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1 THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK, MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1898. 4 AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS.

AMUSEMENTS. dull thud as one would strike the high I supersirueture or the rail stack. He would ARGUES AGAINST EXPANSION ELLIS MEMORIAL SERVICE, Great Crowds Throng the Washington Avenue Baptist Church. THOTJSA1VDS TURNED AWAY. Addresses Made by the Rev.

Mr. Mac Donald, Ex Mayor ScMeren. Com modore Philip, Captain Cook and Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff A Large Collection Taken Up for the Benefit of the Sailor's "Widow. An audtienee of fully two thousand people, filling the seats, crowding the aisles and Standing in every available place, attended in the Washington Avon tie Baptist Church last evening the beautiful memorial service tor George Ellis, chief yeoman of the cruiser Brooklyn, the only American killed ic the naval battle at Santiago.

As many more were 'turned away, unable to get within the doors. The pulpit platform and the space elbout it were decorated with growing plants and cut flowers and the American flag was conspicuous everywhere. A large framed portrait of Ellis, festooned with a flag, stood in front ot the pulpit. A shield of evergreen was placed at the top of the organ pipes. Commodore J.

V. Philip, Captaia Cook of the Brooklyn, Lieutenant Governor Timothy L. 'Woodruff, former Mayor Charles A. Schieren, the Rev. Dr.

J. H. Barrows and the pastor of the church, the Rev. Robert Mac Tonald, sat on the platform. In the audience were a number of the sailors of the cruiser and in front seats sat Mrs.

Ellis and members of her family. The sendee begao by the vast audience and singing, led by the choir. "On ward. Christian Soldiers." The pastor read the Scripture lesson. Psalms xlvi and cxlvi: "God is our refuge," etc.

Wallace S. Movie sang "No Shadows Yonder" as a tenor solo, Joined by the large chorus. Prayer was of lered by tne pastor and thea a bugle can was sounded on the organ by Organist Lewis H. Moore, which was the signal for the singing by Dr. Eugene W.

Marshall, baritone, and the quartet of "Tenting To nigYK." The 1 pastor spoke a Tew words of welcome and paid a tribute to Ellis' eccisistent Christian life, saying that all loved him who knew Mm. He read telegrams of condolence to Mrs. Elite from Secretary John D. Long of the Navy Department and from Captain Conk ff rhp Rrnrvt lvn SI'S nUn :) of the death of Ellis bv Boatswain V. L.

I I i HYDE Vjr The Hill. The sailors asked, "Shall we throw the and is an attempt to eliminate Almighty God body overboard?" and Admiral Schiey re by getting rid of the miraculous. The pagans plied, sternly, "No; he died like a hero and were the first to ridicule this story of Jonah we will bury him like one." Ellis was I and the fish, and some unbelieving Christians buried with military honors on the hillside I have echoed their gibes. Jesus calls the ex of Guantanamo Bay. I perienoe of Jonah a sign or miracle.

He said Mr. Schieren was then introduced and was I as Jonah was a sign unto the Ninevites so received with applause. He said it was a I shall also the Son of Man be to this genera Burprise for him to be asked to speak on the tion. Jonah in his history and preaching was occasion, as he did not know young Ellis, a standing miracle to the Xinevites, as Jesus but it was a pleasure for him to say that I was to the people among whom he lived. He his life was a great example to young men.

thus draws a comparison between Jonah's EMis was aoi ashamed to say he was a C'nnls i life and His own, and he would thus teach tian, which was the strongest character a young man could have, hero," said Mr. Schieren He died like a 1 "but how much I more noble was his life. He lived a noble moles of the bok than in the explanations the Monroe doctrine and tne Washington uoe life, so he died a noble death. His life was I which unbelievers give in order to get rid of; trine, but the Lincoln doctrine of govern eacrifieed for his country and he was one I t'he miraculous. It is much easier to believe i ment of the people, for the people, by the of tbose by whom you and I have profited the straightforward unadorned account Jonah people will have to be given up.

For one and we must remember this voting man who gives of his experiences, which are confirm cannot have government by such people as gave Ms iife for his i ed by the direct testimony of our Saviour, the native Hawailans and the native Fili Cap tain Cook censented to" say a few words i than to explain these curious explanations. 1 pinos. There are millions of the latter liv and when he rost he was received with When one has accepted the creed of Captain ing in a state of unmitigated savagery, un rousing applause. He said: "It is alwavs em i Philip spoken on hoard tine Texas in the conquered by the Spanish arms after three tail back to Execuiive Officer Mason the exact distance which the Runners should fire, anil Mr. Mason's messengers would carry the information to the and sponsons.

Without this information, both in the bombardments and in the battle of July 3. our guns would have been practically useless, and without this deadly accuracy our own ships could not have escaped unharmed, nor could the Spanish fleet have been totally destroyed. "The whole side of the Brooklyn thjlcbed tons of ste'el at tlie new range and, with a shiver, the Viseaya. wounded to death, turned her bow toward the shore. It was Ellis' last supreme effort.

The quick order, ...1 kn. cV, TJ'l "Vt "When the smoke of battle cleared away and our heroes stopped for a moment to con hav th hacl wrought, and heartfelt thanks to the kindly Father of them all had been sent to heaven, up from the mast head of our honored ship, the Brooklyn, went that now world famous signal, 'A great victory has been A great victory: Yet. But one brave sailor, true assistant, one heroic man would not live to tell the story, would not survive to receive a medal of honor at the hands of the patriotic citizens of Brooklyn and be greeted with a fond welcome to this, his home. But with this thought comes the con solation that, while to us is not given the pii i.fe ui e.ten unit; to 11.111 tunu.j greeting, his welcome to another home, a higher and happier and brighter one, is as blessed as that extended by our Heavenly Father to any of the heroes who have ever gone before!" Mrs. Brownlee sang "The Star Spangled Banner" in rare style, and the audience rose and joined In the refrain.

A memorial offering, which was large and which is to be invested for the benefit of Mrs. Ellis, was taken and the benediction was pronounced by Mr. MacDonald. Hen and women crowded to the platform to shake hands with the naval heroes and an informal reception, which lasted some time, was held. JONAH AND THE FISH.

The Rev. Dr. A C. Dixon Thoroughly Believes the Story and Says Unbelievers Only Ridicule It. The Rev.

Dr. A. C. Dixon, pastor of Hanson Place Baptist Church, preached last evening on "Jonah and the Fish." His text was chosen from Jonah "Xow the Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow up He said among other things: "As Jonah was a real man, whose brief biography is given us in the historic 'book of Second Kings, so the events recorded in the Book of Jonah, wonderful as they seem, are, i ucneve, mstorte. iiverytuiug ironi tue first verse of the first chapter, in which the word of the Lord came to Jonah, to the last verse of the last chapter, in which God spared t'he peniten't Xmevites, is recorded just as it took place by a faithful historian.

Every other explanation is founded upon unbelie f. us that one was just as real as the otner. Jesus refers to the work of J'onan as It takes less credulity to believe in the mi harbor of Santiago, 'I believe in the Father no difficulties will stagger his faith, and if he does mot helieve in the Fath ei ui iiism.j, tAK.uaLiun unbelief. 1 ne text aeciares mai tue jiau pre pared a great fish to swallow up Jonah God also prepared the gourd which sheltered Jonab, the worm that eat the gourd, and the vehement east wind which blew upen the prophet. Unbelievers, so far as I know, have never called in question the power of God to prepare a worm to eat a gourd vine, but the fact is God's Almighty power would be necessary for making the worm as well as lor maKing tne nsn.

it nas Qeen truiy said, 'there is no greater or less A mere man would fail in ht attempt to make a live worm small enough to eat a gourd vine as signally as he would fail In his attempt to make a live fish big enough to swallow Jonah. What I wish to insist upon, and what 1 believe with all ray heart, is that if Almighty God jiad needed a fish big enough to swallow not only Jonah, but the ship and the crew on which he was sail ing. God was equal to the emergency of making such a fish and preserving both fish and crew safe and sound under the water for three days. Indeed, the God made the universe could by the fiat of His will make a fish with throat large enough to swailow Brooklyn Bridge and keep it intact. Is it too much to say that such a God.

iif He wished to do It. could make an animal large enough to swallow the globe and fly through space with it?" Dr. Dixon quoting Dr. Pusey's explanation of the miracle continued: "We expect and infidels to deny this story, for the one dees not believe in God at all and the other does not believe in the Bible. But for the Christian to say that his God could not perform such a miracle, after he has read the first chapter of Genesis, and the continuous record of His wonder working, is a glaring inconsistency.

For him to say that God would not work uch a miracle is certainly to be wise beyond what is written. "Jonah tells us that he spent his time in prayer. In this prayer Jonah dees nine things. First, he quotes Scripture. He has no Bible in hand, and could not read it if he had it, but he had read the Psalms and hid them away in his heart.

He recognizes God as the cause of his condition. He does not blame God with his sins. He acknowledged that he is now being chastened for his disobedience. God takes the resp Dsibility of chastening his children when they need it, and it will do us good to recognize our chastisements which are the result of disobedience as coming directly from God's hand, not in the spirit of fault finding and grumbling, but of humble sub miwi n. "Jonah worships and acknowledges God as his preserver, and thanks Him.

A thankful spirit is always the dawn of the day 'to the soul, and when everything else is taken from us. we may he thankful that God is left. Jonah was delivered from the fish. 'Tlie Lord spake unto the fish and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land." Wind, wave and fish are obeeliient to God's will. 'He has not to speak to them a second time, they do His slightest wish.

Only prophets with stubborn human wills need to be followed, chastened, and reformed. The truth for us here is tbat God is always master of our environment. He can confine us where he will and liberate us when He will. He can give us a spbere, little cr large, the bounds that are set about us He can break, and He will, when the pur pose of these bounds has been fulfilled in our submission to His will and consecration to His service. MUSICAL VESPERS.

Fine Programme at the Church of the Sacred Heart. The Church of the Sacred Heart, Clermont avenue, near Park, was well filled last evening, when a fine musical programme was given, under the direction of Dr. John M. Loreiz. the new organist of the church.

The special programme was carried out after the regular vespers and benediction services had concluded. During the latter Miss Winifred McKinny presided the organist of the junior choir. Dr. Loretz began the musical programme with tin organ duel, in which he was as sited by Clinton Moesher. The selection was entitled "Belle of Nassau," during which the power and beauty of the organ tones were heard to advantage, as well as in "Sprlng Siiniiner," which followed.

Dr. Loretz was aided in making the services a success by Mrs. Laura Phelps Crummey, the well known Views on an Important Topic Advanced by Mr. Chadwick DANGERS HE SEES AHEAD. Our Colonizing Schemes, the Clergyman Says, Involve the Abandonment Not Alone of the Washington Doctrine but of the Monroe Doctrine as "Well Our Principle of Popular Government Would Also by the Board.

Tie Rev. John W. Chadwick of the Second Unitarian Church, taking for his subject, yesterday morning, "Greater America," dis cussed our anmexation problems in their van ous aspects Starting out with the well known aphorism, that a war never leaves a nation where it finds it. Mr. Chadwick, in the beginning of his sermon, reviewed the changes that have taken place in the attitude of America toward European nations and toward Cuba during the last six months.

He then weint on to consider the changes which this country's traditional policy has undergone and said among other things: "The policy which we are proposing to subvert is one which the Monroe dootrine has always until now been supposed to assume as a justification of its own particular contention that European powers must neither colonize the western hemis spiere nor subject any American state to a colonial condition. To justify so bold a claim the Washington doctrine was reiterated, viz, That the United States would keep itself free from entangling with European politics. It is mot alone the Washington doctrine that we are now invited to give up, but the Monroe doctrine, also. The AVashington doctrine, because we cannot sharply break off the policy of minding our owin business and strike in among the European nations as a fifth world power without exciting innumerable jealousies and.produ cing innumerable complications and being entangled in alliances with one European country and another. The Monroe doctrine also must be given up (that doctrine which was so precious and when it seemed to have in it the prom Ise and the potency of a war with England a few years ago) this also must be given up because for us to say 'Hands to Europe while grabbing the Ladrones and the Philippines, would be an Impertinence of such colossal size that our American humor would deter us from it if our American honesty did aot.

To say, 'Xo new European holdings in our western is to imply no American holdings in the eastern hemisphere. To am nex the Philippine Islands would be to cancel the Monroe doctrine as something for which we have no longer amy use. "But the subversion of our foreign policy is but a part, and not the most important part, of the political revolution which is turning the traditions of a country upside down. Of even more importance is the proposed abandonment of our itleai of a coherent democratic nation, a nation governed Dy tne peop.e. to universal sunrjge as the safeguard of their liberties.

Not on.y centuries and more of nominal control. Sayc Mr. Whitelaw Reid: 'The chief aversion to the vast accession of territory with which we are threatened springs from the fear that ultimately they must be admitted to the Unied States as states. No public he continues, 'is more urgent to resist from the outset than the concession of such a possi biiity. In no circumstances likely to exist within a century should they be admitted as states to the But there are others of a different mind, officials in Porto Rico and Hawaii, who think the time is almost ripe for those new possessions to come in on equal terms with Nevada and New York.

ir tee native peo p.e nan to be excluded trom the suffrage that would he only what is suffered in Louisiana by the colored people under the form of law. But this is to confess democracy to be a failure, It is for it to be a failure. As Lincoln said in 1S58, 'A house divided against itself cannot As Dr. Adler says: 'The two principles (race Inferiority, with disfranchisement and democratic government) cannct keep house together in the same state. Either the inferior class must be enfranchised or the democracy will inevitably tend to turn into an Nor could we tolerate a vast unassimiiable population on the outskirts of our body politic without serious damage to that body.

The reaction of colonial conditions on a home government is one of the best known incidents of colonial pos session and one of the scandalous. After speaking of the plea that "where the flag floats there it will stay" as "too silly to detain us for a moment," Mr. Chadwick continued: "Another, and, I fear, the most persuasive argument for the expansion of America is that we have too long stayed quietly at home tending to our own affairs; now let us have a little self assertion; let us have a Navy equal to any in the world, and, incidentally, naval stations here and there and almost everywhere around the world. The sun never sets upon the English flag; why should it set upon ours? And this poisoned chalice is commended to our lips as the only pure 'Elixir the true American spirit, the higher patriotism demanded by the exigencies of the new and better time. To me it seems inverted patriotism; treason to the American spirit.

The true patriotism, the right American spirit, is fidelity to the idea ot America peacefully working out her characteristic policy, 'and it would be," as Dr. Adler says, 'the saddest kind of mistake, after having wrapped ourselves up in the arrogant and juvenile conceit of perfection, we should have become ashamed nf th idea that wb have mission tn fulfill for the benefit of mankind, and should lose the sense of that mission. It would be the saddest possible aberration if, instead of learning from others in the sense of adapting to our national genius the best they have to offer, we should become their servile imitators, especially if we should imitate them where they confess themselves least worthy of With every European nation groaning under its military burdens, why should we bend our free shoulders to take on the heavy load? Of all the ironies of history, it is one of the most melancholy and unique that at a moment when the Czar of all the Russia3, countries semi barbarous, is pleading tor a general disarmament, we of America, who, in the century and a quarter since we declared our independence, have had more than 100 years of peace, should now bo panting to 'cry havoc and let slip the dogs of Have we found war so beautiful a thing in these last months that we have become enamored of it? If our greater America does not mean frequent war It must IUl Ltll UUail lllllllUl.t UUt UpilLl Ull CUtLlJ ill numan lire as wen as in silver and gold. Thousands of our young men. without the in ij 1 1 MUM ktl iiuinui utuiui ill junu which swept them into the ranks six months ago.

will have to go forth to these new possessions, to intellectually and morally decay, to suffer and to die. after the manner of all temperate zone people attempting to develop tropical countries. No! Xo! We may appreciate all the courage and all the patience and long suffering of our soldiers and our sailors at their several posts of duty and danger, but those of us who had forgotten that 'war is hell' 1 'fi Ifin I'tlOl tllU' nil liiCcnn nurl V. hn(1 no experience of it have now had enough. We shall not subvert our traditional policy just for the sake nf bring one of the great fighting nations of the earth.

It may bo some time yet before "rile war drums throb no lonirer Anil the Uatllo flairs ire furls il In tlie jiarliamnt of man. The fe.l.'rati.m of but hereafter, if I am not mui'li mistaken, wo slmli invoke the dread arbitrament of war Continuing. Mr. Cliadwick said: "And now I come, too late, perhaps, to a conception of Matinee Every Day. TO NIGHT.

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Nor does t'he commercial argument appeal to them, especially wtnen the possible advantages of colonial markets are weig'hed against t'he certain incidents of miscarriage and corruption would inhere in the new order of affairs. But these generous spirits say and I must confess t'hat there is somettiing I in tfaeir views t'hat should appeal to every hu i mane person t'hat suc'h a great nation as America ought to take its part in civilizingand elevating the inferior races of the world; i that we ought not to leave all this hard and d'isagreeable business to ot'her nations, bow ever willing 'chey may be to take it off our bands. 'Be t'lie cost ten times, a hundred times, t'he gain to the nation or to individuals, we will do all that we can to make tfaeae people uappy. industrious, useful, self respecting men and women, and in proportion to their Intelligence and capacity, will admit them to t'he conduct of t'heir civ'il and political I cannot see why any person of just and honorable mind should flout this attitude and purpose as utterly irrational. It i indifferent to tne philosophy of wtiat migut have "oeen, wbith is never very fruitful of re ults.

It starts from where we are. By wbatever crookedness we got there, with whatever failure to redeem our promises, we are With tliese various possessions actually or potentially in our "hands. 'How can it is asked, permit these gardens of the world to revere into the rapacious and oppressive charge of a nation w'liic'h has never done anything but abuse its opportunities from t'he time of Christopher Columbus until "I answer that if we are to hold these conquered lands in any way whatever it must be in some such high, unselfish way as this. If we should attempt to hold them for mere commercial exploitation, as some would have us do. the civilization of the world would shrivel from us like a.

6nake skin and cast us out as a polluted thing. Colonization in anv sincere and genuine meaning of tne word Is an impossibility. But has this hu manitarian dream reckoned sufficiently with the concrete facts of our American political life? Has it considered whether we have a body of civil servants equal to the discharge of such duties as would be laid upon them? It is certain that we have not. Here would be the potentiality of going wrong beyond the dreams ot any of the bosses who are now riding us with whip and spur. Here would be unlimited opportunities for such devil's work as we have had in the administration of our military departments of transportation and medicine and general supply.

The proposed government of these dependencies would be particularly sensitive to Congressional control, and that means the distribution of places with little or no regard to personal fitness. Given such a management of Cuba and the Philippines as we have had of the War Department during the last six months and the last state of those territories would be worse than the first. And why has the management of the War Department been so intolerably bad? Simply because it has been conducted on the basis of Congressional politics, the place for him who has a I who is somebody's brother or son or nephew or local adept In working blocks of five and things of that kind. But we are told that England has a body of civil servants in India and Egypt and in her crown colonies is equal to Its tasks, and we are also told that it is unpatriotic to for a moment doubt that we can do as well. I do not question tho average moral quality of the American people.

But our government is not representa tive. I mean our governing bodies do not represent the homely virtues of our people. I This is a stage of our development which we shall work through In time. As for England, I she has waded through corruption to her present coign of vantage. She has got knowl i edge by experience.

We, too. have made a good beginning. Wo have had plenty ot ex i perienoe. Hut untried conditions would af ford a fearful opportunity for the old vice to I breed again after its kind. Where the carcass was there would the vultures be gathered together.

"Again, In our dealings heretofore with inferior races there Is absolutely nothing to encourage us. Our dealings with tho Indians have been equivalent to a 'century of dis And how about the blacks? Does our disfranchisement of them by one contemptible artifice or another promise well for our Wing Dancers. (Oi i I I I ft. if barrasslng for a eailor to speak in public. But there is no audience too large to keep him from saying a good word for a shipmate.

ii. ia uaiuei uj htt'p a guou recura in military I life than in civil life, for in military life every I deed is recorded. I am ready and willing to indorse all that has been said by George Ellie. He came to the ship with a good record, maintained it and died with it." Mr. MacDonald here said: "I have just said to Commodore Philip that this great audience would be pleased to hear a few words from him, and he has consented to speak briefly after the offering." The applause broke out and was continued until Commodore Philip was obliged to rise and walk to the front of the platform, where the cheers and hand clapping continued until 'the Commodore blushed like a schoolboy who had forgotten his "piece." When quiet had been restored the Commodore said: "I am not a public speaker.

Captain Cook, everybody in the Navy and the boys down there in the seats know that, and I will not detain you with a speech. I will content myself with Jieartily thanking you for the way in which i you cave received the Mrs. A. D. Brownlee sang the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," the whole audience join lug in the chorus.

Lieutenant Governor Woodruff was then introduced by Mr. MacDonaid to make the address of the evening. The Lieutenant Governor was warmly received. He 6aid in the course of his remarks: "It is fitting that the services in memory of Yeoman Ellis, who exemplified in his character and life the best type of those Christian sailors who so victoriously manned our splendid ships, should be held in the house of God. It is an appropriate supplement to the Christian spirit displayed by Captain Philip (applause) of the Texas, when in the heat of battle he paid his recognition to the God who directed that day's work, by substituting an invocation of Divine blessing for the man lfestation of human exultation which naturally eprang to the lips of every victor.

What sentiment of Christian humanity was ever ex pressed more nobly than that contained in I his few words. 'Don't checr.boys; they're dy "Yeoman Ellis. Not a common sailor nor yet an officer of the ship. He had been in i the service only six years and yet had been promoted from the position of an ordinary eeaman to the highest rank below that of a commissioned officer. In time of peace he i served as clerk to the captain of the ship, a position for which his education particularly 1 fitted him.

At the time of his death he had been detailed because of his known skill and trustworthiness to perform a most important as well as a hazardous duty, that of finding the range of the enemy's ships. And yet, this lad of 22. who with iron nerve was performing heroic duty, was a man of tenderness and of gentleness of nature, as exemplified by his Christian life and his love of lornt. One who knew him well on board the Brooklyn has told me that only two days before the battle in which he lot his life he showed him with great pride and affection a picture which he had just received of his wife and baby boy. In this church, which he and his wife attended, and in whose Sunday school he acquired that character which distinguished him on ship and on shore, it is unnecessary to dwell further upon the traits of his character.

"The call to arms was made after the 1 hearts of those in the service of the nation, both on sea and land, had been buoyed up by visions of war, for it must be remembered that the sailor lads and those who wear the blue on land had long been preparing to spring to arms at the country's call. Trained at the guns for years, the soldiers and sailors, eager for the fray, were roused to a Joyous enthusiasm at the prospect of active service. Among the foremost of these was Ellis, bright, young, active, able to count I the cost before entering upon the task. 1 trained tor war through years of peace, whose heart bounded with patriotic enthusiasm, with those of his comrades, whr he heard that war. real war had been declared, bringing with it opportunities for advancement in the servicp, which would make him and his loved ones happier." Mr.

Woodruff described the part the Brooklyn took in the battle and continued: "The accuracy of the fire of the Brooklyn was due in a great measure to Ellis. Schooled to th? of the stad imeter. th. little instrument which has proved so effective in obtaining the distance of nbjects. Ellis had.

under the tuition of ivigatcr Hodgson, learned to elisor ver with grrn: acuracy the range of the ship. In the six bombardments which had preceded the battle of July 3, Ellis had stood out upon the forecastle of the Brooklyn, watch in one hand and stadimeter In the other, with a notebook In his belt fcr the purpose of recording accurately the fail of shot, the time of fire and the distance of Morro Castle, or the western battery, according to the location of the Brooklyn. He had become used to the ehrieklng of shells and the splashing of pro treatment of the natives and half breeds of our new possessions? We have been credibly assured that the negroes of Cuba are used to better treatment than those of Georgia and Louisiana. Was our Southern reconstruction such that we can enter on a much harder field with hope of good success? Only last night 1 got a letter from a dear old anti slavery woman saint who for the last twenty eight years has been teaching a negro school in Virginia in which she wrote: 'I want President McKinley and every other official and unofficial to stop this cant of "a united North and South" while the air Is tainted with corpses hanging from trees and telegraph poles riddled with the bullets of Bashi Bazouks who vote and have their votes counted solely by virtue of their white And she went on to tell how the soldiers of the Virginia Third at Camp Alger took off their belts to string up a negro teamster and were only prevented by the commanding general, who denounced them as a pack of savages with such adornments of his speech as Captain Evans would not easily surpass." Mr. Chadwick closed by reverting to the change in our traditional policy, and said the realization of the hopes for new territory would be difficult because of the new policy in which the nation is involved.

Bigger armies and navies, he said, were inevitable, so adding new burdens to industry or by adding to our present area territories that will remain essentially foreign for centuries to come. He also said that there must be men of high character chosen for the new places, men of sincere convictions, consistent lives, Indisputable integrity. He believed, however, that all will yet be well. TWO KINDS OF ENTHUSIASM. The Rev.

Dr. John T. McFarland Contrasts the Religious and Secular Quality. In the New York Avenue M. E.

Church last night the Rev. Dr. John T. McFarland preached on "Regular and Secular Enthusiasm," taking as his text Psalms 6: "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunniing." Dr. McFarland said: "It is sometimes asserted that religious enthusiasm Is not as strong as secular enthusiasm.

Particularly is this reflection upon the depth and earnestness of the religious spirit likely to be made tin times of Intense public feeling and activity, as in the heat of great political contests. Those who make these reflections inteod to imply that the interest ot people in religious matters lis really superficial and secondary and not at all commensurate with their professions; chat if they really believed what they profess they would manifest a zeal and enthusiasm greater than t'he enthusiasm awakened hy any secular interests. It may be freely conceded that there is an element of justice In thus charge. It is a correct assumption that zeal and enthusiasm measure the depth of a man's interest In a cause and ladicate the strength ot his belief In its principles. An apathetic spirit is proof ot a superficial fatth.

And it must also be conceded that the majority of Christian people do not maintain their religious zeal at the high level demanded by the incomparable importance of the interests to which their faith relates. But while this must be granted, and Hts truth deeply deplored, the claim that secular enthusiasm is deeper and stronger than religious enthusiasm cannot be maintained. On the contrary, I think i can be incoctestably shown that religion Is the source of the strciigest passions of life, and that while it lis not as intense as It ought to be, religious enthusiasm is, nevertheless, incomparably more potential in society than any purely secular enthusiasm. "In order that we may proceed intelligently in the comparison of religious and secular enthusiasm, it is necessary that we should agree upon some standards of measurements. How may we judge of the depth and strength ot a man's in'terest in a giv.

cause? "1. A practical and fairly correct test of rhp. strencth of enrhusiam is found in fhe quality, the sustained energy a given enthusiasm. "4. A fourth test is furnished in "the precedence or primacy accorded to a cause when it becomes necessary to choose between it and ocher things.

"5. A fifth test is the extent to which enthusiasm for a given cause enters Into or Inspires the other enthusiasms of life. "Consider the fifth of tliese tests. We lose sight of generic forces often in contemplating second causes. The great enthusiasms of life spread out through all the departments of life like the heat of great fires.

It is here that we come to see the great power of the religious spirit in human life it acts as a deep and fervid underglow in all human affairs. It is 'the sacred altar from which other great enthusiasms of life are kindled and maintained. "We cannot yet have forgotten how magnifi ccrntly this was illustrated in connection with the dedicatory services of the buildings of the Columbian Exhibition at Chicago in 1833. Irresisni'bly the occasion became a profoundly religious service. Reverence and thanksgiving and praise and recognition of Divine Providence, and the offering of prayer came to the front.

I think a more impressive spectacle illustrative of the masterful nature of the religious spirit has never been presented in history. There was a gatboring of the representatives of a great nation, with distinguished guests from nearly all the nations of the world, to dedicate buildings in which t'he evidences of the material progress of the continent should be exhibited. It seemed on its outer side to be a purely secular occasion. It had the appearance of a triumph in honor of matter the jubilee of steam and Iron and electricity. But lo, when the hour came, men's heads wore toowed wit hthe solemn sense of something vastly greater than matter, of something immoasureably more Important than locomotives and iron mills and steamships.

The greater Inner fire of enthusiasm that prevailed that day was religious. The religious spirit spoke through the lips of every orator. Vice President Morton closed his address of formal dedication with the prayer, 'God save the United Archbishop Ireland's oration throughout breathed the loftiest religious spirit. Mr. Depew, among the first sentences of his address, said: 'The Cross on Calvary was hope; the Cross on San Salvador was and even Henry AVat terson closed his splendid oration wi'th an outburst of prayer, saying 'God bless our country's flag; And God be with us now and ever; God in the roof tree's shade anl on the highway, God in the wind and the waves, and God in all our That mighty building for the time, under the illumination of the religious spirit, was transformed from a palace of manufacturers into a mighty temple, holy as oh'at which King Solomon dedicated thousands of years ago, amid the smoke of sacrifice and the odors of rich incense, to the service of Jehovah; and as I read the prayer offered by Bishop Fowler I found myself almost expecting t'hat it would conclude with the sublime words with which Solomon closed his prayer of dedication, "Now, therefore, arise.

Lord God, into tihy resting place, thou and the ark of thy The Ladies' Independent Bowling Club held a euchre at the residence of Mrs. J. S. Sbarpe, 66 Halsey street, on last Friday atternoon. Mrs.

H. Jackson won first prize, Mrs. William Marquart second prize and Mrs. George Smith third prize. The club bowls every Wednesday afternoon.

The next euchre will be held at the residence of Mrs. T. Blohm, on South Sixth street. MANHATTAN AMUSEMENTS. World in Wax.

IB fX New War roups. EDEN IW one. Orchestral Concerts. A. Cinematograph.

HEAItTHK WONDERFU Tj GYPsYMUSIC. AMERICAN INSTITUTE. 07th Annual Exliib. CAHE.IIY OK HKtiIGN, 23d at and 4th av. Grnntl Exhibition of Pviiee VIiotocraiiliH.

(Srnml Dixplny of Fruit and Flowem. Mil: SIC AKTEltNOON AND KVEXINC. SPOBTING. MORRIS PARK RACES, WESTCHESTER. JT.

Y. 2d Day, Tuesday, October 4. The Huvrlcaua, The Belle RLeado and Four Other Races, First Bsc? at 2 V. M. Mnslo by Conterno'o Band.

TaKO 2i Av to Willis Ay, thence by special trains to Morris Park at 12:30, 12:45. 1:05, 1:40, 2:00 and 2:15 M. FIEIJ) 6CDEJIT8. violin virtuoso, who rendered several selec i more seriou sly t'jan in event: we snail be I ions in beautifm style. Others who took more absolutely 'Hire that it will bo part were H.

E. Gold, baritone; Miss Wlni jrie cost. ar.I that there is no other way, hatred McKinny and Miss Kathleen Poulson. fore we wade into t'lie rustling stream of sopranos; Charles J. Porter and Augustine m'incled bloed and tears." i amount of money which people voluntarily put Into a cause in which they are Interested.

I "2. A second test is "the time which people I are willing to devote to given interests. "3. A t'aird test is seen in the enduring Poulson, tenors, and Miss Campbell, con Jectiles as they fell near the ship and thetralto. 86.