The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-05-18

Another alleviation 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 not a
trifing thing for 100000 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 sometimes
slurred at; to be placed under in
huences calculated to make one reck-
less; to have no Sabbath, except such |
Sabbath as in most encampments |
amounts to no Sabbath at all; to go out |
from homes where all sanitary laws are |
observed into surroundings where ques-
tions of health are never discussed; to |
invade climes where pestilence holds
possession; to make long marches un-
der blistering skies; to stand on deck
and in the fields under fire, at the
mercy of shot and shell-we must ad-
init that those thus exposed need espe-
cial care, and to the Omnipresent God
we have a right to commend them, and
will commend them. Postal communi-
cation may be interrupted, and letters
started from camps or homes may not
arrive at the right destination, but
however far away our loved ones may
be from us, and however wide and deep
the seas that separate us, we may hold
communication with them via the
throne of God.
1t is a mystery that just as this coun-
try was recovering from a long season
of hard times, so many of our industries
should now be halted; that business
men who thought they could see their
way to pay their debts and build up
more prosperous enterprises and en-
dow their homes with more advant-
ages should have to halt and wait un-
til the perfdious oppressor of Cuba
shall be turned back. But individual
and national life is always clothed
With mysteries, and we may make our
selves miserable by stabbing ourselves
with sharp interrogation points, and
plying the. everlasting questions of
"Why?" and "How" and "What" and
"When?" While we must of course,
try to be intelligent on all public af-
fairs, it is glorious thing to do our
duty, and then fully and confidently
trust all in the hands of God, who has
proved Himself the friend of our coun-
try from the time when the Spanish
government fitted out an expedition
to discover it, to this time, when Span
iards would like to destroy it.
Now that we have started on the
work let us make that Spanish gov
! ernment get out of this hemisphere.
We do not want her any more with her
/ injustices and barbarism, and stillet-
tos 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. There bids fair
to be scene on the deep as disastrous
to the Spanish as that which whelmed
, their Armada" in 1888. Philip the
, Second, king of Spain, resolved ON the
, conquest of Europe, and already in the
;. compass of his dominious, besides Spain,
were Naples and Sicily, and the Neither
!. lands, and the East Indies, and the
Canary and Molucca and Sunda and
, PHILIPPINE islands, and Mexico and
! Cuba and some of the most splendid
parts of America. All the nations oi
: the earth, except England, were to her
: underlings, and the Spanish king re-
: solved that even England must bow
: the knee. Although the destructive
strength of modern battleships was
v then unknown, the Spanish Armada
j. started for the subsection of England
= with about 14O great ships, with 2,6O(
q guns, 1000 cavalry horses and 1900
+ men. The battleships were provisioneC
= with 147,000 casks of wine and siA
months of provisions. The com
a manders and officers of these wal
i vessels were dukes and marquise'
n and noblemen. At Plymouth, Eng
a land, on the 10Th of July the
prominent officers of the navy were
in bowling alley, bowling with great
d glee-Lord Howard the high admiral
h Sir Martin Frobisher, the daring ex
q plorer, and Sir Francis Drake, the frs
Z circumnavigator of the world-wher
word came to them that the Spanish
= Armada was advancing. The Officers
continued at the game of the bowling
= talley until the game was finished ant
. then went out to investigate the It'd
:; ings, and sure enough that mighty
:, fleet which was considered invincible
and which was to lombard and over
= throw England, was approaching, bu
;, the invading navy was destroyed, fo
:. the Lord Almighty appeared in thu
y fight.
= A storm such as had never swept thu
:, coast of England or aroused the ocean
swooped npon the Spanish Armada
q Most of the ships soon went down un
= der the sea, while others were driver
II helplessly along to be splintered OIL
Il the coasts of England, Ireland, Scot
: land and Norway. Another Spanisl
= Armada is crossing the Atlantic, ant
- we are ready to meet them. The SAM
:. - God who destroyed the Armada in 1853
reigns in 1898. May He in His might
either through human arm or dum1
y element, defeat this squadron, and Civ
IL victory to the old flag of Admiral Far
= ragut and David Porter!
~ Yet what the world most wants i
- ~ Christ, who is coming to take posses
- sion of all hearts, ell homes, all ma
~ tions; but the word blocks the wheel
of His chariot. would like to Sc