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VOL. LI. NO. 111.
Leads all Morth Carolina Bailies in Mews and '"tareulation
ROAR OF MM RATTLE
ECHOES OYER PANAMA RAT
General Alban, Military Commander of the District
and Governor of Panama, Killed During a
Fierce Engagement.
REVOLUTIONISTS. ATTEMPT A LANDING
Six Ships Engage in the Re-'
sultant Battle.
ONE OF THE GOVERNMENT VESSELS SUNK
One Dispatch Says That Five Vessels
Have Been Sunk. Advices From
Panama Say That Many Have Been
Hilled. The Philadelphia is on the
Scene and Aids in Extinguishing the
Fire on the Government Ship Lau
taro. The Firing Has Ceased.
tßy the Associated Press.)
Colon. Colombia, Jan. 20.—(Via Gal
\< -ton. Texas.) —A naval battle, which
Kgan *it six o'clock this morning, is in
I. ogress in the harbor of Panama.
The Revolutionary lleet consists of the
s-ttamerg Padilla, Darien and Gaitam.
They are trying to force a landing off
, Saoaua.
The Government ships are,the Chilean
Line steamer Lautaro, the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company’s steamer Chicuito,
and 'he Panama Canal Company’s steum
-11 Boyaca. The first named steamer was
seized -by Genera’ Alban and the other
two have h?en chartered by the Colom
bian Government.
As this dispatch Is sent., three shots
have just passed over the Chicuito and
slit' has answered with several shots.
Tlu y fell close to the Padilla, which is
; cen to be retiring.
Thv guns at Las Bovedagas are also
firing at the rebel ships.
Government forces are throwing
up entrenchments.
The United States < ruiser Philadelphia
is close to the scene of the fighting.
FIVE REPOSTED SUNK
Three Revolutionary Vessels and Two Belong
ing to the Government
(By tin: Associated Press.)
New York. Jan. 20.—The Panama Rail
’ojkl Company today received a cablegram
1 cm Colon saying that three insurgent
and two Government vessels had been
sunk in the naval engagement in Pana
ma harbor. The cable come from Col.
.). At. Shale”. General Superintendent at
Colon, for the Panama Railway Company.
REVOLUTIONISTS DRAW OFF.
The Government Gunboat Boyaca Arrives at
Panama With Troops
(P.y the Associated Press.)
Panama, Jan. 20. —The Government
gunboat Boyaca lias just moored to the
dock here. She brings troops from Chiri
qui. She reports that the revolutionary
si* amors Padilla, Darien and Gaitan drew
t it when they became aware of her pres-
Th<> Darien is new reported to be in a
finking condition.
NEW CAMP OF VETERANS
ORGANIZED AT DURHAM
Superior Court For the Trial of Civil Cases
Opens- Burial of Mr S R
Patton.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Durham. X. C., Jan. 20.—A new camp
of Confederate veterans has been organ
ized in Durham and christened the John
.Manning Camp, so named in honor of the
late Dr- John Manning, of Chapel Hill,
father of our prominent townsmen. Dr
J. M and J. S. Manning • The officers of.
iiu conii.i,are Capt. N T . A. Ramsey, com
mander: M. H. Jones, lieutenant-com
mander: W. F. Slade, color-earer: P. M
Briggs, chaplain: C- C. Taylor, treas
ure] J. \V, Dowd, Dr. L. B. Hcndorsqn
and Robert Holloway, executive com
mit tc( The regular meeting of the camp
will h<> held on the first Saturday in
each month.
The new organization starts off with
grtbht prospects and a goodly number of
members upon the roll.
Work on this city’s new electric car
lint is progressing in a very satisfactory
in inner. The track has practically been
laid except a loop between Dillard
street and the city's eastern corporate
limits.
The Durham Traction Company is
making arrangements to sire the city
the best service that it has ever had-
New machinery is to be installed and
within a short time the electric light
system will be greatly'lmjfroved.
The remains of Mi*. S. K. Patton, who
p issed away Saturday night at the Watts
Hospital, in this city, of cancer, were
carried to Asheville Sunday' night, where
the inlermcut took place today Deeeas-
The News and Observer.
ed was about thirty-five years of age,
and had been residing in Durham for
two or three years, having come here
from Columbia, S. C. Mr. Patton was
lumber inspector for the Carolina Fur
niture Company. He leaves a wife and
sister-in-law, Miss Cook, who accom
panied the remains to Asheville. De
ceased was a member of the Knights of
Pythias lodge in Columbia.
Durham Superior court for the trial of
civil cases began this morning with
Judge Walter H. Neal presiding. Among
cases expected to come before the court
is that of Pennix, who, sues the cHy of
Durham for $20,000 for alleged injuries
received bv running into obstructions on
Main street, upon which no warning
lights were said to have been placed.
Luke Sparkman has a suit against the
Western Union Telegraph Company for
failure to deliver an important telegram.
The suit of W- D. Young vs. North
Carolina Railroad Company for $30,000
damages is also expected for the killing
of Ernest Young, a school teacher who
lived near Cary, by a passing train at
East Durham, about two years ago.
while he was up here on a visit.
The new y'ear examinations Trinity
College began today and will continue
until February Ist., when the spring
term begins-
GOVERNOR AYCOCK 18 NOT
A CANDIDATE FOR SENATOR
He Sits Down Emphatically on a Rumor That
is Being Circulated iu Some Quarters
of the State.
Governor Aycock was at the depot yes
terday waiting for the train for Durham.
As is usual these days the train was
late. The Governor never is.
Mr. Aycock smiled as the newspaper
man approached with big question marks
and the “I-want-to-intervlew-you air
about him. How are you?” he
The newspaper man felt well and said
so, he also said:
“By the way, Governor, I j3ee that
somebody has again broken loose in the
papers and insists that your frienfls are
quietly at work laying pipes for you as
the Senator to succeed Pritchard.” Any
thing in it?
The Governor smiled, and the smile
ruffled all over his face.
“There's nothing in it," he replied. I
am not a candidate for the Pritchard
vacancy that is to be, and 1 don’t expect
to get it. The fact is. ihat the position
is going to some one in the West, and
that is as it should be. This talk about
me in 'hat connection amounts to noth
ing.”
“Anything else, Mr. Aycock?”
The Governor paused. “Any man would
feel honored by the position,” he said in
a few moments. Then he added, “Os
course I would like to be a Senator, but
it is not at this time. That desire will
have to await a more fitting season."
No. You who scribble about the Gov
ernor being tied out ready for the race,
lie's not in it this time, but there will be
a time when he will be in from the jump.
THE OLD HOMESTEAD.
Denman Thompson Wi 1 be at the Academy
Monday Night.
That “The Old Homestead" is to play
here is always a welcome announcement,
and conjures up a host of kindly senti
ments. But additional interest is lent
io this engagement by the appearance
of Denman Thompson himself in the
celebrated character that lias made him
fame and fortune. The performance is
promised to be complete in its scenic
investitures, and the company carefully
selected for their individual fitness for
the various characters. The famous “Old
Homestead" double quartette will also
be as prominent as heretofore, and Mr.
Thompson and his company are assured
ot a recent ion ihai will equal the occa
sion. Reserve seats go on ,sale Wednes
day morning. Prices, lower floor $1.50
and SI.OO, balcony 50 and 25 cents.
Stir Course Attract'd.
The next star course attraction will
be Ellwood. the great art\ painter and
illusionist, at the Academy Nif Music on
next Friday night January 2'j. The re
serve seat diagram will be <>iJLj[i to sub
scribers on Wednesday mol ting 'at 8:3i)
o’clock.
Ell wood’s programme is styled “100
Minutes in Kweer Kompany,’• and the
entertainment is very unique and origi
nal, consisting of magic, illusion and art
painting. This will be without doubt the
finest offering of the entire course. Ad
mission for non-subscribers will be 25
50 and 75 cents.
The industrial commission lias agreed
upon its recommends! ions The com
mission will not
I’omnrm da t ions
sion to Ctugres
final report like
fortnight.
RALEIGH. NORTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY 21. 1902.
GOVERNOR AYCOCK
SPOKE 111 DURHAM
Celebration By Junior Order
American Mechanics.
A GREAT CROWD PRESENT
Bibles and Flags Presented to the
Schools of Durham.
A BANQUET WITH MANY TOASTS
These Responded to by Governor Aycock Audi
tor Dixon and Some of Durham’s Most
Distinguished Citizens.
(Special to News and Observer.)
Durham. X". C., Jan. 20.—The presenta
tion of Bibles and (lags to the city schools
by the Junior Ordet U. A. M. tonight
was an event that drew a great crowd
to the opera house, and the exercises
were of a most enjoyable nature.
The speaker of the evening was Gov
ernor C. B. Aycock, who arrived this af
ternoon and who is the guest of Col. J.
Harper Ervin.
The program of the evening ha a pre
lude in the gathering of the members of
the three lodges of the Junior Order of
Durham, West Durham and East Durham
in the Pythian Hall, from which they
marched to the residence of Col. Erwin
and their acted as an escort to the Gov
ernor and his party to the opera house.
At the opera house, where there was a
great audience the Governor was intro
duced by Mr. C. B. Green, clerk of the
court, in a most happy speech.
The Bibles and flags symbols of religion
and patriotism, the basis of the Jnior Or
der being presented. Governor Aycock
made a speech, of strengt h and force. The
occasion was an educational one, and the
Governor’s speech was on that subject
which was near to his heart. He is the
educational Governor and after hearing
bis address the audience felt that it was
the proper name to give him.
Eloquent and inspired with the subject
upon which he spoke, Mr. Aycock was
again and again applauded by his hear
ers when some particularly b-ight
thought was given utterance to. It was
a speech that could but be an impetus
to the cause of education here, and could
but please the Junior Order to which
Governor Aycock most pleasantly referr
ed. commending them for their noble
work, a compliment which he also paid
Durham because of its advanced position
on the school question.
Following the address was a banquet
undered by the Junior Order and given
in the Knights of Pythias Hall, whole
Dughi, the caterer, excelled himself by
the elegance of the various courses.
Preparations had been made for about
two hundred and fifty guests and these
were present. r i he evening was a most
brilliant one In oratory and wit. made
sc by the observance of the following
program of the oxen isos:
“North Carolina, Her Past. Present and
Future” —Governor Aycock.
“The Confederate Veteran” —Major B.
F. Dixon.
' Junior Order United American Me
chanics”—Mr. C. B. Green.
“City of Durham; a Suitable Place for
an Orphanage of the Junior Order Amer
ican Mechanics" —Rev. J. C. Troy.
"Trinity College”— Dr. John C. Kiigo.
“Public Schools of Durham"—Mr. Vic
tor S. Bryant.
"City Government of Durham” —Mr.
James Fuller.
"Manufacturing Industries of Durham”
—Col. Julian S. Carr.
"The Rat - of Durham end the Judiciary
of North Carolina"—Judge It. W. Win
ston.
“City of Durham. Her i-bist. Present
end Future” —Maj. \V. A. Guthrie.
The banquet was presided over by Mr.
Jaa.es H. Southgate, who acted in the
capacity of toastmaster most hand
somely.
The various responses ware eloquent,
the menu of the banquet was not to be ex
celled and everyone of the large number
pic.sent enjoyed an evening of rare pleas
ure.
Beaumont Banker Given a Hearing.
(By the Associated Pres.)
Kansas City. Mo., Jan. 18.— John P.
Withers, former President of the Na
tional Bank of Beaumont. Texas, was
given a bearing today before United
States Commissioner Ntickol, who held
him for the United States District
court in Beaumont for trial on June 2.
Withers’ bond was fixed at $5,000, which
lie furnished. Withers was arrested here
last Saturday on a w a rant charging him
with embezzling $20,200 of the bank’s
funds. J. M. Logan, National Bank Ex
aminer. of Texas, who came here to pre
sent the case against the banker, filed
anA amended bill against Withers today,
in wT)ich he charged him aside from em
bezzlefftent. with forging three notes, ag
gregating' $21,'.»73. It is alleged that
there notes were discounted and held by
(lie bank to balance money, which With
ers is said to have applied to his own
account. Withers said today that in
Texas with an impartial trial he could
show that h • has been guilty of no crim
inal act or intent,
Ashmead Bartlett Dead,
i ’
Jon. IS.—Kills A, hnirad Rart
tbis morning, tb*' result of an
for appendicitis.
RACY DEBATE ON A
DEFICIENCY BILL
Why Have a Military Post at
Manila ?
WITTY FLINGS BY CLARK
It’s a Poor Rule That Won’t Work
Both Ways.
WE PAY $40,C00 TO ENTERTAIN HENRY
Why Shouldn’t England Pay to Entertain the
Extraordinary Aggregation of Talent
We Send to See King Edwu d
Crowned ?
(By the Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 20. —The time of tin’
House cf Representatives was coupled
today in general debate upon an Urgent
Deficiency Appropriation Bill. An item
in the bill carrying $500,000 for a mili
tary post at Manila precipitated a lot g
discussion which took wide range, draw
ing into the debate some of the ablest
debaters on both sides of the House. A
s. mi-humorous speech by Mr. Clark, of
Missouri, elicited a replv from Mr. Can
non, of Illinois, which in turn drew the
fire of Mr. DeArmond. of Missouri.
Others who participated were Mr. Rich
ardson, Tennessee; Mr. Orosvenor, Ohio:
Mr. Alexander, New. York; Mr. Grow.
Pennsylvania; Mr. Williams, Illinois, and
Mr. Underwood. Alabama.
Mr. Cannon, in charge of the Deficiency
Bill, explained that It provided for the
government service for the current fiscal
year, where existing appropriation were
not sufficient. Tb° bill carried $1»70i,-
Mr. Richardson, the Democratic leader,
pressed Mr. Gannon to know under what
law it was proposed to appropriate
$500,000 ior a military post, at Manila.
The chairman of the Appropriation
committee replied that there was no
specific law to establish such a military
post, but whether under th« general or
ganization of the array in the field usuch
an appropriation was in order, it would
remain tor the chairman of the commit
tee of the whole to determine when the
appropriation was reached.
“How much of the $1,376,831, which it is
proposes to appropriate under th< War
Department is to go to the Philippines?"
Mr. Richardson asked.
“Only Uiis *500,000 is to go to the
Philippines direct,” replied Mr. Cannon,
who iroceeded to argue that the treaty
with Spain imposed upon the United
States <•( rtain duties relative to the
I'hilippinit?, which might make such in
approiu mtiou in order. He thought i'
as wir- lo have an army post at Manila
as to have one at Chicago or any other
place in tl is country. When p”essed lor
:iu explanation as to tlm ;• *.ison for the
proposed appropriation of for the
emergency surd of the State Department.
Mr. Cannon .'omitted that it was for the
entertnimm nt of Prince H rarv of Ger
many. "From every standpoint, ’ said
Mr. Cannon, "I believe it is appropriate
and proper that there should be suitable
entertainment of the representative of a
great people beyond the S oa who have
given us so much of our bone and brawn
and brain." (General applause.)
Mr. Livingston (Georgia), the ranking
minority member of the Appropriations
Committee did not think the pending bill
should be criticised.
Mr. Clark (Mo.), in th«- course of an
entertaining speech wanted to know who
wan'going to pay the expenses of "the
extraordinary aggregation of talent con
sisting of YVhitelaw Reid. Captain Clark,
General Wilson, young PJerpont Morgan
and young Wet more." who are to be dis
patched to London to see "his sacred
Majesty King Edward VII” crowned. We
were to pay the expenses of Prince Hen
ry's visit, said Mr. ■Clark, and it was a
poor rule that did not work both ways.
If it was right and proper for us to pav
for the entertainment of Prince Henry,
why should not England pay the expenses
of Reid, Clark and the others. He said
he was “teetotally opposed” to paying a
cent on that head. Bui he was glad to
entertain Prince Henry, because It would
give the "lie” lo the impression certain
Anglomaniacs were trying to foster that
we are in league with England against
Germany. Mr. Clark also indulged in
some general comments on the vast in
crease in governmental expenditure,
which had grown, he saitl, from $1.52 per
capita in 1860 to sl2 per capita last year.
He insisted that if these “riotous govern
ment expenditures” went on the republic
would topple over of its own weight.
Mr. Gannon twitted Mr. Clark with
having voted for the $5,000,000 appropria
tion for the St. Louis exposition. Tak
ing up*. Mr. Clark’s statement that the
per capita cost of the Government had
increased from $1.50 in 1860 to sl2 in 1900.
M.’. Cannon said it was absurd lo com
pare he situation then and now. As an
evidence of the changed conditions he
po nted out that pensions and other
things growing out of the Civil War hai
cost nine thousand million.
Mr. Cannon declared himself the friend
of the Constitution, which, he said, fol
lowed the Hag everywhere, lie conclud
ed as follows;
"I ffloiy in the English lan
guage. J glory in the Anglo-Saxon, the
English, the American literature. J glory
in our foreign trade. Out I rnnof for-
SX’t that oue half of our great foreign
trade is done with our brethren under ,
the flag of Great Britain, who speak the j
same language that we o. lam for Great
Britain’s policy as long as it is correct.
And thank God when she is wrong, we
are strong enough and great enough to
say: “Thus far and no farther shall
thou come.'” (Loud applause.)
Mr. DeArmond, (Mo.); secured the ;
floor when Mr.. Cannon concluded and'
sarcastically ridiculed “the remarkable
appearance of the gentlemen from Illi
nois in the garb and guise of a friend of
the Constitution.”
Mr. DeArmond ended the war for the
liberation of Cuba- It was not resigned
as a war of spoliation. Its object and
fruits were not turned into criminal ag
gression by the Democrats. That guilt !
belonged to the Republicans- There was
nothing logically in connection with the
war for she relief of Cuba and the per
petual occupation of the Philippines by
force of arms. .
The English civilization wic hMr. Can
non gloried in, continued Mr. Dearmond,
was the vaunted civilization against
which me, women and children were
struggling and dying in South Africa in
defense of liberty. The attitude of the
mighty English nation in South Africa,
he said, was somewhat similar to ours
in the Philippines, but he believed that
eventually the American people would
be aroused to the enormity of their at
titude and in their sober second thought '
would refuse to allow themselves to bp
made the dupes of these who would
make us examples of the same civiliza- ,
tion which was slaughtering liberty in
South Africa.
When he expressed doubt as to wether 1
the treaty with Spain should ever have I
been ratified. Mr. Grosvenor (Ohio) ask- j
ed why William J. Bryan, by means of
his persona exertions, helped to secure
its ratification. Mr. DeArmond explain- '
ed that he did not pretend to speak for
Mn Bryan, who for himself, at-d
spoke exceedingly well. (Democratic
applause). But he admitted that Mr.
Bryan had counselled the ratification of I
the treaty. He believed then, ami he I
believed still, that Mr. Bryan had been
wiser had he said nothing on the subject.. )
Mr. Bryan’s position, he said, was due to
ever confidence in the American people. >
Tite war was over and he believed tho
people should be relievd of the expn.se
of the army. If Mr. Bryan had supposed
that it was the intention of those iu
tower to hold the Philippines at the point
of the bayonet and inaugurate a colonial
policy the treaty never would have been'
ratified.
Without closing the general debate the
committee rose and 'he House ad I.if.riled.
THE EXCITEMENT GREAT.
Consul General Gidger Cables the State De
partment of the Fighting Off Panama.
(i> i’.k Associated Press.)
Washington, Jan. 20.—The State I)e- '
partraent has received the following
cablegram from Consul General Gudger, ;
dated Panama today:
“Fighting in Bay. Governor killed, j
Excitement great.”
The Secretary of the Navy has received
the folowing cablegram from Captain j
Meade, commander of the United States i
ship Philadelphia, dated Panama, today: !
“The insurgent steamer Padilla at- J
tacked the Lautaro this morning tit close
quarto's. Crew has deserted her. Is
now on fire and sinking.”
Mr. H. A. Bobbitt Paralyzed
(Special to News and Observer.)
Franklinton, N.V., Jan. 20.—Mr. Henry j
A. Bobbitt, one of Franklinton's town
commissioners. Las been stricken with
paralysis in bis right side from the
f.fccilder down. I'rs. Harris and Hender
son wen called and at the present can
not say what wiTl be the result. Mr. Bob
bitt.it will be remembered, is the person
vho, a short time ago, was attacked by
a negro man and struck back of the neck,
which was a very narrow call. His fam
ily have the sympathy of our people,
who trust that his Is not a serious case.
State Bankers’ Afsrelation
(-Special to News and Observer.)
Greensboro, N. Jan. 20. —The State
bankers’ Association executive committee
i;-, in session here tonight, tho members
being Col. .1. F. Bruton, of Wilson, chair
man; .Mr. J. L. Miller, Jr. of Charlotte. 1
secretary. Mr. Miller has tendered his
resignation and his successor is to be
chosen tonight. He leaves his position
at Charlotte and goes to Richmond.
AITEMPT TO WRECK TRAIN
Leaves the Track Running at High Speed Bnt
no One in Hurt.
(By the Associated Pres.-.)
Roanoke, Va., Jan. 18. — \ special from
Bristol. Tenn., to night says:
An attempt to wreck the castboucul
passenger train on the Southern RiGivay
mar \V autauga, Tenn., this a:: •: moon.
Ms almost successful. Some <>i • placed
a spike in the joint between the rails
ami the engine of a tr^iu cniTvlng forty
piescngers left the track while running
at lb * rate of forty miles an hour. Tb'
i ngine, however, clung to ihe tics un'il
if came to a .standstill and no one or the
train was hurt. Detectives are at work
on the case.
WHEN MAJOR HUGER LEAVEB
Oops From Seaboard to Southern in February
And May go to Knoxville
| Knoxvilb. Tenn., Jan. IS.—lt is now ;
positively confirmed here that Major F.
K. Huger, now with the Seaboard Air
Line at Raleigh ns Superintendent of the
Second division goes to the Southern at
Charleston ns Superintendent of that di
vision, and takes charge in February. It j
is reported that he may eventually re
turn here.
"OH! THt POWER'
OF JESUS’ NAME"
Closing Addresses of Dr, and
Mrs. Taj lor.
DEMONIACS IN CHINA
Persons Possessed of Devils Just as in
Scripture
GAMBLING ' AND THE OP.UM HABIT
Mrs. Taylor’s Magnificent Address on Power
Sunday Night. Both Dr. and Mrs.
Taylor Spoke Yesterday Af
ternoon and Nieht.
Dr. and Mrs. F. Howard Taylor closed
last, night at Edenton Street church the
series of services in the interest of the
Inland China Mission. These services
have awakened deep interest in the sub
ject of missionary work in China, and
the unique methods adopted and suc
cessfully used in the conduct of this
great mission, with its eight hundred
missionaries iu different parts of China,
men and women, drawn from all counties
and climes and all shades of denomina
tional belief, are strange in their sim
plicity.
The story tht*Taylors tell us is a won
derful one. almost incredible were it
not for the facts, in this age when
miracles are supposed to be not- A mis
sionary movement started without asking
anyone for money, and without any
money on hand, depending solely upon
prayer to God to bring voluntary con
tributions, and actually getting the help
needed in the time It was needed aud
in tho KttMMMWfn that was-necessary
on acount of the lack of capital to start
with; ail this is enough to make one
stop and think. It is not a mere state
ment. Facts and figures demonstrate
once more, as Dr Marshall reminded us
the other nisrht, that fact is sometimes
stranger than fiction.
It is an actual fast that not once dur
ing all these meetings and during all
these addresses has an appeal for money
or help been made to those who came to
listen These appeals are made to no
audience but God. And the help and
money has always come, and come more
and more, during the thirty-five years
since ihe Rev. Hudson Taylor, father of
I Dr. Taylor, founded this great force for
[the Gospel with his little band of six
teen missionaries without a penny
Everyone who has attended these scr
! vices has been struck with the graceful
; and direct force of Dr. Taylor’s address
| 03, and has felt the well-nigh irresist
able magnetism of Mrs. Taylor’s words,
modes), modulated, well selected, simple
| withal, but of a power that is as rare as
|it is magnificent. Now a picture is
[drawn of the ancient civilization of the
"Middle Kingdom” in all its magnificence
lof wealth, culture, influence, conserva
j Gve power: then in a moment, one sees
j the abject misery that must exist in a
land where pity and justice are not
known, where a god of power only is
worshipped. Little there remains to be
said of tho need of missionary work af
ter two pictures like that. And all her
story is told with such beauty and such
Interest as almost to bate the breath of
her hearers.
Truly, Mrs. Taylor is an orator, and
not merely an elocutionist.
MRS. TAYLOR ON POWER
; An Immonse Crowd at Edention Btreet Church
Sunday Night
Sunday night Mrs. Taylor occupied the
ptdpit at the Edenton Street Methodist
church. Every seat in the building was
taken, and every chair available had to
be brought into requisition. The body
of the church was packed, the galleries
wore packed.
Mrs. Taylor's theme was the power ot
the Gospel of Christ, and well she prove I
it or her own self, if that power of hers
is -if Jesus.
She took her text from St. Paul’s Epis
tle to Ihe Romans, beginning with the
i 161 it verso of the flrsi chapter. This
epistle, she said, gives the blackest pic
ture of mankind without God ever given,
and is an exact reproduction of China.
The Chinese themselves, when they hear
it. say ilia* Ihe man who wrote it -must
have been a Chinaman.
Quoting from ihe 11t'n verse of ihipter
1, where Paul says: lam debt nr d<‘bt< >■
both io the Ore< ks and the barbarians,
both to the wise and t<> the unwise.and so.
as much as in me is. 1 am ready to
acknowledge that debt. I inn ready to
preach the gospel to you which are in
Rome, for 1 atr, t ot ashamed of it, Mrs.
Taylor said: “Paul is talking here about
power, tile greatest power th< world
lias ever seen. He bad proved it in
many lands. He was an old rr.isaionaiy
when he said this. He puts forward
ihe siatement that the gosp'd :« the
mightiest power in the universe to ic
eemplish the mightiest results, 'he
world then as now worship]:-* 1 power.
We were much struck wit a the explos
ion, when we first came to America, ‘a
strong man, a stroug woman,' d’noting
power apart fr.mt phisie.il rtrength.
“The greatest foiN.es in the universe
ire unseen fovots, g av bato n. tor m
stance, electricity, w» itself. See now
J the green 'wig i ;•■>' n< will >n time
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iho sprinc comes asam, and the earth
pits on her green covering, what power
does that? It is unseen> What is it in
the old, old sturv of Jesus that. work.?
such miracles.
"So Paul, with his face turned toward
Koine, the mistress of the then world,
makes his declaration.
"We too ean say the same tonight.
Coming from Chma, we are not ashamed
of the Gospel of Christ, and not only iu
China have we tried the power of Christ.
Before I went to China I went down into
the White Chapel district of Loudon
where there are 2,000,000 poor people, and
I lived there. My ht me was there, for
'he purpose of living i:i the midst of
the pc pie who needed me. So for eight
years before I went to China, I spent
those years in home missionary work.
Around me were 80.000 factory girls. T
mention this because I want to ask thy
ladies, the young ladies here tonight:
'What are you doing to help the factory
people in th.g town. Ir the district round
about you?”
"I got work in a factory as a match
factory hand, disguised of course, and
lound—oh! the power of temptation in
these factories. At the end of my week
I was paid 2 «. ha'pence, 50c a week, and
the streets were lighted up with dance
balls, theatres, etc., and I went into
them and found out more in two weeks
than in seven years previous.
"Oli! the power of temptation.
"But in those eight years of life in
London we found a power greater than
that.
"I have seen hundreds and hundreds
of those poor dock laborers and caster
mongers accept Christ so that saloons
hi the neighborhood had to close.
"I suppose that power is measured by
v hat forces it can overcome.
"In going to China, the flrwt thing
you feel is the power of that ancient civ
ilization, hoary in its ages, proud in its
conservatism. They call it the '.Middle
Kingdom.' Then those great temples,
some of them extending a mile around, '
and those colossal idols. And the power •
of Confucianism is a greater power still.
The followers of Confucius do not wor
ship, idols. only the common people do
that. The Creed is that what Confuciatis
teaches is the truth, what he does not
teach is untrue, and that all else is un
necessary.
"These Confucianists look upon the
teachings of the gospel as foolishness.
The Confucianist Jdfc,-.rea.l ognoiM'' on
spiritual m
ask. and that is the greatest
all against the gospel except power ot (
sdn.
‘‘And the sin: oh! the sin. Gambling
is one of the worst of their sins. Some ’
of the people gamble nil day .and night.” [
A graphic story was told of a young
man who, to prove to his father his
earnestness in the desire to stop gaHi
lling. actually ••hopped off his left hand,
the hand with which they hold the cards.
Put this young fellow foil back, and could
be seen now sitting at the door of the
gambling houses, with a bowl of sand
strapped to his arm. and the cards stuck
in that, ruining himself as fkst as he can.
“And the gambling is nothing jo t lie
opium smoking, for up imSkL ls
giving Tip life itself almost.
"Consider the stupendous undertaking
it is when >\nir missionaries go into :t
country like that, taking nothing but the
power of the gospel. In the first plaeo
wp settled at we were given a miser
able little hut to live in, o u r first-home
after our marriage.
"We were Ihe only foreigners among
three millions. Picture us. too, i>oor mis
sionaries amid that wealthy, cultivated,
educated people. Could anything seem
weaker. There we do our medical mis
sionary work and tell of what Christ can
do.
"The mightiest power we have to deal
with is the actual personal power of a
personal Devil, i know a great many do
not believe in a personal devil, but if they
were to go to heatheu countries they
would soon see. We read of llie Lord
casting out devils, evil spirits. There
wore demoniacs In those days. We heard
of this when we reached China but did
not believe it. We had been six yearn
in China before wo really sow and came
unliesltatingtly to believe the truth of
it.
"The devil has as much power now
as ever *n heathen lands.
"These demoniacs are perfectly sane,
strong in body and mind. They are not
epileptics. The/ are controlled by a
power not in themselves. They strug
gle against !» and cannot conquer It
is the most pitiable thing I ever saw.
They always try to take their own lives
in those seizures, throw themselves into
the lire or water.
" \ woman in a neighboring village to
ours had had these seizures for forty
years, these (its of demoniacal frenzy.
Flic was scarred from head tojfoot from
her H tempts to kill herself. She was
in Mie of these seizures when several
newly converted men from our village
went over to see her. One of these jneh j
cried out: Ohs Jesus could have tcn.'J
Then the crowd aiound asked him about®
Jesus. But \h'»y were young Christ
and wished shat some older
hi iv there to pray. *
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