The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-05-11


a speech to his army and said: 'SSol-
diers, forty centuries are looking down
upon you from the heights of those
pyramids.
Just so Jupiter used to sit en-
throned upon the top Of Mt. Olympus
and overlook the doings of the chill
dren of men. These are rather lofty
thoughts for common man to con-
template, but sometimes / wish that [
could take fight to the clouds and
poise myself and let the earth roll un-
der me, so that / could look down on
the nations and see what they all were
doing. The world has been getting
smaller ever since | was boy. 1t
has been shrinking, shrinking from
year to year, for it used to take three
years to go around it, but now less
than three months makes the great
circuit. Still We are not content, for
though the land is wired pretty we'll,
the sea is not, and avessel may be lost
or feet destroyed away out in mid
ocean, and we could not hear Of it for
week.
This little war of ours is growing
bigger and spreading wider in its prob
abilities. We thought that Cuba was
to be the battle-ground for our army
and Cuban waters for our navy, but
the Philippine Islands are thousands
Of miles away and the Canaries not
Far from Africa. It is now a war Of
invasion and the end is not In sight.
Butitis too late now to entreat for
peace or arbitration, and so we must
all fall into line and do our share.
When the preachers put on their war
paint / reckon it is no harm for the
laymen and the sinners to fight. We
remember that in the last war the
preachers, both north and south, were
more belligerent than any other class.
They dident do much fighting, but
they went along and encouraged the
boys and prayed for them and nursed
the sick and the wounded and showed
their faith by their works, but some
of them were awfully mistaken about
which side the Lord was on, or what
were his great designs.
"God moves in mysterious way,
His wonders to perto, m,
Blind unhelief Is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
GOD is his own interpreter,
Aud he will make it plain"
The preachers are human, just like
other people and subject to like pas
sions and prejudices. / rememk>r
that just before Georgia seeded our
Rome preachers could hardly maintain
their Christian serenity in the pulpit
or out Of it, and one of them, an elo-
auent and gifted man whom che whole
community respected and reyerenced,
took for his text the twentieth verse
Of the second chapter Of Joel: 81 will
remove far from you the Northern
army, and will drive him into land
barren and desolate, with his face to-
ward the east sea and his hinder part
toward the outmost sea, and his stink
shall come up and his i'll SAVIOR shall
come up, for he hath magni6ed to do
great .hings.
Gear not, oh land be glad and re-
joice, for the Lord will do great
things =
tell you, he made it fit our case
like a prophetic prediction, and we
could see the yankees flying from our
valiant troops and driven to their ut
most borders and scattered from the
Pacific ocean to Plymouth Rock and
perishing to death all along the line
for lack Of provisions and nobody left
TO bury hem. At the same time
Henry War Beecher was breathing
out threatenings and slaughter from
his Brooklyn pulpit and declaring that
the Almighty's hand was on their side
and within few months would wreak
his vengeance upon the slave-holde
and set the bondmen free. And til:
editors knew nothing at last. | tell
you, my brethren, that preachers aid
editors are human, just like the rest
Of as, and the world will never have
fair chance to get even with them
unit every man has pulpit and
new.pa, r Of his own.
3 war sol and we mu
fight il. ~, 'pyressmcn II sad
it is right and just an -" o ght Cd
know. but l was uminsfin4 'rt
b ood and tears and agony-about nd