The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1903-09-23
Mayburg.

/ here Thursday. Glad to shake, dad"
DIR. Detar is still a frequent visitor I
our town. While w are always glad t
see you, Doctor, we wish the presen
cause of your visits was removed.
Mr.. q. j. Walters and family move,
to town last week.
Last Sabbath T. D.. Collins ran a fire.,
excursion to Sheffield to give the creek
folks a chance to attend the Methods
conference at Warren. They had a good
time. Mr.. Collins donations TO the
church this year will do much good.
The salvation army are holding forth al
Kellettville. The preaching and singing
are good and many are forward seeking
grace for better life. The stand taken
by Gen. Booth years ago in England, and
his efforts 10 rescue the perishing. is
bringing forth fruit in every land and
notion. He and his army fill a place that
many churches do not attempt to fill, ell
though the call to them TO work is just as
loud as the call of Gen. Booth. There is
no n doubling that the grand and noble
sacrifice of the Booth family is in vain.
Their stars will be of the brightest, and
will endure for ever.
James Brown and Frank Wyncoop ex.
changed residences this week.
John Anderson, of Summerville, Pa,
has returned to his work at the mill. lie
has had a hard time of it this summer.
For months some one of his family has
been sick, but it is all over now. We'll
come back to Mayburg, John.
Mrs. Allison and her bright baby boy
came up from Nebraska to visit friends
here this morning.
Mrs. Belle Christie has gone to Ken
lucky.
j. NJ. Hastings, of Pittsburg, was here
visiting at +. X. Browns. f. X. went
away to-day.
Our people hear with much pleasure OF
the appointment of Rev. Small for Kel-
lettville. They expect to build a church
and parsonage at Kellettville this sum
mer, and the Rev. Small is just the man
to do it, and after the church is built to
fill it with good congregations and keep
it full. The churches at TIonesta and
Tylersburg were much improved while
he was pastor. The work of soul saving
and building of churches and ~parsonages
seems to be his special gift.
When Gen. Sherman said"war is hell,r
he spoke from his W experience in a
civilized country, a war carried on by
chivelrous men, and, except in a few in
stances of Terror, on the part of the South,
it was probably as clean a wal as could
be carried on. The errors of Libby and
Andersonville prisons could not be traced
to the true Southern gentleman, but it
was desperate means, by desperate men,
hoping that the horrors of those places
might win a lost cause. 1t did not; it
never will, but if that wal was hell, what
must it be in Macedonia? All the hor-
rors of Dante's "Inferno' cannot begin to
picture the horrors of a war with the
u~nspeakable Turk. The sending of a
small fleet to the Turkish coast will have
its effect, both there and at home, but to
us is the greater importance of "at
home" 1t always seemed to me that
America was fulfilling her mission when
she intervined in Cuba, but the true
American idea is this: That wherever
mankind is oppressed, wherever the
Christian is slaughtered in cold blood.
there is our m~ission-to stop it. God
never would have allowed this great Re-
public to come into existence only as the
one to intervene and help all struggling
humanity to a place Of liberty and COM
fort. The old nations cannot do it. Debts,
bonds and the tinan oial interests of their
people ties them up so that they cannot
move, on a clean line of thought. As
yet, the United States is not hampered in
that way. Since slavery was wiped out
by the boys in blue, and the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation of Abraham Lincoln,
there remains only the l~ynching, as a
dark blot upon our escutcheon. When
that is done away with we can then con-
%scientously intervene. England stands
for sea power, aud only that. France,
although a Republic, is in the thraldom
of aristocratic and kingly thought. Ger
many is a%pathetic. Spain and Austria
stand for nothing. Russia stands for her
W interests-on her way to CONSTANT
nople and Manchura. So that in all
these conflicting interests, Macedonia
and Armenia have no chance at all. But
the United States stands for real moral
power, and the older nations stand back
hen she speaks. Let her speak now in
unmistakable terms. Let her take her
true place among the nations, as the
moral power of the world, and while the
American people, once and for all time
settle this matter, the concert of Europe
will hold its tongue. Edward the VII
and Balfour, William of Germany and
Won Buelow, the Oar and De Witte, the
President of the French Republic and
his cabinet, all know that they are power
less to declare against the Sultan.
The United States alone has a free
hand and as the American nation and the
American people were willing to make
the sacrifice for Cuba, l am satisfied that
they are now willing to make another
sacrifice for another people. Our nation
awoke and was uncomfortable when Cuba
and her horrors reached their mind.
Awake again, America, and fulfill thy
true mission. AS the instrument of Gods
wrath, take your place again upon the
pages o fhistory, to the full intent and
purpose of the God that gave you free
dom. The cost of life and treasure may
to some appear appalling, but you must
remember that the Irniiad Stntns urnn