WHILE in Jerusalem on his recent tour, Emperor William delivered a discourse in the Church of the Nativity, at the conclusion of which he took occasion to sharply reprove the assembled clergy of the various sects, for conduct which was at variance with the principles of the religion they professed. The Kaiser said:—
“During my visit to the holy places and to the Protestant and Catholic institutions of Palestine I meet with one disappointment after another. Here, in the Church of the Nativity, which ought to serve as an example of pious charity and pure Christian life, I meet the very reverse of charity and Christianity.
“I am not surprised that Christianity remains unpopular in the Orient, and that Mohammedanism, with its fallacious teachings, still holds sway. How can it be otherwise when you clergymen are everlastingly quarrelling over dogmatic questions, neglecting to teach true Christian charity and a pure life in emulation of Jesus Christ?”
While such reproof may have come with poor grace from the lips of the German autocrat, no one familiar with the facts to which the emperor alluded can doubt that it was well deserved.
MAYOR HOOS, of Jersey City, who recently declared in favor of open theaters on Sunday, thereby brought upon himself such a storm of clerical indignation that his political friends have thought it necessary to come to his relief,—one of them, a Democratic leader, giving out a statement in which he defends Sunday ball playing and sacred concerts. The mayor had previously explained to the irate clergymen that his utterance in behalf of Sunday theatres was only meant to refer to Sunday “sacred” concerts.
SEVERAL members of the Reformed Presbyterian Church were put on trial before the Presbytery of New York, at Newburgh, for voting at a political election. The Reformed Presbyterians advocate that the national Constitution should be amended so as to “recognize God,” and that moral obligations should be made compulsory upon all citizens by the law of the land. Until this shall be done they refuse to vote, on the ground that this would be an act of participation in a “godless” government; but they urge that other people ought to vote these changes into existence, and after the Government shall have been thus modeled upon their ideas, the Reformed Presbyterians will be willing to take hold and run it. The trial resulted in the acquittal of the accused parties, owing to the absence of any positive proof that they had committed the offense charged against them.
Mr. KEELY, of motor fame, is dead. He was the inventor of the “Keely motor,” which purported to be operated by a new and mysterious force, the nature of which for some reason could not be disclosed. He discovered this mysterious force about thirty years ago, and has been busy in utilizing it in a very practical way so far as his own interests were concerned, ever since. He found plenty of men with money who were waiting for the advent of a new motor which would revolutionize everything in the motor line previously made, and had little difficulty in getting the tidy sum of $100,000 subscribed with which to prosecute experiments. Mr. Keely constructed a model of his motor, which was exhibited on various occasions, but which he carefully guarded from the inspection of mechanical experts. On these occasions he would take pains to enlighten his audience concerning the nature of his discovery, by talking about “triune currents of a polar flow of force,” the “reflex action of gravity,” “chords of mass,” and “sympathetic outreaches of distance,” in a way which implied that he was on familiar terms with these things. The charm worked, and many persons including even some of repute for scientific attainments, became convinced that Mr. Keely really had hold of some wonderful occult force which could be dragged forth from its hiding-place and put in harness for the benefit of mankind, if only sufficient funds were put at the inventor’s disposal for that purpose.
General Weyler Tells What the Catholic Church Has Done for Spain.
WHATEVER doubts may be entertained regarding the late Spanish general Weyler as a worthy character, there can be no question of his competency to tell the truth on the subject of Spain’s union with the Catholic Church, and its resulting effects upon that country; and this, according to press dispatches, he has recently done in a letter to the Queen Regent. We have not seen the letter, but find the following reference made to it by the Christian Advocate, St. Louis, Mo.:—
“With a force of logic impossible to answer, he [Weyler] tells the queen that Spain’s lamentable condition at present is due to the clericals, and in support of his proposition he cites facts hitherto almost unknown outside of Spain, but familiar to Spaniards acquainted with their own social and political condition.
“Weyler declares that while Spain is poor, the church in Spain is richer than in any other country in Europe; not even in priest-ridden Italy does the church possess so much. ‘Many of the richest corporations in the kingdom belong to the church, notably the Transatlantic Española, the leading steamship company. The clerics also have large landed estates, both in the peninsula and in the colonies. Nearly all the land of any value in the Philippines belongs to the religious orders and is rented to the islanders by them.’
“In return for the benefits conferred upon it by the state and people, Weyler asks what the church has done for the country, and answers his own question by the statement that not only has it done nothing, but that in crises like the present its influence has always been against the court and government, and while the bishops have ostensibly favored the priests, whose power among the common people is unlimited, have invariably opposed the few measures of reform that the government has had the courage to suggest. This is the way the church has returned thanks for the benefits conferred upon it, for the privileges enjoyed by its clergy, for the immense wealth it has wheedled and cajoled from the government and people of Spain. The letter is the most frightful arraignment ever made of a religious denomination, and is all the more remarkable coming from the man it does.
“Weyler states plainly that the cordial support of himself and his followers depends upon a change of attitude by the government toward the church.”
Such words from one in the position of this leading Spaniard, far outweigh all that can be said by shortsighted and weak-kneed Protestants on the subject of the danger which threatens civil government in any land from the machinations of the papal church.
The “Flag Salute” in Oregon.
As a result of the introduction of the “flag salute” in the public schools of Ashland, Oregon, seven children who refused to give the salute have been expelled from the schools. The “salute,” as we have before stated, requires the children to say that they give their hearts to God, which of course is requiring them to profess conversion,—a profession which on the part of some at least must be a downright lie. Some people—even some children—object to being compelled to utter a lie, and others object to being required to profess conversion; and these—naturally the most conscientious of the lot—are cast out of the schools. To be patriotic, after this standard of patriotism, conscience is only in the way and should be dispensed with. Some perhaps are of such a peculiar turn of mind as to think that the object of the public schools is to teach the young the rudiments of scientific knowledge, and not to teach the ideas of patriotism entertained by the “Woman’s Relief Corps;” but evidently the school board of Ashland do not belong to this class.
The affair has caused some stir in the town, and some at least who are not religiously identified with the parents of the expelled children, are outspoken in denunciation of such violation of American fundamental principles. We give, in part, what one of these writes for publication to an Ashland paper, the Valley Record:—
“Now, Mr. Editor, if for conscience’ sake these children were debarred from receiving a free education, then may God pity the one that debarred them. Jesus came to ‘redeem us from all iniquity;’ but how long will it take if those who claim to be his followers commit such iniquitous acts. The few who try to defend the other side, say that the object was to teach patriotism. Well, if patriotism can be forced into the rising generation at the point of a birch rod, this might be some color of an excuse, but how long will it be before such people will be justifying the forcing of patriotism into our people at the point of a bayonet? Not long, Mr. Editor; not long!750
“I have lately been told that one of the pastors of this town said from the pulpit that he hoped ‘that Christianity would be forced on the heathen nations at the mouth of the cannon!’ This is not Christianity; it is Mohammedanism. I have thought that education would rid the world of bigotry and persecution, but from the acts of our educators I am forced to say education may do so, but book learning will not.
“Mr. Editor, I had hoped that the days of Roger Williams and William Penn were past and that we, as a people, were at that place where we did not demand adoration or worship of anything, but that a man’s or child’s conscience was respected at all times and places. We think it a great wrong or injustice that the Quakers were driven out of England because they would not salute the lords and nobles of that country by raising their hat when they passed by. We build monuments to the dead martyrs and persecute their children, when for conscience’ sake they decline to salute our national emblem (or image) by expelling them from the public school. Jesus would say of such as he did of the leading men of his day: ‘Woe unto ye scribes and pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward but within are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.’ ‘Even so, ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.’ Matt. 23:27, 28.
“We have always had a great respect for the public schools of this nation, and much pride for our local schools, but when men use their position to do an injustice to innocent, God-fearing children, whose only crime consisted in refusing to do that which their conscience tells them is wrong, no words of ours can convey even a little bit of our pity coupled with contempt for them; and we cannot help but believe that it was a mistake on their part and that those who occupy the high places on our school board will ‘cease to do evil and learn to do well’ by reinstating those children to their places where justice says they should occupy, giving them equal chances to learn with others, teaching all children that liberty of conscience is as necessary to a free country as patriotism.
“From one who wishes well to even those who differ from him. D. M. B.
“Ashland, Oreg., Nov. 7, 1898.”
On the whole, it must be said that Mr. Keely's wonderful discovery, hovering for thirty years on the border line between the realm of occult mysteries and that of tangible and practicable things, and all this time drawing funds from the pockets of apparently intelligent and sensible people, to the amount in all of $500,000, throws the late Mr. Jernegan and his gold-from-sea-water scheme quite into the shade. Whether it will survive its ingenious originator or collapse with his demise remains to be seen.
Dr. Parkhurst on Imperialism.
New York’s noted reform clergyman, Dr. Parkhurst, in a Thanksgiving day sermon, discussed the policy of imperialism in the light of American history and principles of government, and said some things on the subject that will bear repeating. We quote the following:—
“The proposition is that we turn our backs on traditions of the past and sing out the anthem of our national future in a key distinct from that which has been sounding for a century or more. I am no stickler for tradition, but I am concerned that the rank and file of our population should in all soberness of thought realize what abandonment of such traditions means and what weight of import the adoption of the new suggested lines involves.
“No one can recognize more confidently than myself the mission which it belongs to us as a nation to render to the world at large. The principles, civil and religious, which we nationally embody are given to us for our use in order that they may be extended to the world for its use. It is what our nation is, in the first instance, that is going to determine its power to make the world great along civil and religious lines. Hence the pertinence of the expression recently used by James Bryce when he said: ‘The United States will render a far greater service to humanity by developing a high type of industrial civilization on her own continent than by foreign conquests.’ And the words of Bryce are peculiarly significant from the fact that, as shown in his masterly work, ‘The American Commonwealth,’ he grasps with so firm a hand the strength, the weakness and the opportunities of the great American people.”
“There is not to-day respect enough for the authority of the general Government to secure to the negro the rights that belong to him as a citizen, although such rights were nominally conferred upon him a third of a century ago. Aside from the question of the negro, heterogeneous populations are pouring in upon us from all parts of the globe, and we cannot keep up with them, great, undigested masses of foreign stuff here that are no more American in their appreciations and sympathies than the day they were born in Italy, Ireland, Poland, Russia, or out in the great East.
“What are our labor people thinking about that they are not rising up in protest from one end of the land to the other against swinging wide open the flood gates of cheap immigration? These things are not understand yet by the masses of our population, and the masses of our population have a right to understand them. You shut out the Chinese because you don’t want cheap labor and bad morals, but send cards of invitation to the Malays. Are you going to treat them as captives, shoot them down if they undertake to leave the islands on a visit to the home government? Then what becomes of the vaunted spirit of American institutions and of such principles so dear for one hundred years to the American heart as that all men are created free and equal, or that little apothegm of ours that governments shall derive their just powers from the consent of the governed; or did Dewey’s guns that knocked the Spanish flag to pieces blow up also the Declaration of Independence?”
“When a nation takes what is not its own, we call it enlarging the sphere of its influence. When an individual does that we call him a thief. Perhaps the two are essentially different, but there is an unwholesome impression left upon the public mind, as in the instance of the Franco-Prussian war. The world felt that Germany took Alsace and Lorraine because knowing that France was so utterly undone she could not help herself, and having knocked France prostrate, took advantage of her helplessness to seize her jewels and rifle her pocket.”
“It is simply a question whether the Government is going to keep its word to its own people and to the world, or whether it is not. It is simply a question whether we have become so intoxicated by our military success, as to have unlearned the simple principles of transparent honesty that we started out with.”
“I do not wonder that those islanders do not want to be governed from America, and they will probably want it less after they have had it awhile. Our policy751of dealing with semi-civilized folk and with savages is not just what you would call reassuring. I would rather be a Malay, subject to Spain, than be an American Indian, subject to the Indian Bureau.
“So long as it is an understood thing that office is spoils, we may well pray to be delivered from the responsibility of governing dependencies.”
The War of Principle.—No. 9.
By F. E. B.
“At any rate, Aleck, the death of Christ had the appearance of defeat. In the first place, Peter, one of his most zealous followers, denied him. In the second, Judas betrayed him; and in the third, all his disciples forsook him and fled. When his own disciples left him, it was little wonder that the priests and pharisees taunted him on the cross.”
“Yes. I grant you it did look like defeat. It had that appearance; but Satan and men both knew that it was victory. ‘Himself he cannot save,’ said the Pharisees; but they felt in their hearts that he would save others, and that the Father into whose care he committed his Spirit, would save him.”
“The appearance of defeat was a delusion; yet it did have the look of reality,” said Cecil.
“Indeed it did,” replied Aleck. “So much so that his own disciples were thrown into consternation and despair.”
“How terribly they must have felt! What a disappointment when they confidently looked for his temporal sovereignty!”
“There was one who saw through the delusion, Cecil.”
“Who was that, Aleck?”
“The thief on the cross. In that awful hour of utter humiliation, and, as it looked, loss and despair, his eyes saw Christ’s future triumph and kingdom, and he cried, ‘Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.’”
“Why, Aleck, what sublime faith and superhuman intuition!”
“So it was. But it is still the kind of faith and intuition that will bring to us the answer he received, ‘Thou shalt be with me in paradise.’ The true Christian’s cause in every age has always looked in the eyes of the world as a losing cause; but the time of its greatest apparent defeat is the hour of its real triumph. Happy the soul who looks through faith’s telescope, and sees, when earth fails, the eternal world, the everlasting kingdom.”
“Aleck, there’s one thing that puzzles me all through the story of Christ. Why didn’t he give the people an indubitable proof of his divinity?”
“Why, Cecil, he did. What greater proof could be than his resurrection?”
“But it was only known to his disciples. The Jews to this day believe that his followers came and stole his body, and spread the report that he had risen.”
“Where did that story originate?”
“Well, I believe it originated with the priests and pharisees, who heard the story of the guards, and feared its influence on the people.”
“Yes, Cecil. That story itself is a proof of the weakness that comes from trusting in and depending on man. The guards knew Christ had risen, the priests knew it; but rather than sacrifice themselves, they sacrificed truth, because they feared the people. How much better to fear God! What upright manliness, what heroism, comes from utter reliance upon infinite power!”
“Yes, Aleck! I begin to see the force of your principle; but I also see that it means the utter casting away of self and self’s interests. I see a new meaning in the words of Jesus, ‘If any man will come after, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.’”
“Yes, Cecil, it means the casting away of self, surely; but it means more,—it means the reception of divine power.”
“Why was it, Aleck, that Christ’s disciples then did manifest the weakness they manifested? They had taken up their cross, and followed him, they had believed that he came forth from God.”
“Yes, they had been illuminated with the divine Spirit. When Peter said, ‘Thou art the Son of God,’ Christ had said, ‘Flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto you; but my Father which is in heaven;’ and yet this conviction that Christ was the Son of God, was not sufficient then, and is not to-day sufficient, to keep us true to the true principle.”
“Then what is, Aleck?”
“Nothing short of the indwelling Spirit of God. The very strength of Christ’s own manliness, must be in us,—‘Strengthened with all might by this Spirit in the inner man.’ But come, Cecil, let us follow the history of the disciples after Christ’s resurrection. When he meets the two on their way to Emmaus; how did he find them?”
“Very sorrowful, unbelieving, and hopeless.”
“What did Christ do to revive their hope that he was the one who would redeem Israel?”
“Let’s see. He quoted from Moses and the prophets, showing that the experience Christ had passed through had been pretold, and proved his claim to the Messiahship.”
“True, Cecil. Then their hearts burned within them, and they became prepared for the after revelation of Christ at their table. Their unbelief in his resurrection was swept away. Finally the eleven believed he had risen. Then he showed himself alive, and proved his resurrection by many infallible proofs, and at one time appeared752to five hundred brethren at once. One would have thought that such evidence would have been sufficient to have equipped them for any future trial.”
“I should think so,” said Cecil. “What more could have been necessary? It seems to me that could I have witnessed such proofs, no further doubt would have beset me, and that I should have been able to go to prison or death for his sake, so sure would I have been that divine power would have sustained me.”
“And yet, Cecil, they had still more to sustain them in this outside way; for where did Christ take them for a last interview?”
“I don’t remember, Aleck.”
“To the Mount of Olives. You have your Bible, or here is mine. Now read in Acts 1:9-11.”
“‘And when he had spoken these things, while they yet beheld, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold two men stood by them in white apparel; which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.’ They had the privilege of seeing Christ ascend in the clouds. They had the assurance of the angels of his return, and yet they were to wait for that which would qualify them to stand true to God in the face of the world’s opposition.”
“‘And being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which saith he, ye have heard of me.’”
“Now, Cecil, what was that promise? Read the next verse.”
“‘For John truly baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence.’”
“Now what would this endow them with? Read the 8th verse.”
“‘And ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you; and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and in Samaria and unto the uttermost parts of the earth.’”
“There you have it, Cecil. The greatest outward manifestation, the convincing of the head, is not sufficient to keep us true to the principle of utter reliance on God. But ‘ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you.’ In the history of the apostles we will see the results of this power.” F. E. B.
Taking a Drop.
COME in, Patrick, and take a drop of something,” said one Irishman to another. “No, Mike; I’m afraid of drops ever since Tim Flaherty died.” “Well, what about Tim?” “He was one of the liveliest fellows in these parts. But he began the drop business in Barney Shannon’s saloon. It was a drop of something out of a bottle at first. But in a little while Tim took a few drops too much, and then he dropped into the gutter. He dropped his place, he dropped his coat and hat, he dropped his money; he dropped everything but his thirst for strong drink. Poor Tim! But the worst is to come. He got crazy with drink one day and killed a man. And the last time I saw him he was taking his last drop with a slipping noose around his neck. I have quit the dropping business, Mike. I have seen too many good fellows when whiskey had the drop on them. They took just a drop from the bottle, then they dropped into the gutter, and they dropped into the grave. No rum seller can get a drop in me any more, and if you don’t drop him, Mike, he will drop you.”—Selected.
Studies in French History.—49.
By Mrs. L. D. Avery-Stuttle
“To-Day, we will learn a little about a great man named Colbert, in connection with the reign of Louis XIV., whose minister and adviser he became after the vain Fouquet was banished.”
“Excuse me, professor,” said Milly Brown, blushing, “but I don’t remember that you have told us how King Louis looked. I’d like to know, if you please.”
“Well, Milly, I think it is a good plan to form a mental picture of those people whose history we are studying; so I will mention that this king who, by the way, reigned longer than any of the kings of France, was a short man in stature, and because of this fact he always wore a large wig having very stiff curls, which would stand up on his royal head and so make him seem taller; for the same reason he wore boots with heels that were four inches high.”
“Why,” smiled Milly, “he must have felt as if he were walking on stilts.”
“I suppose he was as vain as he was ignorant. History says that he could neither read, nor write, and yet on account of the victories which he gained over the surrounding countries, he was called Louis the Great.”
“Whatever the king did was the fashion at once; so it soon became the style to wear high heels and pompous-looking wigs. It also became stylish,—not because it was right, but because the king did so,—to be very polite. But the bad part of it was that this smooth way of talking covered up a great deal of deceit and hypocrisy.”
“When the great and good man Colbert became minister, or chief adviser of the king, he found that the country was in a most deplorable condition. The working people were paying enormous taxes, while the rich did not pay any at all. This so impoverished the poor people that they were actually forced to eat grass and roots to keep alive.”
“I don’t see why they didn’t raise food in their gardens,” said Maggie Palmeter. “Seems to me it would have been just the thing.”753
“Without doubt it would have, but they were all so weak and starved that they had no strength, and the oxen which they might have used to help them, had all gone for taxes. Well, Colbert changed all this, and that so quickly that it seemed almost magical. He levied a tax upon the rich instead of the poor, so that no one was distressed. Indeed, he did a great deal to better the condition of the country. At last, France having made peace with Spain, and won many victories by the skill and valor of the great warriors, Condi and Turenne, England, Holland, and Sweden bound themselves by a Triple Alliance to stand by each other, in case France threatened either themselves or any other weaker nation.”
“Did they keep their promise very long, I wonder?” asked Harry Ray.
“No; at least the king of England did not, for King Louis actually bribed him to break league with Holland and Sweden, if he would pay him a pension yearly; this the shameless king of England did, though I don’t see how he could have enjoyed his pension very much. Then Louis proceeded at once to invade Holland.”
“O, I wonder if that is the time when the people cut the dykes down, and let the North Sea flood the country?” asked Edna Philips.
“It is the very time when they did it; and so Louis was obliged to go back home to keep out of the water. But not being satisfied with this experience, the exasperated king determined to fight with Germany.”
“I did not know that Germany was having any trouble with France,” said practical Jack.
“It was not, and in this war Germany made no resistance. The French troops simply devastated the country and brutally killed the unarmed people. At last after a great deal more trouble and bloodshed, the details of which it is not needful to learn, the Peace of Nimeguen was signed by the conflicting powers, and quiet reigned for a little while.”
“France must have been quite a powerful country now, wasn’t it?” asked Charlie White.
“Yes, in the days of Louis XIV. it was the most important country in all Europe; and now that peace had come, the improvements brought about by the wise Colbert, in changing the tax system were at once apparent. Industries sprung up everywhere and France began to prosper. A great canal across Southern France was made to facilitate navigation. Superb carpets and magnificent dress goods were woven, and the finest of plate glass made.”
“It does me good to hear about peace and prosperity once more,” said Julia March.
“It does me good to tell about it, Julia, and the poor war-stricken and tax-tormented people must have enjoyed it immensely. But prosperity did not reign after the death of the wise Colbert. In fact, before his death, Louis did some very foolish and extravagant things, one of which was to build a magnificent palace at Versailles, which cost almost $200,000,000.”
“Why, he already had a splendid one at St. Germain, didn’t he?” asked Rob Billings.
“Yes, but he didn’t like to live in it at all, because from it he could see the towers of the cathedral where he knew he must one day lie down and sleep the sleep of death.”
“But still,” said romantic Milly Brown, “it must have been grand to have lived in such a fine palace. Please tell us more about it.”
“The paintings and sculpture in and about this fairy land were alone worth fortunes. The grounds surrounding it were sixty miles around them, and water was brought from a river which, at an original distance of ninety miles away, was turned from its natural bed. But when we think that all this came from the pockets of the poor, it does not seem half so beautiful.”
“Why didn’t Colbert talk to the king about such extravagance?” asked practical Jack.
“He did, Jack; but the king would not heed him, though he wrote and told Louis that these things caused him ‘incredible pain’; the king treated him very badly, indeed, though at last just before the good man died, Louis wrote him a very kind letter.”
“That must have done Colbert good,” remarked Charlie.
“It might have, but he did not open it, thinking the king had only sent it to reproach him still more. But the saddest thing of all is that the very people whom this great man had so served, now turned against him, and cursed him, declaring he had robbed them. So he was buried secretly, for fear of them. But Colbert had not long been dead before the peasants were forced to dig up their lands with their hands, because they could not plough, not having any oxen.”
“I suppose the king didn’t mind this state of things,” remarked Julia March.
“O no; he still strutted about with his high heels and his curly wig, which a servant handed him on the end of a long cane every morning. Next week we will continue our studies till the death of King Louis, for his long, long reign came to an end at length.”
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