Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1902-06-26
MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY
Sunday Discourse by DR.. Chapman, the
Noted PastOr-Evangelist.
Text Which Is the Saddest Expression
Possible In Human Language-Plty for
Those Without God.

New YoRK CITY.-The Rev. DR.. J. vii.
pur Chapman, the noted pastorevangel.
ist continues to excite popular interest
BY the series of remarkable sermons he Is
delivering in the Fourth Presbyterian
Church. Apropos of patriotic celebrations
he has prepared the following discourse
for the press, entitled "a Man Without a
Country" 1t is preached from the text,
Ephesans Q: y, "Having no hope and
without God in the world
This is one of the saddest texts. IN the
New Testament, for while it describes our
own condition when we were aliens from
Christ and strangers to the covenant and
promise of God, yet ] take it in my pre-
sentaton of this subject to describe those
who have wilfully rejected Christ and
who have deliberately decided that they
will not accept Him as Saviour. with
this Interpretation put upon the Scripture
we have in the text the saddest expression
there is no one of my hearers to whom the
words may be strictly applied, for If we
take hope out Of mans life 1t Is not
worth the living. The young man may
have failed yesterday, but he has hoped
that he may succeed tomorrow; the bus.
ness man who has lost his fortune in the
wreck of past days is not discouraged be-
cause hope buoys him up, and he IS comb
dent that prosperity will be his once
again, Take hope from our lives and we
are of all men most miserable, and It IN
addition TO being deprived of hope we
have no God we are not only hopeless for
time. but hopeless also for eternity, for
since we We're made to be filled with God
and all our being was so adjusted rs to be
at tune to His nature, there is no saddcr
picture than to he without Him. Some
years ago | came across that interesting
and pathetic story written by Edward fV'
erett Hale entitled The Man Without a
Country and it has furnished for me an
illustration of this text to which your at
tention is invited | found in the man
who drifted everywhere across the sea
without being abe to enter a harbor
presentation of many man who has bur
led Christ out OF his life. The man was
Philip holland by name. Whether the
story be truth or fiction it does not mat
ter. for the illustration is the same. This
young lieutenant in the army had come
under the influence of Aaron Burr, and he
wrote to Burr long letters expressing his
hopes and his desires that he might serve
him, but had no letters from Burr in re.
ply. At last he came one day to see the
young man, and then his hold upon him
was complete. The regular life of the sol.
der became tame; he was utterly UNI
fitted for service. There came time
when in company with others who were
also under the influence of Burr he must
appear before the army court to be tried
for misdemeanor. The others for one rca
soh or another escaped sentence, but
Philip holland was pronounced guilty
He was asked by the Judge if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not he
passed upon him because he had been
false to his country and had sinncd against
the United States. His reply was an
oath, and in the presence of the court he
cursed his country and said that he
wished he might never again hear the
sound of the name United States; that he
hated his native land. The judge, with a
white face, answered, 1T shall be as YOU
say. and subject to the approval of the
President of the United States, You shall
never again hear OF your country At
this Philip Noiaud laughed. but no one
else did; there was Il deathlike stiffness
over the court. He was taken to New Or.
leans, given over into the charge OF a
commander of one of the vessels, with the
distinct understanding that no one was
ever again to speak to him of the United
States, and he was to be allowed to speak
to no one OF his old home. lie was at
last put upon Government vessel and
given quarters BETTING his late rank. 1t
was expressly stipulated that he was to
be exposed to no ndignlty; he was not to
be reminded of the fact that he was
prisoner. and while he could wear the uni.
form yet he must not have the buttons OF
the United States Government upon this
uniform Indeed he was TO bc a man
without a country from this time on. lie
was permitted once each day to dine with
the officers, but they did not care to lave
him. because when he was present they