The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-11-12
Bishop McCabe Tells of
lis Bright Side.
MERRIMENT AND PATHOS.
The Eloquent Preacher Charmed a
Large Aulience
AT TIE CARNIVAL OF NATIONS.

A very large audience filed the Math |
ewson street NJ. T.. church last night to
hear Bishop McCabe. DIR. kaufman in
troduced him as the man who had talked
his way. sung his way. preached his way
worked his way, forced his way. merited
his way, won his way into more hearts
than any man in all our broad
Methodism
Bishop McCabe first sang one of his
old songs, "We are Coming COO. 600
Strong Father A Abraham" His subject
was: Bright Side of Life in Libby
Prison." Ibe first time l gave this lee
ture was TO some children in PHILADELPHIA
80 years ago. Because they were children
| told them only the bright side the
stories we told, the songs we sang the
jokes we cracked and tho conundruins we
tried to solve and they went away think
ing Libby Prison was jolly good placs
10 be in. Since then | have heen asked
in many places to repeat IL and now it is
the oldest thing in the Methodist church.
It did very valuable work when / was out
on the frontier. 1 know people would
not como TO hear me If / advertised To
preach. so ] advertised to give this lecture
let the people il free and charge thom to
get out. From 1t got $3.50 600 to build
churches with. IL was only u regiment
Of boys, 1879 boys. and their chaplain was
only "a boy that came out from Central
Ohio in 1862 But they made a fine regi-
ment and bow they did fight on and on,
marching and fighting day after day till
Je2 of them lay dead or wounded on the
fields of battle, and still on and on when
200 more were disabled by disease The
only thing am proud of is that l was
the chaplain of tbat regim ment, the l22nd
Ohio Volunteer Infantry. j wrote To the
Emperor of Germany about the l22nd.
after he had said in an address that il
was good training for boys to fight duels
| and told him what the 122nd was and
what it had done.
told him that all you have 10 do to
| make "a soldier Of an American boy is To
| call him from between bis pow handles
| or behind his COULTER give him gun and
strike IN the music ard in six months
! you have soldier. In Cuba it has taken
| 200, 900 men over three years to subdue
| 30, 900 rebels and they have not done ii
| yet. You pick up paper and sec, "A
Great Battl3 in Cuba. - killed. 10
wounded" That to us would have been
| no battle. 4 battle to us meant n Gettys-
| burg where 80 900 dead and dying men
| Law on the battlefield Such is American
| courage. But l pray God Cuba may be
free within three months.
We were stationed at Winchester and
march by there our general had orders To
withdraw tn Harper's Ferry, as we had
less than 6OU0 men to Lees 90. 900. Our
general preferred TO stand his ground
where he was, and when Lee began To
draw near ordered the men TO the in
trenuhments and prepared for battle. But
Lee kept i've miles away because one of
our six guns was big one that the boys
called Baby Walker, sent its heavy ball
a distance of five miles detachment
made charge on Us ana when our gen
cral saw the rebel host advancing and
heard the rebel yell, no shouted, keep
cool fire low and fire often and we du.
The enemy returned the fire but retreatel.
Lee wanted to save his men 10 meet the
army of the Potomac further ON.
All that dav we watched the miles OF
soldiers and the miles of guns marching
by in tho distance and all the next day.
Then we thought IL would be good
thing to retire to Harper's Ferry. But we
found every road intercepted. Four miles
out all was quiet when one OF the officers
who had lent me his tent to hold services
in asked me where ii was. l started TO
tell him when snot from the enemy
starteu him running in cne direction and
me in the other. We did not meet for two
years, and wbon / saw him 1 ran up to
him as il l had been running ever since
and finished telling him where his tent
was That was the hardest thing / ever
tried to get said. IT took two years and
200 miles.
But there we were cut off and the cnly
thing TO do was to cut our way through
Harper's ferry, and we did it,. But the
doctor and | and our cook were left be-
hind and captured by the provost guard
who when he learned who we were, bade
US attend our dead and wounded.