said:

"We are to-day engaged in a war with a foreign power, and for the
cause of humanity this great country is putting forth her splendid
power by land and by sea that Spanish cruelty shall no longer be on
Cuban soil, ... and if we can afford to interpose the strong arm of
the nation and expend blood and treasure to protect them, can we not
afford by the orderly methods of the law to stop cruelties at home as
barbarous as were enacted in Spanish dungeons? Is it not opportune
that we rise above the low level of race prejudice into the upper and
purer atmosphere of respect for law and order and the sanctity of
human life?"

* * * * *

Within thirty days after the war was declared against Spain thirty-two
Americans--colored--were lynched and put to death without trial by
law, judge or jury, many of them protesting their innocence of any
crime. Let us pray that Spain may not long be able to say to any part
of our country, "Physician heal thyself."

* * * * *

A delegate to the National Congregational Council at Portland, Oregon,
in a newspaper account of his experiences of good treatment everywhere
in the West, thus concludes: "After being entertained at the Brown
Palace in Denver, the Knutsford in Salt Lake, the Portland in
Portland, the Donnelly in Tacoma, after riding in the palace cars of
the trans-continental trains and the chair cars of the Northwestern, I
came to Chattanooga and took the 'James Crow' car to Atlanta.

HENRY HUGH PROCTOR,

Pastor First Congregational Church, Atlanta, Ga."

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FOURTH OF JULY AT S'KOKOMISH--WASHINGTON.

BY REV. MYRON EELLS, D.D.

Since the Indians have become largely civilized and citizens, the
Fourth of July has taken the place of their old festivals, combining
both. The old festivals lasted a week or more usually, and the expense
was borne by a very few. The time was occupied with feasting,
visiting, gambling, and closed with a distribution of gifts to the
invited ones. Neighboring tribes were invited. The distribution of
gifts is now omitted, and the time changed. This year the celebration
took place on this reservation, and the people began to assemble a
week before the Fourth. Nearly all had gathered on the second, when
about eight or nine hundred had assembled. The noticeable point in
connection with it was the absence of drunkenness while they were on
the reserva