The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-02-08
REMINISCENT.

been filled with many startling incidents.
events of wonderful character, it has
passed a remarkable time. To have lived
| through the greater part cf the century,
is to have witnessed all the memorable
events of the time; and these exents
have marked the destiny of the country.
Last Thursday night, Rev. Milton l..
Haney, Of Normal, Illinois, closed se-
ries of revival meetings in the NJ E.
church in this city. Few people realized
the remarks Bile character OF the man who
had dispensed Gospel doctrine for more
than ten days, and who had uttered some
of the profoundest Bible truths. The
mans learning and experience was made
up from life which had gone through
all the viclssitudes of pioneer preaching.
There are people in this city who knew
Brother Haney fifty and sixty years ago,
in Illinois, and who knew of the hard
ships which the pioneers of Methodism
passed in those early days. Illinois was
a new state comparatively, and her
preachers were poor in purse but rich in
Bible Knowledge and spiritual power.
Bro. Haney was contemporary of Peter
Cartwright, and the life of both are
woven in the early history of Illinois It
is said of both that they passed some of
the hardest ordeals in maintaining their
preaching. Cartwright used physical
force when mild persuasion failed to do
its work. 1t is also true of Haney and
his brother, who died only two weeks
ago. When preaching in the early days.
these men found disturbers of their meet
| ings, and sometimes only physical power
sustained sthe spiritual dignity. There
was a class OF people who had re-
spect for the Christian religion. and they
| sought to disturb the religious meetings
| held by the Haney brothers. While one
brother would be preaching the other was
| in the back part of the copgreg egation
maintaining order with his fist if moral
| suasion was not accepted Many a
brawler and rowdy received black eye
from the hand of the sturdy and re-
soiute Haney. To have heard the genial,
| loving and amiable old man last week.
| no one would have supposed that he
once used physical force to nnaint tain
the truth of the Gospel against its de-
tractors and defamers. But this is the
| truth of history, and there are many
witnesses to ir.
| The writer remembers when camp
| meetings were held in Illinois, more
than 40 years ago, at which were con-
gregated rowdies from miles around.
Gambling, horse racing and other vices
were carried outside OF the camp
meeting grounds. Whisky was dealt out
|
within the camp grounds the festive
| rowdy, unless restrained, exhibited his
passion and disrespect.
| Men like Bro. Haney were of the true
| stuff. And we look back to the days of
pioneer life in Illinois, and mark the
difference in the life of the preacher.
During the memorable days of the
| anti slavery question, such men the
/ Haneys were the bone and sinew of the
| agitation. Lincoln on the one hand, the
| exponent of the idea that marked our
| country's destiny, and Douglas, on the
other hand, who was compromising, and
| trying to avert the impending calamity.
the destruction of slavery, were the two
exponents whose principles precipitated
| the civn We remember such men
as the Haneys, who disputed the Divine
right of slavery, and whose sta1wart
character moulded the Drawn and brain
that sustained the principle that under
lies our foundation of governmcnt-all
men were created free.
| It is no wonder, having gone through
the fiery ordeal of Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego, that the Cartwrights and
the Haneys are yet living examples and
sustaining the truth that the greatest
characters are those who have borne the
crucifixion, through the furnace of
bitter opposition; and to witness, before
| God calls them hence, the decree of a
Nebuchadnezar. that God who could
deliver his people from the cruel work of
hell, was worthy of alteration, and ali
who should 'tspeak anything amiss
against the God of Shadrach, Msshach,
and Abednego. shall be cut in pieces, and
/ their houses shall be made a dung bill ::
because there is other God that can
| deliver after this sert.''
| Bro Haney wears the bonors of his
| three-quarters of a century like true
Christian, In humility and thankfulness
to the God who sustained him. And he
is closing his life in the beautiful dawn
! of Heaven.
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