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Show Both Frank and Joseph were brought up in the dominant church; they were taught to believe in the unfoldments of these latter days; have they no revelations to help them? What star led the way for Dewey's ships into Manila bay and finally stood still above the ships of Spain in that harbor? How was it, as the ships under the old flag circled cir-cled around, opened their great guns and sank the opposing fleet, that not one life on all the ships that carried the flag of freedom was sacrificed? Was there no high design above all that? Was it that the arm of Spain in those waters and on those lands was to be broken that the power might bo given one of the thirty-three tribes there the power to rule over, to rob and enslave the other thirty-two tribes? Or was it that the beginning of a regeneration might be made? That the chains might be broken from the wrists of slaves; that life and property might be made safe; that school-houses school-houses and hospitals might be built; that false priests might be relegated to the rear; that the beginning of the emancipation of woman might come, and, finally, that the flag which is the emblem em-blem of both freedom and justice might be "full high advanced" and begin to light that Asian coast where all has been cruelty and tyranny and oppression since men had an existence on earth? |