The New-York Evangelist 1887-03-31: Vol 58 Iss 13
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VOLUME LVIII.---NO. 13. NEW-YOKK: MARCH 31. 1887. WHOLE NO. 2975 ITALY IK MOITRKIKG; ITALY IN MORAL hero. Garibaldi. For years Italy has been 1 unflinchingly when surrounded by more than THE NEW SOUTH. I Every nation is apt to boast of its great¬ The Century for April is full of|excellent mat¬ EVOLUTION. drawing nearer to England in many wilts, ' twenty timfW their number. The' press of ev- By Be?. Theodor* it. Cnyler. ness, its extent of territory’, its wealth, trade, ter. The text and illustrations of the first ar¬ Bj Ber. J. C. Fletcher. constitutional and otherwise, so that when ! ery nation in Europe, except that bf Russia Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga., March i!2, 1887. and armaments. But there is a home-bred ticle on English Cathedrals are worthy of the and France, is filled with the highest t tilogies subject. Edward Atkinson on the Margin of Naples, Italy, March 5,1887. France refused to enter into alliance with I hc'Ge but a few moments in which to scratch traitor undermining the tower of the nation’s Great Britain concerning the affairs of Egypt, upon the discipline, the valor, and the heroism a few lines from this 3’oung Chicago of the strength. Milton grandly warned the peo¬ Profits argues that “the share of the rich will All Italy is in mourninpr. Last week I wit¬ Italy at the end of 1884 was approached by the of the Italian soldiers against such overwhelm¬ South: we leave for New Orleans in an hour. ple of England just before the return of tyr¬ be but the lesser part of the whole sum of prof¬ nessed a sight which, from the very nature of British Cabinet to aid in rescuing Gordon from ing odds. Even Garibaldi’s entry into Naples We left Washin.gton at 11 o’clock yesterday anny, ironiealiy termed the “ Restoration ”: its.” Mark Twain, in English as She is Taught, the case, it will be impossible to witness again. Khartoum, and thus to contribute indirectly’ in 1860, and the triumphant taking of Rome by morning, and came on by the admirable “ Pied¬ "Instead of laying the blame on any but collects some funny specimens of answers made All Italy is in mourning for her sons slain in to putting down the Soudanese insurrection, Victor Emmanuel in 1870, produced no such mont .Air Line so culled because it passes yourselves, know that to be free is the same by pupils in our public schools; but they are far-away Abyssinia on the 26th of January; which had been fomented not only by the re¬ commotion throughout the nation as the return through a region at the foot of the Virginia thing as to bt> wise, temperate, just, frugal, not so exquisitely ridiculous us those collected and she is also in mourning for her sons and ligious fanaticism of the Mohammedans of of forty-six of the wounded, who reached Na¬ Mountains. Our car was luxuriously’ comfort¬ and abstinent, and to be the opposite is to be by the English School Boards. daughters who perished in her Ligurian (north¬ that region, but which was greatly encouraged ples on the 22(1 of February. able, and we arrived here on time to the min¬ a slave; and it usually happens that those who In Scribner’s Magazine for April Mr. Wash- western) provinces by the dread earthquake by the Arabian slave-traders, whose occupa¬ On the morning of that day the large steam¬ ute. It was intensely interesting to me to eannot govern themselves and moderate their burne concludes his papers on the Downfall of on the 23d of February. But the latter visita¬ tion had been sadly interfered with by Eng¬ er Sail Gottardo arrived from Massowah, bring¬ traverse again the battle region in Virginia, passions, erouch under the slavery of their the Commune. Speaking of Archbishop Dar- tion, terrible and heartrending as it is, will land and other European nations insisting ing this handful of surv’ivors of the Abyssinian and I got a look at the field near Brandy Sta¬ lust, and are delivered over to the sway of not, and cannot, have the moral consequences boy, whom he saw in prison six or seven times, that the Egyptian authorities should suppress battle. The 22d of February was the last day tion on which I preached to several New York those whom they abhor, and are made to sub¬ on the present and future of Italy, at home he says: “No man could be with him without the traffic in human flesh. Italy, through her of carnival, and the city was naturally full, for regiments a few days before the bloody con¬ mit to an involuntary servitude.” A drunken, and abroad, which follow the slaughter of being captivated by his cheerful disposition, Minister of Foreign .Affairs, gladly accepted cheap excursion tickets for those who wi.shed flict in the Wilderness. licentious, ungodly people are ready first for his Christian spirit, and interesting conver¬ more than live hundred Italian soldiers, who this alliance with England, looking forward to to be here at the end of the rolicking fun and Culpepper shows signs of the progress which anarchy, then for despotism, then for slavery; sation.” Thackeray’s Letters contain some for hours heroically and calmly defended the advantages which by such a connection nonsen.se pertaining to carnival, had been sold affects the whole South. New buildings are they are already enslaved, Tlie slumbering characteristic phrases and drawings, but not themselves against an overwhelming host of would accrue to her, both in Europe and in for wet'ks before. .And this is something cred¬ going up, and very tasteful. I got a glimpse volcano may at any’ time belch forth a lava enough to warrant intense admiration. In¬ Abyssinians. A few weeks ago I received a Africa. This was of some avail, for the Ma- itable to this so-called light-hearted South¬ of the old house in which I first saw General stream of destruction. The palladium of our teresting is the illustrated article on Modem letter from Bryan, Ohio (from a subscriber of hadi and his followers found their former ern people. Although thousands and thou¬ Grant in April, 1864. He stood with a cigar in freedom is' not our armaments, but our virtue; Aggressive Torpedoes, showing their great The Evangelist), asking if there were not a ports, Suakim and Massowah, closed to the sands of francs had been invested in various his mouth, and when I,joked him about it, he not our constitution and laws, but the “ right¬ value, but insisting on the necessity also of liberal party—a patriotic party, like the Galli- import trade in arms, gun-powder, and other ways in the carnival, \ et no sooner was it learn¬ said “ I smoke too much; but when this war eousness that exaltetli a nation,” and is the “ modern ships, guns, forts, and floating bat¬ cians in France—amongst the prelates in Ita¬ necessary material; and thus, too, was e<pial- ed that the wounded of Dogali were coming is over, I am goin.g to quit.” In nearly all the true stability of our times. England keeps teries.” ly^ could and would take a stand against ly shut the door for the exportation of slaves home, than it was resolved that the carnival small villages between Ale.xiuidria and Char- this year the jubilee of its Queen. Alany hearts George R. Lockwood tf’ Son issue a very at¬ the intense clericalism, or ultramontanism, to .Arabia and Persia. Massowah, now occu¬ should be dropped, and a befitting, serious re¬ lotU'sville, I noticed that new church buildings in America beat in responsive sympathy. tractive line of Easter novelties. In parch¬ which everywhere manifests itself in this Pen¬ pied by the Italians, is three hundred miles ception should be given to their wounded fel¬ had been erected. We reached Charlottesville Tliere are many proposed methods of celebrat¬ ment covers (forty cents each) are Easter Bells, insula, and thus lead on to a reformation in south of Huakini, and five hundred miles in a low-countrymen. The gay, thoughtless Ne¬ in a March snow-storm, which concealed from ing It. Let this be one: promoting fresh tri¬ Poems for Eask'r, by Havergal, and Spring the land where so many martyrs for the tiuth straight line from Khartoum. .As the bird apolitan < oinmon people gladly gave up their our view Jefferson’s venerable University of umphs for temperauee. Then, as when the Flowers for Easter. These three are combined have freely poured out their blood. I ponder¬ flies it is 2.")()() miles from Naples, the Italian fun, and were deeply touched. .All Italy was Virginia. Albemarle is the finest eounty in Jewisli trumpets luoelaimed jubilee, alienated in Easter Cliimes (sixty-five cents), and bound ed over that letter, and I could not, at the time base of supplies, but practically, it is IKXK) miles represented. Every steamer and every train the ancient commonwealth. The vin(‘.vards estates went hack to their former owners, ex¬ in tinted card-board, in pretty designs and I received it, see any hope of reformation com¬ away from the chief port of Southern Italy. brought from every point of tlie (’omiiass dele¬ are numerous, and the wine-bibbers claim that iles returned home, and slaves were set free, satin ribbons, are Alleluia (with music) and ing from the Italian clergy. I could not even So much for the history of the initiatory’ gations of the best men to welcome liack the the “ Monticello Claret ” is eciual to the ))est so the spread of temperanee will mean the re¬ Thoughts for Easter, each fifty cents.