The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-05-20

hung up for the worlds indignation. |
When in Spanish waters our battle
ship, looking after our commercial in
terests and intending nothing but
quietude, was hurled into demolition,
and the men on board, without time
to utter one word of prayer. were
dashed into the eternal world, the
doom of the reigning house of Spain
was pronounced in tones louder than
the thunder which that night rolled
out over the sea.
Another alienation is the fact that
we have God to go to in behalf of all
those of our countrymen who may be
in especial exposure at the front, for
we must admit the perils. 1t is no
trifling thing for 900 young men TO
be put outside of home restraints and
sometimes into evil companionship
Many of the brave of the earth are not
the good of the earth. To be in the
same tent with those who have no
regard for God or home; to
hear their holy religion some
times slurred at; to be placed un-
der influences calculated to make
one reckless; to have no Sabbath, ex-
cept such Sabbath as in most encamp.
ments amounts to no Sabbath at all;
to go out from homes where all sani-
tary laws are observed into surround
ings where questions of health are
never discussed; TO invade climes
where pestilence holds possession; to
make long marches under blistering
skies; to stand on deck and in the
/ Hal1g t,nIa~ at tl,a - hot
and shell - we must admit that
those exposed need especial care,
and to the Omnipresent God we
have a right to commend them, and
will commend them. Until this con-
flict is ended let us be much in prayer
for our beloved country. DO not let
us depend upon the friendship of for
eign nations. Our hope is in God.
Out of every misfortune he has
brought this nation to better moral
and financial condition, and so let us
pray that he will lift us out of this
valley of trouble unto higher noun
tain of blessing.
Morning, noon and night let us COM
mend this beloved land to the care of
gracious God. That He answers
!
is an hallucination IL He does not an
swer it. Prayer that in reply to sup
plication the farmer boys may get
home again in time to reap the harvest
of next July; that our business
men may return in time to pre-
pare for fall trade such as
has never yet filled the stores
and factories with customers, and that
all the homes in this country now
saddened by the departure of father or
son many months before the Thanks
giving and Christmas holidays be full
of Joy at the arrival of those who will
for the rest of their lives have stories
to tell of double-quick march, and mar
row escape, and charges up the para
pets, and nights set on fire with bonn
bardment, and our flag hauled up to
places from which other flags were
hauled down.
Now that we have started on the
work, let us make that Spanish gov
eminent get out of this hemisphere.
We do not want her any more, with
her iujustices and barbarism, and sti-
lettos of cruelty hanging around the
shores of this free land. She must not
breathe her foul breath on our winds;
she must not again redden our seas
with her butcheries. | would like
to see this century, which is
now almost wound up, find its perora-
ton in some mighty overthrow OF
tyrannies and a mighty building up OF
liberty and justice. Almost all the
centuries have ended with some stu
pendous event that transformed ma
tions and changed the map of the
world. 1t was so at the close of the
fourteenth century; it was so at the
close of the fifteenth century; it was
so at the close of the sixteent til
century; it was so at the close of the
seventeenth century; it was so at the
close of the eighteenth century. May
it be more gloriously so at the close
of the nineteenth century! BLESSED
be the Lord God of Israel from ever
lasting to everlasting, and let the
whole earth be filled with his glory
Amen, and amen.