The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-08-28
STRONG FRATERNAL TIES
THE BOND THAT BINDS US TO GREAT
BRITAIN HAS MANY STRANDS.
Eloquent Extract from Speech by
Bishop Fowler to a British Com
ference-COmmOn Interests.

OF the war and recent political events that
IL deserves wider reading than 1t will
receive through UNCONVENTIONAL papers.
After referring to various church matters,
he said In this time of strife and general
anxiety among the nations of the earth
there are special reasons adding interest to
our expressions of fraternal. feeling. As be-
levers in God we rejoice that our most SEN
stive spirit of reverence Is never shocked
by the purposes of our governments. nor by
the most private personal characters of our
rulers. 1 utter the conviction of the people
whom l represent when i say that we re-
gard it as Gods richest blessing to Eng
land that he has prolonged the glorious life
of the noble woman whose exalted Chris
tian character has made her reign the most
illustrious in the annals of time. God bless
Victoria, England's magnificent Queen!
I'VE are sure that you will rejoice to have
me say, from personal knowledge, that an
exemplary Christian and a Methodist COM
municant occupies the White House, man
who is more anxious to please God than to
please any other being in the universe. We
know his integrity and honor, we believe in
his personal religious experience. God bless
William Mckinley, the honored President
of the United States of America
I'VE are of one blood. Brothers must
stand together Blood is thicker than
water on will remember when this fact
counted for something. Lying for a week
sea breeze to help us over the bar, an old
English mariner pointed out to me the spot
where he learned this truth. He said: /
was during the war betewen England and
China; our ship, a British man-of-war,
was decoyed by misplaced buoys out OF the
less under the guns of a Chinese battery.
An American man-of-war lying near saw
the situation. and the captain said to his
men, Blood is thicker than water; clear
the ship for action. Swinging into place.
he opened a broadside on the Chinese bat
terry, silencing it till the returning tide
ADDED, / shall never forget that blood is
thicker than water. The time may not
blood from being spilled. L know not the
mysteries and reticenceS of diplomacy,
but l come from among the people beyond
the sea, and know that Secretary Cham
berlain's plain statement, made in Bir-
mingham May -, is 'understanded of the
people. Yonder now we are one people,
10 North, no South. The grandson of Gen
eral Grant and the granddaughter of Gen
eral Lee are marching side by side in the
fighting a foreign foe-a foe in whose cap
tured war ships of the broken armada your
ssires found all the appointments of the
Spanish inquisition racks, wheels, thumb
screws and every known instrument of tor
ture, shipped and brought along to torture
the life out of Protestanism in these
islands. ] know the temper of the men
whom you bred for battle If we put four
millions of Saxon soldiers into the civil
war thirty years ago. we can more than
double that number-we can make it ten
millions to-day, ii Anglo-Saxon rights need
defending.
RELIGIOUS BOND.
I'VE have one religion In these Christian
countries where the ten commandments are
law, where the sermon on the mount is au-
thority where deism is tinctured with the
gospel. and where even agnosticism is IL
lumined by tho sun of righteousness it is
easier to criticise than to appreciate Gods
eternal purpose of redeeming love. But go
away to the far East, where dolatry in
fects the air, where hate and fear are the
supreme motives. where corruption is chin
deep to the tallest souls and where the
dragon reigns without a rival, there you
nno tnat even a Christianity that is only
formal is separated from every other reig-
ion by the wide diameter of the moral gov
eminent Pagan and Mohammedan sink to-
gether In the hopeless abyss. A few months
ago an English merchantmen was in the
harbor at Smyrna. loaded with figs intended
for New York. waiting for clearance papers,
Wnen some fugitive ArmenianS, pursued by
band Of Turks bent on slaughter and ra-
pine, came on board begging for protection
me merchantman refused to let the fugi-
yves TO De taken from his ship. The Turks
said We will bring more soldiers and take
you TOO. The Briton asked an Italian war
ship snip, to protect them. The Italian captain
Italy are here only to protect the subjects
OF the King of Italy. An American war
eap can't a11ea nt9 the h h; The English
showed his war vessel in behind the mer-
chantman and quietly pushed him out to
sea, saying, Get your clearance papers in
New York The authorities in New York
RENTED the fine and commended the decis-
ion OF both Saxons. The bond of religion is
stronger all the world over than even the
tabled serpent that once encrcled the rlobe
Again. we are one in faith-the faith Of
Frotest antlsm No argument is needed for
TINS In England, where nearly every great
family has sometime learned by personal
suffering what the faith cost and where the
ashes from Smithfield have sifted into near
~ every nome in the United Kingdom, and
where the whole history, from the courage
OF Henry VIII tc the stupidity of James III.
and. too, the wisdom of Victoria has made
1t forever possible for every Englishraan 10
worship as he pleases.
A COMMON CREED.
Again. are one in denomination. This
knits US and knits us in the circle of the
family. We understand each others Ian
guage the language of Israel; we know the
accent The spiritual brogue is music in
our ears. We recognize the swing of con-
quest and the shout of victory. 1t is hard
10 find a church in America that has not
good sprinkling of salt from fair Albion
Once to know man as true Methodist
is to make assurance doubly sure. Well do
remember once being down IN mining
shaft In the far West, when Ii was neces-
sary for me to climb perpendicular ladder
two hundred feet high. 1t seemed utterly
impossible Just then a stout Yorkshire
man said. i will help YOU asked. Who
are you? He said, Brother / am a local
preacher in the Methodist Church. I will
follow up after you. and il you faint you
cannot fall past me- | believed him. His
faith kinded mine, and went up without
fear and without nervous strain, though not
without WEAKNESS. Our very fellowship
binds us together.
One in blood. one in religion one in
faith and one in UNCONVENTIONAL experiences
we are woven together by all the strong
threads that make up the warp and wool of
that wonderful garment which we call CIV
iIization. Your literature your history, your
achievements are ours. Art. science. COM
merce and trade pontoon the seas. Ameri-
can dramatists measure by English stand
ards. Irving and Kipling have the freedom
OF every American city. The harvest waves
in the valley OF the Mississippi and the hin
is in Liverpool. The Pennsylvania railroad
is an English company. The great cable
company Is owned In New York. English
iurists listen to the opinion Of our judges.