The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-05-23

sald 10 my friends Don't CO. why! Be
cause of the conditions. Because gold is
not cheap thing. Every man that has
come away with his hundreds of thousands
has had to pay for every dollar he got.
Last summer | knew of two men who lay
dead in their hut. with $4,000 in gold
dust under his head and the other with per-
haps $4,000 ] am not willing that the
blood Of any shall be on my skirts without
warning them. The richest deposits are In
the frozen subsoil. The government aban-
doned the effort to get below the frozen
ground after drilling thirty-nine feet. The
men work below the surface in a tempera-
ture at freezing point, while on the sur
face the sun is one hundred degrees. Dur
ing the hot, short summer the mosquitoes
are intolerabe. l have seen strong men cry
like children. so terribly were they afflicted
by the insects In the winter II gets colder
than you can imagine. 1t don't pay TO dig
gold under such conditions 1t has been
estimated that 100000 are going in this year
Already this spring 5000 have entered.
Transportation companies are bringing
them from the ends of the earth. Our war
with Cuba may reduce the estimate by half.
but with $4,000 going in you can see what
change it is going to bring in that coun-
try. When the secretaries would not ask
ministers to go to Alaska [ had to issue a
found how eager people were 10 get there.
To save souls? No, but for gold"
He told how the transportation companies
were pressed TO take people and an old
water-soaked craft that had been discarded
as unsafe for placid water was raised
painted and started on voyage OF three
thousand miles over tempestuous seas with
$50 human souls on board A little ferry
boat. after it was disabled for carrying pas
factory and after it was too rotten for that
a saloon keeper bought it for almost moth
ing gave 1T a coat of paint and started 1t
They got through" said he. "but could
not do it again once in a thousand times,
If you have friends going warn them not
to engage passage until they reach Puget
Sound to inquire about the boats In winch
they are to sail or they will be put on some
in Chf IN A pa Mt al n tn
a string of men miles and miles long toling
up the mountains. They were so close to-
gether that each man raised foot and
advanced it the man behind placed his foot
in the foremost mans track. So intent were
they to cross the heights that they pressed
on. not even taking time to speak to friends.
The captain told me that with ten thousand
men with that logged spirit of determine
ton he could sweep Cuba and press on TO
the conquest of Spain. All those thousands
of men are without the privileges OF the
church.
ELDERS AS SALOON KEEPERS
There are but two ministers there. OF the
thousands that have gone in one hundred
were ruling elders and perhaps two thou
sand were communicates of the Presby-
terrain Church, but they are without the
privileges of the church and are subject to
the demoralizing influences about them. |
went to the board and plead for at least
five ministers. We cannot give you even
stewards are not giving to the Masters
work. We may be able to keep the mis-
sonaries now in the field there but it would
not be good business sense to assume addi-
tonal obligations l have met as saloon
keepers, dealing out death to their fellows,
men who were once ruling elders. have seen
former Sabbath school workers in gambling
dens. and have witnessed thousands go back
to the world. because they We're in that
demoralized country with no good counsel.
He spoke of the duty of PreSbyterians in
the way of giving money to send ministers
there to care not only for the natives but
also for their own sons and for the men of
all nations who are gathering there in
demoralized country with no good influences
about them.
DR. Jackson expressed desire to en-
phasize the notice of the evening meeting,
when Rev. Dr. Ewing, of Lahore, India,
president of the Lahore College was to
speak. IF your evening papers last night
had announced that Admiral Dewey would
occupy IL pulpit to-day to talk to you of
the taking of Manila you would not have
found hall large enough to hear him.
Here you have one of the greatest officers
of the army of Christ and it scarcely seems
necessary to urge the Importance of the
message he will have for you"
DIR. Jackson did not mention the war, al
though in his opening prayer he asked that
lives might be spared in the battle that is
expected and that those who are taken
might be ready. He prayed for victory, vic
tory that is to take not alone civil but also
religious liberty to the islands of the sea.