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The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

NN the 22d day of March, 1892 at \ the little town of weimar, in
 Germany, great literary light went out: The Poet Goethe died. It was about Il o'clock in the morning, and the record tells us that The expired without any apparent suffering. having Q few minutes previously called for paper for the purpose of writing and expressed his delight at the arrival of spring." Expiring genius, as it leaves the earth, spends it's last strength in recording the poets lov ing tribute to the poets loved season.
 We have here to speak of the death of a greater Teacher than Goethe. The death of Christ is emphasized by the life behind 1t, and by the life after it. h. ded, that death, without the resourrection, would have little significance for us. Jesus Christ conquered death, and brought life and immortality to light through the Gospel. There are not a great many facts Which are recorded in detail by all four of the eVangelists Mark and John tell nothing about the birth of Jesus. Some of the evangelsts are silent as to the ascension; but every one of them dwells at length upon Christs death and upon His resurrection.
 We are sometimes told that the doctrine of the atonement was an after-thought of the author of the Fourth Gospel, or of that "Platonizlng'' Gnostic of the sec ond century, who. in writing that Gospel, thought proper to pose as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" But this view will not stand for moment in the light of Christ's own teachings, as recorded by the other evangelists, and as interpreted by the Apostle Paul, who lived, preached and wrote in the first century. The insti tuition of the Lords Supper and the re- marks made by our Lord in connection
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, two men--Roosevelt or Taft. No oth CT administration of our history ever dab
 bled more In party politics than Roose- welt; no other ever played the game so skillfully. The convention will do what ever Roosevelt dictates just as the l democratic convention will dance to whatever tune Bryan pipes. It may be that Roosevelt has rrevocably made up his mind not to accept the nomlna ton under any circumstances, but if his desire for 1t were IS .mportunate as was Clay's or Douglas. or Blaines, or even Fairbanks, he could not play the game for himself more adroltly or more fortuitously than he has played it. Tho demands come from all quar-
 ters. The average man, whatever his politics. believes that Roosevelt will be renominated and reelected.
 MT. Bryan lends force to this view.
 Only Q while ago he had nothing but commendation for Roosevelt's states manship. Now MT. Bryan discovers a tender solicltude for states rights, which he says are not safe in MT. Roosevelt's keeping. Can this he be- cause MT. Bryan has come to conclude that Roosevelt Is the man he will have to beat? Quite likely. I do not believe MT. Bryan would run against Roose- welt. He has lately acquired the art of retreat. He has parted with q deal of his intrepidlty He tried to run away from government ownership, it would be as easy for him to part com
 pany with his shadow under the mid
 day beams of July's torrid sun. He even attempted q modification of the initiative and referendum, and failed to get away from that also. He cannot run away from Roosevelt, if Roosevelt is the nominee. He Is boss of the dem
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I be Christ-like In order to please Him who suffered so much for us. Now this is all true; but it is not all of the truth. He "bore our sins In His own body on the treep must mean someth ing more than this. If one died for all. then all died" Is statement of the vicarious feature in form that could hardly be strengthened and ought not to be weakened. In making up a the ory of the atonement, we must not leave out these facts; and these facts are the statements which the scriptures make on the subject.
 When famous American preacher some years ago, commented severely on the hymn; There is a Fountain Filled with Blood" and said: That Idea of blood never did me any good; l don't believe in a bloody gospel" l knew at once that his theology was unsound; and l sould not help doubting whether he really knew anything about the sal vation revealed in the gospel
 But, Ifs the atonement limited or un- limited?" Volumes-nay, libraries-have been written on this question, and it seems to me, unnecessarily. As to It's eff cacy the atonement is unlimited; that Is to say, the sacrifice of Christ was rich enough to atone for all the sins of the world. In its application, the atonement Is limited to the conditions clearly re- vealed in the Gospel. The atonement is great enough to save you; but 1t does not follow that you will be saved.
 Nor does the complete and worldwide efficiency of the atonement give the least encouragement to any man to trust vaguely to the general, or the universal mercy of God. It would not be mercy, but gross injustice fin God to introduce an unclean and sln-polluted soul into Heaven. I would earnestly warn any soul against the delusion of trusting to the
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Patterson was left to watch Wilson; but when his splendid troops moved over the mountains toward Selma, General Roddy united with Patterson before the enemy reached Selma. An energetic attempt was made to concentrate Il con siderable force in the front of Wilson and to drive him away from Selma; but bad roads, mistaken orders, and gen eral demoralization of weakened army resulted in General Forests all most unsupported defense of that val uable point. The country around Selma had not previously been visited by the enemy The farmers and merchants had pursued their vacations with tout molestatlon. Social life progressed as usual In the city were iron foundries, arsenels. car shops, and the like. The Tennessee. which so yaliently withstood the -clads and gunboats at Mobile, was constructed at Selma though its armor of railroad iron was put on at the latter point
 Forrest fought Wilson off as well as he could all the way to Selma, and many sharp encounters are recorded. At Ebenezer church occurred perhaps, the hottest and briefest encounter Of the war. This was, perhaps, twenty miles from Selma, and the day before the Tall or that city, Forrest stationed the Fifth Alabama
 
 the road. and Lyons Kentucky brigade on the right of the road behind another fence, in the path of Wilson's federal brigade Wilder's was supposed to be the most effective body of cavalry in the federal army. Forrest with his escort engaged Wilder's up the road, and re- treated before him. fighting like a battle demon turning in his saddle and striking out death to every enemy that came within his sabers stroke. Forrest in action wF a spectacle to arouse the ad- miration and impress the memory beyond description At Ebenczer church he was at his grandest. When the escort had passed the troops on either side of the road opened fire, and the conflict was terrific. The route of Wilder was com plete and the escort of Forrest pursue them far up the road At the little church, Ebezener many were buried. Forrest returned to Selma the next day, and made hasty preparation for it's defense On three sides of the city long line of trenches Of a superior order had been made. and in these the little force avail able was deployed eight. ten, even greater distances apart. The militia. composed of some old men, but chiefly Of the work men of the shops numbered from l5OO to 2Ooo General Armstrong had about 4jo and Roddy's brigade and Forrest escoft made in all some 30o0 men stretched along the miles of entertainments. Near the
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, reasons for believing that Paul did not write the Epistle to the Hebrews.
 Now, even if our gospels contained no traces of the doctrine that Christ made sacrticial offering of Himself for the sins of the world, still thac doctrine would be satisfactorily established by the Apostolic preaching as recorded in the Acts of the Apostles" and by the Apostolic Epistes. Peter was filled with the Holy Spirit when he preached the doctrine of the atonement in his famous sermon on the day of Pentecost. Pauls preaching and writings are full of it. Without taking in the "Epistle to the Hebrews;' nay, taking only the few Epistles which even Baurs fercely radi- cal criticism was obliged to leave intact. we can make out from these Pauline writings alone, clear and coherent doc Urine of the atonement. do not pretend that l can always fathom the depths of Paul's reasoning; do I claim that it is practicable to make out from Pauls writings, otherwise, a satisfactory philosophy of the plan of salvation" ln- deed, l think 1t quite possible for us to make too much of what the theologians call, and what the Bible never calls, the plan of salvation The fact of salvation through faith Is a crucfied, risen, as cended, living and interceding Christ this is what the Bible reveals. Very lit tle if anything, is said about the plan" The angels in heaven do not appear to have understood 1t; for Peter, in the first chapter and twelfth verse of his first Episte says; (Which things the angels desire to look into"
 But while I am not claiming the ability to give, or even comprehend, the philos- ophy of this matter, I can distinctly see that the scriptures do teach the fact and the doctrine that Christ died for our sins. the just for the unjust; and I can fur ther see that this was the view held and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
BY SAVOYARD.

ocratic party all right, but, he Is moi boss enough to take the nomination fl there Is chance and reject 1t if there Is no chance. That would be carpet knight -errantry.
 Would Roosevelt he lnvincible? Quta li1ely-against Bryan But whenever q political party dominates candidate for a third term in the White House il will be tantamount to a declaration that its membership contains but one man At for the presidency. and whenever the coun- try elects man to a third term in the White House 1t will be tantamount to declaration that our entire citizenship can furnish but one man fit for president.
 Nobody knows how deep-seated is that conviction in the public mind. The hur- rah crowd do not elect our presidents. The sober-thinlling ssedaie, sagacious, silent folk make American presidents. That there is nyeterate prejudice against q third term we all know. and there will never be q third term except as q choice of evils. Thousands Of thoushtless men would like third term president for the novelty of it-there are noisy gents. Tens of thousands of thinking men look upon a third term with dread. and these are of the voters who make presidents.
 Mir Roosevelt Is far into his second form. He has sailed with the current every moment He Is the most popular man of our history; but third term would mean a walking of tight rope as high from the earth as the moon. for four years. It would be sending the pitcher to the well unnecessarily. John l.. Sullivan can tell him about it. Hanni bal went to Capua. Napoleon to Waterloo.
 Why dare fortune with unnecessary and reckless andacity?
 Copyrighted 1907, by E. W. NewmanJ
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ATONEMENT

, taught by Christ Himself. In the .Wall1 to Emmaus," on the evening of the first Lords day, this is quite clearly brought out and the necessity for Christs suf- fering is emphasized in such a way as to put the authority of the body of Old'Tes- lament scriptures behind 1t. The pass age to which I especially allude is found in the twentyfourth chapter of Luke. verses 26-27: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things. and to enter into His glory? And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He eXpounded unto them in al lthe scriptures the things concern
 in Himself"
 True, the Messiah of the prophets was to enter into His glory; but 1t was to be through the gate of suffering, and the suffering of Christ for the sins of the world is represented to be a divine neces- sity The words ought not Christ" or ''was it not needful for Christ" to have suffered these things? are of piece with those in Hebrews, second chapter, tenth verse: For 1t became Him, for whom are al things, and by whom are all things in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering;" and also with the language in the third chapter fourteenth verse, of Johns gospel: Even so must the Son of Man be lifted up.' Jesus Christ did not die to meet an emergency. He was the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
 On that walk to Emmaus,' Jesus gives the two discouraged disciples exposi- tory sermon on the prophicies which pointed to Himself. Some of these prophe- cies He takes from Moses. Christ seems not to have troubled Himself about mat ters of higher criticism" "The law of Moses.' "the Psalms and the prophets were all good enough scripture fT Him. The old Testament was to Him the scripture" which "could not be broken"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
BY J. c. HIDDEN, D. D.

| mercy of God out of Christ. It may be seriously apprehended that many amia- ble people, who do not in theory reject. nor even doubt the New Testament. are doing just this
 Many years ago there was a great fire in New Yorfk city. A frightened woman. who had just escaped from burning building, looked up at the flames, and. clasping her hands, shrieked: My childi My child!i and sank swoonng upon the pavement.
 A young man rushed up the stairway. seized the sleeping infant and attempted to return down the steps. But the scorch- ing flames and suffocating smoke forced him back to the window. Leap out. Leap outf cried tho firemen the roof is falling ln!" And he did leap out, and strange to say was unharmed, and restored the babe to the arms of the now reviving mother. Some one in the crowd asked; Young man, Is that your child?' The noble reply will be remembered as long as heroism IS honored among men.-,' No said he, but 1t is somebody's child"
 That man stood in the front rank at Palo Alto. and at Pesaco de la Palma; that man stood where balls flew thickest at Monterey, and that man, veil thy blushes, oh, recording angel, now sleeps in q drunkard's gravel Was he trusting to '1he general mercy of God?
 "When the harvest is past and the sum
 mer is gone,
 And sermons and prayers shall be OCT; When the beams cease to break on the
 sweet Sabbath morn,
 And Jesus Invites thee no more, When the rich gales of mercy no longer
 shall blow,
 The gospel no message declare
 sinner, how canst thou bear the deep
 wailings of wo?
 How suffer the night of despar?'
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Ireland offers the best field Tn the world today for the investment of American capital in textile manufactures. There's waterpower running to waste that could be used to operate a thousand cotton mills. There are marble quarries produc- Ing stone almost as beautiful as onyx. There Is pottery clay capable of making chinaware equal to Dresden, and a wool en trade only needing markets. All these things could be worked successfully and pro1taby if the necessary amount of capital was invested in them. The oppor- tunities for the investment of capital and the supply of intelligent labor ought to meet with consideration from manufact- urers who contemplate extending their plants.
 The 700 years of Ireland under English rule ls a long history of connscation and oppression Penal laws. coercion laws, and repatriation laws have been in force uninterruptedy during all that time and practically are so yet. It Is not for noth ing that over 100000 people leave their country In half a century yet that Is what has happened in Ireland. Fifty years
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, with that ordinance, as recorded by Mat theI and by Luke, are abundantly suffi- cient for us, In Matthew 26th chapter and 2Ah verse, we have the memorable words: This is my blood of the New Testament (covenanD which is shed for many for the remission of sins" And in Luke, 22d chapter and 18th verse, we have the statement: This is my, body. ' So, even if we leave Johns gospel out of the question, which there is no good reason for doing. we still have abundant evidence in Matthew and Luke.
 It is not to be denied, and l have not the least motive nor disposition to deny
 that for the systematic and coherent de- velopment of the doctrine of the atone ment, we are indebted to the logical mind of the Apostle Paul. But Paups reason ing proceeds upon certain assumed facts There is no reason to believe that Paul got these facts from our gospels ln- deed, this is. hardly conceivable from d historical point of view; for Paul was preaching the doctrine of the atonement before our gospels were published. And furtheri No respectable critic of my ac
 quaintance-not even the most rabid of the destructive school-pretends to deny that Paul was an honest man. And Paul repeatedly and emphatically affirms that he was not preaching a secondhand gospel and that he did not get his gospel from any of the other Apostles
 but by direct and personal revelation from Jesus Christ himself. Indeed, the Apostle insists upon this fact so vigor- ously and so frequently. that I find 1t difficult to believe that he wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews, whose author, in speaking of the Gospel salvation, says. (Which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord d. e. Jesus) and was con firmed unto us by them that heard him. ' This passage strikes me as decidedly un-Pauline. and it Is one of my strongest
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The question is often asked: Why don't the Irish people develop the industrial resources of their own country? And the answe is Because the people of Ire land don't own these industrial resources. The best way to kill competition is to buy out your competitor. and that's what the English manufacturer has done. Some years ago a coal mine was opened and good. domestic coal taken out, but the mine was soon bought by an English firm who closed it. In the same way several woolen mills were started. only to be bought and closed Every attempt on the part of the Irish people to develop their resources has been defeated by such means. In 1881 the city of Dublin was spending a large sum of money in public improvements. especially in pay ing the streets. The contract for the stone "setts' was given to an English firm which ownea quarires in Wales, Later on MT. Parnell with the money which the Irish people presented him, opened quarriSs in Wicklow and made q bid on the next contract for paving setts
 On that bid he defeated the English firm and got the contract. The next bid was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15

~ N the 18th day of December
 1875, the House of Represen- O tative of the Forty fourth Congress voted 2S9 years. IS nays, on the following resolution. offered by William M. Springer, then a member from the state of Illinois;
 Resolved That in the opinion of this House, the precedent established by Washington and other Presidents of the United States in retiring from tn e presidential office after their second term, has become, by universal con currence, a part of our republican sys- tenn of government, and that any de- parture from this time -h onored custom would be unwise, unpatriotic, and fraught with peril to our institutions"
 No democrat is recorded in the nega- tive. Garfield, Hoar, Hale. Kasson and Kelley voted in the affirmative. Blaine and Cannon did not vote at all. The most distinguished names recorded in the negative were Jay, Hubbell and Page of California, re-enforced by the colored members from the southern states yet under the bayonet.
 General Grant was then President, but his administration was not success full or popular. Scandal attended its every step and corruption lurked in every department. It was the day of credit mobilier, of Sanborn, of Leet and Stocking, of the whisky ring, of the Mulligan letters, of the Belknap im- peachment. The active candidates for the succession were Blaine. Morton, Conkling and Bristow. Hayes was a receptive candidate. It was Blaine against the field. with Conkling the favorite of the administration, which
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peration the elite, the Old Guard, the Tenth Legion of the republican party, turned to General Grant and set on foot a third term movement that was ap- parently irresistible. Conkling, Cameron, Logan and Carpenter were the leaders of it. New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois were behind them. Gossip said that many of the southern democratic leaders con tempiated joining In the movement.
 It failed by the narrowest accidents. Grant got back from abroad two months too soon. The republican convention drove a coach and four through the unit rule. Matt Carpenter was on his death bed. Elihu Washburn deserted Grant There was treason in the New York and Pennsylvania delegations. Hoar, chair man Of the convention, was for anybody to beat Grant, for Grants election meant Ben Buffers boss-ship in Massa chusetts It was the greatest of our political con- ventions, with the possible exception of that at Charleston in 1860. Conkling could have had the nomination at any stage. and he would have been the nominee had he been made of the clay of which Gar field was made. Sherman would have been the nominee if Blaine had not real ized that Sherman was his own master. If Don Cameron, chairman of the nation- al committee, had practiced half the czar- ism Tom Reed visited on the F'ifty-fiIst It congess, Grant would have been nomi- mated, and there was gossip for it that if Cameron had complmented Windom on the earlier ballots with a score of votes from the ranks of the BOG, Grant would have been nominated.
 But Blaine nominated Garfield, and Conkling elected him-the democrats haV- ing accomplished the impossible and per
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
BY R. NJ. RAWLS

ly turned from the road and under cover of the dense darkness walked rapidly up its bed followed by some hundred pris- oners. The entire body escaped, remained him in the woods till 1t was deemed safa to enter Selma, where they rcrossed the river in the same boats they had crossed in. and found kind welcome in the city. Colonel Patterson and Colonel Windes journeyed together to their b<nes in North Alabama The Fifth Alabama cavalry. after the enemy entered the en- trenchments, and Colonel Patterson had started for the rear, was lead by Lieut.. Col J. l.. M. Curry through a swamp to the left, and then on up to North Ala bama. where 1t was surrendered the mid dle Of May to the federals at Danvile. Morgan county, Ala. by It's distinguished commander.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-15
POEMS WORTH READING

HARD LUCK. From the June Bohemian. When l was but a monad cell, An age or so ago, l had a strange desire to dwell Upon the earth below. Revolving always in the air 1 felt was mistake, And so kind Nature put me there A Tadpole In q lake. But wriggllng. wrigsllng in the mud. Or water, grew too tame. And so, as l was of the blood A Bulfrog I became. And just because 1 changed my mind About each wished for place, l came one awful day to find I'd joined the human race. Now I recall those happy days When, bloated out with air, I bobbed upon my varied ways Without a thought of care. And 1 remember when a Tad, No other wish had I But just make other wrigglers mad To see me dartlng by. An me and now I am a Man With wife and children. six: Worse off than when I first began And all through Natures tricks. And what is more than all. they say Mans is the highest state. Right here on earth I've got to stay Great Caesar What fatel