The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-05-21


United States. 1t took our govern
ment our years to get over h fasco
at Bull run. A defeat at the start OF
this present war would have been dis
h~eartening to the last degree, and
woul6have invited foreign interven-
tion toestop the war before anything
practical for God and humanity had
been accomplished, and would have
prolonged the strife, for which we are
hoping a quick termination. In the
most jubilant n let this vic
tory of our navy be cele brated.
With the story of the exploding bat
tleship fresh in the minds of the
world, it required no ordinary courage
to sail into the harbor of Manila and
attack the Spanish shipping. That
harbor, crowded with sunken weap-
onry of death; to enter it was running
a risk enough to make all nations
SILVER. But Manila is ours, and the
blow has shaken to the foundation the
palaces of Madrid, and for policy's
sake the doubtful nations are on our
side. For Commodore Dewey and all
who followed him let the whole nation
utter its most resounding huzza; and
more than that, let us thank the Lord
of hosts for His guiding and protect
ing power. praise We the Lord! Let
everything that hath breath praise
the Lord"
Another alienation is the fact that
in this war the might is on the side
of the right. Again and again have
liberty and Justice and suffering hu-
mainly had the odds against them. 1t
was so when, in 1870, the Is colonies,
with no var shipping and a few I'M
drilled and poorly clad soldiers, were
brought into a contest with the might
lest navy of the earth and an army
that commanded the admiration of
nations. 1t was SO when Poland was
crushed. It was so when Hun
gary went under. 1t has been so dur
ing all the struggles heretofore for
Cuban independence. But 1t is
our powerful navy against a feeble
group of incompetent ships, crawling
across the Atlantic ocean to meet our
Aotillas. which have enough guns to
send them as completely under as
when the Red sea submerged Pharaoh's
army. 1t is so in these times, when
only a few thousand Spaniards can
reach our hemisphere, and we go out
to meet them with 125, 900 armed men,
to be backed up speedily with 500, 900
more if needed. We do not have to
ask for n miracles, but only a fair
shot at the ships headed this way, and
time enough to demolish them, This
is one of the cases in the worlds his.
tory where might and right are shout
der to shoulder.
Another alienation is in the fact
that such an atrocity as the destruc-
ton of 266 lives in Havana harbor in
time of peace cannot with impunity be
wrought in this age of the worlds civ
ilization. The question as to who did
that infernalism is too well settled to
need any further discussion. But what
a small crime it was compared with
the systematic putting into their
graves of hundreds of thousands of Gu
bans, or leaving them unburied for the
buzzards to take care of! If Spain
could destroy 200, 600 men, women and
children, the slaughter of 266 people
was not a very great undertaking.
But this one last deed will result in the
of Cuba and the driving of
Spain from this hemisphere and the
of that government, which
will soon drop to pieces if it does not
down under bombardment of in
nations. There was danger
that the long-ccntinued oppression of
our neighbors in Cuba might be con-
tinued from generation to generation
without sufficient protest on our part
and the pronounced e~xecration of peo-
pie on both sides of the Atlantic, but
that bursting volcano of destruction
in the harbor of Havana fred the ma
tions and shocked the whole civilized
All nations will learn that
such an act cannot De repeated without
the anathema of all Christen-
dom. As individual criminals
be punished for the pub
lic good, and we have for them
courts Of oyer and terminer. and the
gallows, SO governments
high crimes against God
and humanity must be scourged and
hung up for the worlds indignation.
in Spanish waters our battle
and intending nothing but
Iuietude, was hurled into demolition,
Ind the men on board. without time
to utter one word of prayer. were
into the eternal world, the
loom of h reigning house of Spain
pronounced in tones louder than
the thunder which that night rolled
3pt over the sea.
Another alienation is the fact that
have u God to go to In behalf Of all
hose of our countrymen who nay be
n especial exposure at the front, for
We must admit the perils. 1t is no
thing for 100, 900 young men to
be put outside of home restraints and
into evil companionship.
Many of the brave of the earth are not
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 some
lines slurred at; to be placed un-
Ter influences calculated to make
ope reckless; to have no Sabbath, ex-
'ePt such Sabbath as in most encamp-
nents amounts to no Sabbath at all;
10 go out from homes where all sani-
tary laws are observed into surround
Ings where questions of health are
never discussed; to invade chimes
where pestilence holds possession; to
long marches under b~listerinR
skiesS to stand on deck and in the
aelds under fire, at the mercy of shot
and she'll we must admit that
exposed need especial care,
and to the Omnipresent God we
have a right to commend them, and
will commend them. Until this con-
dict is ended let us be much in prayer
our beloved country. Do not let
depend upon the friendship of for
nations. Our hope is in God.
Out of every misfortune he has
brought this nation to a better moral
and financial condition, and so let us
pray that he will lift us out of this
Of trouble unto a higher moup-
lain of blessing.
Morning, moo and night let us COM
mend this beloved land to the rare of
! gracious God. That He answer
prayer is so certain that your religion
8 an hallucination il He does not an
Iwer it. Prayer hat in reply to sup
olication the farmer boys may get
lome again in time to reap the harvest
If next July; that our business
men may return in time to pre-
bare for a fall trade such as
never yet filled the stores
Ind factories with customers, and that
Ill the homes in this country now
iaddened by the departure of father OF
ION many months before the Thanks
and Christmas holidays be full
If joy at the arrival of those who will
or the rest of their lives have stories
% tell of double-quick march. and mar