The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-07-21
ADDITIONAL HANCOCK
YATES SAYS GOD
FAV0RS AMERICA
chsutauqua Speaker Delivers Not
able Address Saturday

and Sntdhtlt h'iiN'''h '''N -
,uo addresses at the copper country
ahoutauoua at'Electric park Saturday
.,.r,oon GOV. Yates was advertised
- sneak on THE Evolution of Pat
.I.,,sr, " but instead he spoke on the
.,ations existing between the AL
.,,ohtv and the American nation. Gov.
wo,ss address on this occasion was
ono If the most remarkable ever
-, hero and was carefully listened
~ the large audience that greeted
the speaker.
GOV Yates spoke as follows:
o,ty subject for my very brief talk
,o.,ou this afternoon is the old hymn,
or rather that old verse,
oOh God, our help in ages past
Onr hope in years To come.
God has been our help, that is the
holm of our nation in times that are
nast-and the help of things vital to
o,r nation. | firmly believe that. He
has not only looked with favor upon
chr progress and our efforts as peo-
nile net only permitted us To advance
| ana itnprove. not only given us real
victores in peace, allowing reality 10
come To the splendid doings of 400
wears Of splendid dreamers. but that
H. has actually interfered on days
If great crisis. like the battle of San
oisgo. in 1898. and like the battle of
Gettysburg in lS63-and | believe fur
tber that lie has directly, or through
His angels, demonstrated His power
and His favor toward things vital to
the welfare of this nation.
For instance, at Princeton, in my
state of Illinois, there is hanging in
an old steeple an old bell; that old
church was before the war of the re-
beIlion. a station of the celebrated
underground railroad, an institution
or organization designed To give aid
and comfort 10 Runaway slaves, in
the DAYS when the Ubiquitous and in
famous fugitive slave law punished
men, north as well as south, for that
very act II was well known that ev-
cry member of that congregation was
for freedom and against slavery: and
So one day when the new bell for the
church arrived, and was left in front
Of the church, all the friends of slav-
cry in that vicinity assembled ana
they resolved that that bell should
never ring for freedom. Accordingly,
in the dead of the night, they gath
cred around the bell. and the Drawn
lest man of them all, a blacksmith,
struck blow after blow upon the rim
NJ tho baU ~ Shattar II. but' SoOn no
lowered his hammer and said, Boys,
] have never seen metal that could
withstand such blows as this and |
believe that this bell is protected, yes
protected by something stronger than
human power, and |, yes ], am going
homeland home he did go, and the
whole cowardly crowd took to their
heels and ran for their lives from mat
bell protected by power divine Now
| don't care what YOU believe, I'll tell
You what | believe believe the an
gel Of the Lord. "A tail spirit from the
realms Of light. did defend that bell
that night from the long arm of the
devil and his children.
And now we have had peace for
fifty years. This is your time ye min
'sters We servants of God.
In 1887 Abraham Lincoln made
speech in which he said: This is 1887:
hity years from 1881: for fifty years
The nation has marched along in con-
temptation; in fun sight of the hero
I'm and the heroes of the revolution,
but now the last of those men are
gone Or going, and the nation must
smut the doors on that period during
which We have been animated by that
sentiment and turn and resolutely
lace new day and new life To-day,
friends in 1913. the same thing is hap
pehins with the great demonstration
at gettysburg, on the 4th of this
month, mighty sight which one of
your number, Reverend Doctor Ran
KIN, OF Houghtcn, tells me he saw. We
pass ont Of sight and almost out of
sound of the heroism the warlike her
oism OF nifty years ago. and stand here
III 1913, exactly where Lincoln and the
nation stood In 1887, closing the door
upon day the fragrance of whose
memory will be with us and about us
al our lives. like blessed benedic-
uon' but far far away, like bells at
evening pealing.'
IN this new day and new life. of
stern reality this life In which every
"iah' II Is said, must have good job
sood rad and a good religion In
~uer To be happy. | salute you.
''e' as II ! stand in the presence of a
H"rious cohort, such as that one in
,r'ain' which gave forty witnesses
:, ~ ohrist,' in the day when tyrant
"ro ordered starvation for all who
"'''''eu The Savior's holy name-forty
"'neSses, why? Simply because Paul
!" the old Mamertine prison, chained
uuhgeon dark had told such re-
'N'ole story to Roman soldiers
'Ur az time. that no cohort in all
~. "Slohs OF imperial Rome was
'"ou' converts from that class
hs where the leader was always
ana the class members were sterr
""rrlors who lad taken the most
to thing In the world up to that
oa. homeiy the Roman soldier.
'"e sacrament'--for YOU know
set our word Sacrament from tn,
co. "e OF the Roman soldiers oatl
Sacramentu,,,