The Progress., 1897-04-17

III,
churches Joined In the huzza. England
and France protested, the former demand |
ing that unless the distinguished prisoners
should be surrendered and apology made |
for insult to the British flag within ten
days Lord Lyons must return to London,
taking all the archives of the British lega-
ton. War with England and France
seemed inevitable, and war with England
and France at that time would have made
a restored American nation impossible for
q long while, If not forever. Then GOD
camc to the rescue and helped the presloen5
and his secretary of state. Against the al
most unanimous sentiment OF the people
of the north the distinguished Confederates
were surrendered, the law OF nations was
kept iryiolate, tho lions paw was not lift
cd to strike the eagles beak, and perhaps
the worst disaster of centuries was avoided.
There came another crisis within the
last two years. when millions of people de-
mandcd that American war vessels sail IN
to Turkish waters and stop the atrocities
against tho Armenians. The people at
large have no idea Of the pressure brought
upon our government to do thisrash thing.
Missionaries and other prominent Ameri-
cans in and around Consta n tinoplc assem-
bled at the office of tho American legation
and demanded that our minister plenipo-
Tertiary cable to Washington for United
States ships of war, and they suggested
the WOrUS Oh Unc CSlOASSissiA 1AAu ouk SHIPS
COMO into those waters the guns OF foreign
nations, everlastingly jealous of us, would
have been turned against our shipping,
and our navy, within a few years become
respectable In power, would have crawled
backward in disgrace. The proposition to
do what could not be done was mercifully
withdrawn.
The Right Thing.
There will not be year between now
49, Av,r>ss<~ vv~yN< 0pA0
in authority viii not need the guidance at
the God q nations. God only can toll the
right time for nations to do the right
thine To do tho right thing at the wrong
| time Is as had us to do the wrong thing at
! any time Cuba Will one day be free, but
| 1t will be after she has shown herself capa-
| bio of free government. To acknowledge
| Cuban independence now would be to &C.
knowledge what does not exist. The time
may come when the Hawaiian Islands may
| be q part Of our government. But 1t will
| be when they have decidedly expressed the
| desire for annexation. In nH national
| affairs there Is a clock. The hands OF that
| clock are not always seen by human eyes.
| But God sees them, not only the hour
hand, but tho minute hand, and when the
hands announce that the right hour has
come tho clock Will strike, and we ought
to be In listening attitude "The Lord
rcigneth Let the earth rejoice; let the
mu1titudes Of the isles be glad thereof.
You sec there IRE always in places OF au
thority unbalanced men who want war
because they do not realize what war is
or they are designing men, who want wal
for the snme reason that wreckers lik'
hurricanes and laundering ships, because
of what may float ashore from the ruins
You see that men who start wars neve1
themselves get hurt. They make tn
speeches and others make the self sacri
kflces. Notice that nll those who instigatct
our civil war never as consequence go
SO much as n splinter under the thumb
nail, and they all died peacefully In thel
, beds had two friends-as thorough
friends as old men can be to n young maj
Wendell Phillips and Robert Toombs
They were not among those who expectet
anything advantageous from the strife
but took their positions conscientiously
They both had rs much to do with tn
starting Of the war between the north an,
the south rs any other two men. mil
. lion bravo northern and southern dea
, were put In the grave trenches, but tn