The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-11
Rev. DR.. Bristol's Sermon on Our
Recent Victories.
TRUTH OF A JUST CAUSE
I. Working Out the Freedom OF the OPP
p~ressed-The 1nvincible. All-Con-
auering Weapon Of Truth
Won the Battles.

services at tne
church. He went alone and was deeply
impressed by the discourse delivered
by the pastor. the Rev. Frank Bristoi'
n n The church was crowded Ions
before the services began DR.. Bristois
sermon held the attention OF his audi
tors throughout. At times his hearers
were so thoroughly aroused by his pat
riotic u%tterances that ripples OF spon-
taneous applause swept over the CON
creation. In part, his sermon fol-
lows:
Psalm ss:1. % sing unto the LoId a
new song; for He hath done marvellous
things: His right hand and His holy
arm hath gotten Him the victory.
The poets and heroes whose songs
and deeds made the old time splenulu,
were pure enough of heart n iarge
| enough of brain TO be able TO ma the
divine pathos of human vents. Tnere
"a no change. no accident, no fate. Law
is universal. The more scientific a peo-
pie become the stronger Will De tneir
belief and trust in Providence, ana tne
less confidence will they have in luck,
accidental chance n the other 40,
surdities. The ancients never dreamed
that there had been provided In the
economy of nature the possibilities OF
gun powder and dynamite: the posi-
bilities of a modern navy and the pos
abilities of Manila and Santiago VIC
tories by which America doth take &C
cession by the hand and make the
bounds OF freedom wider.
"It is science or knowledge that
brings us In touch and in alliance with
Providence. The more science one
more Providence. Yes, the more
science the more good in the worlds
history. The providential does not al
ways mean or even imply the miracles
which God may work His Will by
agency, by means of nature ana the
rel with the elegant old proposition,
-The winds n the waves are always
on the side of the ablest navigator
for the ablest navigators know now
TO use the winds and waves and are IN
league with the mighty laws that gov
ern things. God Ia on the side OF good,
fayoring good nnanoiering, good poll
tics. rood guns. good battleships, GOOD
discipline, good generalship and good
causes.
I'm the olden time men and nations
allied themselves with Providence by
faith. to-day men and nations ally
themselves with Providence by knowl-
edse There was a time when the peo-
pie found nature In sympathy with
their struggles for freedom and the
storm overthrow the Egyptians In the
sea: and the sun and moon stood sun
in the day OF battle to give a righteous
cause a good chance, and the stars in
their course fought against Sisera. Is
to-day q less providential age than the
age of Moses? Is the light growing less
p%rovidential thar the pillars of fire!
:. Is a Dakota wheat harvest less proVi-
Dental than a shower OF mama? Is
a South Carolina cotton crop less provi-
Dental than he quails of the wilder
ness? Are the orange groves OF Call
: fornia less providential than the vine
- - la IN1nhnf9 Was AiErnVpFN
Of America less providential than th'
nnding OF Canaan? Wa the coming o.
pilgrims and Huguenots less providen'
, tial than the exodus OF the children o.
: Israel? Was the Declaration of lnde
pendence less providential than thu
3 d~ecalogue of Sinai? Were the guns o
Il Dewey and Sampson less p~rovidentia
than the rams horn of Joshua, tn
n lamps and pitchers of Gideon or tn
"a rod Of Moses? Were Manila and San
Is tiago less providential in the history o
!, human freedom than Jericho and Al?
"a Is Christian civilization less %providen
IA tial than was Jewish barbarism?
IF God ever had a peculiar people, III
has them now. They are the produC
OF all the struggles and aspiration
q. Of the past. The men who stand be
y fore Santiago are not the product OF
day or OF a century, they are the rc
!, consummate flower of ages, the highet
: evolution of history. They represer
a q manhood that has climbed centur
A. by century up the steps OF light and III
70 erty, and now stands In sight Of To
Is glor1fed SUBMITS OF the universal FREE
m dom and the universal brotherhood
man. The men who offer their lives {
uberty's holy altar to-day caught the
Inspiration from the men who fougl
for their convictions in our civil wa
and those great men OF our civil W;
had heard OF the revolutionary hero
~ and were proud to emulate their dee
- Of patriotic valor, but the men or q
- revolution had Inherited the spirit
:, the pilgrim fathers, and were dete
d mined to prove themselves worthy
their noble ancestor. There Is 20
ne Providence in history. DO you look I
rs ward Manila and Santiago and say s
as perior guns did the business? 81
ID superior men stood behind the gu
be and God the Supreme stood behind I
he religion. There IL our lesson OF Prov
deuce. The miracle workers tod
he are our educators. the men and VOL
'ro en- who are giving us an intelectu
TT mastery of nature and armored ma
CT terry Of ourselves: the teacher who q
OF placing In our hands the invincible, a
%conquering weapon OF truth; who q
hestowing upon this generation I
power, the omnipotence Of knowledl
- When We compare our American
Inc per cent OF iliteracy with SPANS Is
we'd cent OF llhteFa'y' We may ooiu'y :
the that the sChoolmasters won the bat
A OF Manila and the battle 81 Santiago,
w.. less than the battle Of Sadowa.
der we are witnessing the victories
the truth In passing events the truth
of great convictions: the truth or a spi
n a did courage; the truth OF free AmeriC
manhood. The truth of wise and patri
ring ic legislation; the truth of naval 8
Icti- military discipline: the truth of sci
'ere tifc warfare: the truth Of correct str
lent egy. great accuracy. perfect aim.
ties. ruth of perfect heroism: the truth o
abb inst cause that is WORKING out
freedom Of the oppressed"
At ChiCkamauEaA
CINE ChiCkamauga, July lO.-SerViCes "
rain N,ra Ia tho % church commission 10