The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-10-15
THE GENIUS OF FORREST.
BY DIR. Il. b. KINGSBURY.

, He at once shouted: "You say he's in
Armstrong; rear? That's whar I've
been trying to git him I'll day. D
him. I'll be in his rear in about tive
about, Armstrong. Push forward
your skirm;sh line; crowd 'em both
ways. I'll go to the rear brigade. and
you'll hear from me thar Directly
With that he galloped off at the heed
+ his ody guar a. b.i,Ir- lna!iN
minutes had elapsed they hcac1 the
Well-known Corlednr:i y"!l With
which he always charged. He retook
the battery and prison rs capturing,
in his turn, many from the enemy.
The Federals thought than Forrest had
set a trap, but in fact Forrest though
his whole command was gone UP"
That was his swift way of doing up
the enemy in turn. Sherman admitted
he was great puzzle and obstacle to
him, and that in vain he tried to kill
or capture him, and destroy his small
command with several bodies he sent
out, but all We're unsuccessful. If he
had been in command of the Georgia,
Tennessee and other adjacent troops
in the second year of the war, Sherman
would never have been heard of, and
no vandalic invasion of Georgia and
the Carolinas would have ever occur
red. 1t was Bragg's bad influence
over Davis that so long kept Forre ST
from important commands
What mighty changes are wrought
by timei The. person who has not
studied the histories of the nations can
have but little idea OF the progress
that has been accomplished ana uG-
der what tremendous upheaValS and
calaclysms. These changes apply in
! every direction. and religion liberty
I.Nf toll rl@t .;xyi
leges and materialism in all forms
itself to me when / read that the once
so much prosecuted, DETAINED, derided
scOrned Salvation Army in England
had come to its own, and become at
last duly recognized as a most potent
and desirable factor in the elevation
| of mankind and in the salvation of
the English people. 1t is announced
that the Salvation Army in that coun-
try has not only become recognized
! and most important power. but the
| Church of England has actually pro-
! posed to General Booth and Others
| that it should become part of the
, Establishment and should hereafter
operate as a part of the lay agency of
| the Church of England. General
Booth has the matter under very care
| full and prayerful consideration. TINS
/
| fifty years ago. or later; that great
ecclesiastical statesman and preacher
Rev. John Wesley, although a regu
larry ordained Presbyter in the
Church of England, was not allowed
to enter pulpit of that church to
proclaim salvation to dying men and
women who We're without Christ and
on their way to hell, because he was
preaching outdoors and around the
land to sinners, wherever found. When
| he went to HawOrth, he was not i5er-
mitted to enter the church of which
his father had been the able and rev.
| cred Rector for so many decades, but
| who had passed into the great beyond,
| TO preach the blessed tidings of sal
walton from sin. He had to, stand
upon his fathers tomb in the church,
| yard, and to proclaim so f1uently and
| effectively the manifold and unsearch-
able riches in Christ Jesus, the Re,
deemer and the Eternal Son of God
A century, or a little later, the Bishop
| of London stood in public street III
that great city so thronged by. peo-
| pie, and preached to them OF salvation
| through the blessed Saviour. What a
change in spiritual despotism since
1.-THE peerless Milton wrote in his
sublimest of poems, and with such
| graphic power of those who
| so greedily sought to seize
and turn" the sacred mysteries of