The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-12-29


! from the country farmhouse In
Arly morning, showing that the
Al industries have begun; or, see
ending from the chimneys OF the
telling of the homes fed, the tac-
s turning out valuable fabrics, the
Ling presses preparing book ana
paper, and all the ten thousand
> of work In motion. On clear
lis vapor spoken of mounts Win
ioyancy and spreads such del
,il across the sky, and traces
faceful lines of circle and semi
land waves and losses and Silks
oars and scatters with such al
of shape and color and suggest
IS, that If you have never no
1t you are like man who mas
Is life lived in Paris and yet never
1.-THE Luxembourg, or all his life IN
me and never seen the Vatican, or
This life at Lockport and never seen
iagara. Forty-four times the Blpie
Ms of the smoke, and 1t is Gbout
nat somebody preached sermon
zing this strange, weird, Deau-
lastic. charming, terrific and
ting vapor. Across the Bible SKY
he smoke of Sinai, the smoke OF
the smoke of All, the smoke OF
the smoke of the volcanic hills
God touches them, and In my
le glorious church Of God coming
of the wilderness like pillars OF
ne first place, these pillars OF
in my text indicate the sunerlne
urch of God has endured. What
.ep w the church? mean not
ding. not a sect, but those who,
ages, and all lands, and OF all De-
love God, and are trying to 90
For many centuries the Eeav-
ave been black with the smoke
.Artyrdom. If set side by side you
build girdle the earth with the nres
Il persecution. Rowland Taylor burned
It Hadleigh; Latimer burned at OK
BIRD; John Rogers burned at smith
leld; John Hooper burned at Glouces-
kr: John Huss burned at Constance;
lawrence Saunders burned at Coven-
ry; Joan of Arc burned at Rouen.
Protestants have represented Catho-
les as having a monopoly OF persecu-
ors. but both Protestant and Catholic
lave practiced infamous crueltles. Inc
Catholics, during the reign OF Hun
eric, were by Professionals put to the
Forst tortures, stripped of their cloth
ng,- hoisted in the air by pulleys with
Weights suspended from their feet,then
et down, and ears and eyes, nose ana
Dngue were amputated, and red-hot
gates of iron were put against the
pderest parts of their bodies.
George Bancroft, the historian, says
1.-THE state of Maryland: In the land
hich Catholics had opened to Protest
It's mass might not be said publicly;
Catholic priest or bishop might ut
r his faith in voice of persuasion;
Catholic might teach the young. II
hayward child of Papist would not
become an apostate, the law wrested
FOR him from his parents share OF
heir property. Such were the meth
DDS adopted to prevent the growth OF
Popery."
Catholicism as well as Professionalism
has had its martyrs. 1t does seem as
If when any one sect got complete dom
inancy in any land, the devil Of perse-
cution and cruelty took possession oil
that sect. Then see the Catholics after
the Huguenots. See the Gentiles after
the Jews in Touraine, where a great
nit was dug and fire lighted at the bot
ON of the pit, and one hundred and
ixty Jewish victims were consumed.
BEE the Presbyterian parliament OF
england. more tyrannical in their
treatment of opponents than had been
the iminal courts. Persecution
against the Baptist by Paedo-Bap-
lists. Persecution of the Established
Church against the Methodist church
Persecution against the Quakers. Per-
ecution against the Presbyterians. I'm
Ter Emperor Diocletian one hundred
rid forty-four thousand Christians
5ere massacred, and seven hundred
aousand more of them died from ban
ihment and exposure.
Witness the sufferings of the Wal
.nses, of the Albigenses, OF the Mes
rians. Witness st. Bartholomew S
lassacre. Witness the Duke of Alva
irving out of life eighteen thousand
christians. Witness Herod, and Nero,
nd Decius, and Hildebrand, and Tor
uemada, and Earl of Montfort, and
ord Claverhouse, who when told that
e must give account for his cruelties,
aid: II have no need to account to
AN. and as for God l will take him In
ly own hands," A red line runs
rough the church history Of nineteen
indred years. line Of blood. Not
the hundreds of thousands, but by
se millions must we count those slain
r Christ's sake. No wonder John
\ lton put the groans of the martyrs
an immortal tune, writing:
,enge, o Lord. thy slaughtered
saints, whose bones
e scattered on the Alpine mountains
cold"
The smoke Of martyrs homes and
lrtyrs' bodies II rolling up all at once
uld have eclipsed the MONDAY sun.
i turned the brightest day the world
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