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w QOOOOOOQQOOOOOOOOQOOOOOOCC I THE REAL CUBAN | O By Albert Gardner Robinson. C Soooooeeoooocoooooooocococ | T"T HE people of Cuba, like those I { of the Philippine Islands am | the United States, are a com ~q~ posite race. The early years Of Spanish occupation saw Spanisl; :blood commingled with that of the so called "Indians" whom the discover ers of the Island found in possession Later Spanish settlement establishes lines of distinct Spanish blood, ant: produced also a further commingling In varying proportions with the native blood. In later years a measure Of immigration followed from the immediate surroundings. The Frenchman and the mixed French came from Hayti and San Domingo. The mixed Spanish came from Mexico and Northern South America. Slave trade brought the African negro, and the im A COMMON TYPE OF portation of coolie labor brought the Chinese. The color line is far less definite than it is in the United States. The census of 1899 gives the following determination: White Cubans, 910,290; ;white aliens, including Spanish, French, English, German and American, 142,198; negroes, 234.G3S; mulatItoes, 270,805; Chinese, 14,8o7. Compared with earlier census returns the negro and the Chinaman show a marked reduction. The returns of 1802 give: Negroes, 422,000; Chinese, S4,000~ Somewhere in this somewhat heterogeneous lot there 1s the type which may be rightly called the Real Cuban, the Cuban race type. I place this type, and I believe with entire correctness, on the soiL He is the peas CUBAN COUNTRY CHURCH, PROVINCE OF PUERTO PF.INC1PE. ant, the farmer, el bijo del campo (the son of the country, as distinct from the man of the city and town). He is the man who is locally known as the guajiro (wah-hee-ro). Taken broadly, this class will include white, "black and mulatto, though the greater numoer are white. In Cuba the term "white" has a latitude which is not recognized in the Anglo-Saxon Tace. The swarthy Spaniard may owe the darkness of his skin to some old drops of brownish blood from the long years of Moorish occupation of Ithe .peninsula. Numerically the guajiros constitute probably some sixty or seventy per cent, of the people o' Cuba. At the present time an exact classification is Impossible. The processes of war destroyed the homes of many of the iclass, and they have been forced to seek such employment as might be Open to them. This they have doxe ;with a patient and submissive endurance which Is one of their chief characteristics. Gradually, as best they can, they seek to pick up the threads of the old life, to return to the spot of the old home to build anew the sim pie structure and to resume the old occupations. The type of dwelling occupied by Itne guajiro is misleading to those who are unfamiliar with the world's peasant and pioneer life. It impresses such as a hovel which can only be the home of poverty, unthrift ami social degradation. So does the rock and mud hut of the South African veldt, the humpy of the bush settler of Australia, the nlpa hut of the Filipino, the dugout of the Western pioneer, and the log cabin of the mountaineer. Yet each uses for his dwelling that material, whether it be earth, stone, brick iwood, bamboo, or palm, which is most readily and economically available foi (his purpose. The nipa hut of the Fil ipino and the log cabin of the moun Itaineer may be and often are quain and picturesque. The cabin of th< Cuban guajiro seldom suggests any (thing other than the crude and th< primitive. Yet, like the correspondinj homes of other lands, the roof thatcl may shelter a very worthy man, ; good husband and father, a hospitabl ji? rr>? HOSt accoruiu^ iu 1113 liicuuo. u> rudeness of tliese houses is no true in dex of poverty. "Wealth the Cubai peasant do?s not have, yet his industry will and does give him a. large a percentage of what he want and needs as that which falls to th lot of many who would be disposed fr pity him. A hut, a few acres of land a few farm ins tools and an ox niak !him well to do. Two oxen and i ihorse will number him among the af fluent. The guajiro is usually a small farm ler. He cultivates for his own need ,-with such surplus as he can for sal or exchange to gratify such desire or ambitions as be may have for him ? 3 self or his family. His life calls for i | very little. He needs no store of fuel 1 5 for a bitter winter; he needs no over- i ^ coats, no shoes for his children, no .? 3 buggy in -which to drivo to town; he i j needs no barns of hay and grain to i feed his cattle through a long winter, g 1 L'otton and calico will ciotne tne iarn- j 1 ilv. and the women of the household e - will braid a straw hat that is best j ? suited for the climate. Carpets would i i be a nuisance and a home for fleas, c - In all that, the life is primitive in the l extreme. i As a rule, the guajiro is illiterate, c I and satisfied to be so. The outside c I world interests him little and iioubles l \ him less. School facilities have not t been abundant under the Spanish t > regime, and there is some question of c his enthusiasm over the introduction of school systems under the American t i control of Cuban affairs. Newspapers t ' Alr?;?-Ttp nn/1 4 a O 1 TI r O TT G t I rCUCIl 11IS VlL'lUllJ', UUU IUC1C AO a* n uj w | some one who can and does read aloud f i for the edification of the community, t All this, the rude home, the narrow $ '' *1 l 4 e ^ ; t i . ' ; il - **CUBAN COUNTRY HOME. life, the illiteracy, is not to be unchar- | itably charged against the guajiro to his discredit. America's special interest in this I group at the present time is, or should I be, in its place in that political future I or the island in -which America is so ) deeply concerned, and for which she has assumed such important responsibility. To some extent the guajiro took part in the Cuban insurrection. Yet It is doubtful if anything more than a small percentage took any active part in the operations. The great ~ majority of the original followers of the instigators of the revolt of 1895, " like those who supported the earlier nnAn VaoWoi* -nrara a looc rocnnnai. xcu xcaio it ait uuv u ivw ble element, consisting of plantation * field hands. The raids of Gomez and ^ Maceo, westward from the home of the insurrection in Santiago province, 0 demoralized and, in large measure, destroyed the productive activities of the central and western provinces. Some of the small peasant farmers, T roused by the enthusiasm of the move- E inent, joined the flying raiders and became its most effective fighters. Many si remained passive, and constituted the s< class known as the paciflcos, the i* peaceful, the non-combatants. Some of these materially aided the insurgents with such as they had to give, tc though unwilling to take active part, si There were few," whether they were ^ active or passive, who did not lose their little all. Insurgents and Span- tl iards seized their crops, their cattle a and their poultry for "the needs of a< the army." Often their homes were burned, sometimes in wanton destruc- b tion, sometimes in alleged punishment cl fS* ] 5 L A QUAJIBO HOME. a for their attitude. From this class t< there came the large percentage of the unfortunate reconcentrados. Upon this class the burdens of destructive c warfare have fallen most heavily, r Ruined planters may be numbered by d scores, rvumeu guajuua cuuui uy miu the hundreds of thousands. o I The few hundred of great planters t< In Cuba are an essential feature in the island's development. They are the . employers of thousands of laborers, r: Their rights and their privileges are P ; lllpjNB] s 1.?Tasting the freshly cut sugarcane. e 3.?Modem methods for quickly h a 8 proach to the house of a rich Porto 1 i in Important consideration in all Ctt jan affairs. ,Without them, our sugai ivould be a costly article, and none car say what Cuba would be. Yet equallj f not more carefully to be considered n Cuba's political future. Is Cuba's iturdy and peaceable peasantry. Tlu juajiro is a peaceable man, tractable, ornrnrnnrl oel/lnrr nnfhinrr snrf :UOlLJ C40lV*Ufe UV/bUiMQ ?. . ? ustice and fair taxation from his ulers. He is no discontented mis^ ihief maker. His greatest desire is to Ive in quiet, cultivating liis little 'arm, chatting ivith his neighbors, listurbing none and desiring that none listurb him. His is no "strenuous ife," and advocates of that sort of hing may regard his life as contempIble, yet it is the life of the majority if the world's population. In the politics of the time this man tas little place and his voice is little leard. He is probably the man who, q days to come, will de' -mine what ashion of government Cuba shall iave, but be Is not yet ready for such lefinite determination, and he figures tut little if at all in the plans and oprations of political leaders. He now las no political organization, though uch of his type as <^st their votes in he recent election doubtless voted rith the Cuban National party. He Is the backbone of Cuba, and Lmericans, in their consideration of he island and its political and social eeds, should give due place to the uajiro, the sturdy, patient, tractable, eaceable, plodding majority. ? New 'ork Independent Snap Shot From China. The clash of the eastern and westrn military methods in China during ae past year has brought many trange things into the public eye. ^?? 1 JiCL'., ' j'A. ORIENTAL CAVALRTMAN. 'one of them, perhaps, is more amuslg. from the western point of view, jan the camel cavalryman shown in ie accompanying picture. The rider I a Sepoy of the Twenty-sixth Baluliistan Regiment?a British East In inn soldier?and his steed is a part f the loot taken at Patachu. Miles of Ribbon Used. It Is calculated that about 75,000 ards of ribbon will be issued with Ingland's South African war medals. This estimate is made on the asiimption that about 300,000 men will jcure the medals, there being nine iches of ribbon served out with each ledal. No decision has been arrived at as > whether any of the ribbon will be ?nt out to South Africa to the men ho are entitled to It. The custom has been to distribute is ribbon on tli? return of the troops, nd this will probably be the course dopted in the present instance. Meanwhile, these regiments already ack from the war can put in their [aims for the ribbon, and can wear it It is about an Inch and a quarter Ide, and is made of ribbed silk of iree colors?red on the edges, dark iue next and orange in the centre.? ondon News. A School Teacher's Application. A Kansas school board received the blowing letter the other day from ae of the teachers: "I would like to ave the refusal of the school so long s you are willing to hold it for me, lough I can't say positively that I 'ill not teach, nor positively that I 'ill. If I am married, as I think I rill be, of course I will not want the :hool. But you know the old story bout many a slip, and I would hate > be out of a job as well as the other." The owners of automobiles in Ohfo onstitute a new force In the good oads movement. There is a plan uner way for the building of a bouleard from one end of the State to the ther, touching the cities and largest owns. The average value of the annual aw silk exports from Syria may be ut at $5,000,000. IN FDRTO RICO' fs. 2.? Carrying sugarcane to the milL ndling a big crop. 4.?A typical apiicaa. i--From Haroer'tt Weeklr. . f cm/ifTWINfi ARDIIT ROM C Sj WIVIt- I !" ?? * ? - w OWl I j Blight Injuries, Hlffh Llvlnjr, and C1or? | j Shaving: Alike May Cause Them. r: Contrary to the common belief boils II nre not indicative of blood disease, i j They are really indications of local < j poisoning by puss-bearing germs, and , the boil is an abscess. Every pus i prick, every scratch, every abrasion, i every cut with a razor or pocketknife, every splinter that enters the skin i may cause a boil. Nor need the wound be a serious one; it may be so minute as to be invisible to the unaided eye. f Nor is the result always produced, for i if it should be, every slight wound, ! every thorn prick, every scratch of a cat, every bite of a dog, every abra' slon of the skin, would be followed by disastrous, if not fatal, consei quences. The reason for this immui nlty is that there is a certain inherent , power of the body to resist these noxious agents, and it is only when the 11 powers of the body are weakened by i disease that the morbific agents can i thrive in the body and accomplish their evil work. In this sense, then, boils are diseases due of the blood, but it is not a disease in itself. High living also favors boils. Dr. Reid, speaking of pus, and incidentally of boils, says: "Job was probably run down by a long period of debauchery. We read that the devil had liiin in tow some time before his boils broke out. If, now. he could have had the counsel of three good physicians, instead ot as many tiresome theologians, ho would have had his system toned up; his broken potsherd, with which 'he scraped himself withal,' thus spreading sympathy and infection, would have been taken from him, and he would have been taught a few lessons in sanitary science 'in stead of theology." The reason why a boll is always In the worst place is because that is the most exposed place. The back of the neck, where the collar rubs the microbes Into the skin; the wrist, where the cuffs Irritate, and make the entrance of germs more easy; the top of the foot, where the shoe pinches; the razor-swept chin ? are all favorite "TTT/vt?af nla^ac "?ffpnm +hf? AmPricAn Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record. On the Shores of the Yukon Delta. During the past year an officer of the Coast Survey traversed the front of the Yukon delta, the first white man who had ever followed this shore. He was accompanied by three men, and the party, with all their provisions and camp outfit, was carried in an open canoo and a small rowboat. At the river mouths there is compara. tively deep water immediately off the . coast, but between these the distinction between land and sea Is very ini definite, and the mud banks laid bare at low tide may be a mile or more in width. Even with a canoe drawing but a few inches of water It was of; ten impossible to get closer to the shore, so that to make camp it was necessary to pack outfit and provisions on the men's backs, sinking at every step knee deep in the thick, blue mud. Even ashore, however, the difficulties were not past. For long stretches this coast is but a few inches i hnvA ordinarv hieh tide. On account of Its shallowness this part of Bering Sea is subject to extraordinary tides. When the wind blows strong from the northeast the water goes with it, leaving extensive bare flats and shoals along the shore, while with an opposite wind the water piles up in Norton Sound, flooding the lower portions of the delta coast, as is evidenced by the line of drift-wood nearly always to be seen some distance inland. One night the party were rudely awakened by the water running through their tents, and went out to find the tide over the bank on which they were camped. After that they took the precaution to elevate their beds.?G. R. Putnam, In Scribner's. The Growing Use of Private Cam. Private railway cars have always been associated in the popular mind with great wealth, but a plan has been developed which makes it possible for even a vaudeville actor or a business mau in ordinary circumstances, or anybody else reasonably well-to-do, who wishes to make a display or to enjoy the luxury of travel, to own a private car built according to his own specifications. A car-refitting company in New York City buys old Pullman coaches, tears the inside furnishings out, and refits them ac( cording to the wishes of. its customers. Whatever kind of private car a man may wish he may order?parlors, handsomely carpeted, sitting-rooms, ( dining-rooms, sleeping compartments, , smoking-rooms ? all with equpment more or less perfect according as the price. And cars are refitted in this way and sold for prices varying froai $1500 lo $15,000. Very handsome and serviceable cars have been built from the old "castaways." and the man of moderate means can travel privately and comfortably in a home of his own. It Is an interesting evidence of American manufacturing thrift and of the growth of wealth.?The World's Work. "Tho American Tvpo.*' Those who direct tho State, who administer the cities, control the Legislatures. the financiers, merchants, professors. journalists, men of letters? those whom I met in society?are nearly all of American birth and all of marked American type. L rarely heard a foreign accent or saw a foreign countenance. The American world Is practically "run" by genuine Americans. Foreigners are more en evi^ T __.l KnnMmotor if ci en re iu uuuuuu w iuuu>.ut.a>v.i .. seemed to me. than they are in New York, Philadelphia or Boston.?Frederic Harrison, in the Nineteenth Century. A Grandmother at Twenty-sir. A grandmother at twenty-six is the unique distinction of Mrs. Mary Campbell. ho lives iu the "mountain district" of Western North Carolina, and is about as far from civilization as one can get in this part of the world. Mrs. Campbell married when eleven years old. She was the mother of a daughter when but twelve, and her oldest child has now become a mother. Mrs. Campbell has had nine children, and is in good health. She does the little housework that Is to be done in snch establishments, lakes all the clothes the childre ./ear, does the cooking and tills in tue time working I In a rocky corntield.?Buffalo Times SUBMARINE PETROLEUM. Project Atloat to Sink Oil Wells la the Gulf. Texas capitalists are now interested in a company which will drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been discovered that a considerable oil field underlies the Gulf a few miles outside of Sabine Pass. It Is known as the "oil pool," and the surface of the water there Is perpetually smooth from petroleum which floats up from the bottom. The proposition now is to sink pipes from the surface, which, after penetrating the bottom, will be sunk far enough to tap the oil supposed to exist in large quantities in subterranean caves far beneath the surface of th? Gulf. Preserving Milk by Charcoal. A rather unusual memod of preserving milk has recently beon brought to public attention in England, the chief feature of which is the use of charcoal. It is asserted that charcoal, If immersed in, milk, will absorb all thA imnurities resulting from the chemical changes which are constantly taking place. This Bimple treati " 1 ... I j f^"r | a J ! NOVEL MILK PBESEBVATITE. ment, it Is asserted, will preserve milk i". a sweetened condition for seventhfive hours in all climates. In applying the principle for household use the charcoal Is suspended in the bowls or pitchers used after the manner Illustrated. The holder consists of a flna wire gauze receptacle, with thin metal arms attached for its suspension. New charcoal has to be used on each occasion. As applied to the dairy man's needs, the charcoal is contained | in two perforated metal cases, one in the bottom of the churn, or can, and one attached to the inside of the lid. Evolution of the Horse. Dr. Gidley, of the American Museum of Natural History, of New York City, recently spent some time In this city studying the type specimens of fossil horses preserved in the museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences. These specimens were described years JU;l Mj U ? /i ' ^ u ~j [ EOCENE ' riloCtNt: PLIOCENE RtCCNT j EVOLUTION OP THE HORSE'S FOOT. ago by the famous comparative anatomist, Dr. Joseph Leidy. The study of fossil and recent horses is one of the most interesting and convincing of evolutionary theories. In Eocene times the ancestor of the modern horse had four toes, so he could run over the marshes. Later, in Miocene times he lost one toe from disuse. Pliocene times saw only the central toe predominating, when in the modern horse the extra toes do not penetrate the skin, and are only recognized anatomically as the splint bones.?Philadelphia Record. An Australian Snapshot. This picture is produced from a photograph taken at Parramatta, a flat, hot, and sleepy town, a sail of an hour and a half from Sydney, Australia, up the Parramatta River. Messrs. Adam and Eve are both enterprising business men, and appreciate the advertising value of the firm name. It is interesting to note that, as drapers, Adam and Eve are in a very approprlite business.?Profitable Advertising. Blortffajrin/r the Btul Loan*. In consequence of the abandonment nf imHa in tiio arid recion there la now a deserted belt, on which are situated empty towns and vacant homesteads. New England, which has lent most of the money for the building of the West, lost enormous sums by the desertion of these farms. The shrewd New Englanders had for so long a period found excellent security and high-interest paying investments in Western farm mortgages, that, hpinc iirnorant of arid laud conditions, they readily offered their cash to help the settlers of the plains. In many cases clever swlndiers. realizing what was sure to happen, took up homesteads merely for the purpose of putting mortgages on them, after which they abandoned them. ? Philadelphia f dturday Evening Post. DR. TALMAGE'S SEBMON SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. enhject: Tlio Trlumpli of Christianity ? Tho Church of Christ is the Most Endearing Institution on Earth?Its Unsurpassed Growth?Infidelity Refuted. [CopjTiifht 1901.1 Washington, D. C. ? Although Dr. Talmage was hindered from attending the great annual meeting of the Christian Endeavor Society at Cincinnati, his sermon Bhows him to be in sympathy with the Ereat movement; text, Amos ix, 13, "Beold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." Unable because of other important duties to accept the invitation to take part in the great convention of Christian En<teavorers at Cincinnati, I preach a sermon of congratulation for all the members of that magnificent association, whether now gathered in vast assemblage or busy in their places of usefulness, transatlantic and cisatlantic. And, as it is now harvest time in the fields and sickles are flashing in tne gatnenng ot a great crop, i nna mighty suggestiveness in my text. It is a picture of a tropical clime, with ft season so prosperous that the harvest reaches clear over to the planting time and the swarthy husbandman, busy gutting the grain, almost feels the breath of the horses on his shoulders, the horses hitched to the plow preparing for a new crop. "Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper." When is that? That is now. That is this day. when hardly have you done reaping one harvest of religious result than the plowman is getting ready for another. In phraseology charged with all venom and aouse and caricature I know that in-' fidels and agnostics have declared that Christianity has collapsed; that the Bible is an obsolete book; that the Christian church is on the retreat. I shall answer that wholesale charge to-day. Between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 Endeavorers sworn before high heaven that they will do all they can to take America for God, Europe for God, Asia and Africa for God?are not the signs most cheering? Or, to return to the agricultural figure of my text, more than a million reapers are overtaken by more than a million plowmen. Besides thiS, there are more people who believe in the Bible than at any time in the world's existence. But now let us see whether the book is a last year's almanac. Let us see whether the church of God is a Bull Run retreat, muskets, canteens and haversacks strewing all the way. .The great English historian Sharon Turner, a man of vast learning and great accuracy, not a clergyman, but an attorney as well as a historian, gives this overwhelming statistic in regard to ; Christianity and in regard to the number of Christiana in the different centuries: j In the first century 500,000 Christiana, in the second century 2,000,000 Christians, in the third century 5,000,000 Christians, in the fourth century 10,000,000 Christians, in the fifth century 15,000,000 Christians, I in the sixth century 20,000,000 Christians, in the seventh century 24,000,000 Christians, in the eighth century 30,000,000 Christiana, in the ninth century 40,000,000 Christians, in the tenth centr.ry 50,000,000 Christians, in the eleventh century 70,000,000 Christians, in the twelfth century 80,000,000 Christiana, in the . .thirteenth century 75,000,000 Christians, in th$ fourteenth century 80,000,u00 Christians, in. the fifteenth century 100,000,000- Christians, in the sixteenth century 125,000,000 Christians. in the seventeenth century 155,000,000 Christians, in the eighteenth century 200,000,000 Christians--a decadence, as you observe, in only one century arid more than made up in the following centuries, while it is the usual computation that there were at the close of the nineteenth century 470,000,000 Christians, making us to believe that before this century is close the millennium will have startea its boom and lifted its hosanna. Poor Christianity! What a pity it has no friends! How lonesome it must be! Who will take it out of the poorhouse? Poor Christianity! Four hundred millions in one century." At the beginning of the nineteenth centurv 150 missionaries: at the close of that century 84,000 missionaries and native helpers and evangelists. At the beginning of the nineteenth century there were only 60,000 converts; now there are over 1,000,000 converts from heathendom. So Christianity is falling back end the Bible, they say, is becoming an obsolete book! I go into a court, and wherever I find a judge's bench or a clerk's desk I find a Bible. Upon what book could there be uttered the solemnity of an oath? What book is apt to be put in the trunk of the young man as he leaves for city life? The Bible. What shall I find in nine out of every ten homes in this city? The Bible. In nine out of every ten homes in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire wrote the prophecy that the Bible in the nineteenth century would become extinct. The century is gone, and I have to tell you that the room in which Voltaire wrote that prophecy not long ago was crowded from floor to ceiling with Bibles from Switzerland. Suppose the Congress of the United States should pass a law that there should be no more Bibles Drinted in America and no Bibles read. If there are 60,000,000 grown people in the United States there would be 60,000,000 people in an army to put down such a law and defend their right to read the Bible. But suppose the Congress of the United States should J make a law against the reading or tne publication of any other book?how many people would go out in such a crusade? Could you get 60.000,000 people to go out and risk their lives in the defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or Gladstone's tracts or Macaulay's "History of England?" You know that there are a thousand men who would die in defense of this book where there is not more than one man who would die in the defense of any other book. You try to insult my common sense by telling me the Bible is fading out from the world. It is the most popular book of the denturiee. Oh," say people, the church is a collection of hypocritei, and it is losing its power, and it is fading out from the world." Is it? A bishop of the Methodist church told me that that denomination averages two new churches every day. In other words, they build 730 churches in that denomination in a year, and tnere are at least 1500 new Christian churches built in America every year. Does that look as though the Christian fchurch were fading out, as though it were a defunct institution? What stands nearest to the hearts of the American people Jo-day? I do not care in what village or what city or what neighborhood you go. "What is it? Is it the postoffice? is it the hotel? Is it the lecture hall? Ah, you know it is not. You know that tnat which stands nearest to the hearts of the American people is the Christian church. You may talk about: the church be^ng a Ktfnrtnritoa Vmf. wKpn t"hp CUllCUtlUll VI UJ|/VV?.VW, ? diphtheria sweeps your children off, whom do you send for? The postmaster? The Attorney-General? The hotel keeper? Alderman? No. You send for a minister of this Bible religion. And if there is a song to be sung at the obsequies, what do you want? What does anybody want? The "Marseillaise Hymn?" "God Save the Queen?" Our own grand national air? No. They want the hymn with which they sang their old Christian mother into her last sleep, or they want sung the Sabbath-school nymn which their little girl sang the last Sabbath afternoon she was out before she got that awful sickness which broke your heart. I appeal to your common sense. You know tne most endearing institution on earth to-day is the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is a fool that does not recognize it. The infidels say: ."There ii greftt liberty now for infideis?freedom of platform. Infidelity shows its power from the fact that it is everywhere tolerated, and it can Bay what it will." Why, my friends, infidelity is not half so blatant in our day as it was in the days of our fathers. Do '? ~ l J_ Jaim af amp fatliora you Know wiut m me uujo ?>? ???? there were pronounced infidels in public authority, and they could get any political position? Let a man to-day declare himself antagonistic to the Christian religion, and what city wants him for mayor, what State wants him for Governor, what nation want* him for President or for kinz? J^t a man openly proclaim himself the enemy of our glorious Christianity, and he cannot get a majority of votes in any State, in any city, in anv county, in any ward of America. The Christian religion ia mightier to-day than it ever ivu. ' - -W*. - V V V'-ra . Theae opponent* say that science b overcoming religion in our day. They look through the spectacles of the infidel scientists and they say: "It is impossible that this book be true. People are finding it out. The Bible has got to go overboard." Do you believe that the Bible account of the origin of life will be over? thrown by infidel scientists who have fifty different theories about the origin of life? If they should all come up in solid phalanx, all agreeing on one sentiment and one theory, perhaps Christianity might be damaged, but there are not so many differences of opinion inside the church as outside the church. \jaJ lb XIlclKeS IIIC Slltt. I/U OCC bucoc u w?aij fops going along with a copy of Darwin under one arm and a case of transfixed grasshoppers and butterflies under the other arm. tellinz about the "survival of the fittest' and Huxley's protoplasm and the nebular hypothesis. The fact is that some naturalists, just as soon as they find oiit the difference between the feelers of a wasp and the horns,of a beetle, begin to patronize the Almighty, while Agassiz, glorious Agassiz, who never made any pretension to being a Christian, put both hi? feet on the doctrine of evolution and says: "I see that many of the naturalists of our day are adopting facts which do not bear observation or have not passed under observation." These men warring with each \ - other?Darwin warring against Lamarch, Wallare warrinar azainst Cope. even Her schel denouncing Ferguson. "They do not agree about anything. Here theae infidel scientists have inpaneled themselves as a jury to decide this trial between Infidelity, the plaintiff, and Christianity, the defendant, and after being out for centuries they come in to render their verdict. Gentlemen of the J jury, have you agreed on a verdict? No, 110. Then go back for another 500 year? and deliberate and agree on something. There is not a poor, miserable wretch in the city prison to-morrow that could be condemned by a jury that did not agree on the verdict, and yet you expect us to give up our glorious Christianity to please tnese men wno cannot agree on Anything. Ah, my friends, the church of Jesus Christ, instead of falling back, is on the advance. And then I find another most encouraging thought in the fact that the secular printing press and the pulpit seem har nes8ed in the same team for the proclamation of the gospel. Every banker in this capital to-morrow, every Wall qtreet banker to-morrow in New York, every; State street banker to-monfiw in Boston, every Third street banker ' tp-morrow in Philadelphia, every banker in' the United States and every merchant! will have in his pocket a treatise on Christianity, ten, twenty or thirty passages of Scripture in the reports of sermons preached throughout the land to-day. It will be so in Chicago, so in New Orleans, so in Charleston, ,J so in Boston, so in Philadelphia, so in Cincinnati, so everywhere. I know the tract societies are doing a grand and glorious work, but I tell you there is no power on earth to-day equal to the fact that the American printing press is taking up the sermons which are preached to a few hundred or a few thousand people, and on Monday morning and Mondar evening scattering that trutn to the millions. What an encouragement for everj Christian man! Then you have noticed a more significant fact if you have talked with people on the subject?that they are getting dissatisfied with worldly philosophy as a matter of comfort. They say it does not amount to anything when you have a dead child in the house. They tell you when they were sick and the door of the future seemed opening the only comfort they could find , was the gospel. People are naving asm- j, onstrated all over the land that science and philosophy cannot solace the troubles and woes of "the world, and they want 80m? other religion, and they are taking Christianity* the only sympathetic reh gion that ever came into the world. Yoa just take a scientific consolation into that rooah where a mother haa lost her child. Try imthat case your splendid doctrine of the "survival of the fittest." Tell her that child died because it was not worth as much as the other children. That is your "survival of the fittest." Just try your transcendentalism, vour philosophy. your science, on that widowed soul, ana tell her it was a geological necessity that her companion should be takeniaway from her, just as in the course of the world's history the megatherium and the ichthyosaurus had to pass out of existence, and then you go on in your scientific consolation until you get to the sublime fact that 50,000,000 years from now we ourselves may be scientific specimens on the geologic shelf, petrified specimens of an extinct human race, and after vou have got all through with your consolation, if the poor afflicted soul is not crazed by it, we will send forth from any of our churches the plainest Christian we have, and with Koif nf rimer and reading of UHC liau llwtu Scripture promises the tears will be wiped ' away, and the house from floor to cupola . will be flooded with the calmness of an Indian summer sunset. There is where I see the triumph of Christianity. Peoplf are dissatisfied with everything else. They want God: they want Jesus Christ. The fact is that infidelity and agnosticism are founded on ignorance geological, ignorance chemical, ignorance astronomical, ignorance geographical. We have heard what the enemies of Christianity have had to testify. Now I put before you the testimony of the church dn earth and the church in heaven. Not fifty, not a thousand, not a million, but all of the church on earth and all of the redeemed in heaven. Is not the testimony of the 20.000 who were present worth more than the testimony of one who was absent? Now, there are some men who say they have never seen Christ crowned in the heart, and they do not believe it is ever done. There \ is a group of men who say they have never heard the voice of Christ, that they have never heard the voice of God. They do not believe that anything like it ever occurred. I point to twenty, a hundred ! thousand or a million people who say: | "Christ was crowned in our heart's affections. We have seen Him and felt Him [ in our soul, and we have heard His voice. We have heard it in the storm and darkness. We have heard* it again and again." I You say morphia puts one to sleep. You say in time of sickness it is very useful. I deny it. Morphia never puts anybody to sleep. It never alleviates pain. You ask why I say that. I have never tried it. I never took it. I deny that morphia is any soothing to the nerves or any quiet in times of sickness. I deny that morphia ever put anybody to sleep. But here are twenty persons who say they have all felt the soothing effects of a physician's prescribing morphine. Whose testimony will you take? Those who took the medicine or my testimony, I nevSr having taken the medicine. Here is the gospel of Jesus Christ, an anodye for all trouble, the mightiest medicine on earth. Here is a man who says: "I dqn't believe in it. There is no power in it." Here are othef people who say: "We have found out its power and know its soothing influence. It lias cured us." Whose testimony will you take in regard to this healing medicine? Young man, do not be ashamed to be friend of the Bible.. Do not put your thumb in" your vest,-as young men sometimes do, and stagger about, talking ol ., >* the glorious light of nature and of there being no need of the Bible. They have the light of nature in India and China and in all the dark places of the earth, Did you ever hear that the light of nature gave them comfort for their troubles? They have lancets to cut and Juggernaut* to crush, but no comfort. Ah. my friends, you had better stop your skepticism. Suppose you are put in a crisis like that ol Colonel Ethan Allen. 1 saw the account and at one time mentioned it in an address. A descendant of Ethan Allen, whc is an infidel, said it never occurred. Sood afttfr I received a letter from a nrofessoi in one of our colleges, who is also a descendant of Ethan Allen and is a Christian. He wrote me that the incident it accurate; that my statement was authentic and true. The wife of Colonel Ethan Allen was a very consecrated woman. 'I'Un -/itliur irwrrm-tpfl tIio liaiwlitsr in the truths of Christianity. The daughter sickened and was about to die, and she said to her father, ''Father, shall I take youi instruction, or shall I take mother's instruction? 1 am going to die now. I must have this matter decided." That man who had been loud in his infidelity saiil to his dying daughter: "My dear, youk?wl fnl.-tt vmii* mnthpr** rcliffion. My advice is the same to you, O young man! You knajw how religion comforted her; you know \vhat she 9aid to you when she was dying. You had better tak? youi mother's religion. .