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

] when Napoleon was in Egypt and g
4 hattie vas impending, he made
spch to his army and said: "Sol-
las forty centuries are looking down
you from the heights of those
4 pyramids
1 ,,onei upon the top Of Mt. Olympus
"a overlook the ioiugs of the chill
I'm &C men. These are rather lofty
i ,aoushts for e common man to con-
m,late. but sometimes l wish that |
q .,uld take a fight to the clouds and
q ,o;.c myself and let the earth roll un-
q u, me. so that | could look down on
4 ,bs nations and see what they all were
4 lang The world has been getting
.r,ller ever since l was a boy. 1t
has been shrinking, shrinking from
year to year, for it used to take three
ye,rs to 60 around it, but now less
,b,n three months makes the great
.;,c,it. Still We are not content, for
i ,hough the land is wired pretty we'll,
8 the sea is not, and q vessel may be lost
ar feet destroyed away out in mid
oceap. and We could not hear Of it for
q week.
This little war Of ours is growing
bigger and spreading wider in its prob
q abilities. VIC thought that Cuba was
q 10 BE- the battle-ground for our army
and Caban waters for our navy, but
/ The Philippine Islands are thousands
. Of miles away and the Canaries not
q far from Africa. It is now q wax of
INVASION and the end is not in sight.
i But it is too late now TO entreat fer
4 peace or arbitration, and 80 we must
all fall into line and do our share.
4 When the preachers put on their war
psint | reckon it is no harm for the
i laymen and the sinners to fight. We
d remember that in the last war the
4 preachers, both north and south, were
j more belligeront than any other class.
4 They dident do much fighting. but
j they vent along and encouraged the
4 boys aud prayed for them and nursed
i the sick and the wounded and showed
! their faith by their works, but some
a Of them we're awfully mistaken about
i which side the Lord was on, or what
we're his great designs.
q God moves in a mysterious way,
His wonders to perform,
II Blind unhelief Is sur to err,
and -oiii his work IN vain;
9 God is hi. cwn interpreter,
And he will make 1t plain"
The preachers are human, just like
4 other people and subject to like pas
,ions and prejudices. l remember
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-
queut aud gifted man whom che whole
community respected and reverenced,
took for his text the twentieth verse
! ii tic second chapter OF joel: II viii
remove far from you the Northern
army, and will drive him into a 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 an +-.s i'll SAVIOR shall
come up, for he hath mAgnifsed to do
great things.
Fear not, oh land! be glad and re-
joice, for the Lord will do great
things
tell you, he made it ft 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
pershing to death all along the line
'or lack of provisions and nobody left
70 bury hem. At the same time
Henry War Beecher was breathing
out thrcatenings and slaughter from
his Brooklyn pulpit and declaring that
The Almighty's hand was on their side
aud within a few months would wwreah
! a' vengeance upon the slave-holde
and set the bondmen free. And,Ah .
EDITORS knew nothing at last, l tell
you my brethren, that preachers aid
e:l'0rs are human, just like ahe rest
81 u.s. and the world vill never have
lar chance to get even with them
ao' every. man has a pulpit ana a
neW'pr Of his own.
e war IS OF and we mu {
.sas II. -. "ryressmcn ii s,,d
y Is right and jnstau- 0 ght ~
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