The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-27
PREACHED IN UNIFORM.
Rev. ]. A. Judge Tells All
About Porto Rico Last
Night in the Taber-
nacle.

Patent leather pomps, dress suits, yea,
and even smoking Jackets, in the pulpits
are now a thing of the past. They have
lost their magnetic power for q crowd.
Today it is the mar who wears the
Rough Rider uniform and preaches on the
war. Such was the Rev. J. Alfred Judge,
of the First Volunteer Corps, En-
gineers, New York, who spoke from
the Tabernacle pulpit last even
ing on Porto Rico. He was there
with all his buttons, though being but a
private, these buttons were not quite as
profuse as they might have been.
Mr.. Judge took his text from Deuter-
onomy viii, 7-9, saying, after repeating
the words of Scripture, as found in the
passage: II suppose people not familiar
with Scripture do not realize it contains
such a true picture of the United States.
/ like peace rather than war. War Is d
terrible thing. 1 do not believe we should
talk about the hard time we had, but the
hard time we gave those fellows who
tried to insult our flag. | have heard
some ministers say, Don't preach re-
venge,' but l went to war to punish the
Spaniards for blowing up the Maine.
Gods enemies are our enemies; murder
ers are Gods enemies, and the Spaniards
are murderers."
Then after graphically describing the
examination for service wherein Il was
punched and almost made to kick myself
before 1 could have a chance to be shot,
Mr.. Judge went on with a description OF
life at Camp Townsend, When the boys
heard of Dewey's great victory at Man
lila. SAYING thai had that story been re-
corded in Scripture, Col Ingersol would
nave been travelling all over the country
preaching the fallacy of the Bible because
seven ships captured eleven without a
drop of American blood, and thousands OF
Standards slain. ANY land" said lie,
in dealing with the question of expansion,
that spills one of our mems blood is good
enough for US to keep, and let no man who
pretends to be a Christian teach you airy
other doctrine"
The minister next described the landing
of the troops at Porto Rico and the unciv-
ilized sights which met their eyes. Chill
dren running naked about the streets.
Women smoking cigars stuck in tneir
mouths at an angle that would nave aone
honor to a BoWery tough, ana a rev
otner items of interesting. pltaple ae-
pravity. I'VE would not be doing our
duty" continued he, Ito let any olher nag
fly over that island but the Stars ana
Stripes, as United States is the only ma
ton to civilize those people,
1--WE did not DO much fighting" I own.
"But that was not our fault. We were
ready to do the fighting, but If the other
fellows chose to run we could not stop
them. It was a war where all nations
were united. We take off our hats to
the Grand Army men. The boys of this
war were, many of them, the sons OF
| those men, and this question of COM
p~arison should never come up because 1t
| sets the father against the son.
The question of embalmed beef was
brought up and cleverly handled. MI.
| Judge began his remarks on this sub
iect by saying he did not kno what
the boys expected. Probably ice cream
| and chicken. Perhaps the government
| could do better" he said. II do not
| think it could. The fellows that come
| back and din into your ears the beef
| they had to eat and the coffee they had
to drink, you may be sure either had
no better at home. or went away grum-
bling, and I am speaking tonight as a
private, not an officer. | never got any
embalmed beef. In Porto Rico we got
native beef and that was tough enough,
because there the cattle are small, puny,
and must be eaten the day after killing.
It was not the beef that killed the boys
but the rum"
From here the speaker went On to de-
scribe the effect of the liquor on the
men in the hot climate, and the deaths
caused thereby. ending his discourse with
He spoke of the young men who loaf on
saloon corners, saying that Jersey City
| was the worst place he ever saw for this
evil.