are not receiving
1T seems, as close attention as they
ought to and several are in a very
dilapidiated candition. The parks sit
uated in the heart of the city should
certainly receive as much, If not more
attention as the San Pedro Springs
park-one of the finest natural parks
in the country. Old Milan park on
Paschal square fronting the beautiful
Santa Rosa hospital buildings, for in
stance, is one of the much neglected
parks of the city lit shows a number
of fine shade trees but the entire prem
ises of this park are saturated with
high weeds and unsightly shrubbery
and the fence surrounding the park
grounds is about crumbling to pieces
for want of attention. Also the side
walks of that fine public square are in
bad condition.
1t cannot, OF course, he expected that
the present city administration can
remedy all the defects. of the city at
one time; it has it's hands full. but our
parks should undoubtedly receive early
and constant attention, as they add
considerably to the heatlhfulness and
prosperity Of the city. R. NJ.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

And his pathway grew smooth to their
feet;
And the starlight of love glimmered
bright at the end,
And the whispers of fancy were sweet,
And 1 saw them again bending low
DER the grave,
Where their hearts fondest hopes had
been lain,
And the stars had gone down in the
darkness of night,
And the joy from their bosom had fled,
But the Healer was there, and his
arms We're around
And he led them with tenderest care;
And he showed them star in the
bright upper world,
Twas their star shining brightly there,
They had each heard voice, twas the
voice of their God,
Il love thee, 1 love thee, pass under
the rod" w. w. SLOAN.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

Off1ce OF Commissioner of Agriculture,
Insurance, Statistics and History.
Austin, Texas, May 10th, 1897.
To all whom it may concern:
This is to certify that the Aetna Life
Insurance company, of Hartford, Con-
necticut, has in all respects fully COM
piled with the laws of Texas as condi-
tons precedent to it's doing business
in this state, and that said company
holds certificate of authority from
this office emitting it to do business in
this state for twelve months from the
LIST day of January, 1897 to the 31st
day of December, 1897.
Given under my hand and seal, at Of
flee, in Austin, the day and date
IL. 81 first above written.
ROBT. L. POLLARD,
Acting Commissioner.
White & Moore, General Agents,
Dallas, Texas.
W. G. Coffey. Special Agent, 215 Ala
mo plaza, San Antonio, Texas. 13-3w
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

say young mother in tenderness
bend
Ger the couch of her slumbering boy,
And she kissed the soft lips as they
murmured her name,
While the dreamer lay smiling in joy.
o! sweet as the rosebud encircled with
dew
When its fragrance is flung on the air,
So fresh and so bright to that mother
he seemed,
AS he lay in his innocence there.
But 1 saw when she gazed on the same
lovely form,
Pale as marble and silent and cold,
But paler and colder her beautiful boy,
And the tale of her sorrow was told;
But the Healer was there who had
stricken her heart
And taken her treasure away,
To allure her to Heaven, He had placed
it on high,
And the mourner will sweetly obey
There had whispered a voice, twas
the voice of her God,
love thee, love thee, pass under the
rod.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27
The $ SUNDAY : LIGHT.
SUNDAY, JUNE %. 1897.
LIST OF CITY LAMPS.

{ Fourth Street Bridge.
Oakland and Brooklyn avenue.
3'Augusta and Brooklyn avenue.
A Dallas and Lexington avenue.
Romano and Augusta.
Camden and Richmond avenue.
Baltimore avenue and Elmira.
8SRomana and Main avenue.
Macon and Main avenue.
10 Cypress and Main avenue.
II Craig Place and Main avenue.
IL Mistletoe and Belknap.
13 Maverick and Cypress.
IA San Pedro avenue and Laurel.
Is San Pedro Springs
16 San Pedro Springs.
IL San Pedro Springs.
Is San Pedro Springs.
Is San Pedro Springs gate.
q Sam Pedro avenue and Warren.
q Hill and North Flores.
% Macon and North Flores.
% Laredo and Ruiz.
"a jackson and Macon.
Is San Pedro avenue and Elmira
rs Romano and North Flores.
q Belvin and North Flores.
% Newton alley and North Flores.
% Soledad and Girard.
30 Convent and Augusta
81 ST. Mary's and Martin.
30 Navarro and Martin.
80 Travis park.
"a Navarro and Houston.
35 Navarro street bridge.
IS Water and North.
81 Commerce and Rusk. =
SO Bowie and Blum.
80 Bowie and Crockett.
40 Houston and Elm.
Al Commerce and Live Oak.
a Sycamore and Narp-
43 Commerce and Walnut.
A Commerce and blackberry.
as Dakota and blackberry
as Olive and Wyoming.
AZ Starr and Monumental.
As Pine and Dakota.
~ Commerce and Pine.
SO Commerce and New Braunfels.
81 North Commerce and Covers.
50 Mitman and Dakota.
50 Virginia and Meerscheidt.
81 Porter and Gevers.
IS Porter and Skinner.
IS Porter and Pine.
So Chestnut and Centre.
S. Chestnut and Crockett.
So Walnut and Crockett.
SO Live Oak and Starr.
81 Cherry and Starr.
G. Chestnut and Dawson
So Walnut and Dawson.
GA Nolan and Chestnut.
SIS Burnett and Austin.
66 Nolan and Elm.
81 Nacogdoches and Bowie.
S. Nacogdoches and Houston.
s. Avenue E and Postoffice.
10 Avenue ID and Houston.
n Blum and Bonham.
Y Crockett and Bonham.
70 East side Alamo plaza.
IA West side Alamo plaza.
rs Losoya and Crockett
rs Alamo and Commerce.
II Alamo and North.
IS Main avenue and Maracheau.
70 North Flores and Roderigues.
| so North Flores and Salinas.
IS Cameron and Houston.
81 Camaron and Houston.
80 East and Houston.
"a San Saba and Houston.
s. Concho and Zavalla.
So Pecos and Commerce.
~ Medina and Commerce.
Medina and Houston.
{'mmerce and San Marcos.
mn2e7ce and Pinto.
IA and Buena Vista.
and Houston.
Pee Is and Chavez.
seoEa and Morales.
sasfido lIiSS, Isesil.
, San Marcos and Ruiz.
BRACES andi Ruiz.
y AiazaA and Ruiz.
~ Johhsen station, West End.
|O Castro and zaizamoras
kentucky avenue and lalzamoras.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

But call on Fred. Small for the incest
turnout In the city when you wish
% take a drive. He Is with d. J..
%oodwerf Main Ave. Tel 500.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-06-27

los Bandera and Pennsylvania.
log Bandera and Bandera avenue
107 Texas and Lake avenue.
los Indiana and Florea.
100 Pecos and Monterey.
ITO Matamoras and Frio.
Ill Washington square.
112 Commerce and East.
113 Avenue c and Houston.
ia Avenue c and Pecan.
lis Avenue C and Third.
116 Avenue c and Fourth.
III Avenue b and Fifth.
lis Avenue c and Sixth.
119 Avenue d and Fourth.
120 Avenue E and Fifth.
121 Avenue d and Seventh.
122 Avenue E and Eighth.
1913 Avenue C and Ninth.
124 Avenue c and Tenth.
125 Avenue B and Ninth.
126 Avenue B and Seventh.
127 Ninth and Oakland.
12S Maverick grove.
129 Avenue d and Tenth.
100 Avenue d and Grand avenue.
131 Avenue c and Grand avenue.
1872 Lone Star and Grand avenue.
1873 River avenue.
1874 River avenue.
1875 River avenue.
136 River avenue.
1877 River avenue.
1SS River avenue.
139 River avenue.
140 Grayson and ditch.
141 Austin and Carson.
142 Austin and Crosby.
14S blackberry and Crosby.
144 Pine and Crosby.
145 Pine and Mason.
lac Willow and Carson.
147 Pine and Grayson.
14S Palmetto and Grayson.
149 New Braunfels and Grayson.
$50 New Braunfels and Hood.
151 New Braunfels and Van Ness.
1872 Mason and Rogers.
1873 Oak and Duval.
154 Sunset depot.
155 Burleson and Walnut.
156 Ninth and Austin.
157 Cherry and Sherman.
1853 Olive and Milan.
159 Olive and Burleson.
100 Olive and Hays.
161 Olive and Nolan.
162 Mesquite and Hays.
1913 blackberry and Nolan.
164 Walnut and Nolan.
165 Garden and Arceinega.
166 Garden and King William.
167 Washington and Turner.
16S Washington and Beauregard.
1863 Arsenal and City.
10 Johnson and City.
III King William and Beauregard.
172 Alamo and Beauregard.
173 Cedar and Pereida.
ia Sheridan and Madison.
It's Alamo and Adams.
176 Alamo and Steiren.
III Mission and Forcke.
17S King William and johnson.
179 Guenther and Crofton avenue
$50 Guenther and King William.
1S1 Guenther and Alamo.
1872 Arkansas and Alamo.
1888 Arkansas and South Flores.
1874 Cevellos and South Flores.
1S5 Probandt and Arkansas.
1856 South Flores and S. P. crossing.
1877 South Flores and Klein.
1888 South Flores and Lubbock.
1S9 Green and Stoves.
100 South Flores and Rip Ford.
191 South Flores and Glenn.
1872 South Flores and Johnson.
1913 South Flores and Arsenal.
1874 Laredo and Arsenal.
1876 Laredo and Vera Cruz.
196 Frio and Vera Cruz.
1877 Laredo and Arkansas track.
1913 Laredo and Cavallo.
1879 Pecos and San Fernando,
19S Laredo and Cavallos.
POI Laredo and Nueva.
202 Commerce and Camaron.
203 Stoves alley and ditch.
2O4 Dolorosa and Military plaza.
POS Presa and Nueva.
2O6 Alamo and Turner.
207 Madison and Turner.
2OS Madison, bet. Turner and Beaure
gard.
209 Alamo and Presa.
210 Callaghan and Presa
211 Devine and PTesa.
80 praca and curve
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saw father and mother who leaned
On the arms Of a dear gifted son,
And the star in the future grew bright
err to their gaze,
AS they saw the proud place he had
Won,
And the fast coming evening Of lie
promised fair,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-06-12

me: You have the Tennysonian fever the
Tennysonian craze" They were wrong: L
had received the Tennysonian reincarna-
ton. And for many years afterward / kept
vehemently insisting that he was the great
est poet who has ever lived Now, when
am older, more frigidly critical more re-
ceptive to other poets claims, | have at
times the sense of too warm eulogy re-
garding even his glorious work. And yet
question of conscientiously stating that
he has ever been surpassed For i'm sooth
fear that should then make a sorry
showing. Every judicial pro and con that
L have succeeded in bundling together,
every axiom and predicate and postuate
that Saner reflection may have empowered
me with, would all crumble into nothing
ness before the unchanged love and loyalty
which this mighty master still inspires. I
sometimes ask myself If there is any other
being on earth VINO so reVeres as do l his
golden wigardries of song But here, no
doubt, is only the egotism of idolatry. Yet
for this magnificent heir-presumptive of
Keats and Shelley and Wordsworth, this
remote but loving kinSmen of the sweet
Siciian flute player, this lineal descendant
of Homer, Dante and Milton, thia Greek
and Goth and Saxon all SO wondrously
blended into a ssingle grand individualism,
idolatry does not seem too aecentuated a
tribute. If | had been giving that Oxonian
l shouldn't have minded having Tennyson
whip the cover off dish of outlets and
peevishly cry: Mutton chopsl the staple
of every bad inn in England" / should
perhaps have idioticaly hoped that he
would demolish my outlets, in order that
| could gather up and preserve their me-
mortal bones! .
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NOTPEARL BRYAN'S HEAD
RUSHVILLE BOYS MAKE GREENSBORO
FIND IN AN OLD CELLAR.
commencement Week at L. u. Begins
with CIass-Day Exercises-FOurth
District Politics.
.recial 70 the Indianapolis Journal.

Special 70 the Indianapolis Journal.
RUSHVILLE, Ind, June 11.-Some boys
rummaging in the cellar of the Parsons
building, on Second street, north of the
courthouse, this afternoon. discovered the
head of a woman concealed among pile
of barrels and boxes and half buried in the
soft sand. The discovery caused no end
of excitement and hundreds have tlocked 10
see it. No one can account for the. pres
ence of the head where it was found. The
head is that of woman about forty years
old. dead several years. The skin has dried
to the toughness of leather and rests tight
Iy against the skull. The head is mat
ted with a growth of curly, blond hair.
There are six upper teeth and seven lower
teeth visible Two of the upper teeth are
larger than the rest and stand out prom
inently. A large cut above the right ear
gives rise to the belief that the woman was
murdered.
The Parsons building has been vacant for
several months and was formerly occupied
by paint and wallpaper store. There are
many theories advanced as to how the
head got there. Some believe it may be
the missing head of Pearl Bryan, but APP
pearanceS diSprove this theory. The police
know of no Rush county woman who dis
appeared in the last few years and cannot
account for the presence of the mysterious
head. Great curiosity is aroused and
thorough investigation will be made.