The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-10-11
GENERAL HOWARD SPEAKS.

improved. He had only met one man who had different opinion.
 GENERAL HOWARD SPEAKS, Eloquent Address at Dwight Place Church.
 General o. o. Howard met with a hearty reception at Dwight Place church last evening. At the close of his address many of the congregation gathered around and were introduced to him. The general spoke on the sub ject, "The Fathers Love, Christian and Patriotic" @ topic on which he spoke at Pawtucket on the Fourth of July.
 As scripture passage appropriate to the subject he selected John 3:35 and 36: The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand. He that believeth on the Son hath everlast- ing life; and He that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
 In part, General Howard said: q re- member at the battle of Gettysburg for a time I was In command and I sta- toned the various corps in position And during the battle a battery officer in my command was wounded. He thought nothing of it and at last tainted and lay unconscious on the ground and bled to death without attracting the attention of any of the soldiers. Be- fore left town I received letter from Sam Wilkinson, the dead officers fla ther, in which he reproached me be- cause his son had been suffered to bleed to death. No soldier, no officer, no one of the medical department, nor you cared for him. he wrote.
 T felt very indignant at receiving such letter at first, but after think ing about it I said, a fathers heart, and I wrote him as good a letter as l knew how I got my reward, for received a beautiful letter from that father, in which he said his son was so good, so noble, so patriotic, that no one could love him like his father. This is a little incident of fathers love shown on the battlefield.
 "On another occasion at the battle of Vintonvlle in North Carolina the son of General Hardee of the confederate forces was killed. General Hardee re- quested that I afford what protection could to a family in Raleigh which had shown kindness to their son in his last hour. l was well acquainted with General Hardee before the war and visited his family often After the war l met him in Alabama. There were no tears when we mentioned his sons name, but he did not smile; the sons death had broken that fathers heart. Now there are examples of @ fa- ther's love. Almost always fathers love is strong, pure and unseltish But the mothers love exceeds the fathers love-
 While coming through New York one time I observed a bad looking wo- man. I thought she riust be a pretty hard character Then I noticed her little boy. He was clean. his clothes were neat and his hair was nicely combed. Such care, I said, betokens a mothers love Combine the fathers and mothers love and you may call it paternal love, and this com bined love is but drop in the ocean of Gods in- finite love.
 T was walking on Wall street one time when l met a man whom I will call Henry. I knew him well and also his family. I greeted him cordially, but received a rather cool response, as thought. I said to him, How are your father and mother?' He replied that he had not heard from them, and that he had broken away from them I saw what the trouble was but said nothing further, but asked him if he would not dine with me that evening. He consented to do so. I don't know as it was wrong, but I wanted to decoy him into a prayer meeting that was near by the place where l had asked him to dine I asked him if he would not go with me, and he consented It seemed just as though all the people in that meeting had heard of the young mans trouble, for they all talk ed or just such cases as his. After the meeting I asked him to state his troubles to me and he made a full breast of all his trouble with his par ents. He said My father and moth- CT have slandered my wife, and she is dead, and I can't forgive them I asked him if he did not believe his wife was in heaven, and he said she was there if anyone was. Don't you think she would want you to forgive your father and mother?' I asked. He didn't really believe she would.
 "At last I got him to write a letter to his father, seeking a reconciliation. I met him little while after, and he threw his arms around my neck and said that he had been reconciled to his father and mother. That reconciliation ne conciliation with our heavenly father"
 General Howard closed hIs address by stating that what people need here be- low is the religion of Christ. If you open your eyes you can see it; if you open your heart you can have it.
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