VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1889. NO. 21.
THE WORLDS REDEMPTION.
Seation by Rev. T. De Witt Tale
nage, D. D.
Thas tie World Can Be Gospelized
Betore'the Present Century Close.
Christian Effort Backed by Chris.
tlan Money Wil Do It.
1is-recent s'erinon at the Brooklyn.
Ta'beriaete;'afOer expounding passages de
scriptive,Qf the world as It shall be when
gospelized. Dr. Talmage gave out the hymn:
- People and realms of every tongue
Dwell on His love with sweetest song.
Text, Revelations xix., 4: "Amen; Alle
lula." The eloquent preacher~spoke as fol
lows:
The nineteenth century isdeparting. After
it has taken a few more steps, if each year
be a step, it will be gone into the eternities.
In a short time we shall beinthelast decade
of .this century, which fact makes the sol
emnest 6do.Qutside the Bible the almanac,
and themost suggestive and the most tre
mendous piece of machinery in all the earth
the clock. The last decade of this century
upon which we shall soon enter will be the
grandest, mightiest and most decisive decade
in all the chronologies. I am glad it is not
to come immediately, for we need by a new
baptism of the Holy Ghost to prepare for it.
Thatlastten yearsof the nineteenth century,
may we all live to see them! Does anyone
say that this division of time is arbitrary?
0, no; in other ages the divisions of time
may ha've been arbitrary, but our years date
from Christ. Does any one say that the
grouping of ten together is an arrangement
arbitrary!- 0. fo; next to the figure seven.
ten iswith God a favorite number. Abrs
hanfl dwelt ten-years in Caanan. Ten right
eous men would have saved Sodom. In the
ancient tabernacle were ten curtains, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten. In the an
cient temple were ten layers and ten candle
sticks, and ten tables, and a molten sea of
ten cubits. And the commandments writ
tenq% the granite.of Mount Sinai were ten,
and ekingdom of God was likeneI to ten
viriiirand ten men should lay hold of him
that was a Jew, and the reward of the
greatly faithful is that they shall reign over
ten cities, and In the effort to take the cen
sus of the New Jerusalem the number ten
swings around the thousands, crying "ten
thousand times ten thousand." So I come
to look toward the closing ten years of the
nineteenthcentury with an intensity of in
terest I can hardly describe.
I have also noticed that the favorite time
in many of the centuries for great events
was the closing fragment of . the century.
Is America to be discovered, it must be in
the last: decade- of the fifteenth century,
namely, 1492. Was free constitutional gov
ernment to be well established' in America,
thes.laat..years. - the -eighteenth century
must achieve it. Were . three cities to be
znbmerged'by one -pitch. of scorim Hercu
laneum an.-Strabim and Pompeii in the
latter part :of the ~first century must go
under. The fourth century closed with
the most agitating ecclesiastical war of
history, Urban the Sixth against Clement
the Seventh. Alfred the Great closes
the nineteenth centu-y, and Edward Iron
sides the eleventh century with their re
sounding deeds. The sixteenth century
closed with the establishment of religious
Independence In the United Netherlands.
Aye, almost every century has had its pero
ration of overtowering achievements. As
the closing years of the centuries seem a
favorite time for great scenes of emancipa
tion or disaster, and as the number ten
seems a favorite number in the Scriptures,
written by divine direction, and as we are
soon to enter upon the last ten years of the
nineteenth century, what does the world
propose? What does the church of Christ
propose? What do reformers propose! I
know not; but now In the presence of this
consecrated assembly I propose that we
zake ready, get all our batteries planted.
and all our plans well laid in what remains
of .bis decade, and then In the last decade
.of the nineteenth century march up and
-tak~e this round world for God.
,WhenI say we. I mean the live hundred
million Christians now alive. But, as many
-of them will not have enough heart for the
work let us copy Gideon, and as he had
thirty thousand men in his army to fight
the Midianites, but many of them were not
m'ade of the right stuff and so'hie promul
gated a military order saying: "Whosoever
is iful and-afraid let him' retun and do
pai- early from Gilead," and twenty-two
thousaird were afrai of getting hurt and
went home. and only ten thousand were
le'itiand. Godltold them that even this re
duced-nmbefrwas toe large'a number, for
they plight think they had triumphed inde
pendent of~dizine help, and so the number
must bJitill fui-therreduced, and only those
should bekept in the-ranks who, in passing
the river should be so in haste for victory
over theirenemiesthat, though very thirsty,
they would withou't stop'ing a second just
-scoop up the water iathepalm of their right
& ayco*u h water In thie palm of
- n ,'e~au and only three-hundred men
did that, and those three hundred men with
the battle shout, "The sword of the Lord
and Gideen," scattered the Midianites like
leaves. iu.a equinox~ so out of the five hun
dreg million nominal Christians of to-day
let-all unbelievers and cowards go home and
get out.qf,the .w~ay. ,And suppose we have
mal~y four-huhdr'ed million left, suppose only
two lhundred million left, suppose only one
hundred million left, yes, suppose we only
have*fMty million- left, with them we will
undertake the divine crusade, and each one
just scooping up a palm full of the river of
God's mercy in one hand and a palm full of
the river -f God's strength In the other, let
. us with the cry. "The sword of the Lord
and of Gideon," the sword of the Lord and
of.John Knox, the sword of the Lord and of
-MIatthiew Simpson, the sword of the Lord
and of Bishop McIlvaine, the sword of the
Lord and of Adoniramn Judson, the sword of
the Lord and of Martin Luther, go Into the
last decade of the nineteenth century.
'* Is.lt audacious for me to propose itt O0
ndt a captive servant in the kitchen of
Naamnan told the commander-in-chief where
he could get rid of the blotches of his awful
- leprosy and bis complexion become as fair
-as a babe's. And didn't Christ In order to
take ?e ophthalmia out of the eyes of the
biffd man. use a mixture of spittle and dust!
And 'who showed Blucher a short cut for his
Sso that instead of taking the rezular
- A ~ bywhiob-he would have come up~oo
late, he came up in time to save Waterloo
and Europe? Was it not an unknown lad
who, perhaps, could not write his own namei
And so IL "who am less then the least of all
sai~s" propose a short cut to victory and
auiwlEi' to be the expectoratior on some
blind 'eye and tell someof the brigadier
generals of the Lord of hosts how this
leprosied' -world xiay in the final decade of
the nineteenth century have its flesh come
again as the flesh of. a little child.
Is there any thing in prophecy to hinder
this speedy consummation ? No. So me one
begins to quote from Daniel about "time,
tinmes and a half time," and takes from
Revelation the seven trumpets blowing
them all at once in my ear. But with ut
most reverence I take up all the prophecies
and hold them toward heaven and say God
never has and nevei- will stop consecrated
effert and holy determination and magnifi.
e a n zeovand that if the Church of God
will rise up to its full work it can make
Daniel's tipez twenty years and his half
time ten years. Neither Isaiah, Ezekiel,
nor Micah. noi Malachi, nor Jeremiah, nor
any of the major or minor prophets will
hinder us a second. Suppose the
.Bible had announced the millennium to
begin the year 3SS9, that would be no hin
drance. In one sense God never changes his
mind, being the same yesterday, today and
forever. but in another sense He does
chabge his mind and times without number
every day, and that is when his people pray.
Didn't He ehange His mind about Ninevehi
By God's comman'd Jonah, at the top of his
voice, while standing on the steps of the
merchants' exchange and the palatial resi
dences of that city, cried out, "Yet forty
days and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
Was it overthrown in forty days? No. The
people gave up their sins and cried for
mercy, and though Jonah got- mad because
his whole course of - sermons -had - been
spoiled and went into a disgraceful pouting
we have the record so sublime I can
not read it without feeling a nervous chill
running through me. "God saw their works
that they turned from their evil way and
God repented of the evil that He had said
He would do unto them, and He did it not."
God is a father, and some of us know what
that means, and some time when we have
promised chastisement and the child de
served it, the little darling has put her
arms around our neck and expressed such
sorrow and such promises of doing better
that her tears landed on the lips of our
kiss, and we held her a half hour after
on our knee and would as soon think of
slapping an angel in the face as of even
striking her with the weight of our little
finger. God is a father, and while He has
promised this world scourgings, though
they were to be for a thousand years or
five thousand years He woul:, if the
world repented, substitute beneliction and
divine caress. God changed His mind about
Sodom six times. He had determined on its
destruction. Abraham asked Him if He
would net spare it if fifty righteous people
were found there, and, narrowing down the
number, if forty-five people Are found
there, if forty people. if thirty people, if
twenty people, if ten people were found
there. And each of the six times the Lord
answered yes. 0. why didn't Abraham go
on just two steps further, and say if five be
found there and if one be found there, for
then for the sake of Lot, its one goal citizen,
I think Sodom would have been spared.
Eight times does the Bible say tat God re
pented when. He had promised punishments,
and withheld the stroke. Was it a slip of
Paul's pen when he spoke of God's cutting
short the work in righteousness? No, Paul's
pen never slipped. There is nothing in the
way of prophecy to hinder the crusade 1 have
proposed for the last decade of the nine
teenth century.
The whole trouble is that we put off the
completion of the world's redemption to
such long and indefinite distances. The old
proverb that "what is everybody's business
is-hobody's business," might be changed a
little and be made truthfully to say what is
the gospel business of all the ages is the gos
pel business of no age. We are so constitu.
ted we can not get up much enthusiasm
about something five hundred years from
nowor a thousand years from now. We are
fighting at too long a range. That gun called
the "Swamp Angel" was * nuisance. It shot
six miles, but it hardly ever hit any thing.
It did its chief destructive work when it
burst and killed tnose who were setting it
off. Short range is the effective kind of
work, whether it be for worldly or religious
purpose. Some man with his eyes half shut
drones out to me the Bible q'hotation: "A
thousand years are as one day;" that is, ten
centuries are not.long for the Lord. But why
do you not quote the previous sentence,
which says that one day is with the Lord as
a thousand years f That is, He could do the
work of ten centuries in twenty-four hours.
The mightiest obstacle to Christian work is
the impression that the world's evangeliza
tion is away off. And we take the telescope
and look on and on through centuries until
we see two objects near each other. and we
strain our vision and guess what they are
and we call great conventions to guess what
they are, and we get down our heaviest theo
logical works and balance our telescope on
the lid and look and look and finally conclude
that they are two beas's that we see, and the
one ha hair and the other has wool and we
guess it must be the lion and the lamb lying
down together. . In that great cradle of post
pnement and somnolence we rock the
church as though it were an impatient child
and say, "Hush, my dear. don't be impatient!i
Don't get excited by revivals! Dont cry!
Your Father's coming ! Don't get uneasy!I
He will be here in two or three or ten or
twenty thousand years." And we act as
though we thought that when Miacaulay's
famous New Zealander in the far distance
is seated on a broken arch of London bridge
sketching the ruins of St. Paul's, his grand
child might break in and jolt his pencil by
asking him if he thought the millennium
ever would appear. Men and women of the
eternal God! Sons and daughters of the
Lord Almighty! We may have it start in
the decade that is soon to commence, and it
will be done If we can persuade the people
between now and then to get ready for the
work.
What makes me think it can be done:
First, because God is ready. .He needs no
long persuasion to do His work, for if He ir
notwilling that any should perish, He is not
willing that any of the people of the next
decade shall perish; and the whole Bible is
a chime of bells ringing out "Come, come,
come," and you need not go round the
earth to finid out how much He wants the
world to come, but just to walk around one
stripped and bare and leafless tree with two
branches, not arched, but horizontal.
But He is waiting, as He said He would,
for the co-operation of the church. When
we are ready God Is ready. And He
certainly has all the weaponry ready
to capture this world for the truth
all the weapons of kindness or devastation.
On the one hand Gospel and sunshine and
power to orchardize and gardenize the
earth, and fountain~s swinging in rainbow
and Chatsworthian verdure and aromas
poured out of the vials of heaven, while on
the ether hand he has the weaponry of de
vastation, thunderbolt and conflagration
and forces planetary, solar, lunar, stellar,
or meteoric. that with loose rein thrown on
the neck for a see -nd would leave conctella
tons and galaxies so many split and shiv
ered wheels on the boulevards of heaven.
And that God is on our side, all on our side.
Blessed be his glorioun name ! Blessed was
the hour when through Jesus Christ my
sinful soul made peace with Him!
If you continue to ask me why I think
the world can be saved in the tinal decade
of the nineteenth century, I reply that It is
nog great undertsaking. considering the
number of workers that will go at it, If once
persuaded it can be done. We have sifted
the five hundred million of workers down
to four hundred million and three hundred
million and two hundred million and-one
hundred million and to fity million. I went
to work to cipher- out how many souls
thatnumber could bring to God in ten years,
if each one -erought a soul every year. and
if each soul so brought should bring another
each succeeding year. I found out, aided by
a professor in mathematices, that we did
not need any thing like such a number of
workers enlisted. You see it Is simply a
question of mathematics and In geometrical
pro.r.ssio, Then I gnve to the learned
professor this problem: now many per
sons would it require &o start with if
each one brought a soul into tbe king
dom each for ten years, and each one
brought another each succeeding year,
In order to have fourteen hundred
million people saved or the popula
tion of the earth at present? His answer
was two million seven hundred and fifty-four
thousand three shunared and seventy-five
workers. So you see-that when I sifted the
five hundred million nominal Christians of
the earth down to fifty millions and stopped
there, I retained for this work forty-seven
million people too many. There it is in
glorious mathematics, quod erat demonstran
dum. Do you tellme that God does not care
for mathematics? Then you have never
seen the Giant's Causeway where God
shows his regard for the hexagonal
in whole ranges. of rocky columns with
six sides arid sx angles. Then you
have not studied the geometry of a bee's
honeycomb with six sides and six angles.
Then ygu have not noticed what regard God
has for the square, the altar of the ancient
tabernacle four square, the breastplate four
square. the court of the temple in Ezekiel's
vision four square, the New Jerusalem laid
out four square. Or you have not noticed
His regard for the circle by making it his
throne, "sitting in the circle of the earth,"
and fashioning s p and moon and stars in a
circle, and send- - our planetary system
around other systems in a circle and the
whole universe sweeping around the throne
of God in a circle. And as to His regard for
mathematical numbers, He makes the fourth
book in his Bible the Book of Numbers,
and numbers the hosts of Israel and num
bers the troops of Sennacherib and numbers
Solomon's howers in the forest and numbers
the spearm-n and numbers the footmen and
numbers the converts at Pentecost and
numbers the chariots of God rolling down
the steps of heaven. So I have a rirht to
enlist mathematics for the demonstration of
the easy possibility of bringing the whole
world ') God in the coming decade by simple
process of solicitation, each one only havinz
to brir g one a year; although I want to take
In forty thousand and I know men now
alive who I think by pen or voice, or both,
directly or indirectly, will take hundreds of
thousands each. So you see that that will
discharge some of the 2,754.375 from the
aedessity of taking any.
Another reason why I know it can he done
is that we may divide the work up among
the denominations. God does not ask any
one denomination to do the work. or any
dozen denominations. The work can be di
vided and is being divided utff not geograph
Ically. but according to the temperaments of
the human family. We can not say to one
denomination, you take Peraia, and another,
you take China. and another. you take
India, because there aus all kinds of tem
peraments in all nations. And some de
nominations are especially adapted to
work with people of saneuine temper
ament, or phelgmatic temperament. or
choleric temperament, or bilious tempe
ament, or nervous temperament, or hy-i
phatic temperament. The Episcop-.i church
will do its most effective work with ih -sue
who by taste prefer the ctately and ritual
istic. 'gie Methodist church wil do its
best wok among the emotional and demon
strative. The Presbyterian churc will do
its best work among those who like strore
doctrine and the stately service softened hn
the emotional. So each denomination wil
have certain kinds of people whom it will
especially affect. So let the w'rk be dividr.I
up. There are the seven hundre-i an-I fift.
thousand Christians of the Presbyterian
church North, and other hundreds c-i
thousands in the Presbyterian church
South, ard all foreign Presbyterans.
more especially Scotch. English and Trish.
making. I guess, about two million Presby
terians: the Methodist Church is still larger:
the Church of England on both sides the sea
still larger: and many other denominations
as much, if not more. consecrated than any
I have mentioned. Divide up the world's
evangelization among these denominations
after they are persuaded it can bo done be
fore the nineteenth century is dead, and the
last Hottentot, the last Turk, the last Jap
anese, (*ie last American. the last European.
the last Asiatic, the last African will see the
salvation of God before he sees the opening
gate of the twentieth century.
Again, I feel the whole world can be
saved in the time specified, because we have
all manner of machinery requisite. It is
not as though we bad to build the printing
presses; they are all built and running day
and night, those printing religious papers
(925 of those religious papers in this coun
try), those printing religious tracts and
those printing religious books. And thou
sands of printing presses now in the
service of the devil could be brought
and set to work in the service of God.
Why was the printing press invented! To
turn out billheads and circulars of patent
medicines and tell the news which in three
weeks will be of no importance? From the
old-time Franklin printing press on up to
the Lord Stanhope's press and the Wash
ington press and the Victory press to Hoe's
perfecting printing press that machine has
been improving for its best work, namely,
the publication of the glad tidings of great
joy which shall be to all people. We have
the presses, or can have them before the
first of January when the new decade is to
begin, to put a Bible in the hand of every'
son and daughter of Adam and Eve now
living, and if such person can not re ad we
can have a colporteur, an evangeli.t, or
missionary to read it to him or her.
But this brings me to the adjoining
thought; namely, we have the money to do,
the work. I mean the fifty millions of
Christians have it. Aye, the two million,
seven hundred and fifty-four thousand
Christians have it: and the dam, which is
beginning to leak, will soon break and there
will be rushing floods of hundreds and
millions and billions of dollars in holy con
tribution when you persuade the wealthby1
men of the kingdom of God, that the
speedy conversion of the world is a possi-I
bility, and that Isaiah and Ezekiel
and Daniel and St. John will not stand inth
way of it but help it on. I have no sympa-.
thy with this bombardment of rich men. We
would each one be worth $5.00,000 if we
could, and by hard persuasion might perhaps
be induced to take fifteen million. Almost
every paper I take up tells of some wealthy
man who has endowed a college or built a
chuoch or a hospital or a free library, and
that thing is going to multiply until the
treasury of all our denominations and reform
atory organizations will be overwhelmed
with munificence if we can persuade our
men of wealth that the world's evangeliza
tion is possible and that they may live to see:
it with their own eyes. I1 have always cher-:
ished the idea that when the world is con
verted we would be allowed to come out on
the battlements of heaven and see the ban
nered procession and the bonfires of victory.?
But I would like the procession closer by
ad just be permitted myself to throw on a
fagot for a bigger bonfire. And if you per
suade our men of wealth that there is a pos-'
sibility for them to join on earth in the uni
versal glen of a redeernel p'anet. instead or
laborio :s beseeching for funds and arguing
and flatter-ing in order to ret a contrbu tion
for Christian objects our men of wealth will
stand in the line at a post-ofilee window or a
railroad ticket ofice, but in this case waiting
for their turn to make charitable deposit.
The Gentiles are not long going to allow
Ithemselves to be eclipsed by Mr-. Hirsch, the
Jew who as. ust given $;40,000,000 for
sehoots in France, Germany and Russia. a
rejoice that so much of the wealth of the
world is coming into the possession of
Christian men and women. And although
the original church was very poor, and its
members were fish dealers on the banks of
Galilee, and had only such stock on hand as
they could take In their own net, to-day
in the hands of Christian men and women
there is enough money to print Bibles and
build churches and support missionaries
under God in ten years to save the world.
Again, I think that the world's evangeliza
tion can be achieved in the time specified be
cause we have already the theological insti
tutions necessary for this work. We do not
have to build them; they are b iilt and they
are filled with tens of thousands o! young
men and there will be three sets of students
who will graduate into the ministry before
the close of this century, and once have them
understand that instead of preaching thirty
or forty years and taking into the kingdom
of God a few hundred souls, right before
them is the Sedan, is the Armageddon, and
these young men, instead of entering the
ministry timid and with apologetic air, will
feel like David who came up just as the
armies were set in array and he left his
carriage and shouted for the battle and
cried: "Who is this uncircumcised Phil
istine that he should defy the armies of the
living God?" And with five gravel stones
skillfully flung sent sprawling the bragging
ten-foster. his mouth into the dust and his
heels into the air.
My friends, what but such a consumma
tion could be a fit climax to this century?
You notice a tendency in history and all
about us to a climax. The creation week
rising from herbs to fish, and from fish to
bird, and from bird to quadruped, and from
quadruped to immortal man. The New
Testament rising from quiet geneological
table in Matthew to apocalyptic doxology in
Revelation. Now, what can be an appro
priate climax to this century. which has
heard the puff of the first steamer, and
the throb of the first stethoscope, and the
click of the first telegraph, and the clatter
of the first sewing machine, and saw the
flash of the first electric light and the revo
lution of the first steam plow, and the law
of storms was written, and the American
Bible :oclety and American Tract So
ciety were born; and instead of anaudience
laughing down Dr. Carey for advocat
ing foreign missions, as was done in
Northampton. in England. in the last
century, now all denominations vieing
with each other as to who shall go the
furthest and the soonest into the darkest of
the New Hebrides; and three hundred thou
sand souls have been born to God in the
South Sea Islands, and Micronesia and Me
lanesia and Malayan Polynesia have been
set in the crown of Christ,and David Living
stone has unveiled Africa, and the last bolted
gate of barbaric nations has swung wide
open to let the gospel in. What, I ask, with
a thousand interrogation points uplifted,
an be a fit, an appropriate and sufficient
climax except it be a world redeemed?
Yea, I believe it can be done if we get
prepared for it, because the whole air and
the whole heaven is full of willing help.
"Are they all ministering spirits sent forth?"
We make an awful mistake if we calculate
only on the forces we can see. The mightiest
army is in the air. My brethren, so much of
the selfishness and pride and rivalry and bad
motives get into our work here that we are
hindered. But the mighty souls that have
gone up to the flying armies of the sky
have left all imperfection behind them, and
these souls are with us, and without a fault
and with perfect natures are on our side.
You can not make me believe that after
toiling here for long years for the redemp
tion of the world until from exhaustion
some of them fall into their graves they
have ceased their interest in the stupendous
conflict now raging, or that they are going
to decline their help. Irenmus Prime! Hon
ored on earth but now glorified in heaven,
have you forgotten the work toward which
you gave for more than half a century your
gracious life, your loving voice, and your
matchless pen? No! Then come down and
help. Alexander Duff! Have you for
gotten the millions of India for whose salva
tion you suffered in Hindoo jungle and
thundered on the missionary platform? No!
Then come down arnd help. David Brainard !
Have you forgotten the aborigines to whom
you preached and for whom you prayed un
til you could preach and pray no more,
lying down delirious amid the miasas of the
swamp? No! Then come down and help.
Moncrieff and Freeman and Campbell! Have
you forgotten Lucknow and Cawnpore? No!
Then come down and help. I rub out of my
eyes the st ipidity and unbelief, and I, the
servant of those great Elishas in the gospel,
see the mountains all round about are full
of horses of fire and chariots of fire; and
they head this way. Hovered over are we
by great clouds of witnesses and helpers!
Clouds of Apostles in the air led on by
Paul! Clouds of martyrs in the air led on
by Stephen! Clouds of prophets in the air
led on by Isaiah ? Clouds of patriarchs in
the air led on by Abraham! Clouds of
ancient warriors in the air lcd on by Joshua,
and that Bible wvarrrior at whose prayer
astronomy once halted ever Ajalon, and
Gibeon seems now to lift one hand toward
the setting sun of this century and the other
hand toward the moon of the last decade,
saying: "Stand thou still till the church
of Go] gets the final victory !"
Then let us take what remains of this de
cade to cet ready for the final decade of the
nineteenth century. You and I may no-t
live to see that decade, or may not live to see
its close, bitt that shall not hinder me from
declaring the magnificent p'ssibilit y. I con
fess that the mistake of my life has been, not
that I did not work hard-for I could not
have worked harder and lived, as God knows
and my family know-but that I have not
worked under the realization that the salva
tion of this world was a nearby possiblility.
But whether we see it, the beginning or the
closing of that decade, is of no importance,
if only that decade can get the coronation,
and then all decades shall kneel before this
enthroned deacde, and even the gray grown
centuries will cast their cilwns before it and
it will be the most honored decade betwveen
the time when the mording stars sang to
gether as the libretto of~worlds was opened.
and tne time when the mighty angel, robed
in cloud and garlanded in rainbow, shall
with one foot on the sea and the other foot
on the land swear by Him that liveth for
ever and ever that time shall be no longer.
Allelua! Amen!
Novel Advertising Scherne.
The Postal and Railway Department of
the Hungarian Ministry has taken a curious
step in a business direction. It offers to sel
postal cards with trade advertisements for
one kreut zee~ (one farthing) each-that is,
half the price of the common postal cards!
The transaction has the following explana.
tion: Any would-be advertiser must order
no fewer than fifty thousand postal cards
and pay full prices for them-that is, two
kreutzers (one half-penny), to the postal
authority, who will print his advertisement,
not exceeding the third part of the back of
the card. without any further charge, at
the Hungarian Government printing office
at Budapest. The cost ot the printing is got
Out of the one kreutzer, and the cards are
afterwards sold to the puiblic.-N. Y. Post
-Be kind to your friends that you may
keep them; be kind to your enemies that
they may become your friends.-Thales, BR
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CHAOS IN OKLAHOMA.
THE LAND OF PROMISE BECOMES A VER
ITABLE HELL UPON EARTH.
Settlers Suffering for Lack of Shelter,
Water and Food-They Desert Their
Claims and Flee for Their Lives-A
Stampede to Get Out of the Country
and Back to Civilization.
CHIcAGo, April 25.-An Arkansas
City, Kansas, special says:
Chaos reigns, not only in Oklahoma.
but in the entire tributary country.
The railroad is prostrated, and com
munications are entirely cut off. The
Western Union, with its crush of train
dispatching, would not touch a message
of any other character in the Territory,
though the earth swallowed a town site.
Gutbrie's back seems broken, and there
is a furious stampede to get out.
People there are wild from the depriva
tions that lack of shelter, water and
food impose upon them. To these dis
tresses are added the misfortunes of
terrific heat and the absence of means
of flight.
When your correspondent reached
Willow Springs from the Diamond Bar
Ranch, be learned from dispatches that
neither the North nor South bound pas
senger trains, shortly due had been heard
from. The hour of waiting passed, when
a train of . twenty cars from
the South arrived. The cars
were locked, but upon the roofs,
the buffers, amid the coal on the tender,
on the pilot and gangway of the locomo
tive, and packed in and upon the ca
boose, was a dense and miserable throng
of men. The train from Guthrie had
started with its strange load at 6 o'clock
in the evening. It was useless to attempt
to enforce the laws restricting railroad
travel. The people were fleeing practi
cally for their lives. They had added
to long periods of privation a suffering
of seventeen hours without food or pro
tection from the cold. No trains had
passed them, and none was in sight from
behind They had left a howling mob
in Guthrie, baffled in its efforts to join
in the flight. The uselessness of pro
ceeding to Guthrie was apparent, and
your correspondent secured footing for
one foot and returned to this point with
the baggage train.
Since dark other freight trains have
followed, having made eighty-five miles
from Guthrie in from six to fourteen
hours. The cars are piled with fugitives,
thirsty and famine-stricken, and Ar
kansas City is crowded as it was before
the descent. Some experiences are piti
ful. A terrible storm last night raised
the miseries of Guthrie to almost horror.
A violent wind arose as the sun sank
and tilled the air with the stifling red
alkali dust that strews the plain. A
deluge of rain succeeded and through
the night it beat upon the thousands of
shelterless. The railroad is utterly in
competent in the emergency, and is de
livering baggage and express too slowly
to be of use to the unprotected.
The fugitives cry with joy as they
alight here and rush to the hydrants and
eating houses. Curses are heaped upon
the region, and the government mar
shals, Needles and Jones, are execrated
without stint for the theft of the land
and the railroad denounced for its feeble
service.
Gutbrie is without form. The orig
inal streets have disappeared and new
sections are being plowed every hour.
Values have fallen to practically no
thing, and confidence is at a low ebb.
Those who are not going home announce
their intention of moving upon the
Cherokee Strip, and report that hun
dreds of boonmers in wagons have already
done so. Scores of men surrendered
their claims to lots in Guthrie without
an effort to preserve or dispose of them.
The South bound passenger train ar
rived, after a time, crowded with pil
grims for Guthrie, and few could be dis
suaded by the lamentations of the fugi
tives. It is impossible to predict what
the next few days will develop in Guth
Sr. Louis. April 25.--An Arkansas
City special to the RepuZ'ic says:
A number of claims have been de
serted in various parts of the Territory,
and wagons can be seen frequently on
the back trail. Many of the disgruntled
threaten to "squat" on the Indian lands
surrounding Oklahoma. Some will go
back to the Cherokee Strip; others will
go down into the Chickasaw country and
lease farms from the Indians. That
country is being rapidly settled by farm
ers who pay annual head right or lease
for the privilege of tilling the soil
there. The country is as much superior
to Oklahoma as is the Cherokee
Oulet, and there is a great deal of com
plaint among the boomers that the
poorest land in the Indian Territory
should have been the only land opened
to settlement.
Despite this discouragement, however,
many contests for possession of lands
are threatened. An interesting case has
arisen, where two men arrived on the
same quarter section not five minutes
apart. The first arrival claimed posses
sion by priority. The seond made im
provements and claimed that it was the
imrovement which perfected the right
of ~occupation. This case will doubtless
be taken to the Land Office for settle
ment.
As illustrating the "ingratitude of re
publics" it may be mentioned that con
tests are already filed against the claim
of Captain Crouch, the old' boomer
leader, on the curious ground that he
disqualified himself from making entry
by entering the Territory years ago on
boom expeditions.
General James B. Weater of Iowa.
one of the most persistent advocates of
the opening of Oklahoma in Congress,
has also had his claim contested, and
has been accused of attempting to take
the people by the throat.
The old time boomer leaders have not
fared well. Any number of Payne's
men can be found now lying around
Purcell, who have been outridden and
outrn by men who have taken the fruit
of their years of sacrifice. Most of them
take it ~philosophically, but it nmeans
blood, and a murdered boy of 19, who
was shot when found in possession of
one of those claims, owes his daa. to.
that injustiece, whether he was partly
responsible for it or not. The man who
killed him had worked it for his own for
yeam.s. Ie t is broadly hinted at Pur-.
cell that old colonits there could pimt
out the murderer, and that instead of
doing so they assisted him to escape
into Texas. -
Twenty claims have been deserted in one
neighborhood, and last night in the de
pot at Oklahoma City a broken home
steader offered to sell his claim for $25.
Contests and excitement over town sites
continue, and much trouble is promised
for the future. -
STORY OF LONSDALES TRIP.
He Penetrated to 75 Degrees North, and
Had Scme Lively Experiences.'
SAN FRANcrsco, April 23.-Lord Lons
dale arrived here to-day from Kodiak,
and gave full details of his extraordinary
voyage to 75 degrees North latitude and
his overland trip across Alaska. He is
in excellent health, and bears no trace
of the hardships he endured. He de
clared that he penetrated to Banks
Land in latitude 75 degrees, discovered
a Niagara of ice 200 fet high, and
found that all maps of the Arctic re
gions are wrong. Sehwatka's so-called
military map of Alaska, he says. is a
farces as few of the passes and ravines
are indicated. He found little game
anywhere, and his hunting expeditions
were failures. Lord Lansdale reached
the Great Slave Lake in June last year,
and went around it in boats, suffering
great hardships. His only white com
panion was William McEwan, a Hud
son's Bay Company's cook. On hay
River lie found one of the company's
steamers put on to carry freights up the
McKenzie River. Of this part of his
trip he said:
"While on the Hay River I saw the
most beautiful waterfall in the world.
It is a horseshoe in shape and has a
sheer fall of 200 feet, with another fall
above it. It is about one and a half
miles wide at the top and one and three
fourth miles wide at the bottom.
"It is more beautiful than Niagara,
although there is not the same weight
of water. Words cannot describe sits
magnificent beauty as block after block
of ice and iceberg after iceberg come
whirling over and down into the abyss
below.
"I went to Peel river in a steamer
and there got a boat and eight natives
and started for the Arctic Ocean. It
was with the greatest difficulty I could
get Indians to go with me, as they were
terribly afraid of the Esquimaux. who
up there are called 'Huskeys.' These
Huskeys seem to be a race by them
selves. Instead of being small of stature
and dark, as is the case with Esquimaux
generally, the are big and tall."
These Esquimaux tried to intimidate
Lord Lonsdale, but he refused to be
frightened by their pretended attempts
to stab him, and they ended by becom
ing his sworn friends. In August, with
their help be arrived at Melville BIland,
the farthest North he reached. From
this point Lord Lonsdale determined to
walk to the Yukon River, across the
mountains, a distance of eighty miles.
He reached the Yukon, and floated
clown the Ajuko, where there is a Rus
sian missionary station. . The river was
then closed, so he determined to strike
off overland for Katami, opposite Ko
diak. He says of this trip:
"During the journey we encountered
many difficulties, and it was bitterly
cld, the lowest the thermometer reached
being 64 degrees below zero. It was
worst, after walking and running all day,
to have to lie in the snow to sleep.
There was no wood to warm our cloth
ing, and we had the greatest difficulty
in crossing the mountains.
"The people said it was impossible;
that twelve men had died in trying. I
started with nine sleds and sixrv-nine
dogs. At the foot of the mountains the
Indians refused to cross and tried to
desert in the night. I took one of them
by the neck and made him go before and
I walked after him. I took all their
rifles and snowshoes, put them in my
sled, and sat on them. At 3 in the
moring, when they got up to abandon
me in the dark, they were surprised to
find me before thenm. I started at 6
'clock that morning in the dark and had
to cross ranges,the highest point of which
was 5,200 feet. The cold was
intense, and terrible storms would
come up at times. When I
got across I had only twenty
nine dogs left, all the others having
frozen to death. Seven Indians were
missing and tive sleds. After waiting
two days I set out to look for the miss
ing men and found them in a terrible
condition. All the dogs were dead. 1
brought the men down safe and sound.
only their hands and feet being frozen.
I w~aited at Katami until March 16,
when the Alaska Company sent a letter
to me. Then I waited for the steamer
Bertha, on which I have just arrived."
In conclusion. Lord Lonsdale said he
did not think anything would be made
out of the Yukon mines. There was
gold, but only in small quantites.
The miners were suffering greatly.
Caused by a Forgetful Engineer.
CINCINNATI, April 25.-A dispatch
from Glen Mary, Tenn., says a collision
occurred there yesterday between two
freight trains on the Cincinnati South
er road, as a result of the forgetful
ness of the engineer of one
of them. The collision occurred
a mile South of Glen Mar-y. Brakeman
Talor, Conductor Hiuline and Engineer
Rusk were badly crushed. The first two
died soon after being extricated. Rusk's
injuries are fatal. Two others were
slightly injured.
Boulanger Lionized in London.
LoDON, April 25.-I an interview
to-day General Bohilanger denied the re
port that he would immediately issue a
manifesto explaining his intentions, and
stated that as yet he had no thought of
doing so. The General has received
scores of bouquets sent to him by ad
mirers in France. He has received many
invitations to attend parties to be given
in his honor by persons who are desir
ous of lionizing him.
Besignationl of a Federal Marshal.
WASmINGTON, April 25.-Attorney
General M1iller has accepted the resigna
tion of S. F. Wilson, as United States
Marshal for the middle district of Ten
nessee, to take effect upon the appoint
mnt and qnalification of his successor.
THE GRAND OLD MAN.
AN INTERESTING LETTER FROM THE CHAM
PION OF HOME RULE.
Mr. Gladstone Declares His Faith in the
Ultimate Success of His Cause-His Par
ticipation in Our Centennial Celebra
tion.
BUFFALO, April 26.-The Curier to
day prints the following:
A little over four weeks ago John J.
McBride of this city wrote a letter to
Mr. Gladstone enclosing a list of names
that had been signed to the memorial
circulated by Mr. McBride, expressing
sympathy with the cause of home rule
for Ireland. This additional list in
cluded the names of President Harrison,
Cardinal Gibbons, Speaker Carlisle,
Vice President Morton, Archbishop
Ryan, Secretary Blaine, and a large ma -
jority of the members of both houses of
Congress. Yesterday Mr. McBride re
ceived from Mr. Gladstone the letter
published below. Every word of it, from:
the address.to the signature, was written
by his own hand. It is of interest to
all patriotic Americans. His high trib
ute to Washington will at this time
attract general attention.
HOUSE OF CoMONS,
LONDON, APRIL 12, 1889.
MY DEAR Sm: I have the honor to
acknowledge your letter of the 22nd of
March, and the remarkable list appended
to it of those distinguished citizens
of the United States who have testified
through the memorial you mention their
interest in the condition of Ireland and
their desire for a just and reason
able acknowledgment of her natoinal
claims and aspirations.
I rejoice not only to think but to
know that throughout the wide confines
of the race to which we all belong there
is an overwhelming preponderance of
sentiment in favor of that acknowledg
ment. At home this judgment has been
constitutionally recorded by Ireland
herself, by Scotland and Wales, the rep
resentatives of all the three being in fa
vor of home rule by a majority of three
or four to one. And founding ourselves -
on the evidence of the elections in Eng
land whi.h have taken place since the
general election of 186, we firmly be
lieve that England herself, were the op
portunity now afforded her by a disso
lution, would record a verdict decisively
in accord with those of the other por
tions of the United Kingdom and of the
Anglo-Saxon race at large.
Encodraged by these indications at
home and abroad, and by the wise ad- _
vice of their representatives, in Parha
ment, the Irish people show an indisp -
sition to crime and outrage not less re
markable than their determination to
carry forward their cause to a successful
consummation, now retarded by the
votes of men who do not represent the
real sentimnent of the country.
It is a fur-her satisfaction to me to
include in this acknowldegment local,
but authoritative, manifestations from
America only less remarkable than what
has proceeded from other centres and has
had the illustrious sanction -
President himself. This very day I
have received a communication in the
same spirit with your own from the
Legislature of Nebraska, one further in
dication of the sentiment and desire
which prevail throughout the vast do
main of the United States.
Finally, I rejoice to be put in pos
session of such declarations at a moment
when your great country is about to cel
ebrate, on the 30th inst., the centennial
anniversary of the inauguration of
George 'Vashington as the first Presi
dent of the American Commonwealth. I
have been requested from Chicago and
elsewhere to intimate an - assurance of
my participation in your national joy.
It is a real and grateful participation,
for the statesmen of the American ret
olution have taken their place, once for:
all among the greatest political instruct
ors of the world. George Washington
was their acknowledged and illustrious
head, and to him and them I have long~
felt that I owed no trivial part of my
own public education. Long, without
limit of length, may that union flourish
under the blessing and favor ofLGod,
with the foundation of which itheir
names are inseparably associated.
I have the honor to remain, my dear
sir, your most obedient and fathful,
W. E. GLADsTONE,
To J. J. McBride, Esq.
COLORED SECRET SOCIETY.
"The Colored Farmers' National Allmance
and Co-Operative Union."
Ustos, April 23.-Special to The
Register. I-" The colored Farmers' Na
tionalt Alliance and Co-operative Union
of the United States" met in the court
house here Saturday with closed doors.
The superintendent and County organi
zer, Jno. D. Norris, a colored teacher and
recognmzed leader of the negroes in this
County, was seen by the correspondent
of THE REGISTER, and told that the ob
ject of the Alliance was for the promo
tion of the colored people and to advance
their educational interests; to make
them love their homes better and be on
more friendly terms with each other; to
be more obedient to the laws of the
country; become better citizens and
withdraw their attention from "politi
cal partisanship;" that they had seen
that their happiness and fortunes were
not in politics; that they had been de
ceived so often by 'political tricksters"
that their hope in politics was lost: that
they had been looked upon as "political
prey" long enough, -and by the Alliance
they wished to show to the world that
the colored race was no longer a mission
field for polities; also. that taey in
tended to devote their time to the in
terest of that which would build up
their homes.
This is among the first meetings held
here, and little is known of it and little
thought, but if John D. Norris .is to be
believed, there can be no harm in it as
he says, "In no way are we working
against the white man."
The BEecord Beaten.
SAN FNcisco, April 24.-In the
Pacific Derby yesterday, Czar made a
mie and a hati in 2.36-tne fastest Derby
ever run in America, beating the record
of 2.3Gb made by Ben Ali at Louisville
in 1886. and that of C. H. Todd at Chi
agonin 1887.