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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-25
South Carolina Beaten.

CHARLOTTE. n. c., November "a
Davidson College, OF North Carolina, de-
feated South Carolina College in foot
ball game here to-day by a score of
) 10 o.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-25
RICHMOND COLLEGE LOST.
The Newport News Team Won In a
Spirited Contest.

NEWPORT NEWS. VA. Nov. "a
SpeciaI.--1he Newport News football
team played all around the Richmond
College eleven at River View Park this
afternoon. winning the game by score
OF II 10 0. II was a clean and snappy
xame from the start to finish The fea-
lures OF the game were two touch downA
made by Jones' one In the drst and tha
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-25
Carriers Thank sOiyinO.

James Penrose Carter had his prison
life in the Henrlco county jail cheered
yesterday by an excellent Thanksgiving
dinner brought him by his brother, Mr..
Richard Carter.
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-25
Close ut Jennings.

q second. Maggie s. go to y third. Time.
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Michigan. ~; Chicago. II.

CHICAGO. Nov. 4.-The Western foot
ban championship goes to Michigan. On
a field that was simply perfect for fast
Tooth and before q crowd OF fully
1900 the Maroon Of Chicago went down
before the Maize and Blue Of Michigan
d.. q scOre of Y 10 II.
The times., 1898-01-24
Mr.. ELDRlDGE'S STATEMENT
Tie Minister Tells His COngrega.
ti0n He Is Innocent.
He Has Demanded an Investigation
of the Robertson Charges
He Does Not Preach.

Rev. z. Olin Eldridge, pastor of
Waugh NJ. E. Church, yesterday morn
ing made a statement to his congre-
cation denying the charges made
against him on Friday in a suit for di-
vorce filed against Mrs. Robertson. of
No. 40S d street northwest, by her hus-
band, George Thomas Robertson.
Mr.. Eldridge rose after the sermon
which was not delivered by him. and
in a quiet, clear voice read from a pa
per, as follows:
''As the congregation already know,
/ occupy to-day position most trying
TO my faith and courage. Conscious Of
my innocence, L have asked of the
church as early an investigation as
may with propriety be had, and con-
fidently anticipate the formal vindica-
tiCn of my character, so unjustly as
persed. i look to Almighty God for
His aid and am comforted in the as
surance of your sympathy and pray
ers."
The congregation yesterday, both at
the morning and evening services, were
probably the largest that have ever
filed Waugh Church. There was hard
ly standing room. Mr.. Eldridge was
present at both services, though he
preached neither of the sermons.
DR.. James Z. Gilbert delivered the
sermon in the morning, and Rev. A II.
Zimmerman at night. Mr.. Eldridge
stood behind the chanceI rail after the
services and received q cordial grasp
of the hand from many members of his
congregation, who extended their sym
pathy and expressed their belief in his
early vindication-
The Waugh Chapel people generally
disbelieve the charge against Mr.. Ell
bridge, as far as could be learned by
inquiry among them. He is very much
liked by the congregation as a man and
a pastor, and his work in the church
has been most successful. The congre-
cation is large and the church pros
porous.
Mr.. Eldridge would make no state
ment in addition to the public one yes
terday. He said that he owed ii to his
church and himself to leave his vfndi-
cation to the church authorities He
has employed Mr.. o. s. Worthington in
his defense. That gentleman stated to
a Times reporter last night that he felt
very sure of clearing Mr.. Eldridge of
the charge completely.
The trial will be taken up by Pre-
siding Elder Luther B. Wilson at an
early date.
The times., 1898-01-24
SIN A MORAL DISEASE
Bishop Satterlee's Discourse at st.
Johns Church.
"The Essential Attribute of Per-
sonality Is VIII Power" He
Says-The worldly Life.

A large congregation listened to an
interesting sermon delivered by Bishop
Satterlee yesterday morning at st.
Johns Episcopal Church, II and Six
/ teenth streets northwest.
| The eminent divine took for his sub
! Ject Sim and traced it's origin back
| to the Garden of Eden I'VE all ask.
he said, what is the origin of sin In
ourselves, and this shows that some
how we were born with a conscience.
We want to be good, but ipwardIy we
feel that we are bad; we want to do
GOOD, but do not, and we ask, what is
the origin of evil in myself? We In
| quire IL there is not one root sin, out
on which all other sins spring. Grant
ing that there Is root sin, we then
ask, what is the root? Is il pride or
is it unbelief?
need not explain that the essen
tIai attribute of personality is will
power. a person without will power
is some kind OF being, but not human
being. Had the tree of life not been
IN the Garden of Eden or had the
guardian angel been placed at the tree
to prevent by force it's tasting by Eve,
then Adam and Eve would have had
no opportunity to exercise their will
power which God had given them.
Sin is not sentiment: it is a real
ity; 1t is a moral disease just as real
as physical disease
Distrust of God and an interpreta-
ton OF our own of the knowledge of
good and evil forms the root of sin. We
distrust God and are not contented
with the spiritual life; it becomes pale
ana insipid when contrasted with the
worldly life. Talk about pessimism. If
you want a description of a worldly
lie go to cynical worldly man. 1t is
true there is worldly knowledge in
yielding. The serpent said to eat of
the tree was to open the eyes There
was half truth in this. But a half
truth is the worst kind of a lie. KnowI-
edge of evil only distorts and gives a
wrong impression of goodness. The
man who has false ideas of goodness
and false ideas of virtue must have
false ideas of God. l cannot see why
man can help being something of
an agnostic when he deprives himself
OF true knowledge of God.
There Is only one way" said Bishop
Satterlee in conclusion, by which we
can gain the peace of God, and that
way Is through Jesus Christ"
The times., 1898-01-24
HONORING PIONEER DAY
San Francisco Gay With Bunting
and Jubilee Banners.
Greatest Parade Ever Seen on the
Coast Celebrates Today the
Progress of California.

San Francisco. Jan. 2S.-Everything
is ready for the big jubilee parade to-
morrow, which will be the greatest
public demonstration ever seen on this
coast A careful estimate places the
number of those WHO will be in line
at I6,o0O
There will be fifty floats, represent
ing pioneer days and the marvellous
progress of California in the last half
century. over 500 regular soldiers will
be in line.
One of the prettiest features of the
parade Will be a corps of young wom-
en- deputy marshals, two from each
county, who viii be we'll mounted and
attractively dressed. Old pioneers
will be prominent figures in the pa
rade, and special honors will be paid
TO four ancient men who were compan
ions of Marshall, the discoverer of
gold.
The city's streets are gay with
streamers and flags OF purple and yell
low. Tonight a cold north wind is
blowing and the signs are favorable for
good weather tomorrow.
The times., 1898-01-24
SPIRIT. NOT LAW.
DR.. Stafford's Remedy for Poverty
IT Cannot BE Eliminated.

rev Dr. Stafford preached yesterday
morning at st. Patrick's Church before
| his usual large congregation on the
theme Poverty and Its Remedies" He
reviewed the remedies which have been
suggested by the Rationalists. the So
cialists, the Communists, and, in gen.
erai, the theory of those who hold
that they can effect a solution of the
problem of poverty by legislation.
These, he maintained, were visionary
and If allowed to be operative would
| never afford sufficient relief.
DR.. Stafford holds that there will al
ways be poverty in the world. the chief
authority for the statement being
found in the words of the Saviour 10
that effect. The true remedy. he main
tanned, for poverty was the Christian
remedy, love of the POOR, which, Christ
himself gave as the spirit with which
10 deal with the unfortunate. The
love of ones neighbor has been exalted
TO q parity with the love of God. for
the Lord said that even as the poor
We're ministered TO, so such ministra-
tions would be the exercise of love and
reverence for himself
DR. Stafford said terseIy that what
was wanted to alleviate the pangs of
poverty was not law, but spirit.
1t can be assumed he said. that
we cannot destroy poverty. but we can
remove misery by ministering to poy-
erty."
DR.. Stafford argued that poverty in
the sense of great suffering. hunger
and other physical ills, attaching to
great numbers of people, was not
known in the middle ages. There We're
poor people, it is true, in all times and
ages, but the miseries of poverty in
England, for instance, were alleviated
at the converts and at the monasteries.
Poverty might be said to have become
factor in the economic calculations
of the British Empire after the con-
vents and monaSteries had been con-
fiscated or abolished by Henry VIII.
Acute poverty was very largely, if
not entirely, a product of modern
social conditions, and would not exist
now If the spirit of the Christian doc
trine for its relief We're adhered to, as
1t was in times when the love of ones
neighbor was held to be equal to the
love of God, one love demonstrating
and proving the other.
The times., 1898-01-24
WAS ERNEST BECK MuRDERED7
His Neiehhors Are Sure That He
Met With Foul Play

Met With Foul Play
The belief is growing among his neigh
bors that Ernest Beck, late Of No. "a VI
street southeast. who disapp cared on rae
evening of January 10, met with foul
play, and that his body is in the canal
His wife WI! deposit $50 with the po-
lice today To be paid as a reward to any
one finding he body.
MIR. Beck was known Il steady ma n,
and his neighbors say he hadn't n enemy
in the world. He was last seen on the
night OF January 5 al the corner of Four
and-a--half and X streets.
A colored woman who lives near the
NJ street bridge says she heard cries If
murder about midnight OF the same date.
Today VIII be the ninth day since the
disappearance and if the body is in the
canal it should come to the surface
Mr.. Beck was a baker and he had but 80
cents on his person when he left home.
1t is thought he may have been muir
dered by someone who believed, it be-
ing Saturday night, that he had his weeks
wages with him.
The missing man was sixty-hve years
old, feet inches tall, weighed 160
pounds and wore mixed gray suit and
slouch hat. He had gray hair and mus
tache.
The times., 1898-01-24

OF arriving at such sight of truth, duty
and interest as will lead to any reason
aole degree of unity in thought or ac-
tion. 1t sees nothing but religious
ehaos and social anarchy in trusting
social and religious institutions to the
Shaping hand of mans natural powers.
but these natural powers are more and
more asserting themselves even in the
realm or religion, and refusing TO be
erdinpied upon or ignored by any al
ieseu supernatural revelations. The
CONVICTION is growing In all thoughtful
ininds that these so-caIled supernatu-
raj revelations, whether in our Bible.
IN the Koran. or in the Vedas. or In
any other Scriptures have all a COM
mon origin.
The various religions of the world
are the products of mans seeking.
Iney reflect his Ignorance, his weak
ness, his hate. as well as his wisdom.
his strength and his love. For a long
time the priests have claimed the su-
pernatural origin of their religions, and
their consequent inerrancy and abso-
iute authority They have posed before
the world as divineIy appointed inter
prefers of the Scriptures and the peo-
pie have believed them The progress
OF science has opened the eyes of MANY
10 the abSurdity Of the claim and the
,faiseness of the teaching. The claim is
being gradually modified both for the
books and the teachers. And the peo-
pie are outstripping the teachers in
their readiness to accept and extend
these notifications. They are coming
with marvellous rapidity to utterly dis
credit the authority of both teachers
and books
Side by side with the same tendency
TO individuality Of thought and action.
there is manifested by the same people.
and In the most marked degree, another
ana apparently opposite tendency. the.
tendency to combination, to concerted
and consolidated effort That is. the
very people who are most vehementIy
asserting their right to think, and who
are breaking with organizations that
deny or restrict that right, are volun-
tariiy putting themselves in line for
associated effort
DIR. Kent then proceeded 10 illustrate
the growth of the cooperative tend
ency
The times., 1898-01-24
CONSCIENCE THE GUIDE MARK.
DR.. Kent on the Opposing Ten
deRcies of Modern Life"


dencies of Modern Life"
Rev. Alexander Kent preached at the
Peoples Church yesterday on ''Oppos-
ing Tendencies of Modern Life" He
began by quoting from recent utter
ances by Rev. Drs. Lyman Abbott, and
Heber Newton that the traditions of
the church are being abandoned and
that liberty of conscience has become
the watchword. Sublimely. unconscious
of the day that is breaking outside of
church walls, our priests go on droning
refrains anathematiZing those who re-
fuse 10 listen TO the music of the past
DR.. Kent said:
"A clergyman in despair declares
that religious life is dead and that our
churches are maintained as social or
fashionable institutions While the
old order as based on dogma, is dying
men are thinking more clearly and
deeply on the great mysteries and the
higher life than ever before. Another
clergyman of high position bewails the
corruption. the lowered standards of
morality and of business conduct, and
Ly man Abbott answers that the stand
ards are today higher than ever before
and that true honor is more highly
priced, while in public schools and the
newspapers men are being educated
to think, and no longer accept. on the
word of the clergy, dogma for TRUTH
DR.. Kent then proceeded to illustrate
this tendency of individuals to do their
own thinking. He said: Nothing 1
think is more obvious and nothing is
more commonly conceded and lamented
by the clergy themselves. 1t cannot be
expected that the first results in Il
movement of this kind will be wholly
beneficial. People unaccustomed to
thinking will be apt to think crudely
and even wrongly. but it is great thing
to think at all, and those who have any
high purpose in their thinking will soon
learn to think well; While even the
crudest and most careless will have
to think very badly, if in the matter
of doctrines they think any worse than
the teachers with whom they have
broken This tendency we may call
tendency to individualism in the pri-
mary and better sense of the word. The
assertion of ones individual right to
think for himself does not mean that
he must necessarily differ from his fell
lows. Neither does his right to act on
the line OF his honest convictions in
volve a refusal on his part to engage
in any associated activities.
.'The assumption of the church is
that our human faculties are incapable
The times., 1898-01-24
FREIGHT CAR MEN KILLED.
Train Crushed Beneath Fallins
Trestle With Fatal Results.

New Albany. Ind, Jan. 23--A sixteen
foot trestle at the foot of Pearl street, on
the Louisville, Evansville and st. Louis
Railroad. gave way at 2 O'Clock this morn
ing. letting a freight engine and several
cars into the water underneath. John
Burks, conductor and Henry Miller, brake
man, were buried beneath the cars, and IL
is supposed instantly killed. Engineer
Henry Murphy and Fireman Charles Ham
jumped as the train went down and
escaped with dangerous, but not fatal
injuries.
Murphy was found unconscious on the
top of a car on which he had crawled
out of the water. Ham was caught be-
tween two cars, but managed to crawl out
with broken arm. The bodies of the two
dead men were recovered later.
II is supposed that the girders OF the
trestIe had become loosened by the bump
ing against it Of some coal floats.
The times., 1898-01-24
A DOG VISITS THE EMERGENCY.
1t Has Its Broken Leg Ncaded and
Redressed.

Dir. II. L. L. johnson. executive officer
ency Hospital, vouches for the truth and
accuracy of the following dog story, which
is a remarkable one of its kind. and sur
passes anything that ever previously
came under the attention Of the staff
on saturday afternoon Joe" the color
ed jantor AT the hospital, heard peculiar
scratching and crying at the ohio avenue
entrance To the building, and going to the
door saw a large white dog, With a
sad intellectual countenance begging TO De
admitted. The dog seemed To be in great
pain, and was hobbling ON three legs,
holding up the light hind one. Joe" took
pity upon the unfortuna te animal and called
Br. Jeunema nn and DR.. Bahr, two OF the
resident physicians, who examined the
leg and found that il had been broken.
Meanwhile the knowing animal had
hoobled intothe emergency room nd jump
ing upon the operating table lay quietly
down and extended the broken limb for
examination. IL was a good ca sc and a "a
uncomplaining patient and the surgeons
went TO work upon the dog. They reduced
the fracture, placed splints upon it, as
well as d plaster Ca ST. and a nice smooth
bandage. All this time the dog lay per-
fectly quiet, although it was apparent
that il was suffering grea pain. While the
plaster was drying the animal crawied
into the emergency room and lay down
upon an old coat which joe had pro-
vjded for it, and when the cast was dry
and hard hobbled away wagging its
caudal extremity as if in grateful ap-
probation of the Kindness that had been
done it.
All this the doctors considered most re-
nlarkable, but the most amazing feature
OF the W hole thing occurred yesterday V when
promptly at ] O'Clock the dog returned TO
the hospital to have the limb retlressed
and new bandage applied. SingularIy
enough this is the hour at which the re-
dressings occur, and it was treated in the
"a Ine manner al human n unfortunates The
doctors found that the homes were knitting
together nicely, and believe that in a
short time The dog will be able to step
upon the injured leg. No one a bout the
hospital had ever seen the dog before,
none reftlemberine ever la wing Sc en- il with
a patient. The animal is a cross between
a bull and a shepard. The cas- will be
reported in the medical journals.
The times., 1898-01-24
cRowN OF GOSPEL. GLORY.

DR.. Johnston Discourses on the
Grand Discovery of Immortality.
President Mckinley attended church
yesterday at the Metropolitan The at
| tendance was large aud DR.. Johnston's
sermon ON the future life was listened to
attentively.
DR.. Johnston's acceptance OF the Broad
Street Church on Trenton now depends
only on the conference authorities and the
bishops. The church fs large and pros
porous one, and will offer an excellent
position for DR.. Johnston IL the arrange
inent OF pastorates can be made in the
New Jersey conference.
DR.. Johnston took for his text Yesterday
Second Timothy, i: 10: ''who hath atol-
ished death and brodght life and iininor-
taIity to light through the Gospel
This is the glory of the Gospel he
said. Immortality is its grand discov-
cry. This tremendous destiny was not en-
tireiy unknown before. The philosophers
had dreamed of it. The Jews believed In
it,"
DR.. johnson alluded 10 the work of
4 TOi. UoIuWiH III SiltH, duu Oiti pdTISliOueT OF
his, a volume of essays just published,
"Guesses at the Riddle OF Existence In
which he says that no evidence of be-
lief in immortality can he found in the Old
Testament.
True" lie said, AL, chat is deyeloned
from the belief in Immortality is New
Testament doctrine, but there are many
passages teaching a future state Of ex-
istence in the Old Testament, and referring
to Cbrist's destruction OF death''
He quoted the dying words OF Words
worth, Emerson, Carlisle, Browning, Tenny-
son, and others, who found death swal-
lowed up in victory"
THE Immortality revealed Is one of per-
sonal life. Some believe In the immor-
taitty of matter. Others talk OF the i'm
mortality OF the race; others still of the
immortality of thought. The immortality
of Pantheism is merely the conservatism
OF force. The form disappears, the energy
is indestructible, whether in fly that lives
only for a day or In the sun which sends
out It's power for millions OF ages
The Immortality of angosticisrn is not
personal Immortality. Its most gifted
autiioress sings of the choir invisible and
OF those immortal dead who live again
In minds made better by their presence,
But If we do not live on as individuals we
cease to exist
The times., 1898-01-24
SIN FROM a SECULAR VIEW.
Mr.. Clifford Howard's Treatment
of This Suhtect

The Secular League met yesterday
afternoon in their new hall, No. 513
Ninth street northwest. A large num-
ber of persons We're present, among
them being many well-known scien-
lists of this city.
Two essays were .ead, one by Mr.
Clifford Howard. on The Philosophy
of Sin," and another by Dr. William
Howard. on The Philosophy of Reli-
gion." An original poem on the fatal
lists idea of life was read by MIR. Will
lam w. Talbot.
During the course of his remarks. Mr.
Clifford Howard said: Sin came into
the world in opposition to Omnipotence,
and from time to time it has trans
gressed against it's so-called divine
law. Sin is an invention of human So
ciety. and comes as a result of mans
interference with his fellow-man'S hap
piness. The greatest sin of our age
may be none at all in another. and
what was a virtue in a past age may
be q crime to-day. Every age has
terms to fit the manners and customs
of it's people.
"The killing of people to-day is in
some instances not murder but a le-
gal ceremony. Right and wrong are
merely relative terms. There is no
Such tnlnS as SIN IN itself.
DR.. William Howard said in part:
No religion can live longer than the
mentality of the people having it. As
10 two mentalities are alike no two
men have like religions. AS mind
changes and decays. so do religions.
Members of the same church agree on
major points. but differ always on the
minor points.
Before savages acquire religion they
must acquire the proper degree OF
mentality. Analogous mentalities even
in widely separated portions of the
world form analogous religions. No re-
ligion can survive the life condition to
which it belongs. No one can be de-
void of religion.
"A mans negation of all religion is
an affirmation of his own belief AS all
religion comes from the same source,
all are equally divine"
Both papers We're discussed by many
of those present at the meeting.
Your credit is good at Lansburgh's Fur
niture House, 18th and sts cc3-tf
The times., 1898-01-24
CHRISTIANS IN PERSIA.
a Missionary Tells of the Troubles
They Encouuter

a Missionary Tells of the Tr0u bIcs
They Encounter
Rev. Mr.. Nisan, of Persia, addressed
the congregation OF st. Pauls Episcopal
Church, last night. ON the subject of the
trials of Christians in his land Mr.. Nisan
comes to America 70 enlist the aid Of
the Christian churches in the interests of
the Christian church in Persia and Turkey
He halls from the country drained by the
Tigris and Euphrates, which was once
known as MesOpOtamia. and in which the
ancient cities of Babylon and Nineyeh
stood. He told an interesting story OF the
history OF Christianity in that regi0n.e
The Christian ms there suffered very much as
do those in Armenia. when a Musselman
bought sword or knife, he was Privileged
To- try its edge on u Christian. If a
Ma ahometan murdered Christian, he was
fined about $50, but if a Christian killed
% Mabometan. he, his father, wife, children:
sisters. and brothers were killed, and
the properly Of the whole family con-
fiscated-
Christian missionaries pursued their
work Under difficulties. They Travelled
on horseback, and encountered Kurcs, devil
worshipeTs, and bandits. It was not an
usual for a miSSiOnaTy to be held up, and
his horses and trappings taken from ham.
A Christian missionary out there had to
travel with a Bible in one pocket and a
six-shooter in the other. He related several
incidents in which he became involved with
robbers The Christian clergy were so poor
out there that they bad TO DO manual
la Dor on week days and could attend TO the
sacred Offices only on Sunday
The Christians in the East looked TO their
brethren of Europe and America for help,
he said.