Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-21
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Written for the Times Republican.

Written for the Times Republicans
| In common with other preachers this
scribe has been taking religious vaca-
ton. In this column, very little has
been said on religious subjects during
the heated term. But now, brethren.
| the approaching cooler days and even
lings will make such matters more to our
taste and interest. The texts for this
article will be from the newspapers the
subject, Special Providences." Before
the writer is the following from the
Cincinnati Enquirer:
"Stillwell Palmer, of Dover township.
a prosperous farmer, IS years old, in
4 May, 1897, lost his speech and had not
lspoken since till yesterday. He was re-
! ligious and thought the Lord directed
him to go to the house of an ex-preach-
4 er named Her. He hitched up his horse
took a slate and started. Her and his
family struck up gospel song. Then
4 followed a season of prayer. Six prayed
that Palmer's speech be restored, and
when the prayers ended Palmer began
| praying aloud himself. Palmer is a
Methodist and Her Baptist
Now the general reader disbelieves
4 such miraculous cures-puts 1t down as
la newspaper lie. But let this writer
place himself on record as one who be-
4 lieves that Palmer lost his speech in
1897" and that it was restored by pray
er in 1899. The writer is neither Bap-
fist nor a Methodist.
Here is an item that is floating
around 1t first appeared in the Sidney
Bulletin:
IL. DnI, n 1.,,. IN N
way smash drink was the means OF
saving the lives OF about sixty excur-
sonists who, as the night was cold and
wet and the train was waiting, left the
rear carriages and trooped into the rail-
Z way hotel a few yards off. While they
We're drinking the smash took place.
The carriages which sixty of the beer
thirst crowd had quilted were reduced
to matchwood."
ii Again does this scribe believe that
drink saved the lives of many per-
sons. Flat footed is the statement; men
saved their lives because they had a
beer thirst" and visited saloon. Now
. for a shocker The footsteps of these
men were guided by the same power
that restored Palmer's speech.
Several years ago steamboat excur-
sion was advertised in New York a
big crowd went aboard one steamboat
and a passing excitement caused the
: boat to careen right at the wharf and
Y eighteen persons We're drowned. The
y religious papers of the day mentioned
: this as a direct act on the part of the
llI Almighty to punish such Sabbath desc
: Icration. The writer believes this, too
If the word direct Is omitted. Onl,
two months ago a score or more were
drowned at Bar Harbor. Me-, all Sun
day excursionists, who broke down ar
. overloaded pier. They were Sabbath
= breakers in the eyes of many. and tn,
y religious press has hardly yet finished
II lpointing the moral and adjoining tn,
Y, tale. There is no doubt this was an ac
It of Providence.
eel Less than ten years ago a larg,
a Icrowd gathered in an Ohio town to wit
is ness the baptism Of many persons VIII,
think total immersion the only tru
form. On bridge crossing the strean
where the ceremonies took place severa
e hundred stood watching the perform
ance, when the bridge gave way ant
many found a watery grave. Ono