The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-16
DAILY REPUBLICAN, HUNTINGTON MAY 49, 1895

was recovering from long season Of hard
times SO many Of our industries should
now be halted; that business mon who
thought they could $40 their why TO- pay
their debts and build up more prosperous
enterprises and endow their homes with
more advantages should have to halt and
wait until the perfdious oppressor Of Cuba
shall DO turned back. But individual and
national life is always clothed with mys
teries, and we may make ourselves miser
able by stabbing ourselves with sharp in
terrogation points and plying the eyerlast
ing questions of "WhyP" and "HowS" and
"Wbatp" and "WhenP" While We must Of
course try to BIO intelligent on all public
affairs, 1t is a glorious thing to do oul
duty, and then fully and confidently trust
all in the hands Of God, who has proved
himself the friend Of our country from the
time when the Spanish government fitted
out an expedition to discover 1t to this
time when Spaniards would like to de-
stroy 1t.
Morning, noon and night lot us com
mend this beloved land to the care of q
gracious God. That he answers prayer is
so certain that your religion Is a halluci-
nation II no does not answer It, Pray that
In reply to such supplication the farmers
boys may get home again in time to reap
the harvest of next July, that our bust
ness men may return In time to prepare
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
brother or son may months before the
Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays BIO
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 narrow
escape, and charges up the parapets and
nights set on fire with commandment and
our flag hauled up to places from which
other flags were hauled Down
Away with Rarbarism.
Now that we have started on the work
let us make that Spanish government get
out of this hemisphere. We do not want
her any more, with her injustices and bar
barism and stilettos Of cruelty, hanging
around the shores of this freq land. She
must not breathe her foul breath on our
winds; she must not again redden our seas
withHhe butcheries There bids fair to
be scene Oh the deep as disastrous to the
Spanish as that which whelmed their
armada in 1888. Philip II, king of Spain,
resolved on the conquest Of Europe, and
already in the compass Of his dominions,
besides Spain, were Naples and Sicily, and
the Netherlands, and the East Indies, and
tho Canary and Molucca and Sunda and
Philippine islands, and Mexico and Cuba,
nd r,f bo cp1opdiA rtp of
America. All the nations Of the earth OK
cept England were to her undorlings, and
the Spanish king resolved that even Eng
land must bow the knee. Although the
destructive strength of modern battleships
was then unknown, the Spanish armada
started for the subsection Of England with
about lao great ships, with $500 guns,
1000 cavalry horses and 80, 900 men. The
battleships were provisioned with $4,000
casks of wine and six months Of provi-
sions. The commanders and officers of
these war vessels were dukes and mar
quises and noblemen. At Plymouth,
England, on the 10Th of July the promi-
mont officers of tho navy were in a bowling
alley, bowling with great glee-Lord
Howard, the high admiral; Sir Martin
Frobisher, the daring explorer, and Sir
Francis Drake, the first circumnavigator
of the world--when word came to them
that the Spanish armada was advancing.
Tho officers continued at the game of the
bowling alloy until the game was finished
and then went out to investigate the IT,
dings, and, sure enough, that mighty fleet
which was considered invincible and which
was to lombard and overthrow England
was approaching, but the invading navy
was destroyed, for the Lord Almighty ap-
peared in the fight.
Old and New Spanish Armada.
A storm such as had never swept the
coast of England or aroused tho ncean
swooped upon the Spanish armada. Most
Of the ships soon went down under the
sea, while others were driven helplessly
along to be splintered on the coasts Of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Norway.
Another Spanish armada Is crossing the
Atlantic, and we are ready to meet them.
The same God who destroyed the armada
in 1883 reigns in 1893. May be in his
might, either through human arm or
dumb element, defeat their squadron and
give victory to the old flag of Admiral
Farragut and David Porter
Yet what the world most wants is
Christ, who is coming to take possession
of all hearts, all homes, all nations, but
the world blocks the wheels Of his chariot.
would like to see this century, which is
now almost wound up, find its peroration
in some mighty overthrow of tyrannies
and mighty building up Of liberty and
Justice. Almost all the centuries have
ended with some stupendous event that
transformed nations and changed tho 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 tho sixteenth century; it was SO at
the close of the seventeenth century; 1t
was so at tho close of the eighteenth cen
fury. May it be more gloriously SO at tho
close of the nineteenth century, blessed
be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting
TO everlasting and let the whole earth be
filled with his glory" Amen and amen!