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HE Az Y.
Some Additions Which are Thought
to Be Needed,

The present Immediately effective OF the
navy consists Of four battleships OF the
first class. TWO OF the second and forty
eight other vessels. ranging from armored
cruisers TO torpedo boats.
There arc under construction five battle
shIrg af thu frs--cless. sixteen torpedo
e. as and one submarine beat. No pro-
uis.on has yet been made for the aTmor
os three OF the five ba.tleshlps as 1t had
been impossible IL obtain Il al the price
axed by congress. L is OF great import
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A WHITE DEER SEEN.
Wisconsin Indians Regard Them with
SuPerstitious Awe.

Black River Falls. Wis, Dec =
Sorcial 4 white deer is reported to
have been seen by Indians while hunting
IN the East Fork waters recently. This
j. tho second time in the history of deer
hunting in Jackson county that hunters
havr seen a white deer. Many years ago
when Black River Falls was Il struggling
frontier town. old Chirf Saw Somnic
of the Winuobago tribe killed white
deer Tradition IN the tribe says that evil
fortune followed the chief ever afterwards,
and to this day Indians are very super
stitlous Over such freaks Of nature. Many
uf them regard the white deer as a spirit
from the happy hunting grounds and no
money would induce them to Kill one
should tho ,..-,l -i1u r,f,,Spni itself
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mala and Honduras, the same as his pre-
deceSsCT. Guatemala IS not a member of
the Great Republic Of Central America
but Honduras is.
Should this latter government decline
to receive him he has been instructed t.
report this fact to his government and
await its further Instructions
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HAWAIIAN ANNEXATION.
Tho senate Urged to Approve of the
Trenf>

By a special message dated the 10th
day of June last. l laid before the senate
a treaty signed that dag by the plenipo-
tentiares of the United States and Of the
republic of Eawaii. having for its purpose
the incorporate of the Hawaiian islands
as an integral part of the United States
and under it's sovereignty. The senate
having removed the injunction of secrecy,
although thu treaty is still pending be
fore that body, the subject may be prop
the necessary action of congress is re
details Of the eventual union should the
fact of annexation be accomplished as ]
believe it should be.
While consistently disayoWing from a
very early period any aggressive policy of
absorption in regard to the Hawaiian
group, a long series of declarations
through three quarters of century has
proclaimed the vital interest of the United
States in the independent life of the
islands and their intimate com ncrCial de
pendenCe upon this country. At the same
time it has been repeatedly asserted that
in no event could the entity of Hawaiian
statehood cease by the passage OF the
islands under the denomination or in
iuenCe of another power than the United
States. Under these circumstances the
logic of events required that anneXa ton
heretofore offered but declined, should in
the ripeness of time come about as the
natural result of the strengthening ties
that bind us to those islands and be re
allied by the free will OF the Hawaiian
state.
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Confidence in Spain's Sincerity.

That the government Of Sagasta has en-
tered upon a course from which recession
with honor is impOssible can hardly be
questioned that in the few weeks it has
existed it has made earnest Of the sin
cerity of its professions Is undeniable. ]
shall not impugn its sincerity. nor shOuld
lmpatience be suffered 70 embarrass it in
the task il has undertaken. II is honest
ly due TO Spain, and 10 our friendly rela-
tions with Spain. that she should be given
a reasonable chance to realize her eX-
pectatiOnS and 70 prove the asserted
efficacy Of the new order Of things to
which she stands irreyOC3bly committed.
She has recalled the commander whose
brutal orders infamef the American
mind and shocked the civilized world.
She has modified the horrible order of
concentration and has undertaken 10 care
for the helpless and permit those who de-
sire to resume the cultivation Of their
fields to do SO, and assures them Of the
protection Of the Spanish govsrnmen; in
their lawful occupations. Shn has just
released the Competitor prisoners. hereto
fore sentenced 10 death and who have
been the suhiec. Of repeated diplomatic
correspondence during both this and the
preceding aire .nIStTa-on.
Not a single American citizen is now in
arrest or confinement in Cuba. Of whom
this government has any knowledge. The
near future Will demonstrate whether the
Indispensable condition Of a righteous
peace. just alike 10 the Cuban and Spain.
as we'll equitable to all our interests so
intimately involved il the welfare of Gu
b2. Is likely 10 be attained. II not. the
exigency OF fu- her and other action by
the United States viii remain 10 Dc taken.
When that time cores that action will
b. determined IN the line q iu5-srura5ic
right and duty II Viii bt faced without
m.sg.ying or Aesi'ancy. in th- light Of tha
obligation this eoEsgnU5u. o---s ID itself
to tie people who have co1#t5l to it -hs
protection q their interests and honor AM
70 humanity.
Sure :: the right keeping frse from al
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Tho Smith Syrup company at Hast
inGs. Neb., has just finished throshine its
cane seed. over 5000 bushels Of SEED
We're threshed ont and has already been
sold at a good price.
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Instructions to W oodford.

The instructions given to our new min
lister to Spain before his departure for his
post directed him 10 impress upon that
government the sincere wish OF the United
States to lend its aid toward the ending OF
the war in Cuba by reaching peaceful
and lasting result. JUS and honorable alike
10 Spain and 10 the Cuban people. These
instructions reCitei the character and du-
ration OF the contest. the widespread losses
it entails the burdens and restraints II
imposes upon Us. with constant disturbance
of national interests and the injury re-
sulting from an Indefinite continuance Of
this state Of things. X was stated that al
this juncture our government was con-
strained to seriously inquire il the time
was not ripe when Spain. OF her own vol-
ton. moved by her own interests and every
sentiment OF humanity. should put stop
TO this destructive war and make propose Is
Of settlement honorable to herself and
just 10 her Cuban colony. Il was urged
that, as peighcorIcg nation with large
interests Il Cuba, we could be required 70
wait o1ly reasonable time ;oT tas mosSeF
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Room for improvement

Much OF course still remains to be ac-
complished before the system can be made
reasonably perfect for our needs. There
are places now in the classified service
which ought to be exempted. and others
not classified may properly be included. l
shall not hesitate TO exempt cases which
think have been improperly included III
the classified service or include those
which in my judgment will best promote
the public service The system has the
approval of the people and it will be my
endeavor to uphold and extend II.
| am forced by the length Of this mess
age to omit many important references TO
affairs OF the government with which
congress will have to deal at the present
session They are fully discussed in the
departmental reports, to all OF which /
invite your earnest attention.
The estimates Of the expenses of the gov
ernment by the several departments, will,
I am sure. have your careful scrutiny.
While the congress may not find It any
easy task to reduce the expenses of the
government, IL should not encourage their
increase. These expenses will, in my
Judgment, admit Of a decrease in many
branches Of the government without injury
TO the public service. 1t is a commanding
duty to keep the appropriations within the
receipts Of the government and thus avoid
A deficit WILLIAM MhINLEY.
Executive Mansion, Dec. 6, 1897.
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THE CIVIL ERNICE.
II VIII he Placed on u sim Firmcr
iInsis.

The important branch Of our government
known as the civil service, the practical
Improvement of which has long been a
subject of earnest discussion has OF late
years received increased legislative and
executive approval Dur, the past lew
months the service has been placed upon
a still firmer basis Of business methods
and personal merit. While the right Of
our veteran soldiers to reinstatement in
deserving case, has been asserted. dIsmis-
sails for merely political reasons have
been carefully guarded against, the cX-
aminatiOns for admittanCe to the service
enlarged and at the same time rendered
less technical and more practical, and
distinct advance has been made by giving
a hearing before dismissal upon all cases
where incompetenCy is charged on demand
made for the removal OF officials in any
of the departments.
This order has been made to give to the
accused his right to be heard but without
in any way impairing the power Of re
moval which should always be exercised
in cases Of inefficiency and incompttcucy.
and which is one OF the vital safe guards
OF the civil service reform system, pre-
venting staEnatiOn and dCadwOOd and
keeping every employe keenIy alive 10 the
fact that security Of his tenure depends
not on favor but on his own tested and
carefully watched record of service.
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That treaty was unanimously ratified
without amendment by the Senate and
President of the republic of Hawaii on the
10th Of September last and only awaits the
favorable action of the American senate
TO effect the complete absorption Of the
islands into the domain of the United
States. What the conditions of such a
union shall be, the political relation there
Of to the United States. character of the
local administration the quality and de
gree of the elective franchise Of the in
habitants, the extension Of the federal
laws to the territory, or the enactment Of
special laws To fit the peculiar condition
thereof, the regulation if need be. of the
labor system therein are all matters which
the treaty has wisely reIcgated to Con
gress.
If the treaty is confirmed. as every con-
sderation of dignity and honor requires
the wisdom of Congress will see to it, that
avoiding abrupt assimilation of events
perhaps hardly yet fitted to share in the
highest franchises OF citizenship and hav-
ing due regard TO the geographical conli-
tions the most just provisions fer self
rule in local matters with the largest pu-
litical liberties as an integral part of our
nation will be accorded To the Hawaiians.
No less is due to a people, who. after
nearly five years Of demonstrated capacity
to fulfil the obligations Of self governing
statehood, come of their own free Will 10
merge their destnies in our body polite.
Hawaii and Japan.
The questions which have arisen be
tween Japan and Hawaii. by reason Of the
treatment of Japanese iaborers CmigratIng
to the islands under the observation-disclosures
csc convention Of 1883, are III a satisfactory
stage OF settlement by negotiation. This
government has not been invited to medi-
ate. and on the ether hand has sought no
Intervention in that matter further than
l.; l.,
such speedy and direct adjustment by
the two sovereign states in interests as
shall comport with equity and honor.
1t is gratifying to learn that the apprcD
tensions at first displayed on the past of
Japan, lest the cessation Of Hawaiis ma
tiJnaI life through annexation might i'm
pair privileges 70 which Japan hcnorably
laid claim, have given place to confidence
in the uprightness of this government and
in the sincerity Of its purpose to deal with
all possible ulteriOr questions N the
broadest spirit OF friendliness.
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"A recognition Of the independence of
Cuba being, in my opinion. impraCticable
and indefensible. the question which next
presents itself is that of the recognition
of belligerent rights IN the parties to the
contest. In a former message to congress
I had occasion TO consider this question,
and reached the conclusion that the con-
f1iCt in cuba. dreadful and devastating as
were its incidents. did not rise TO the
fearful dignity of war j. is possible that
the acts Of foreign powers, and even acts
Of Spain herself OF this very nature might
be pointed TO n defense of such recog-
milton. But now. as in its past history,
the United States should carefully avoid
the false lights which might lead IL into
the mazes OF doubtful law and of ques-
tionable propriety. and adhere rigidly and
s.ernIy 70 the rule which has been its
guide. of doing only that which is right
and honest and Of good report. The Ques
tion of according or Of Withholding rights
Of belligerency must be judged in every
case. in view OF the particular attending
facts.
Unless justified By necessity, It is al
ways. and justly. regarded as an untriend-
Is act and e gTatuitOus demonstration OF
moral support 10 TIE rebellion. I is nec
essagy. and 1t Is required 4aIa-tA xtes-
+ / - ~
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power which permeates both the Old
and New Testaments. 1t weakens
confidence in God "who," we are as
sured "can turn the hearts of the
children of men as he does the rivers
of waters"
Mans will is a factor in salvation,
but not an invincible one and will
yield to infinite love, in "due time"
and that willingly. Man s will is free,
but not SO free as to defeat infinite
love in its efforts after universal har-
mony.
The emphasis now placed on the
power of love to save is all right, but
to enthrone mans will as invincible
at the expense of dethroning the SOW
ereign will of God is not Christian
theology. If preaching love leaves
few lost, it is not victory. The battle
between the finite and infinite will
must be decisive. 1t is not question
whether few or many are lost. Is
evil made eternal in the conflict? "Is
God really master9 or is sin to oust
him from any part of his own house
foreverl" The question, "Are there
few that be saved" is not solved by
preaching that love will save all but
a few whose wills frustrate the SOW
ereign will. Yet it points to the doc
trine that when the chief shepherd
gives up his shepherding the last
lost sheep will be in the fold. and also
shows that we have given up our fa-
Tiers ideas of few being saved. The
question, "Are there few that be
saved" has come to thousands of hu-
man hearts. 1t came in the time of
Jesus. One cannot help sympathiz-
ing with the one who said to Jesus.
"Are there few that be saved7" He
had read in the scriptures-the Sep
tuagint version that "The number of
the saved will only be as gold is to all
the clay of the earth, or, as drop of
water is to great wave" (2nd Esdras
viii. 2 and tx. ~ We know MANY
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feel for others. A deacon of a large
Baptist church in Chicago, believer
in "Life in Christ" told me that end
less torment all through his Christian
life, had been a source of great heavi-
ness of heart and that when he found
it was not Bible doctrine, Joy
came over his heart, like that when he
was converted. This broadening
hope now preached on this continent
by the orthodox is the result of the
preaching of universal salvation dis
tinctively by the Universalist Church
and by other churches that in full
sense accept the doctrine of the Fa-
therhood of God and the brotherhood
of man.
All down the ages there have been
clear heads, and kind hearts, that
have protested against the doctrine
of Gods partialism and who taking
IAO lOfO VI IAO GIOIHdl dGQOT,
guided by his infinite wisdom and
executed by his infinite power have
taught the final harmony of God -hu-
man family. And research into the
history of the apostolic fathers and
their catholic views as to the final
completeness ofthe work ofthe Christ,
reproduced within the past one hun
dred years and distinctively an
nounced by the Universalist Church
has surely compelled the orthodox to
change of emphasis. The Univer-
salist and other liberal denominations
if thev do not numerically attain to
some others may be we'll satisfied as
workers for God in clearing his char
acter from the pagan conceptions of
titful and angry Jove laundering
out his revenges.
CoRwITH, Ia.
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NOBLE, O..

How are we saved by the death of
Christ? Not by the mere event of the
death. Nowhere do the Scriptures
teach this. 1t is by the construction of
language that we have the death of
Christ and mans salvation, two eminent
truths, so intimately blended Christ
died-giving man all the assurance of
Gods grace that he needs-aesurance
of life and salvation here and hereafter
salvation by the knowledge, the pow
or, the efficiency of divine truth in the
soul. Whenever we recur to Christ's
death, these great truths of God are con-
nected with it. That death manifested
in the strongest possible manner love of
the sinful, love of the rebelious, the re-
deeming influence Of good over evil 1t
is thus that mans salvation by the Fa-
ther is to be effected. in the present or
in the future-whether we sleep or wake.
And it is this perpetual life which is
ever speaking to us from the brow of
Calvary, from that victim on the cross;
the life OF God within us-everlasting
godlike action-everlasting progress
everlasting love.
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CHANGE OF BMPHASISsINi BAPTIST
PREACHING.
BY MARK HoLRoYD.

AM the son of Baptist minister.
Am in my SIND year and have been
in the United States 62 years, and
have clear recollection of how Bap-
tist preachers, preached in those days
and how they emphasized the sover-
eighty of God and with what ANNA
ton they would sing.
"The sovereign will of God alone,
Creates us heirs of grace;
Born in the image of his Son
new peculiar race
At the close of sermons on the dis
tinguishing and sovereign will of God
l heard them eulogized as sound
in doctrine and comforting to the
soul. l cannot fail but notice the
change of emphasis from Gods will
to that of mans will that now obtains.
Then finalities were referred to the
sovereign will of God and not much
said by such preachers to arouse
alarm, or appeal to fear. Is the
change of emphasis from Gods will
to mans will wholly good change!
Has it not a tendency to present to
the mind a MANNED and frustrated
God7 We aretold in Sunday schools,
that man holds his eternal destiny in
his own hands. A preacher told me
mans will was almost omnipotent.
Lately in an union service, the
preacher after discourse full of ex-
hortation, asked that sinners would
arise and manifest a desire for the
salvation of their souls. None rising,
he exclaimed "What a pity it is, that
God who desires the salvation of your
souls should be frustrated" In the
Outlook of May l, 1897, Rev. George
W. Field, DID,, at the fiftieth anni-
versary of the Congregational churcn,
Bangor, Maine, speaking on the
change of emphasis on doctrine that
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the Scriptures, and addressed themselves to
the good sense OF their brethren, instead of
having pursued each other with fiery fagots,
and denunciations of eternal vengeance, in
order to frighten the unlearned, aud dragooa
the more enlightened into their favorite
dognas, happy would it have been for the
christian world.
When we look back on the days of yore,
when "blood and carnage marked the foot
steps Of theological argumentations, we are
astonished at the deptavity of human nature:
But when we see the same spirit of bItteS'
opposition prevail, less OF more, over liber-
al sentiments, i'll this enlightened day Of free
inquiry and general toleia;ion, and that no.
thing but the bulwark of ON civil policy can
shield the more liberal and rejecting part of
society from the vindlctive spleen of religi-
gious bigotry, we are truly mortified and
ashamed OF the blindness, and the uEcharitc.
bleness of many of our christian brethren.
Ii christians would only consider, what is
no doubt fact, that all their brethren, of
every sect and denomination, whatever may
be their favorite opinions or mode ofworship,
are equally as sincere as. themselves; aud
that those whom they persecute and despIse,
are ohiy eSeiCisinS fiSHt WHICH dii Hoid
equally sacred-a right which is guaranteed
to every man by the Great Jehovah, as we'll
as by our constitution and laws, we are led
tc vclieve they would be less censorious, and
more liberal IN their feelings and sentiments
towards each other.
We have no reason TO doubt that all re-
fecting people are deslrous Of knowing the
truth IS when we consider the different clrcum
stances Under which we have been educated
the variety of grades in the human intel.
iect, and the various modes of comparing and
compoundiDg those ideas which are the iii.
pres>Ions Of external objects ON the mind,
which objects scarcely everStrike the Ininds
of two persons IN precisely the same point of
view, we are not surprised that such a diver
sity. of opinion exists in the world--nor, that
all men ale not equally successim inarrlving
at a true knowledge of iac,s. We shoui.i
really be much more surprised TO 6nd a uni
formity of sentiment, under such circumstan,
ces. 1t is worthy of observation, thai on q
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OUR CONTRIBUTORS.
THE HIGHEST EVIDENCES OF THE
TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY.
By REV. J. B. SAKE.

The evidences of the truth of our
religion are found, first, in the his
torical records of the lives and do
ings of Christ and his apostles, which
we have in the Bible. Biblical criti,
cism, sometimes called Higher Crit.
cism," now admits, in the persons of
it's best and most learned authorities,
contrary to what it has hitherto held,
that the writings called the New
Testament were made during the first
century, soon after the death and
resurrection of the Saviour, as we
have always believed them to have
been; and that they were written by
those whose names they bear, eye
witnesses of the wonderful works
they narrate, and ear witnesses of the
words of him who spoke as never
man spoke, which they record. The
opinions of Baur, the leader of the
Tubingen school, that they were
products of the second century, writ
ten by nobody knows who, long after
the original witnesses were all dead,
and therefore of no more authority
than any uncertain tradition, are en-
tirely given up. Prof. Harnack of
Berlin, the highest living authority
among these critics, admits that even
Johns Gospel, about which there has
been the most dispute, was written
about the close of the first century,
during the lifetime of the beloved
disciple. He holds that Paul was
converted within a year of the resur-
rection of his master, and that all
his epistles were written before IS,
in which year he suffered martyrdom
only 35 years after the crucifixion.
Now if this is all true, as even these
critics themselves have come to ad-
NIT, it should seem that common
sense would force any reasonable man
to acknowledge, that the evidence
they furnish of the truth of Christ
ianity if irresistible. That the sacred
writers, one and all, were honest and
sincere, thoroughly in earnest in their
belief, is abundantly manifest on
every page of the New Testament; and
as they wrote of what they had seen
and heard, it is impossible that they
could have been mistaken. Then the
record is true; it is authentic history.
If it is not, there is no history. The
recorded doings of the human race
in the past, which we call history, are
but dreams. There were no Greece
and Romein ancient times. The tradi-
tion that Alexander conquered the
world is a myth. That Rome sue
ceeded Greece in universal empire,
that Caesar conquered England, de-
feated Pompey at Pharsalus, and was
murdered in the senate chamber by
Brutus and Cassius, are only foolish
superstitions. To such conclusions
are we necessarily driven if we deny