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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/37731-8.txt b/37731-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..856fd95 --- /dev/null +++ b/37731-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1450 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Alter Ego, by W. W. Walker + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Alter Ego + A Tale + +Author: W. W. Walker + +Release Date: October 12, 2011 [EBook #37731] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALTER EGO *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + +Alter Ego + +A TALE + + + +by Rev. W. W. Walker + + +Author of "By Northern Lakes," "Sabre Thrusts at Freethought," "Plain +Talks on Health and Morals, Part II," and "Occident and Orient." + + + + +AUTHOR'S EDITION + +TORONTO + +WILLIAM BRIGGS + +1907 + + + + +Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one +thousand nine hundred and seven, by WILLIAM WESLEY WALKER, at the +Department of Agriculture + + + + + To + + Lydia Kirby Walker + + the granddaughter of a cultured Frenchman + and the faithful partner of my joys + and sorrows, this volume + is affectionately + dedicated. + + + + +The author is indebted to the great national newspapers of Canada and +the United States, the Toronto _Globe_ and _Collier's Weekly_, for some +facts from the former and some figures from the latter in rounding up +the historical part of the story as relating to the conflict in the Far +East. + + + + +PREFACE + +To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we +so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a +loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane +of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and +its mainspring of faith. + +Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the +exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. +The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that +loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into +mole-hills. + +The soul is made optimistic and the life beautified by its possession, +while the ear is brought, spiritually speaking, within range of the +victorious shout, "More than conquerors!" and the new song, the song of +Moses and the Lamb. + + + + +CONTENTS + + + I. The Appointment + II. Mr. Melvin's Marriage and Teachings + III. Secretary-Treasurer Thompson's Death--A Surprise + from the Far-off East + IV. 203 Metre Hill and Mukden + V. The Battle of Mukden--and Call of Mr. Devoau as + Associate Minister + VI. Further Teachings and how they are Estimated + + + + +ALTER EGO + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +_THE APPOINTMENT._ + +In the uplands of Canada was an attractive church with a spire that +pointed longing souls to the skies, and the pastor of which had +finished his course with joy and was now joining in the hallelujah +choruses of the upper sanctuary. The authorities of the denomination +to which the church belonged appointed a man to its pulpit who was +progressive and independent, as well as being very broad-minded. The +necessity for this lay in the fact that the population of the place +represented nearly all the languages and creeds to be found in the +Dominion, and consequently if a man of narrow views were appointed he +would soon make shipwreck of everything. + +The new minister, as well as being broad and advanced, was very +honorable, and would not in any way infringe upon the rights of others; +but as Mount Zion was the only church in the place, he was perfectly +safe from any charge of meanness, in the form of coaxing sheep away +from a brother's fold. The first Sunday came upon which the Rev. +Thomas Melvin was to occupy his new pulpit, and an immense congregation +filled every part of the edifice. The text was from the Saviour's +words, "Feed my sheep," and the preacher had not gone far when his +attentive hearers discovered that he was a man of great intellect and +unusual power as a speaker, and they were swayed as corn-stalks in a +tempest as he reasoned of the Saviour's place in the world, and of His +work, and also of man's obligations to Him, as well as to his fellows. + +All through the week this first fearless and powerful sermon was the +talk of all who had heard it. Some, however, did not like it, as +telling them of their duty caused indigestion, while others were +delighted, as they loved a man who shunned not to declare all counsel, +whether pleasing or displeasing. The next Sabbath disclosed the fact +that Mr. Melvin was no plug either, as he said things outside the scope +of the Bible and over the boundary line of prescribed theology. One +old gentleman who occupied a front seat in the church, and who was of +portly mould and genial disposition, and whose dinners were really of +more account in his estimation than anything else, forgot said feasts +for a period sufficiently long to say: "My songs! I wonder what that +new preacher means, anyway!" + +Next day our friend, who was dean of the dinner-table faculty, called +on his new pastor and said, after being asked how he liked the sermon +on Sunday: "My songs! You said things that my bloomin' brain could +'ardly hunderstand." To tell the truth, Mr. Melvin was something of a +statesman as well as a preacher, and with narrow bigots soon became as +much hated as he was beloved by the broad and liberal minded. The +bigots, however, soon ceased to be. Although those classing themselves +as belonging to other denominations were in no case strong enough to +form societies, yet they remained loyal to what they claimed allegiance +to, but this did not hinder them from frequently hearing Mr. Melvin, +who was delighted to see his countrymen, who in some cases spoke the +mellow, musical tongue of France, that land of art, science, and +literature, and military power. As his congregation was so +cosmopolitan and contained representatives of every leading +denomination, the pastor of Mount Zion preached the doctrines of the +Bible in their broadest sense, and showed their most comprehensive +meaning. + +Everyone who heard Mount Zion's rector, or pastor, noticed that he was +perfectly fearless in depicting the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and +having found out that a certain prominent man in the place was very +vile in his morals, and had ruined many young lives, and was in the +habit of running the rig on good people, and who also was most +un-Canadian in his ways, he openly rebuked him for his evil deeds and +for not restraining his family. Of course, this exasperated the man, +and for a long time he was a persistent enemy of Mount Zion's pastor, +but he was yet to find out that the servant of the Galilean would +conquer. His sympathies were all of the Mother Goose type, as is the +case with most evil men, whose stamina is so exhausted in sinning that +they lack the courage to stand alone, and never dare to be Daniels, +above everything heeding God's command. + +As Rev. Mr. Melvin was the only resident ordained man in the place, he +had a great many marriages. Indeed, all the marriages--or rather, +marriage ceremonies--were performed by himself and the Rev. Father +Trenton, of the Catholic Church, who came occasionally from a +neighboring parish to minister to people of his own faith. + +Mr. Melvin, after meeting Father Trenton two or three times, decided +that he was a man of fine principle and real moral worth, also a strong +advocate for total abstinence from cigarettes and strong drink, +believing, as a man of culture and science, that the effect of both was +pernicious and poisonous, and that on that ground they were to be +avoided. The reverend father was a most companionable man, and, as Mr. +Melvin said, was a jolly good fellow. he was soon invited to the manse +for tea, where a most enjoyable time was spent, and where many a good +story was told. There soon came an invitation to Mr. Melvin from +Father Trenton to visit him at his home in the next town. The +invitation was promptly accepted, and another happy evening whiled +away. It was inspiring to all languages and creeds to see the warm and +hearty cordiality of feeling that existed between these two broad and +liberal-minded men, which taught the world that the elevation of the +human race lay not in such senseless antagonisms as existed among our +bigoted and foolish ancestors, but in the exercise of a spirit not only +of toleration, but of good-fellowship and love. + +Some very amusing incidents occurred during the performance of the +marriage ceremony. One man, who had previously been received into the +Church, and who was asked the question, "Will you renounce the world, +the flesh and the evil one?" the answer of which was, "I renounce them +all," was asked, "Will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, for +better, for worse, in sickness and health, till death you do part?" and +in his excitement, having the membership reception in mind, he said, "I +renounce them all." On another occasion, while a couple were being +yoked together, the groomsman suddenly leaned over and saluted the +bride instead of the groom, to the infinite amusement of all present, +and causing the face of the latter to take on a crimson hue. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +_MR. MELVIN'S MARRIAGE AND TEACHINGS._ + +It was rumored for some time that the minister of Mount Zion, or the +incumbent, or pastor, or whatever you desire to call him, was in the +habit of visiting a certain young lady in a distant town. Now there +were many fine young ladies belonging to the tabernacle, but as +distance seemed to lend merit and attractiveness, its spiritual head +found his choice elsewhere. Although not a graduate, Miss Spencer was +a well-read young lady of refined instincts and excellent character; +she had taught school for some time, and was of French ancestry. In +commenting afterward upon his choice, Mr. Melvin said that as a +Canadian he saw that one of the most important steps in nation building +was to unify, as far as possible, the different races and creeds in +this country, and he was one of those who were setting the pace. + +When Mrs. Melvin was brought home, after a very interesting ceremony at +the Spencer homestead, the people were charmed with her and the +tabernacle congregation gave her a splendid reception. + +The minister's wife in every way justified the good opinion formed of +her at first sight. She was a quiet, unobtrusive Christian, with a +sympathetic nature, which soon brought her in touch with the poor and +afflicted in the community. Many a basket prepared by her own hand +found its way into the homes of want, and many a visit was made which +comforted and cheered the anguished sufferer, and which tended to turn +the hour of sorrow into one of joy. Mrs. Melvin proved herself an +angel of mercy in Carsville, and frequently relieved her husband by +taking charge of a service of praise, or by preaching a sermon in +connection with the Sabbath service. Her work as a teacher had made +her a fluent, impressive and logical speaker, who was always acceptable +to the people. + +Mr. Melvin now saw that the time was ripe for moulding public opinion +along not only spiritual but national lines, and he did not even +consult the politicians concerning the matter, but as a teacher applied +himself resolutely to the task. + +The very first Sunday after bringing his bride from her somewhat +distant home the pastor of Mount Zion Tabernacle preached on sin, and +said the individual must come out from among his sinful associates in +renunciation thereof, and dare to be singular, or there is little hope. +As it is with individuals, so with nations. The people who in a +national sense, associate with a country, to the extent of forming a +part of it, that reeks with drunkenness and licentiousness will +assuredly, if they do not come out from it, share its ruin, which is +sure and certain as the fact that God rules and reigns. + +The following Sunday Mr. Melvin preached on the character and +attributes of Christ, saying that, He did not rule or reign among men +in an imperial sense, seated upon a kingly throne in such splendor that +only a chosen few could approach Him, but in a thoroughly democratic +manner, to whom the rich and poor, the learned and unlearned, all alike +could come, to find in Him a Saviour, Brother, Friend and merciful High +Priest, one who was touched with a feeling of human infirmity, and who +always entered into sympathy with humankind. + +The third Sunday the subject was religion, the preacher asking if it +was a creed, or a bundle of doctrinal standards, if it was Calvinism or +Arminianism, Brahminism or Buddhism, Confucianism or Zoroastrianism, or +the cheering of narrow-minded bigots for sixteenth century ideas. + +The man who with Pauline fearlessness asked these questions also +himself answered them, saying it is none of these, but it is to be so +filled with the loving Christ spirit as to visit the sick and +fatherless in their affliction, and keep unspotted from the world, to +manifest the Christ spirit in all life's relationships, which spirit +was one of broadest charity and love. + +After those three momentous sermons the minister, to stimulate his +young people in a way that would lead to energetic action along the +line of acquiring knowledge, preached a sermon on the subject of +education. He told his hearers not to be afraid to read scientific and +philosophical as well as historical literature, and do not become +nervous, he said, if many of your old cherished ideas are proven to +have had for their foundation the ever-shifting sand. + +If research proves that man has been on this earth 2,000,000 of years +instead of 6,000, as formerly taught, do not be afraid to accept it, +for it is in perfect harmony with the teachings of God's own +revelation, and infinitely more correct than the antiquated teaching of +the past, according to the most eminent authority in the world. If in +former times it was taught that the atmosphere was forty-five miles +high, who now would continue to adhere to such a belief, when with +their own' eyes they can see meteoric stones burst into flame one +hundred miles from the earth, thus proving the atmosphere to be +considerably more than that height, as in order to become so heated as +to glow it must collide with atmospheric particles for many miles. The +same may be said of history, study it in every phase, turn on the side +lights, and you will find that in many cases it is very different to +what you have always been taught. The immense congregation which +thronged the tabernacle were now beginning to find out that their +former teachers were of the antediluvian school, but that a man with +enlightened mind and scholarship so acute that it could not be measured +by academic degrees had come among them. This progressive and advanced +teacher, however, warned them that in the midst of all their +advancement they would find that Israel's God was their God, and that +they would have to obey Him, and live clean, faithful, fruitful lives, +so as to one day hear the "Well done," and enter into the Master's joy. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +_SECRETARY-TREASURER THOMPSON'S DEATH--A + SURPRISE FROM THE FAR-OFF EAST._ + +The most pious and trusted of all the tabernacle officials was John +Thompson, who, though not handsome in the outer man, was in soul +beautiful. Indeed, his homeliness was at one time the subject of a +good joke, when an old friend of Mr. Melvin's, who was a noted +scientist, in visiting him, attended a Sabbath service, and seeing him +(that is, Mr. Thompson), said to a bystander: "I have long sought for +the missing link to establish the development theory, but the last +place I ever expected to find it was in Mount Zion Tabernacle, and yet +there it is!" + +In spite of jests, however, the secretary-treasurer had the qualities +of mind and heart which go to make the true man, and when word was +borne to his pastor that he was seriously ill, Mr. Melvin lost no time +in reaching his couch. The first question he asked was, "Are you +suffering much, Brother Thompson," who, in reply, said: "I am suffering +great bodily pain, but though heart and flesh fail I am trusting in the +living God." The fifteen minutes that followed were too sacred to +record, and when the minister left the sick man's chamber it was +noticed that his face looked as if he had been treading on the +borderland of Paradise. Next day, as our clerical friend was entering +the home of his afflicted official, he met the medical doctor who had +been in attendance, and asked him if there was any hope for his friend. +The doctor said that if his trouble had been attended to in time his +life would have been saved, but now no power on earth could do more +than prolong it for a few days. Mr. Melvin saw that what the man of +skill said was correct, as he had frequently noticed that Mr. Thompson +was in poor health, if appearances went for anything, and altogether he +was so busied with his duties and deeds of charity that he neglected +himself until there was no chance for medical science to give him, as +it would have done under Providence, if consulted in time, years of +usefulness. Next time the pastor visited his dying parishioner, he +received some good advice from one who was not nearly so learned as +himself. Said he: "If your sermons possessed the spirituality which +they do philosophy and common-sense, the congregation would soon +receive a great spiritual uplift." Mr. Melvin was a very sane man, and +heeded not the rebuke except to profit by it. Indeed, it was a marked +compliment to him that his teaching was endorsed by the best man in his +congregation while on the verge of the heavenly kingdom. + +Next day the minister called again to see his faithful officer, and on +inquiry found that his hopes still rested upon his Saviour's blood and +righteousness, and in the conversation which followed Mr. Thompson +said: "How little in this hour do stocks, bonds and mortgages, houses +and lands, trouble one. The only house of which I can now think is the +one to which I have a clear title through a loving Saviour's +sacrificial death, and it has not been formed by human hands, for its +builder and founder is God." As Mr. Melvin bade farewell to his friend +on this occasion, he saw that he was steadily sinking, and would soon +be in the house of many mansions. About two o'clock next morning the +door-bell at the parsonage was so vigorously rung that everybody was +awakened, and a message was handed in, asking the pastor to go, if +possible, at once to Mr. Thompson's, as he was just dying. + +Mr. Melvin dressed quickly and passed out into the darkness of the +night, soon arriving at the home of the dying man. One glance showed +that the sands had almost run out, but upon his feeling the hand-clasp, +the sick man revived for a time and said, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear +heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which +God has in store for those that love Him." After uttering these words +he seemed to be exhausted, and sank down deeper into his pillow. Mr. +Melvin watched him, and after a time saw his lips move, and placing his +ear close to them, caught the words, "Home at last, home at last." +Then the lips ceased to move, and all could see that the ransomed +spirit of the redeemed man had passed beyond the river. + +The people of Carsville and of the world had now an evidence that +character and true worth could not be measured by outward appearance. +During the hours that the body of the sainted Thompson lay in state and +was deposited in God's acre the flags were flying at half-mast, and +every business place was closed. In spite of unattractive exterior the +people of all languages and creeds in the place recognized the fact +that a broad-minded man, full of loving sympathy for all classes and +creeds, was not dead, but had been translated. + +Mr. Melvin always looked with a certain measure of suspicion upon +holiness people, believing that there was more hypocrisy than sanity in +all that sort of thing, and called to mind the case of Sambo who +professed it, and when asked by his good old-fashioned class-leader, +who knew his weakness, if he had during the past week stolen any ducks, +said, "No, massa." "Any geese?" "No, massa." "Any turkeys?" "No, +massa." "Bless the Lord, Sambo, you are on your happy way to heaven." +As the leader passed on to admonish the next, Sambo turned to his +neighbor and whispered: "If massa had said chickens he had me; I was at +de roosts of Widder Simpkins last week." + +Mr. Thompson had, however, never professed it, but his life gave +evidence that he possessed it, and his pastor thought it wise never to +mention that much misunderstood word "holiness" again. + +Shortly after the burial of the secretary-treasurer there came to +Carsville a straight military-looking young man with an indifferent +air, who procured employment at the foundry, and whom the minister +noticed in the congregation, intercepting him at the close of the +service to find out who he was and to welcome him. The person was +Leonard Devoau, who had returned from Manchuria, where he had fought in +the Russian army at Port Arthur and Mukden, escaping from the former to +the latter disguised as a Chinaman, where he took part in the world's +greatest battle. Mr. Devoau said that he was born at Ottawa, the +capital of the Dominion, and always loved adventure, and it was this +love that led him to enlist in the Russian army, and pass through the +frightful scenes at the above places. + +Mr. Melvin was much impressed by the bearing of the young stranger who +had returned from Manchuria so recently, and invited him to the +parsonage so that they might get better acquainted. During the course +of the evening he asked his guest if he was fond of soldiering, and in +reply was told that when he left Canada he was in love with the idea, +and even after the awful experiences of Port Arthur, where he was often +for hours together in a perfect hell of fire, he thought he would love +a fair fight in the open, and accordingly broke for Mukden. He told +the minister, however, that this great battle, including the retreat, +was even worse than the siege, as in the former large bodies of them +had frequently to face about and charge with the bayonet to press back +the hordes of Japanese who were continually driving in upon them. + +Mr. Devoau said: "When you think of the fact that we could never meet +our enemies when we were not outnumbered from two to three to every one +of our own men, you will concede that we never had a fair chance, but +put them man to man and they could never withstand the Russians in a +bayonet charge. The disparity in numbers is very evident from the fact +that the Russians had only 300,000 infantry and 26,700 cavalry at +Mukden, while opposed to this was a force of 650,000 men, or, for all +practical purposes, just double the number. We fought them for +nineteen days along a front one hundred miles in length, and were only +then defeated by an accident, bringing off 1,300 guns out of 1,360, and +a larger quantity of baggage, marching into headquarters, as the corps +of General Linevitch actually did, with banners flying and bands +playing as if they were just fresh from the parade ground. Marshal +Oyama may go down in history as a great strategist, but in my humble +judgment General Kuropatkin is greater. The general knew full well +that if he had one more army corps he could have cut in two the long +drawn out flanking force of his antagonist, crumpled it up, and turned +their victory into a disastrous and decisive defeat. As it was, at the +close of the war General Linevitch confronted the enemy with 1,000,000 +men in arms, and they, unwilling to try conclusions when there was man +for man, made a peace favorable to Russia on the whole. As +corroboration of this I give you the word of the foreign military +attaches to the Russian army." + +As Mr. Melvin did not in his own home consider it in very good form to +inquire into the past history of Mr. Devoau, he soon visited him at his +lodgings and asked him concerning his life. He said, in answer to the +question, that he had been brought up by Christian parents, who held +that any deviation from the path of moral rectitude was an awful thing, +and consequently he himself had never gotten astray morally; his +besetting sin, he said, was a love for wild adventure by flood or +field, and he was now perfectly satisfied and desired no more of that +kind of thing. He had foolishly thought that there was much glory in +war, but after seeing its hydraheaded hideousness, and himself testing +its fearful hardships, he was prepared to denounce it as anti-Christian +and barbarous, except in a defensive sense. Also concerning his +education he had helped different members of his father's family in +their studies, and had thus been prevented from entering upon a +university course, though he had undergraduate standing. + +The pastor of the tabernacle said he was surprised that with his +standing he should enter a foundry, and work his way just as one would +who had no earlier advantages, but the reply was a very rational one, +for he said he and his brother had decided that when they had mastered +every detail of the business, and had saved sufficient money to warrant +it, they would start a foundry of their own. "While in the Russian +army," he continued, "I discovered that the prospect for iron founders +was brighter than for most classes." + +The minister now asked his new friend if he would like to join the +tabernacle, and at the same time gave him a hearty invitation, but he +said he could not conscientiously join, but would attend the services. +Mr. Melvin said, "Now I am not a bigot, and do not insist on every one +doing as I do, and being what I am. How would you like to simply +become a member of our Young People's Society, where we would help you +and you could help us?" "I will do that," said Mr. Devoau. + +The new acquisition to the Debating Club of Mount Zion Tabernacle +proved a great drawing card, as it was well known at the foundry and +all around that he possessed a fine moral character and could always be +relied upon. Before asking him to connect himself with the society the +minister had not only talked to him personally, but had also written to +Ottawa, and asked concerning his past life, and found that he had told +the truth, and that, as he himself said, "The worst things he had ever +done, and that only since entering the army, was to smoke a cigar and +play a game of cards without stakes." + +The pastor and his officials, however, were soon to receive a rebuke +when Mr. Devoau told them, after they had been praising him for his +clean life, that if they had more of the loving Christ spirit instead +of lauding him they would be out into the lanes and alleys, into the +highways and byways, gathering in the lost and sinful rather than those +who had always been moral. "It seems to me," he said, "the Church is +more needed to foster and guide those who have had their garments +stained with sin than those who without any credit to themselves, but +to the instruction and coercion of puritanical parents, always kept +themselves clean." + +Mr. Melvin was so struck with the fact that the young man who had +rebuked them possessed true worth that he invited him to relate his +experiences during the war in an address, when the whole evening would +be given up to him, and on which the tabernacle doors would be thrown +open to the public. The invitation was accepted, the young ex-soldier +announcing his intention of relating some of the incidents in +connection with the storming of 203 Metre Hill, of which he was one of +the defenders, and the assaults on the entrenchments at Mukden. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +_203 METRE HILL AND MUKDEN._ + +Before a crowded audience and under the auspices of the Young People's +Club, Mr. Devoau said: "Now, before I launch right out into a +description of battle charges, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to +understand that I feel so humble and modest in this matter that I +believe if I had never seen Port Arthur the defence would have been +just as stubborn, and if I had not been in the advanced works at Mukden +the battle would have lasted nineteen days all the same, and the army +of the Czar would have been saved. Nothing worthy of notice occurred +during my long voyage from Montreal; at least everything was so tame in +the shape of the railway trip from Ottawa to the above-mentioned place, +and the tossing upon the waters of the mighty deep until a blockade +runner landed me at the seat of war, to what followed afterwards that I +will not weary you to-night by relating it. + +"When I arrived at headquarters General Stoessel did not require my +services, as Russians only were preferred, but I pleaded so hard with +him through an interpreter, and told him I had come all the way from +Canada, and was just spoiling for a fight, telling him at the same time +if he desired to know more about me to send a cable message to their +consul at Ottawa. This seemed to satisfy the general, and he at last +assigned me to the Prebensky Regiment of sharpshooters that held 203, +after testing me with a rifle. I soon got well acquainted with my +comrades, and a jollier lot of fellows never lived, who had no end of +fun at the expense of the little niggers, as they termed the Japanese. +Our fun, however, was shortlived, for one day the hills opposite our +position burst into flame as though struck by lightning, and 203 Metre +spurted flame, and boiled like a cauldron from a succession of fearful +explosions, as shells alighted upon it. Our colonel signalled us to +lie close. Every little while a gun would be tossed clean into the air +by the explosion of an eleven-inch shell, and sometimes a whole squad +of men would be literally torn to pieces, legs, arms and fragments of +flesh flying in all directions. This pounding made us dreadful angry, +a number of the men swearing fluently, even the grey-haired colonel, I +was told, made some unmentionable remarks, and I, who had never sworn +in my life, made some very sarcastic references to the proceeding. + +"Those horrible eleven-inch shells made bomb-proofs and covered works +of all kinds very little more secure than the open. Many men were +struck down around me, some of them horribly mangled, and portions of +the works literally smashed to splinters, but such is war, and some +call it glory. + +"After this fearful hammering had gone on for a time with hell reigning +all around, as suddenly as it started the appalling din ceased, and +nothing could be heard but the piteous moaning of men who were so +horribly mangled, many of them, that if their own mothers were present, +they could not recognize them. During the awful bombardment, just as +we had expected, the enemy, who had made considerable progress under +cover of the night, had advanced right to the foot of the hill. +Hitherto we could see nothing, as not a soldier was in sight, and all +that we could do was to pound the naked hillside, but now the little +brown squads, in twenties, began rushing across the fire zone, and it +appeared as if they were reserves coming up to reinforce the men at the +base of the hill. + +"Our blood was up after the abuse we had received, and we pounded them +with big guns, pom-poms, Maxims and rifles, but still they came, and +quickly forming, marched up the valley of the shadow of death until a +shrill whistle rang out, when they turned square toward our position, +another whistle and they doubled files, and came on with splendid +precision. Their colonel, a grey-haired veteran, stood on a spur, and +heedless of shrieking missiles, had only one thought, and that was of +203. It is true the hill had been assaulted before, while it is +equally true that the enemy had been beaten back with frightful +carnage. Now, however, something seemed to say that the end was near, +as old Teleda, the veteran of twenty-seven engagements, stood as if on +parade, directing the attack. His men sank to mother earth singly and +in mangled heaps, but he had no eye for their dead or ear for the +moaning of their wounded; 203 was the game, and anything smaller, such +as noting the mutilated forms upon the blood-drenched sands in the +valley, was beneath contempt. A battery of six guns came up to the +foot of the hill at a gallop, the gunners setting them at an angle of +many degrees, so as to rake our works, but though they concealed +themselves as best they could, our sharpshooters frequently got a bead, +and an artilleryman would throw up his hands with a shriek and tumble +in a heap. + +"After a rest the enemy opened again, the hills in front spouting +flame, and the battery at the foot of our position vomiting death. +Between the explosions, however, and they came thick and fast, we saw +the figures of men as numerous as ants swarming up the base of the +hill. Our machine guns were soon angled upon them, and our rifles sent +rattling volleys among them, but the explosions in our position now +come so frequently that we are soon choked in clouds of dust, and +battered by splinters of gun carriages and even falling sand bags. The +signal now rang out to fix bayonets, and this was no sooner done than +hand grenades were hurled in upon us, the explosions of which tore the +heads off some of our men, the legs and arms off others, but the most +sickening sight to me was that of a man not three yards away who had +the fore part of his chest clean torn away, leaving his mangled lungs +exposed to view. At this stage observation was cut short by a whole +battalion of Japanese infantry tumbling over the parapet, followed by +swarms of reserves. We sprang upon them with the steel, and a +frightful conflict ensued, men fell dead in twos, often with their +bayonets buried in one another's bodies. For two or three minutes +nothing could be heard but shots, and imprecations, and shrieks, and +rattling steel, and then all was over, 203 Metre Hill was taken, but +after we got out--that is, all that was left of us--it was turned into +a smoking volcano by the shells from our forts around, and the enemy +nearly shared our fate in being ejected." + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +_THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN--AND CALL OF MR. DEVOAU AS ASSOCIATE MINISTER._ + +After the recital of the fall of the key to Port Arthur, the speaker of +the evening gave his experiences in the world's greatest battle as +follows: "I arrived at Mukden long before the fight, and after the +famous victorious charge of Poutiloff up the slopes of Lone Tree Hill, +by which the Japanese were driven out with fearful loss, I wanted to be +one of its defenders, but General Kuropatkin seemed to know all about +me, and insisted that I connect myself with the force holding +Yuhungtun. I was angry and thought I was going to miss the liveliest +part of it, but the general knew better. + +"There was a good chance to become acquainted with the men before the +conflict, and I found them really fine fellows. Some were capital +marksmen, and as the enemy's outposts drew nearer amused themselves by +sniping the men in the advanced pits, and many a Jap whose head only +was visible did we see lifted out of his hole with his brains oozing +out of a bullet perforation in his upper story. The time came at last, +however, when 1,000,000 men confronted each other in the lines of +battle, who were destined to suffer a loss in killed, wounded and +prisoners within three weeks of 250,000 men, or just one-fourth of the +entire number. Although the battle proper lasted about nine days, what +with preliminaries and the rear-guard action which followed, it might +be safe to add ten more. The struggle was fearful, and nobody was so +much master of the situation as our commander-in-chief, who knew from +the beginning where the blow would fall. + +"General Rennenkampf, the Cossack chief, had with his staff traversed +the entire one hundred miles of front and had handed in his report to +his superior. The plan of Marshal Oyama was to outflank our army and +cut off its retreat, and after surrounding it pound it, until it +capitulated, but in Kuropatkin he had met a man so able in strategy +that he could easily outgeneral him and bring his plans to naught. +When the eleven-inch shells which had wrought such destruction at the +port began to fall it soon became evident that the works on which had +been expended the labor of months and the skill of the best engineers +were going to dust. In spite of the fact, however, that we were +outclassed in numbers and heavy artillery our men put up a terrible +fight. After a fearful pounding with all kinds of guns, one day the +enemy in overwhelming force came upon us with the bayonet, and after a +hand-to-hand struggle, without parallel we believe, in which the ground +was piled with the slain, we were forced out and our works taken. +During the awful struggle which cost us our position, I was struck in +the side by the steel of a Jap, which cut a groove between two of my +ribs, but although I was not seriously hurt I recognized the fact that +one inch more, or possibly half of that, and to-night instead of +talking to you I would have been in a nameless grave on Manchuria's +plains, with my warrior shroud for a winding sheet, until the earth +would give up its dead. + +"It is a remarkable fact that although people said, with the advent of +modern repeating arms and machine guns, that bayonet charges were no +longer possible, as such rushes in force would spell annihilation, yet +there never was a battle in all history where so many charges were made +and in which cold steel crossed so often as at Mukden. + +"Word now came to us that our army had taken the offensive in the +centre, and was forcing the enemy back, and encouraged by this we +determined to retake our lost position. As we were forming for the +attack the divisional commander came along, and noticing the shortage +of officers, said to the colonel of our regiment: 'Take the most +experienced men from the ranks and put them in charge of sections and +companies.' Although this was said in Russian, I had now picked up +enough of the language to understand it. The colonel did not like the +advice and said: 'General, this is contrary to custom; you know we need +to safeguard these positions by the use of a little red tape.' The +general became furious and said: 'Red tape to ----! It has been the +curse of the army in the past, and it will curse any army, and at, best +bring nothing but humiliation. What we want is merit, which +practically means experience and courage with a large amount of +intelligence thrown in.' It was now evident to the colonel that he +must obey his superior officer, and he came over to me and said: +'Devoau, I want you to take No. 5 Company, as its officers are all dead +or wounded.' I set my teeth and obeyed, believing that I myself would +soon be as they. All was soon ready and the order was given, 'Forward, +steady under cover.' When we reached the open or fire zone two +whistles pierced the air--one to deploy in loose order and the other to +double. We now swept forward, the enemy's batteries opening upon us. +The men of my company went down, sometimes one and sometimes three or +four in a heap at a time. As we reached our old position I was +perfectly furious because of our losses, and though I had never sworn +in my life before I yelled between my clenched teeth, 'Give them +_hell_, boys!' Just as we were tumbling in upon them our colonel, who +was braver and better than any of us, was shot through the brain and +instantly killed. Even though the colonel was killed and whole +companies had gone down in that awful rush, the Japanese might as well +have tried to stem Niagara's torrent as to beat back our infuriated +men, and all that was left of them got out faster than they had charged +in. The night within the village was one that would never fade from +memory. The streets were strewn with broken rifles, twisted sabres and +bayonets, dismounted guns, broken gun carriages and dead men, some of +whom still clutched each other in the grip of death. I was now +ordered, though I felt unequal to the task or honor, to take temporary +command of our decimated regiment. + +"In trying to hold on to our old position we had to withstand some +terrible bayonet rushes on the part of the enemy in efforts to retake +it, and our regiment, which entered the battle with 2,450 men, had just +585 left to respond to the order to retire. Another regiment lost +1,100 men. The place assigned us in this most, orderly retreat was in +the rear-guard, and just as we took our places our brigade commander +was decapitated by the explosion of a pom-pom shell, and I was ordered +to hand over my regiment to a major and take charge of the brigade. + +"We had an awful time during the retreat, but every onrush was stemmed, +and at each repulse of the foe our men, with bayonets dripping red, +cheered to the echo. + +"The war was now practically over, and although every man of ours had +two foemen opposed to him, the Japs had a narrow escape from defeat; +nothing but the accident of a duststorm averting it, by enabling them +in the darkness thereof to break the lines of General Linevitch when +his men could not see a yard ahead of them. + +"When we reached headquarters I, having nothing but a temporary +connection with the Russian army, went to my chief and tendered him my +uniform and arms, telling him, as there was not likely to be any more +fighting, I would return to Canada. He, however, refused to take +anything, saying that as a mark of honor and appreciation I must retain +them, and after saying 'Good-bye' to my battle-scarred comrades I went +to the station to entrain for the coast, and as it steamed out a crowd +of officers and men waved their caps and handkerchiefs, shouting, +'Canada for ever; long live Canada and the Canadians!' I felt I did +not do much for them--any one, perhaps, would have done better--but I +had done my little best, and they had trusted and honored me. I like +the Russians; they are good fellows, and are greatly slandered in the +West. They have a moral code, and with some exceptions, they live up +to it, and any nation that crosses arms with them will pay a heavy toll. + +"In closing, I presume you would like to know more fully my opinion of +war, and in giving it I will say that if you murder a man by shooting +or stabbing him you are merciful, but if you kill him by exploding an +eleven-inch shell, in many cases he will be torn to fragments and his +dismembered body scattered over an acre of ground. In other instances +that I have seen at Mukden and 203 Metre Hill, men have been mortally +wounded and left an unrecognizable mass of flesh and blood, which for +days heaved with anguish and life, while others, after hours and +sometimes days of agony, died with broken bayonets protruding from +their backs, having entered as gallant breasts as ever swelled with +breath and life. + +"I have forsworn war for ever, after the dreadful scenes which I have +witnessed, and there were scenes which I did not witness, in far-off +Russia and Japan, which were infinitely more appalling, where was seen +the dreary sobbing of broken-hearted widowhood and the piteous wailing +of hungry, fatherless children. Added to this was the pale-faced +sorrow of sisters bereft of brothers and sweethearts, who had lost +those who would have been nearer than brothers, and who now with broken +hearts ceased to live and began only to exist in hopeless despair. The +Russians met in their foes armies trained after the pattern of the +German military system, and none of us ever again desire to cross +weapons with men trained as those are, who have learned from that land +of advanced scholarship and military superiority. The Japanese were +foemen worthy of their steel, but instead of their arms being +dishonored fresh lustre was shed upon them." + +At the close of his address Mr. Devoau was applauded to the echo, after +adding as a rider that in his denunciation of war he would, of course, +make an exception of defensive operations. + +The next Sabbath in the morning service Mr. Melvin started the +tabernacle congregation by announcing that as he would soon reach the +retiring line, and as the immense congregation, with its many needs, +overtaxed his strength, he had long thought of an associate who, when +he retired, would take full charge. Continuing, he said: "I have +spoken to Mr. Devoau and asked him if he would not abandon the thought +of a life so selfish as that of making himself one of the foremost iron +founders in Canada and join me in the work of preaching and teaching. +His answer has been favorable, if it is the will of the people, and he +has further said that if it is their will he will accept it as the +Master's will." + +A meeting of the officers of the church was called for Tuesday evening, +when the matter was discussed, and Mr. Devoau's profession of faith +heard, when he told them that he was of French-Canadian parentage and +could not subscribe to every technicality. His frankness and +fearlessness won every heart, a vote was taken, and he was unanimously +called to be associate pastor of Mount Zion. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +_FURTHER TEACHINGS AND HOW THEY ARE ESTIMATED._ + +After his ordination the new preacher took his place in the pulpit once +every Sunday, and being now a close student of theology as well as of +other subjects, he soon became an eloquent and powerful speaker, and +the entire congregation was delighted with him. The last Sunday of the +national year, Mr. Melvin announced a sermon on "The Ideal Relationship +of Capital and Labor," prompted by the recent trouble at the foundry +between employers and their hands. The preacher of the day said: +"Beware of so-called socialism, for it trenches very closely on the +borderland of anarchism, and after having listened to lectures and +sermons an hour long and read many books upon that much-abused topic, I +am constrained to turn to the teaching of the Man of Nazareth, and find +in that teaching something more rational and common-sense than +elsewhere. In the first place our Saviour recognized property rights +when he said, 'Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's, and unto +God the things which are God's.' This doctrine is for the workingman +as well as for his employer, and enables both to procure homes for +themselves and hold them in their own right. + +"We cannot fail to recognize the fatherhood of God, and if so then we +must recognize the brotherhood of man, for all men truly should be +such. If you and I have come to that point where we regard every man +as our brother, on the authority of Jesus Christ, the social problem +will be solved, and the capitalist will regard and treat the man who +toils for him as the son of his Father God, and the toiler will regard +the employer as not only his brother, but co-heir with himself to an +incorruptible inheritance. Much depends, brethren, on the exercise of +that charity which translates love. Love one another and you will use +one another aright. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, +and there was life as the wounded Israelites looked upon it, so there +is life in a look at the crucified One, and there is more than that, +there is adjustment of relationships between husband and wife, between +pastor and people, between citizens and their chief magistrate, between +capital and labor. I can do no better than lift my hand toward the sky +and utter that little classic, '_Ecce Homo_,' and He is the Man of +Sorrow." + +The senior pastor's sermon had a marvellous effect upon the people, and +it was said that the iron workers' difficulty was soon settled on the +Christ principle. The next Sunday being July 1st, the anniversary of +Confederation, the Rev. Mr. Devoau preached a sermon in keeping with +the day, and said "that the Iroquois term 'Kannatha,' which was very +restricted in its meaning, and only signified a collection of wigwams +or huts--a village, we might say--had become corrupted into Canada, but +now stood for dominion power and nationality. The population had grown +into many millions, and the area was 3,750,000 square miles, or nearly +as great as the entire continent of Europe. The mineral and coal +deposits are almost inexhaustible, and the exports and imports the +astonishment of the nations. + +"The growth of our cities is simply wonderful. Winnipeg has doubled +its population in five years; Calgary has nearly trebled the number of +its citizens in the same period, while Montreal has become the New York +of Canada. Truly the words of our text apply specially to us, 'He hath +not dealt so with any nation, and as for his judgments we have not +known them.'" + +Continuing, the speaker said: "The God who has so wondrously blessed us +since 1867, when a confederation of our leading provinces took place, +expects us to be rational and sane, and stand for unity and +consolidation of languages and creeds, that Canada may show to the +world what the brotherhood of man means and that the Saviour's teaching +has been put into practice upon our ocean-girt shores. A large number +of our people do not know what the term Canadian means. They will do +well to remember that it takes in not only the people of old Ontario, +but the people of the greater Canada beyond, with its diversity of +speech and polity, and no responsible person would say or do anything +that would not tend to weld together the different doctrines and +tongues. If we are true to God and each other we will one day stand in +the front rank of world powers, and our fleets, not of war, but of +commerce, will ride upon every sea. The battle of the Sea of Japan or +Corea proved that battleships were not worth the coal that steamed +them, but our mercantile marine is of priceless value, for it carries +our wares to every land and our commerce into the marts thereof and +into every clime." + +Immediately upon the close of the sermon, Mr. Melvin, who had occupied +a seat upon the platform, arose and said, "This is the best sermon to +which I have ever listened; it is truly the teaching of a man who is +saner and wiser than his fellows." Upon the utterance of these words +the vast audience broke into thunders of applause, evidencing the fact +that it was the sentiment of all. + +As the summer advanced, Mr. Devoau invited Mr. Melvin to take a trip to +Ottawa with him, as he was going to visit his parents for a day. The +invitation was accepted, and these two kindred spirits started off on +an early train for Canada's beautiful capital, where they were met by +Mr. Devoau, senior, who heartily welcomed the friend and colleague of +his son. As they walked toward the home of the Devoau family, whom +should they meet but the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister +of Canada, who was out for a stroll, and with whom the elder Devoau was +well acquainted. Both preachers were at once introduced to the +Premier, who was very gracious and genial. Mr. Devoau said they were +having a day's recreation after their recent teachings. Sir Wilfrid +said: "I will not ask what those teachings were, as I am sure they were +all right." Mr. Melvin said: "They were not exactly like those of the +Scotchman, who was asked if his health was good, and he said, 'I am no +verry weel the day, for last nicht I was teaching the bairnies doon at +the hall hoo to vote.'" Said he, "We are not exactly teaching people +how to vote, but we are trying to pound sin out of them." The Premier +then made the hit of the day when he said, "Get all the sin out of them +and they will vote right." + +After a splendid day, during which they visited the noble pile on +Parliament Hill and had a sail in a steam launch on the majestic river, +the pastors of the tabernacle returned to Carsville, where at the Young +People's meeting the senior minister related their experiences while in +Canada's beauty spot, as the capital city might be called. He told of +meeting the Premier and of his friendliness and geniality. "This +country," said he, "has had gentlemen in that position, and it has had +statesmen for prime ministers, but it never so strikingly combined the +two great qualities as in the person of him whose name will be engraven +with a surpassing lustre upon the bead-roll of the nation, and the name +will be that of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier." + +Mr. Melvin, who did not feel quite so strong recently, thought of +seeking a much-needed rest in retirement for a time at least, now that +his colleague was immensely popular, and could now handle the entire +congregation, though it never was so large. However, just as he was +preparing for this move an invitation came to him to enter upon higher +educational work, which he at once accepted, saying that, he would +still preach and teach, and would really have a larger field in which +to do good, and the change of air and scene would be as good as a rest. + +The people of Carsville expressed much regret at the departure of one +who was known as an admirable citizen as well as an able and effective +minister. Mr. Melvin, however, always told them that he was leaving +with them a man after his own heart. + +Before the day of his leave-taking a farewell banquet was tendered him, +at which were appreciative after-dinner speeches, the chair being +occupied by Rev. Mr. Devoau, informally. Abraham Thompson, Esq., +senior member of the Board, when called upon, said: "I am grieved at +the departure of one who has been everything that I could +wish--broad-minded, sympathetic, and scholarly--one in whom all could +alike trust, ever finding in him a wise counsellor and a safe guide; a +man of splendid mental balance, of unusual wisdom. To say that I +endorse his teachings is not enough; I heartily endorse all of it, and +pray that the Great Head of the Church will bless and keep our mutual +friend, together with his much appreciated partner, unto their +journey's end." + +The next called upon was Thomas Edwards, the leading merchant in the +place. He was shrewd in business and a keen discerner of men. He +said: "Though I am not on the same side of politics as Mr. Melvin, yet +in the main I think his teachings are sound and the product of a sane +mind. Personally, I have learned to respect him. I will, like one who +has preceded me, go farther and say I have learned to love him, and +wish him and his godspeed in a ministry which has been a blessing to my +whole house." + +The next official was Edmund Garvin, general manager of the foundry, +and a man of intense perception. Said he: "I have noticed that our +worthy senior pastor, whose removal I deeply regret, always stood for +unification in the home and independence, and not only there, but in +the church and nation, and I may say his sentiment is mine. I, like +him, am no hanger-on--only poltroons are that--and no man in his right +senses would be anything but a brother to all the races and creeds in +our country, and in all his utterances our clerical friend has proven +himself not only wise as a serpent, but also a true Christ man. I wish +him and his amiable wife great happiness and success in future life." + +The chairman now saw that as the time was getting late they must close, +and said in a few closing words that his colleague had endeared himself +to him, and had done more for him than he could ever repay. "I, like +yourselves, regret his departure, but feel that he is going into a +field of great usefulness, and he doubted not that he would be happy +and prosperous." + +Shortly after Rev. Mr. Melvin's departure old Uncle Reynolds, as he was +called, was struck by a pilot engine at the station, and so seriously +injured that he was taken home in the ambulance. He was the most +saintly man in the tabernacle, and Rev. Mr. Devoau, now in full charge, +was sent for. His practiced eye at once told him that the old man's +hour had almost come. Stooping down he said, "Uncle, how is it with +your soul?" and opening his weary eyes the aged veteran said, "It is +well; it is well." Talking for a moment or two with his pastor he +said: "Our dear Bro. Melvin is gone from us, but, oh, how precious are +his teachings! As the result of them my feet are on the Rock of +Ages--the rock of Christ--and I have long since found out that 'all +other ground,' as the sacred bard says, 'is sinking sand.'" + +Coming back late in the evening Mr. Devoau said, "Uncle, is there light +in the valley?" and the dying man raised his feeble hand and blessed +his pastor, and whispered to him that he had already been a blessing to +many and the people loved him. Then he said: "Oh, yes, the valley is +bathed in light; for He has said, 'At evening time it shall be light.'" +With these words trembling upon his lips the old man swept through the +gates of paradise, a ransomed soul. + +Finished as was the course of this saintly man, yet the great world, as +in all such cases, moved on, and with it the teaching of the new pastor +of Mount Zion. + +Speaking to the young people some time after this, he said: "Let there +be no misunderstanding concerning what I stand for, and what we all +should stand for. I am for liberty of conscience, freedom and +independence, along all lines, both religious and national, even to the +granting of home rule to poor, old, long-suffering Ireland, which, by +all means, it should have, and is justly entitled to in this twentieth +century. + +"The question arises, How can we best qualify ourselves for the +salvation of ourselves and fellows, and the working out of our destiny +along general lines? I answer, by consecrating our ransomed powers to +the great Arbiter of Destinies, who stands behind all forms and +systems, but ever watchful of His own." + +At the conclusion of the address Mr. Henry, principal of the Public +School, arose and said: "I beg that the Young People's Club will place +upon record, and in letters of gold engrave and place amid the archives +of the church, the admirable and fearless utterances of this evening." + +Mr. Henry was followed by one who, in the educational world, stood +higher than he, namely, the head master of the Collegiate Institute in +Carsville, who capped everything by saying, "'Pro bono publico,' and as +well as being for the public good, though I am an independent in +politics, I will say that the Rev. Mr. Devoau has the faculty of always +saying the right thing, and his teachings are an inestimable boon to +all classes in this place." + +In a few mouths after this the pastor of Mount Zion was honored with a +degree from world-renowned Harvard, and his influence increased, and +his ministry truly became one of reconciliation and power, until the +ever-circling years at last brought near the Age of Gold. + + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Alter Ego, by W. W. 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W. Walker + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Alter Ego + A Tale + +Author: W. W. Walker + +Release Date: October 12, 2011 [EBook #37731] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALTER EGO *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t1"> +Alter Ego +</P> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +A TALE +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +by Rev. W. W. Walker +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +Author of "By Northern Lakes," "Sabre Thrusts at Freethought," <BR> +"Plain Talks on Health and Morals, Part II," <BR> +and "Occident and Orient." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +AUTHOR'S EDITION +<BR><BR> +TORONTO +<BR> +WILLIAM BRIGGS +<BR> +1907 +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the<BR> +year one thousand nine hundred and seven, by WILLIAM <BR> +WESLEY WALKER, at the Department of Agriculture +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3"> +To<BR> +<BR> +Lydia Kirby Walker<BR> +</P> + +<P CLASS="t4"> +the granddaughter of a cultured Frenchman<BR> +and the faithful partner of my joys<BR> +and sorrows, this volume<BR> +is affectionately<BR> +dedicated.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P STYLE="margin-left: 15%; margin-right: 15%"> +The author is indebted to the great national newspapers of Canada and +the United States, the Toronto <I>Globe</I> and <I>Collier's Weekly</I>, for some +facts from the former and some figures from the latter in rounding up +the historical part of the story as relating to the conflict in the Far +East. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t3b"> +PREFACE +</P> + +<P> +To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we +so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a +loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane +of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and +its mainspring of faith. +</P> + +<P> +Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the +exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. +The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that +loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into +mole-hills. +</P> + +<P> +The soul is made optimistic and the life beautified by its possession, +while the ear is brought, spiritually speaking, within range of the +victorious shout, "More than conquerors!" and the new song, the song of +Moses and the Lamb. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<P CLASS="t2"> +CONTENTS +</P> + +<TABLE ALIGN="center" WIDTH="80%"> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">CHAP.</TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> </TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">I. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap01">The Appointment</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">II. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap02">Mr. Melvin's Marriage and Teachings</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">III. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap03">Secretary-Treasurer Thompson's Death—A Surprise from the Far-off East</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">IV. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap04">203 Metre Hill and Mukden</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">V. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap05">The Battle of Mukden—and Call of Mr. Devoau as Associate Minister</A></TD> +</TR> + +<TR> +<TD ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top">VI. </TD> +<TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top"> +<A HREF="#chap06">Further Teachings and how they are Estimated</A></TD> +</TR> + +</TABLE> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap01"></A> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +ALTER EGO +</H2> + +<BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER I. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>THE APPOINTMENT.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +In the uplands of Canada was an attractive church with a spire that +pointed longing souls to the skies, and the pastor of which had +finished his course with joy and was now joining in the hallelujah +choruses of the upper sanctuary. The authorities of the denomination +to which the church belonged appointed a man to its pulpit who was +progressive and independent, as well as being very broad-minded. The +necessity for this lay in the fact that the population of the place +represented nearly all the languages and creeds to be found in the +Dominion, and consequently if a man of narrow views were appointed he +would soon make shipwreck of everything. +</P> + +<P> +The new minister, as well as being broad and advanced, was very +honorable, and would not in any way infringe upon the rights of others; +but as Mount Zion was the only church in the place, he was perfectly +safe from any charge of meanness, in the form of coaxing sheep away +from a brother's fold. The first Sunday came upon which the Rev. +Thomas Melvin was to occupy his new pulpit, and an immense congregation +filled every part of the edifice. The text was from the Saviour's +words, "Feed my sheep," and the preacher had not gone far when his +attentive hearers discovered that he was a man of great intellect and +unusual power as a speaker, and they were swayed as corn-stalks in a +tempest as he reasoned of the Saviour's place in the world, and of His +work, and also of man's obligations to Him, as well as to his fellows. +</P> + +<P> +All through the week this first fearless and powerful sermon was the +talk of all who had heard it. Some, however, did not like it, as +telling them of their duty caused indigestion, while others were +delighted, as they loved a man who shunned not to declare all counsel, +whether pleasing or displeasing. The next Sabbath disclosed the fact +that Mr. Melvin was no plug either, as he said things outside the scope +of the Bible and over the boundary line of prescribed theology. One +old gentleman who occupied a front seat in the church, and who was of +portly mould and genial disposition, and whose dinners were really of +more account in his estimation than anything else, forgot said feasts +for a period sufficiently long to say: "My songs! I wonder what that +new preacher means, anyway!" +</P> + +<P> +Next day our friend, who was dean of the dinner-table faculty, called +on his new pastor and said, after being asked how he liked the sermon +on Sunday: "My songs! You said things that my bloomin' brain could +'ardly hunderstand." To tell the truth, Mr. Melvin was something of a +statesman as well as a preacher, and with narrow bigots soon became as +much hated as he was beloved by the broad and liberal minded. The +bigots, however, soon ceased to be. Although those classing themselves +as belonging to other denominations were in no case strong enough to +form societies, yet they remained loyal to what they claimed allegiance +to, but this did not hinder them from frequently hearing Mr. Melvin, +who was delighted to see his countrymen, who in some cases spoke the +mellow, musical tongue of France, that land of art, science, and +literature, and military power. As his congregation was so +cosmopolitan and contained representatives of every leading +denomination, the pastor of Mount Zion preached the doctrines of the +Bible in their broadest sense, and showed their most comprehensive +meaning. +</P> + +<P> +Everyone who heard Mount Zion's rector, or pastor, noticed that he was +perfectly fearless in depicting the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and +having found out that a certain prominent man in the place was very +vile in his morals, and had ruined many young lives, and was in the +habit of running the rig on good people, and who also was most +un-Canadian in his ways, he openly rebuked him for his evil deeds and +for not restraining his family. Of course, this exasperated the man, +and for a long time he was a persistent enemy of Mount Zion's pastor, +but he was yet to find out that the servant of the Galilean would +conquer. His sympathies were all of the Mother Goose type, as is the +case with most evil men, whose stamina is so exhausted in sinning that +they lack the courage to stand alone, and never dare to be Daniels, +above everything heeding God's command. +</P> + +<P> +As Rev. Mr. Melvin was the only resident ordained man in the place, he +had a great many marriages. Indeed, all the marriages—or rather, +marriage ceremonies—were performed by himself and the Rev. Father +Trenton, of the Catholic Church, who came occasionally from a +neighboring parish to minister to people of his own faith. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin, after meeting Father Trenton two or three times, decided +that he was a man of fine principle and real moral worth, also a strong +advocate for total abstinence from cigarettes and strong drink, +believing, as a man of culture and science, that the effect of both was +pernicious and poisonous, and that on that ground they were to be +avoided. The reverend father was a most companionable man, and, as Mr. +Melvin said, was a jolly good fellow. he was soon invited to the manse +for tea, where a most enjoyable time was spent, and where many a good +story was told. There soon came an invitation to Mr. Melvin from +Father Trenton to visit him at his home in the next town. The +invitation was promptly accepted, and another happy evening whiled +away. It was inspiring to all languages and creeds to see the warm and +hearty cordiality of feeling that existed between these two broad and +liberal-minded men, which taught the world that the elevation of the +human race lay not in such senseless antagonisms as existed among our +bigoted and foolish ancestors, but in the exercise of a spirit not only +of toleration, but of good-fellowship and love. +</P> + +<P> +Some very amusing incidents occurred during the performance of the +marriage ceremony. One man, who had previously been received into the +Church, and who was asked the question, "Will you renounce the world, +the flesh and the evil one?" the answer of which was, "I renounce them +all," was asked, "Will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, for +better, for worse, in sickness and health, till death you do part?" and +in his excitement, having the membership reception in mind, he said, "I +renounce them all." On another occasion, while a couple were being +yoked together, the groomsman suddenly leaned over and saluted the +bride instead of the groom, to the infinite amusement of all present, +and causing the face of the latter to take on a crimson hue. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap02"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER II. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>MR. MELVIN'S MARRIAGE AND TEACHINGS.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +It was rumored for some time that the minister of Mount Zion, or the +incumbent, or pastor, or whatever you desire to call him, was in the +habit of visiting a certain young lady in a distant town. Now there +were many fine young ladies belonging to the tabernacle, but as +distance seemed to lend merit and attractiveness, its spiritual head +found his choice elsewhere. Although not a graduate, Miss Spencer was +a well-read young lady of refined instincts and excellent character; +she had taught school for some time, and was of French ancestry. In +commenting afterward upon his choice, Mr. Melvin said that as a +Canadian he saw that one of the most important steps in nation building +was to unify, as far as possible, the different races and creeds in +this country, and he was one of those who were setting the pace. +</P> + +<P> +When Mrs. Melvin was brought home, after a very interesting ceremony at +the Spencer homestead, the people were charmed with her and the +tabernacle congregation gave her a splendid reception. +</P> + +<P> +The minister's wife in every way justified the good opinion formed of +her at first sight. She was a quiet, unobtrusive Christian, with a +sympathetic nature, which soon brought her in touch with the poor and +afflicted in the community. Many a basket prepared by her own hand +found its way into the homes of want, and many a visit was made which +comforted and cheered the anguished sufferer, and which tended to turn +the hour of sorrow into one of joy. Mrs. Melvin proved herself an +angel of mercy in Carsville, and frequently relieved her husband by +taking charge of a service of praise, or by preaching a sermon in +connection with the Sabbath service. Her work as a teacher had made +her a fluent, impressive and logical speaker, who was always acceptable +to the people. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin now saw that the time was ripe for moulding public opinion +along not only spiritual but national lines, and he did not even +consult the politicians concerning the matter, but as a teacher applied +himself resolutely to the task. +</P> + +<P> +The very first Sunday after bringing his bride from her somewhat +distant home the pastor of Mount Zion Tabernacle preached on sin, and +said the individual must come out from among his sinful associates in +renunciation thereof, and dare to be singular, or there is little hope. +As it is with individuals, so with nations. The people who in a +national sense, associate with a country, to the extent of forming a +part of it, that reeks with drunkenness and licentiousness will +assuredly, if they do not come out from it, share its ruin, which is +sure and certain as the fact that God rules and reigns. +</P> + +<P> +The following Sunday Mr. Melvin preached on the character and +attributes of Christ, saying that, He did not rule or reign among men +in an imperial sense, seated upon a kingly throne in such splendor that +only a chosen few could approach Him, but in a thoroughly democratic +manner, to whom the rich and poor, the learned and unlearned, all alike +could come, to find in Him a Saviour, Brother, Friend and merciful High +Priest, one who was touched with a feeling of human infirmity, and who +always entered into sympathy with humankind. +</P> + +<P> +The third Sunday the subject was religion, the preacher asking if it +was a creed, or a bundle of doctrinal standards, if it was Calvinism or +Arminianism, Brahminism or Buddhism, Confucianism or Zoroastrianism, or +the cheering of narrow-minded bigots for sixteenth century ideas. +</P> + +<P> +The man who with Pauline fearlessness asked these questions also +himself answered them, saying it is none of these, but it is to be so +filled with the loving Christ spirit as to visit the sick and +fatherless in their affliction, and keep unspotted from the world, to +manifest the Christ spirit in all life's relationships, which spirit +was one of broadest charity and love. +</P> + +<P> +After those three momentous sermons the minister, to stimulate his +young people in a way that would lead to energetic action along the +line of acquiring knowledge, preached a sermon on the subject of +education. He told his hearers not to be afraid to read scientific and +philosophical as well as historical literature, and do not become +nervous, he said, if many of your old cherished ideas are proven to +have had for their foundation the ever-shifting sand. +</P> + +<P> +If research proves that man has been on this earth 2,000,000 of years +instead of 6,000, as formerly taught, do not be afraid to accept it, +for it is in perfect harmony with the teachings of God's own +revelation, and infinitely more correct than the antiquated teaching of +the past, according to the most eminent authority in the world. If in +former times it was taught that the atmosphere was forty-five miles +high, who now would continue to adhere to such a belief, when with +their own' eyes they can see meteoric stones burst into flame one +hundred miles from the earth, thus proving the atmosphere to be +considerably more than that height, as in order to become so heated as +to glow it must collide with atmospheric particles for many miles. The +same may be said of history, study it in every phase, turn on the side +lights, and you will find that in many cases it is very different to +what you have always been taught. The immense congregation which +thronged the tabernacle were now beginning to find out that their +former teachers were of the antediluvian school, but that a man with +enlightened mind and scholarship so acute that it could not be measured +by academic degrees had come among them. This progressive and advanced +teacher, however, warned them that in the midst of all their +advancement they would find that Israel's God was their God, and that +they would have to obey Him, and live clean, faithful, fruitful lives, +so as to one day hear the "Well done," and enter into the Master's joy. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap03"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER III. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>SECRETARY-TREASURER THOMPSON'S DEATH—A<BR> +SURPRISE FROM THE FAR-OFF EAST.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +The most pious and trusted of all the tabernacle officials was John +Thompson, who, though not handsome in the outer man, was in soul +beautiful. Indeed, his homeliness was at one time the subject of a +good joke, when an old friend of Mr. Melvin's, who was a noted +scientist, in visiting him, attended a Sabbath service, and seeing him +(that is, Mr. Thompson), said to a bystander: "I have long sought for +the missing link to establish the development theory, but the last +place I ever expected to find it was in Mount Zion Tabernacle, and yet +there it is!" +</P> + +<P> +In spite of jests, however, the secretary-treasurer had the qualities +of mind and heart which go to make the true man, and when word was +borne to his pastor that he was seriously ill, Mr. Melvin lost no time +in reaching his couch. The first question he asked was, "Are you +suffering much, Brother Thompson," who, in reply, said: "I am suffering +great bodily pain, but though heart and flesh fail I am trusting in the +living God." The fifteen minutes that followed were too sacred to +record, and when the minister left the sick man's chamber it was +noticed that his face looked as if he had been treading on the +borderland of Paradise. Next day, as our clerical friend was entering +the home of his afflicted official, he met the medical doctor who had +been in attendance, and asked him if there was any hope for his friend. +The doctor said that if his trouble had been attended to in time his +life would have been saved, but now no power on earth could do more +than prolong it for a few days. Mr. Melvin saw that what the man of +skill said was correct, as he had frequently noticed that Mr. Thompson +was in poor health, if appearances went for anything, and altogether he +was so busied with his duties and deeds of charity that he neglected +himself until there was no chance for medical science to give him, as +it would have done under Providence, if consulted in time, years of +usefulness. Next time the pastor visited his dying parishioner, he +received some good advice from one who was not nearly so learned as +himself. Said he: "If your sermons possessed the spirituality which +they do philosophy and common-sense, the congregation would soon +receive a great spiritual uplift." Mr. Melvin was a very sane man, and +heeded not the rebuke except to profit by it. Indeed, it was a marked +compliment to him that his teaching was endorsed by the best man in his +congregation while on the verge of the heavenly kingdom. +</P> + +<P> +Next day the minister called again to see his faithful officer, and on +inquiry found that his hopes still rested upon his Saviour's blood and +righteousness, and in the conversation which followed Mr. Thompson +said: "How little in this hour do stocks, bonds and mortgages, houses +and lands, trouble one. The only house of which I can now think is the +one to which I have a clear title through a loving Saviour's +sacrificial death, and it has not been formed by human hands, for its +builder and founder is God." As Mr. Melvin bade farewell to his friend +on this occasion, he saw that he was steadily sinking, and would soon +be in the house of many mansions. About two o'clock next morning the +door-bell at the parsonage was so vigorously rung that everybody was +awakened, and a message was handed in, asking the pastor to go, if +possible, at once to Mr. Thompson's, as he was just dying. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin dressed quickly and passed out into the darkness of the +night, soon arriving at the home of the dying man. One glance showed +that the sands had almost run out, but upon his feeling the hand-clasp, +the sick man revived for a time and said, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear +heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which +God has in store for those that love Him." After uttering these words +he seemed to be exhausted, and sank down deeper into his pillow. Mr. +Melvin watched him, and after a time saw his lips move, and placing his +ear close to them, caught the words, "Home at last, home at last." +Then the lips ceased to move, and all could see that the ransomed +spirit of the redeemed man had passed beyond the river. +</P> + +<P> +The people of Carsville and of the world had now an evidence that +character and true worth could not be measured by outward appearance. +During the hours that the body of the sainted Thompson lay in state and +was deposited in God's acre the flags were flying at half-mast, and +every business place was closed. In spite of unattractive exterior the +people of all languages and creeds in the place recognized the fact +that a broad-minded man, full of loving sympathy for all classes and +creeds, was not dead, but had been translated. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin always looked with a certain measure of suspicion upon +holiness people, believing that there was more hypocrisy than sanity in +all that sort of thing, and called to mind the case of Sambo who +professed it, and when asked by his good old-fashioned class-leader, +who knew his weakness, if he had during the past week stolen any ducks, +said, "No, massa." "Any geese?" "No, massa." "Any turkeys?" "No, +massa." "Bless the Lord, Sambo, you are on your happy way to heaven." +As the leader passed on to admonish the next, Sambo turned to his +neighbor and whispered: "If massa had said chickens he had me; I was at +de roosts of Widder Simpkins last week." +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Thompson had, however, never professed it, but his life gave +evidence that he possessed it, and his pastor thought it wise never to +mention that much misunderstood word "holiness" again. +</P> + +<P> +Shortly after the burial of the secretary-treasurer there came to +Carsville a straight military-looking young man with an indifferent +air, who procured employment at the foundry, and whom the minister +noticed in the congregation, intercepting him at the close of the +service to find out who he was and to welcome him. The person was +Leonard Devoau, who had returned from Manchuria, where he had fought in +the Russian army at Port Arthur and Mukden, escaping from the former to +the latter disguised as a Chinaman, where he took part in the world's +greatest battle. Mr. Devoau said that he was born at Ottawa, the +capital of the Dominion, and always loved adventure, and it was this +love that led him to enlist in the Russian army, and pass through the +frightful scenes at the above places. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin was much impressed by the bearing of the young stranger who +had returned from Manchuria so recently, and invited him to the +parsonage so that they might get better acquainted. During the course +of the evening he asked his guest if he was fond of soldiering, and in +reply was told that when he left Canada he was in love with the idea, +and even after the awful experiences of Port Arthur, where he was often +for hours together in a perfect hell of fire, he thought he would love +a fair fight in the open, and accordingly broke for Mukden. He told +the minister, however, that this great battle, including the retreat, +was even worse than the siege, as in the former large bodies of them +had frequently to face about and charge with the bayonet to press back +the hordes of Japanese who were continually driving in upon them. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Devoau said: "When you think of the fact that we could never meet +our enemies when we were not outnumbered from two to three to every one +of our own men, you will concede that we never had a fair chance, but +put them man to man and they could never withstand the Russians in a +bayonet charge. The disparity in numbers is very evident from the fact +that the Russians had only 300,000 infantry and 26,700 cavalry at +Mukden, while opposed to this was a force of 650,000 men, or, for all +practical purposes, just double the number. We fought them for +nineteen days along a front one hundred miles in length, and were only +then defeated by an accident, bringing off 1,300 guns out of 1,360, and +a larger quantity of baggage, marching into headquarters, as the corps +of General Linevitch actually did, with banners flying and bands +playing as if they were just fresh from the parade ground. Marshal +Oyama may go down in history as a great strategist, but in my humble +judgment General Kuropatkin is greater. The general knew full well +that if he had one more army corps he could have cut in two the long +drawn out flanking force of his antagonist, crumpled it up, and turned +their victory into a disastrous and decisive defeat. As it was, at the +close of the war General Linevitch confronted the enemy with 1,000,000 +men in arms, and they, unwilling to try conclusions when there was man +for man, made a peace favorable to Russia on the whole. As +corroboration of this I give you the word of the foreign military +attaches to the Russian army." +</P> + +<P> +As Mr. Melvin did not in his own home consider it in very good form to +inquire into the past history of Mr. Devoau, he soon visited him at his +lodgings and asked him concerning his life. He said, in answer to the +question, that he had been brought up by Christian parents, who held +that any deviation from the path of moral rectitude was an awful thing, +and consequently he himself had never gotten astray morally; his +besetting sin, he said, was a love for wild adventure by flood or +field, and he was now perfectly satisfied and desired no more of that +kind of thing. He had foolishly thought that there was much glory in +war, but after seeing its hydraheaded hideousness, and himself testing +its fearful hardships, he was prepared to denounce it as anti-Christian +and barbarous, except in a defensive sense. Also concerning his +education he had helped different members of his father's family in +their studies, and had thus been prevented from entering upon a +university course, though he had undergraduate standing. +</P> + +<P> +The pastor of the tabernacle said he was surprised that with his +standing he should enter a foundry, and work his way just as one would +who had no earlier advantages, but the reply was a very rational one, +for he said he and his brother had decided that when they had mastered +every detail of the business, and had saved sufficient money to warrant +it, they would start a foundry of their own. "While in the Russian +army," he continued, "I discovered that the prospect for iron founders +was brighter than for most classes." +</P> + +<P> +The minister now asked his new friend if he would like to join the +tabernacle, and at the same time gave him a hearty invitation, but he +said he could not conscientiously join, but would attend the services. +Mr. Melvin said, "Now I am not a bigot, and do not insist on every one +doing as I do, and being what I am. How would you like to simply +become a member of our Young People's Society, where we would help you +and you could help us?" "I will do that," said Mr. Devoau. +</P> + +<P> +The new acquisition to the Debating Club of Mount Zion Tabernacle +proved a great drawing card, as it was well known at the foundry and +all around that he possessed a fine moral character and could always be +relied upon. Before asking him to connect himself with the society the +minister had not only talked to him personally, but had also written to +Ottawa, and asked concerning his past life, and found that he had told +the truth, and that, as he himself said, "The worst things he had ever +done, and that only since entering the army, was to smoke a cigar and +play a game of cards without stakes." +</P> + +<P> +The pastor and his officials, however, were soon to receive a rebuke +when Mr. Devoau told them, after they had been praising him for his +clean life, that if they had more of the loving Christ spirit instead +of lauding him they would be out into the lanes and alleys, into the +highways and byways, gathering in the lost and sinful rather than those +who had always been moral. "It seems to me," he said, "the Church is +more needed to foster and guide those who have had their garments +stained with sin than those who without any credit to themselves, but +to the instruction and coercion of puritanical parents, always kept +themselves clean." +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin was so struck with the fact that the young man who had +rebuked them possessed true worth that he invited him to relate his +experiences during the war in an address, when the whole evening would +be given up to him, and on which the tabernacle doors would be thrown +open to the public. The invitation was accepted, the young ex-soldier +announcing his intention of relating some of the incidents in +connection with the storming of 203 Metre Hill, of which he was one of +the defenders, and the assaults on the entrenchments at Mukden. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap04"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IV. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>203 METRE HILL AND MUKDEN.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +Before a crowded audience and under the auspices of the Young People's +Club, Mr. Devoau said: "Now, before I launch right out into a +description of battle charges, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to +understand that I feel so humble and modest in this matter that I +believe if I had never seen Port Arthur the defence would have been +just as stubborn, and if I had not been in the advanced works at Mukden +the battle would have lasted nineteen days all the same, and the army +of the Czar would have been saved. Nothing worthy of notice occurred +during my long voyage from Montreal; at least everything was so tame in +the shape of the railway trip from Ottawa to the above-mentioned place, +and the tossing upon the waters of the mighty deep until a blockade +runner landed me at the seat of war, to what followed afterwards that I +will not weary you to-night by relating it. +</P> + +<P> +"When I arrived at headquarters General Stoessel did not require my +services, as Russians only were preferred, but I pleaded so hard with +him through an interpreter, and told him I had come all the way from +Canada, and was just spoiling for a fight, telling him at the same time +if he desired to know more about me to send a cable message to their +consul at Ottawa. This seemed to satisfy the general, and he at last +assigned me to the Prebensky Regiment of sharpshooters that held 203, +after testing me with a rifle. I soon got well acquainted with my +comrades, and a jollier lot of fellows never lived, who had no end of +fun at the expense of the little niggers, as they termed the Japanese. +Our fun, however, was shortlived, for one day the hills opposite our +position burst into flame as though struck by lightning, and 203 Metre +spurted flame, and boiled like a cauldron from a succession of fearful +explosions, as shells alighted upon it. Our colonel signalled us to +lie close. Every little while a gun would be tossed clean into the air +by the explosion of an eleven-inch shell, and sometimes a whole squad +of men would be literally torn to pieces, legs, arms and fragments of +flesh flying in all directions. This pounding made us dreadful angry, +a number of the men swearing fluently, even the grey-haired colonel, I +was told, made some unmentionable remarks, and I, who had never sworn +in my life, made some very sarcastic references to the proceeding. +</P> + +<P> +"Those horrible eleven-inch shells made bomb-proofs and covered works +of all kinds very little more secure than the open. Many men were +struck down around me, some of them horribly mangled, and portions of +the works literally smashed to splinters, but such is war, and some +call it glory. +</P> + +<P> +"After this fearful hammering had gone on for a time with hell reigning +all around, as suddenly as it started the appalling din ceased, and +nothing could be heard but the piteous moaning of men who were so +horribly mangled, many of them, that if their own mothers were present, +they could not recognize them. During the awful bombardment, just as +we had expected, the enemy, who had made considerable progress under +cover of the night, had advanced right to the foot of the hill. +Hitherto we could see nothing, as not a soldier was in sight, and all +that we could do was to pound the naked hillside, but now the little +brown squads, in twenties, began rushing across the fire zone, and it +appeared as if they were reserves coming up to reinforce the men at the +base of the hill. +</P> + +<P> +"Our blood was up after the abuse we had received, and we pounded them +with big guns, pom-poms, Maxims and rifles, but still they came, and +quickly forming, marched up the valley of the shadow of death until a +shrill whistle rang out, when they turned square toward our position, +another whistle and they doubled files, and came on with splendid +precision. Their colonel, a grey-haired veteran, stood on a spur, and +heedless of shrieking missiles, had only one thought, and that was of +203. It is true the hill had been assaulted before, while it is +equally true that the enemy had been beaten back with frightful +carnage. Now, however, something seemed to say that the end was near, +as old Teleda, the veteran of twenty-seven engagements, stood as if on +parade, directing the attack. His men sank to mother earth singly and +in mangled heaps, but he had no eye for their dead or ear for the +moaning of their wounded; 203 was the game, and anything smaller, such +as noting the mutilated forms upon the blood-drenched sands in the +valley, was beneath contempt. A battery of six guns came up to the +foot of the hill at a gallop, the gunners setting them at an angle of +many degrees, so as to rake our works, but though they concealed +themselves as best they could, our sharpshooters frequently got a bead, +and an artilleryman would throw up his hands with a shriek and tumble +in a heap. +</P> + +<P> +"After a rest the enemy opened again, the hills in front spouting +flame, and the battery at the foot of our position vomiting death. +Between the explosions, however, and they came thick and fast, we saw +the figures of men as numerous as ants swarming up the base of the +hill. Our machine guns were soon angled upon them, and our rifles sent +rattling volleys among them, but the explosions in our position now +come so frequently that we are soon choked in clouds of dust, and +battered by splinters of gun carriages and even falling sand bags. The +signal now rang out to fix bayonets, and this was no sooner done than +hand grenades were hurled in upon us, the explosions of which tore the +heads off some of our men, the legs and arms off others, but the most +sickening sight to me was that of a man not three yards away who had +the fore part of his chest clean torn away, leaving his mangled lungs +exposed to view. At this stage observation was cut short by a whole +battalion of Japanese infantry tumbling over the parapet, followed by +swarms of reserves. We sprang upon them with the steel, and a +frightful conflict ensued, men fell dead in twos, often with their +bayonets buried in one another's bodies. For two or three minutes +nothing could be heard but shots, and imprecations, and shrieks, and +rattling steel, and then all was over, 203 Metre Hill was taken, but +after we got out—that is, all that was left of us—it was turned into +a smoking volcano by the shells from our forts around, and the enemy +nearly shared our fate in being ejected." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap05"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER V. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN—AND CALL OF <BR> +MR. DEVOAU AS ASSOCIATE MINISTER.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +After the recital of the fall of the key to Port Arthur, the speaker of +the evening gave his experiences in the world's greatest battle as +follows: "I arrived at Mukden long before the fight, and after the +famous victorious charge of Poutiloff up the slopes of Lone Tree Hill, +by which the Japanese were driven out with fearful loss, I wanted to be +one of its defenders, but General Kuropatkin seemed to know all about +me, and insisted that I connect myself with the force holding +Yuhungtun. I was angry and thought I was going to miss the liveliest +part of it, but the general knew better. +</P> + +<P> +"There was a good chance to become acquainted with the men before the +conflict, and I found them really fine fellows. Some were capital +marksmen, and as the enemy's outposts drew nearer amused themselves by +sniping the men in the advanced pits, and many a Jap whose head only +was visible did we see lifted out of his hole with his brains oozing +out of a bullet perforation in his upper story. The time came at last, +however, when 1,000,000 men confronted each other in the lines of +battle, who were destined to suffer a loss in killed, wounded and +prisoners within three weeks of 250,000 men, or just one-fourth of the +entire number. Although the battle proper lasted about nine days, what +with preliminaries and the rear-guard action which followed, it might +be safe to add ten more. The struggle was fearful, and nobody was so +much master of the situation as our commander-in-chief, who knew from +the beginning where the blow would fall. +</P> + +<P> +"General Rennenkampf, the Cossack chief, had with his staff traversed +the entire one hundred miles of front and had handed in his report to +his superior. The plan of Marshal Oyama was to outflank our army and +cut off its retreat, and after surrounding it pound it, until it +capitulated, but in Kuropatkin he had met a man so able in strategy +that he could easily outgeneral him and bring his plans to naught. +When the eleven-inch shells which had wrought such destruction at the +port began to fall it soon became evident that the works on which had +been expended the labor of months and the skill of the best engineers +were going to dust. In spite of the fact, however, that we were +outclassed in numbers and heavy artillery our men put up a terrible +fight. After a fearful pounding with all kinds of guns, one day the +enemy in overwhelming force came upon us with the bayonet, and after a +hand-to-hand struggle, without parallel we believe, in which the ground +was piled with the slain, we were forced out and our works taken. +During the awful struggle which cost us our position, I was struck in +the side by the steel of a Jap, which cut a groove between two of my +ribs, but although I was not seriously hurt I recognized the fact that +one inch more, or possibly half of that, and to-night instead of +talking to you I would have been in a nameless grave on Manchuria's +plains, with my warrior shroud for a winding sheet, until the earth +would give up its dead. +</P> + +<P> +"It is a remarkable fact that although people said, with the advent of +modern repeating arms and machine guns, that bayonet charges were no +longer possible, as such rushes in force would spell annihilation, yet +there never was a battle in all history where so many charges were made +and in which cold steel crossed so often as at Mukden. +</P> + +<P> +"Word now came to us that our army had taken the offensive in the +centre, and was forcing the enemy back, and encouraged by this we +determined to retake our lost position. As we were forming for the +attack the divisional commander came along, and noticing the shortage +of officers, said to the colonel of our regiment: 'Take the most +experienced men from the ranks and put them in charge of sections and +companies.' Although this was said in Russian, I had now picked up +enough of the language to understand it. The colonel did not like the +advice and said: 'General, this is contrary to custom; you know we need +to safeguard these positions by the use of a little red tape.' The +general became furious and said: 'Red tape to ——! It has been the +curse of the army in the past, and it will curse any army, and at, best +bring nothing but humiliation. What we want is merit, which +practically means experience and courage with a large amount of +intelligence thrown in.' It was now evident to the colonel that he +must obey his superior officer, and he came over to me and said: +'Devoau, I want you to take No. 5 Company, as its officers are all dead +or wounded.' I set my teeth and obeyed, believing that I myself would +soon be as they. All was soon ready and the order was given, 'Forward, +steady under cover.' When we reached the open or fire zone two +whistles pierced the air—one to deploy in loose order and the other to +double. We now swept forward, the enemy's batteries opening upon us. +The men of my company went down, sometimes one and sometimes three or +four in a heap at a time. As we reached our old position I was +perfectly furious because of our losses, and though I had never sworn +in my life before I yelled between my clenched teeth, 'Give them +<I>hell</I>, boys!' Just as we were tumbling in upon them our colonel, who +was braver and better than any of us, was shot through the brain and +instantly killed. Even though the colonel was killed and whole +companies had gone down in that awful rush, the Japanese might as well +have tried to stem Niagara's torrent as to beat back our infuriated +men, and all that was left of them got out faster than they had charged +in. The night within the village was one that would never fade from +memory. The streets were strewn with broken rifles, twisted sabres and +bayonets, dismounted guns, broken gun carriages and dead men, some of +whom still clutched each other in the grip of death. I was now +ordered, though I felt unequal to the task or honor, to take temporary +command of our decimated regiment. +</P> + +<P> +"In trying to hold on to our old position we had to withstand some +terrible bayonet rushes on the part of the enemy in efforts to retake +it, and our regiment, which entered the battle with 2,450 men, had just +585 left to respond to the order to retire. Another regiment lost +1,100 men. The place assigned us in this most, orderly retreat was in +the rear-guard, and just as we took our places our brigade commander +was decapitated by the explosion of a pom-pom shell, and I was ordered +to hand over my regiment to a major and take charge of the brigade. +</P> + +<P> +"We had an awful time during the retreat, but every onrush was stemmed, +and at each repulse of the foe our men, with bayonets dripping red, +cheered to the echo. +</P> + +<P> +"The war was now practically over, and although every man of ours had +two foemen opposed to him, the Japs had a narrow escape from defeat; +nothing but the accident of a duststorm averting it, by enabling them +in the darkness thereof to break the lines of General Linevitch when +his men could not see a yard ahead of them. +</P> + +<P> +"When we reached headquarters I, having nothing but a temporary +connection with the Russian army, went to my chief and tendered him my +uniform and arms, telling him, as there was not likely to be any more +fighting, I would return to Canada. He, however, refused to take +anything, saying that as a mark of honor and appreciation I must retain +them, and after saying 'Good-bye' to my battle-scarred comrades I went +to the station to entrain for the coast, and as it steamed out a crowd +of officers and men waved their caps and handkerchiefs, shouting, +'Canada for ever; long live Canada and the Canadians!' I felt I did +not do much for them—any one, perhaps, would have done better—but I +had done my little best, and they had trusted and honored me. I like +the Russians; they are good fellows, and are greatly slandered in the +West. They have a moral code, and with some exceptions, they live up +to it, and any nation that crosses arms with them will pay a heavy toll. +</P> + +<P> +"In closing, I presume you would like to know more fully my opinion of +war, and in giving it I will say that if you murder a man by shooting +or stabbing him you are merciful, but if you kill him by exploding an +eleven-inch shell, in many cases he will be torn to fragments and his +dismembered body scattered over an acre of ground. In other instances +that I have seen at Mukden and 203 Metre Hill, men have been mortally +wounded and left an unrecognizable mass of flesh and blood, which for +days heaved with anguish and life, while others, after hours and +sometimes days of agony, died with broken bayonets protruding from +their backs, having entered as gallant breasts as ever swelled with +breath and life. +</P> + +<P> +"I have forsworn war for ever, after the dreadful scenes which I have +witnessed, and there were scenes which I did not witness, in far-off +Russia and Japan, which were infinitely more appalling, where was seen +the dreary sobbing of broken-hearted widowhood and the piteous wailing +of hungry, fatherless children. Added to this was the pale-faced +sorrow of sisters bereft of brothers and sweethearts, who had lost +those who would have been nearer than brothers, and who now with broken +hearts ceased to live and began only to exist in hopeless despair. The +Russians met in their foes armies trained after the pattern of the +German military system, and none of us ever again desire to cross +weapons with men trained as those are, who have learned from that land +of advanced scholarship and military superiority. The Japanese were +foemen worthy of their steel, but instead of their arms being +dishonored fresh lustre was shed upon them." +</P> + +<P> +At the close of his address Mr. Devoau was applauded to the echo, after +adding as a rider that in his denunciation of war he would, of course, +make an exception of defensive operations. +</P> + +<P> +The next Sabbath in the morning service Mr. Melvin started the +tabernacle congregation by announcing that as he would soon reach the +retiring line, and as the immense congregation, with its many needs, +overtaxed his strength, he had long thought of an associate who, when +he retired, would take full charge. Continuing, he said: "I have +spoken to Mr. Devoau and asked him if he would not abandon the thought +of a life so selfish as that of making himself one of the foremost iron +founders in Canada and join me in the work of preaching and teaching. +His answer has been favorable, if it is the will of the people, and he +has further said that if it is their will he will accept it as the +Master's will." +</P> + +<P> +A meeting of the officers of the church was called for Tuesday evening, +when the matter was discussed, and Mr. Devoau's profession of faith +heard, when he told them that he was of French-Canadian parentage and +could not subscribe to every technicality. His frankness and +fearlessness won every heart, a vote was taken, and he was unanimously +called to be associate pastor of Mount Zion. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap06"></A> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VI. +</H3> + +<H4 ALIGN="center"> +<I>FURTHER TEACHINGS AND HOW THEY ARE ESTIMATED.</I> +</H4> + +<P> +After his ordination the new preacher took his place in the pulpit once +every Sunday, and being now a close student of theology as well as of +other subjects, he soon became an eloquent and powerful speaker, and +the entire congregation was delighted with him. The last Sunday of the +national year, Mr. Melvin announced a sermon on "The Ideal Relationship +of Capital and Labor," prompted by the recent trouble at the foundry +between employers and their hands. The preacher of the day said: +"Beware of so-called socialism, for it trenches very closely on the +borderland of anarchism, and after having listened to lectures and +sermons an hour long and read many books upon that much-abused topic, I +am constrained to turn to the teaching of the Man of Nazareth, and find +in that teaching something more rational and common-sense than +elsewhere. In the first place our Saviour recognized property rights +when he said, 'Render unto Cæsar the things which are Cæsar's, and unto +God the things which are God's.' This doctrine is for the workingman +as well as for his employer, and enables both to procure homes for +themselves and hold them in their own right. +</P> + +<P> +"We cannot fail to recognize the fatherhood of God, and if so then we +must recognize the brotherhood of man, for all men truly should be +such. If you and I have come to that point where we regard every man +as our brother, on the authority of Jesus Christ, the social problem +will be solved, and the capitalist will regard and treat the man who +toils for him as the son of his Father God, and the toiler will regard +the employer as not only his brother, but co-heir with himself to an +incorruptible inheritance. Much depends, brethren, on the exercise of +that charity which translates love. Love one another and you will use +one another aright. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, +and there was life as the wounded Israelites looked upon it, so there +is life in a look at the crucified One, and there is more than that, +there is adjustment of relationships between husband and wife, between +pastor and people, between citizens and their chief magistrate, between +capital and labor. I can do no better than lift my hand toward the sky +and utter that little classic, '<I>Ecce Homo</I>,' and He is the Man of +Sorrow." +</P> + +<P> +The senior pastor's sermon had a marvellous effect upon the people, and +it was said that the iron workers' difficulty was soon settled on the +Christ principle. The next Sunday being July 1st, the anniversary of +Confederation, the Rev. Mr. Devoau preached a sermon in keeping with +the day, and said "that the Iroquois term 'Kannatha,' which was very +restricted in its meaning, and only signified a collection of wigwams +or huts—a village, we might say—had become corrupted into Canada, but +now stood for dominion power and nationality. The population had grown +into many millions, and the area was 3,750,000 square miles, or nearly +as great as the entire continent of Europe. The mineral and coal +deposits are almost inexhaustible, and the exports and imports the +astonishment of the nations. +</P> + +<P> +"The growth of our cities is simply wonderful. Winnipeg has doubled +its population in five years; Calgary has nearly trebled the number of +its citizens in the same period, while Montreal has become the New York +of Canada. Truly the words of our text apply specially to us, 'He hath +not dealt so with any nation, and as for his judgments we have not +known them.'" +</P> + +<P> +Continuing, the speaker said: "The God who has so wondrously blessed us +since 1867, when a confederation of our leading provinces took place, +expects us to be rational and sane, and stand for unity and +consolidation of languages and creeds, that Canada may show to the +world what the brotherhood of man means and that the Saviour's teaching +has been put into practice upon our ocean-girt shores. A large number +of our people do not know what the term Canadian means. They will do +well to remember that it takes in not only the people of old Ontario, +but the people of the greater Canada beyond, with its diversity of +speech and polity, and no responsible person would say or do anything +that would not tend to weld together the different doctrines and +tongues. If we are true to God and each other we will one day stand in +the front rank of world powers, and our fleets, not of war, but of +commerce, will ride upon every sea. The battle of the Sea of Japan or +Corea proved that battleships were not worth the coal that steamed +them, but our mercantile marine is of priceless value, for it carries +our wares to every land and our commerce into the marts thereof and +into every clime." +</P> + +<P> +Immediately upon the close of the sermon, Mr. Melvin, who had occupied +a seat upon the platform, arose and said, "This is the best sermon to +which I have ever listened; it is truly the teaching of a man who is +saner and wiser than his fellows." Upon the utterance of these words +the vast audience broke into thunders of applause, evidencing the fact +that it was the sentiment of all. +</P> + +<P> +As the summer advanced, Mr. Devoau invited Mr. Melvin to take a trip to +Ottawa with him, as he was going to visit his parents for a day. The +invitation was accepted, and these two kindred spirits started off on +an early train for Canada's beautiful capital, where they were met by +Mr. Devoau, senior, who heartily welcomed the friend and colleague of +his son. As they walked toward the home of the Devoau family, whom +should they meet but the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister +of Canada, who was out for a stroll, and with whom the elder Devoau was +well acquainted. Both preachers were at once introduced to the +Premier, who was very gracious and genial. Mr. Devoau said they were +having a day's recreation after their recent teachings. Sir Wilfrid +said: "I will not ask what those teachings were, as I am sure they were +all right." Mr. Melvin said: "They were not exactly like those of the +Scotchman, who was asked if his health was good, and he said, 'I am no +verry weel the day, for last nicht I was teaching the bairnies doon at +the hall hoo to vote.'" Said he, "We are not exactly teaching people +how to vote, but we are trying to pound sin out of them." The Premier +then made the hit of the day when he said, "Get all the sin out of them +and they will vote right." +</P> + +<P> +After a splendid day, during which they visited the noble pile on +Parliament Hill and had a sail in a steam launch on the majestic river, +the pastors of the tabernacle returned to Carsville, where at the Young +People's meeting the senior minister related their experiences while in +Canada's beauty spot, as the capital city might be called. He told of +meeting the Premier and of his friendliness and geniality. "This +country," said he, "has had gentlemen in that position, and it has had +statesmen for prime ministers, but it never so strikingly combined the +two great qualities as in the person of him whose name will be engraven +with a surpassing lustre upon the bead-roll of the nation, and the name +will be that of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier." +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Melvin, who did not feel quite so strong recently, thought of +seeking a much-needed rest in retirement for a time at least, now that +his colleague was immensely popular, and could now handle the entire +congregation, though it never was so large. However, just as he was +preparing for this move an invitation came to him to enter upon higher +educational work, which he at once accepted, saying that, he would +still preach and teach, and would really have a larger field in which +to do good, and the change of air and scene would be as good as a rest. +</P> + +<P> +The people of Carsville expressed much regret at the departure of one +who was known as an admirable citizen as well as an able and effective +minister. Mr. Melvin, however, always told them that he was leaving +with them a man after his own heart. +</P> + +<P> +Before the day of his leave-taking a farewell banquet was tendered him, +at which were appreciative after-dinner speeches, the chair being +occupied by Rev. Mr. Devoau, informally. Abraham Thompson, Esq., +senior member of the Board, when called upon, said: "I am grieved at +the departure of one who has been everything that I could +wish—broad-minded, sympathetic, and scholarly—one in whom all could +alike trust, ever finding in him a wise counsellor and a safe guide; a +man of splendid mental balance, of unusual wisdom. To say that I +endorse his teachings is not enough; I heartily endorse all of it, and +pray that the Great Head of the Church will bless and keep our mutual +friend, together with his much appreciated partner, unto their +journey's end." +</P> + +<P> +The next called upon was Thomas Edwards, the leading merchant in the +place. He was shrewd in business and a keen discerner of men. He +said: "Though I am not on the same side of politics as Mr. Melvin, yet +in the main I think his teachings are sound and the product of a sane +mind. Personally, I have learned to respect him. I will, like one who +has preceded me, go farther and say I have learned to love him, and +wish him and his godspeed in a ministry which has been a blessing to my +whole house." +</P> + +<P> +The next official was Edmund Garvin, general manager of the foundry, +and a man of intense perception. Said he: "I have noticed that our +worthy senior pastor, whose removal I deeply regret, always stood for +unification in the home and independence, and not only there, but in +the church and nation, and I may say his sentiment is mine. I, like +him, am no hanger-on—only poltroons are that—and no man in his right +senses would be anything but a brother to all the races and creeds in +our country, and in all his utterances our clerical friend has proven +himself not only wise as a serpent, but also a true Christ man. I wish +him and his amiable wife great happiness and success in future life." +</P> + +<P> +The chairman now saw that as the time was getting late they must close, +and said in a few closing words that his colleague had endeared himself +to him, and had done more for him than he could ever repay. "I, like +yourselves, regret his departure, but feel that he is going into a +field of great usefulness, and he doubted not that he would be happy +and prosperous." +</P> + +<P> +Shortly after Rev. Mr. Melvin's departure old Uncle Reynolds, as he was +called, was struck by a pilot engine at the station, and so seriously +injured that he was taken home in the ambulance. He was the most +saintly man in the tabernacle, and Rev. Mr. Devoau, now in full charge, +was sent for. His practiced eye at once told him that the old man's +hour had almost come. Stooping down he said, "Uncle, how is it with +your soul?" and opening his weary eyes the aged veteran said, "It is +well; it is well." Talking for a moment or two with his pastor he +said: "Our dear Bro. Melvin is gone from us, but, oh, how precious are +his teachings! As the result of them my feet are on the Rock of +Ages—the rock of Christ—and I have long since found out that 'all +other ground,' as the sacred bard says, 'is sinking sand.'" +</P> + +<P> +Coming back late in the evening Mr. Devoau said, "Uncle, is there light +in the valley?" and the dying man raised his feeble hand and blessed +his pastor, and whispered to him that he had already been a blessing to +many and the people loved him. Then he said: "Oh, yes, the valley is +bathed in light; for He has said, 'At evening time it shall be light.'" +With these words trembling upon his lips the old man swept through the +gates of paradise, a ransomed soul. +</P> + +<P> +Finished as was the course of this saintly man, yet the great world, as +in all such cases, moved on, and with it the teaching of the new pastor +of Mount Zion. +</P> + +<P> +Speaking to the young people some time after this, he said: "Let there +be no misunderstanding concerning what I stand for, and what we all +should stand for. I am for liberty of conscience, freedom and +independence, along all lines, both religious and national, even to the +granting of home rule to poor, old, long-suffering Ireland, which, by +all means, it should have, and is justly entitled to in this twentieth +century. +</P> + +<P> +"The question arises, How can we best qualify ourselves for the +salvation of ourselves and fellows, and the working out of our destiny +along general lines? I answer, by consecrating our ransomed powers to +the great Arbiter of Destinies, who stands behind all forms and +systems, but ever watchful of His own." +</P> + +<P> +At the conclusion of the address Mr. Henry, principal of the Public +School, arose and said: "I beg that the Young People's Club will place +upon record, and in letters of gold engrave and place amid the archives +of the church, the admirable and fearless utterances of this evening." +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Henry was followed by one who, in the educational world, stood +higher than he, namely, the head master of the Collegiate Institute in +Carsville, who capped everything by saying, "'Pro bono publico,' and as +well as being for the public good, though I am an independent in +politics, I will say that the Rev. Mr. Devoau has the faculty of always +saying the right thing, and his teachings are an inestimable boon to +all classes in this place." +</P> + +<P> +In a few mouths after this the pastor of Mount Zion was honored with a +degree from world-renowned Harvard, and his influence increased, and +his ministry truly became one of reconciliation and power, until the +ever-circling years at last brought near the Age of Gold. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Alter Ego, by W. W. 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Walker + +Release Date: October 12, 2011 [EBook #37731] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ALTER EGO *** + + + + +Produced by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + +Alter Ego + +A TALE + + + +by Rev. W. W. Walker + + +Author of "By Northern Lakes," "Sabre Thrusts at Freethought," "Plain +Talks on Health and Morals, Part II," and "Occident and Orient." + + + + +AUTHOR'S EDITION + +TORONTO + +WILLIAM BRIGGS + +1907 + + + + +Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one +thousand nine hundred and seven, by WILLIAM WESLEY WALKER, at the +Department of Agriculture + + + + + To + + Lydia Kirby Walker + + the granddaughter of a cultured Frenchman + and the faithful partner of my joys + and sorrows, this volume + is affectionately + dedicated. + + + + +The author is indebted to the great national newspapers of Canada and +the United States, the Toronto _Globe_ and _Collier's Weekly_, for some +facts from the former and some figures from the latter in rounding up +the historical part of the story as relating to the conflict in the Far +East. + + + + +PREFACE + +To men who teach and write the oft-recurring question comes, How can we +so influence others in heart and intellect as to help them reach a +loftier plane of thought and action? As every life has its Gethsemane +of sorrow and tragedy, so every life has its morning star of hope and +its mainspring of faith. + +Our salvation, then, and the lifting up and saving of others is the +exercise of that vital principle which has its incarnation in hope. +The use of this still further causes the mountains of difficulty that +loom portentous in our pathway and tower to the heavens to crumble into +mole-hills. + +The soul is made optimistic and the life beautified by its possession, +while the ear is brought, spiritually speaking, within range of the +victorious shout, "More than conquerors!" and the new song, the song of +Moses and the Lamb. + + + + +CONTENTS + + + I. The Appointment + II. Mr. Melvin's Marriage and Teachings + III. Secretary-Treasurer Thompson's Death--A Surprise + from the Far-off East + IV. 203 Metre Hill and Mukden + V. The Battle of Mukden--and Call of Mr. Devoau as + Associate Minister + VI. Further Teachings and how they are Estimated + + + + +ALTER EGO + + + + +CHAPTER I. + +_THE APPOINTMENT._ + +In the uplands of Canada was an attractive church with a spire that +pointed longing souls to the skies, and the pastor of which had +finished his course with joy and was now joining in the hallelujah +choruses of the upper sanctuary. The authorities of the denomination +to which the church belonged appointed a man to its pulpit who was +progressive and independent, as well as being very broad-minded. The +necessity for this lay in the fact that the population of the place +represented nearly all the languages and creeds to be found in the +Dominion, and consequently if a man of narrow views were appointed he +would soon make shipwreck of everything. + +The new minister, as well as being broad and advanced, was very +honorable, and would not in any way infringe upon the rights of others; +but as Mount Zion was the only church in the place, he was perfectly +safe from any charge of meanness, in the form of coaxing sheep away +from a brother's fold. The first Sunday came upon which the Rev. +Thomas Melvin was to occupy his new pulpit, and an immense congregation +filled every part of the edifice. The text was from the Saviour's +words, "Feed my sheep," and the preacher had not gone far when his +attentive hearers discovered that he was a man of great intellect and +unusual power as a speaker, and they were swayed as corn-stalks in a +tempest as he reasoned of the Saviour's place in the world, and of His +work, and also of man's obligations to Him, as well as to his fellows. + +All through the week this first fearless and powerful sermon was the +talk of all who had heard it. Some, however, did not like it, as +telling them of their duty caused indigestion, while others were +delighted, as they loved a man who shunned not to declare all counsel, +whether pleasing or displeasing. The next Sabbath disclosed the fact +that Mr. Melvin was no plug either, as he said things outside the scope +of the Bible and over the boundary line of prescribed theology. One +old gentleman who occupied a front seat in the church, and who was of +portly mould and genial disposition, and whose dinners were really of +more account in his estimation than anything else, forgot said feasts +for a period sufficiently long to say: "My songs! I wonder what that +new preacher means, anyway!" + +Next day our friend, who was dean of the dinner-table faculty, called +on his new pastor and said, after being asked how he liked the sermon +on Sunday: "My songs! You said things that my bloomin' brain could +'ardly hunderstand." To tell the truth, Mr. Melvin was something of a +statesman as well as a preacher, and with narrow bigots soon became as +much hated as he was beloved by the broad and liberal minded. The +bigots, however, soon ceased to be. Although those classing themselves +as belonging to other denominations were in no case strong enough to +form societies, yet they remained loyal to what they claimed allegiance +to, but this did not hinder them from frequently hearing Mr. Melvin, +who was delighted to see his countrymen, who in some cases spoke the +mellow, musical tongue of France, that land of art, science, and +literature, and military power. As his congregation was so +cosmopolitan and contained representatives of every leading +denomination, the pastor of Mount Zion preached the doctrines of the +Bible in their broadest sense, and showed their most comprehensive +meaning. + +Everyone who heard Mount Zion's rector, or pastor, noticed that he was +perfectly fearless in depicting the exceeding sinfulness of sin, and +having found out that a certain prominent man in the place was very +vile in his morals, and had ruined many young lives, and was in the +habit of running the rig on good people, and who also was most +un-Canadian in his ways, he openly rebuked him for his evil deeds and +for not restraining his family. Of course, this exasperated the man, +and for a long time he was a persistent enemy of Mount Zion's pastor, +but he was yet to find out that the servant of the Galilean would +conquer. His sympathies were all of the Mother Goose type, as is the +case with most evil men, whose stamina is so exhausted in sinning that +they lack the courage to stand alone, and never dare to be Daniels, +above everything heeding God's command. + +As Rev. Mr. Melvin was the only resident ordained man in the place, he +had a great many marriages. Indeed, all the marriages--or rather, +marriage ceremonies--were performed by himself and the Rev. Father +Trenton, of the Catholic Church, who came occasionally from a +neighboring parish to minister to people of his own faith. + +Mr. Melvin, after meeting Father Trenton two or three times, decided +that he was a man of fine principle and real moral worth, also a strong +advocate for total abstinence from cigarettes and strong drink, +believing, as a man of culture and science, that the effect of both was +pernicious and poisonous, and that on that ground they were to be +avoided. The reverend father was a most companionable man, and, as Mr. +Melvin said, was a jolly good fellow. he was soon invited to the manse +for tea, where a most enjoyable time was spent, and where many a good +story was told. There soon came an invitation to Mr. Melvin from +Father Trenton to visit him at his home in the next town. The +invitation was promptly accepted, and another happy evening whiled +away. It was inspiring to all languages and creeds to see the warm and +hearty cordiality of feeling that existed between these two broad and +liberal-minded men, which taught the world that the elevation of the +human race lay not in such senseless antagonisms as existed among our +bigoted and foolish ancestors, but in the exercise of a spirit not only +of toleration, but of good-fellowship and love. + +Some very amusing incidents occurred during the performance of the +marriage ceremony. One man, who had previously been received into the +Church, and who was asked the question, "Will you renounce the world, +the flesh and the evil one?" the answer of which was, "I renounce them +all," was asked, "Will you have this woman to be your wedded wife, for +better, for worse, in sickness and health, till death you do part?" and +in his excitement, having the membership reception in mind, he said, "I +renounce them all." On another occasion, while a couple were being +yoked together, the groomsman suddenly leaned over and saluted the +bride instead of the groom, to the infinite amusement of all present, +and causing the face of the latter to take on a crimson hue. + + + + +CHAPTER II. + +_MR. MELVIN'S MARRIAGE AND TEACHINGS._ + +It was rumored for some time that the minister of Mount Zion, or the +incumbent, or pastor, or whatever you desire to call him, was in the +habit of visiting a certain young lady in a distant town. Now there +were many fine young ladies belonging to the tabernacle, but as +distance seemed to lend merit and attractiveness, its spiritual head +found his choice elsewhere. Although not a graduate, Miss Spencer was +a well-read young lady of refined instincts and excellent character; +she had taught school for some time, and was of French ancestry. In +commenting afterward upon his choice, Mr. Melvin said that as a +Canadian he saw that one of the most important steps in nation building +was to unify, as far as possible, the different races and creeds in +this country, and he was one of those who were setting the pace. + +When Mrs. Melvin was brought home, after a very interesting ceremony at +the Spencer homestead, the people were charmed with her and the +tabernacle congregation gave her a splendid reception. + +The minister's wife in every way justified the good opinion formed of +her at first sight. She was a quiet, unobtrusive Christian, with a +sympathetic nature, which soon brought her in touch with the poor and +afflicted in the community. Many a basket prepared by her own hand +found its way into the homes of want, and many a visit was made which +comforted and cheered the anguished sufferer, and which tended to turn +the hour of sorrow into one of joy. Mrs. Melvin proved herself an +angel of mercy in Carsville, and frequently relieved her husband by +taking charge of a service of praise, or by preaching a sermon in +connection with the Sabbath service. Her work as a teacher had made +her a fluent, impressive and logical speaker, who was always acceptable +to the people. + +Mr. Melvin now saw that the time was ripe for moulding public opinion +along not only spiritual but national lines, and he did not even +consult the politicians concerning the matter, but as a teacher applied +himself resolutely to the task. + +The very first Sunday after bringing his bride from her somewhat +distant home the pastor of Mount Zion Tabernacle preached on sin, and +said the individual must come out from among his sinful associates in +renunciation thereof, and dare to be singular, or there is little hope. +As it is with individuals, so with nations. The people who in a +national sense, associate with a country, to the extent of forming a +part of it, that reeks with drunkenness and licentiousness will +assuredly, if they do not come out from it, share its ruin, which is +sure and certain as the fact that God rules and reigns. + +The following Sunday Mr. Melvin preached on the character and +attributes of Christ, saying that, He did not rule or reign among men +in an imperial sense, seated upon a kingly throne in such splendor that +only a chosen few could approach Him, but in a thoroughly democratic +manner, to whom the rich and poor, the learned and unlearned, all alike +could come, to find in Him a Saviour, Brother, Friend and merciful High +Priest, one who was touched with a feeling of human infirmity, and who +always entered into sympathy with humankind. + +The third Sunday the subject was religion, the preacher asking if it +was a creed, or a bundle of doctrinal standards, if it was Calvinism or +Arminianism, Brahminism or Buddhism, Confucianism or Zoroastrianism, or +the cheering of narrow-minded bigots for sixteenth century ideas. + +The man who with Pauline fearlessness asked these questions also +himself answered them, saying it is none of these, but it is to be so +filled with the loving Christ spirit as to visit the sick and +fatherless in their affliction, and keep unspotted from the world, to +manifest the Christ spirit in all life's relationships, which spirit +was one of broadest charity and love. + +After those three momentous sermons the minister, to stimulate his +young people in a way that would lead to energetic action along the +line of acquiring knowledge, preached a sermon on the subject of +education. He told his hearers not to be afraid to read scientific and +philosophical as well as historical literature, and do not become +nervous, he said, if many of your old cherished ideas are proven to +have had for their foundation the ever-shifting sand. + +If research proves that man has been on this earth 2,000,000 of years +instead of 6,000, as formerly taught, do not be afraid to accept it, +for it is in perfect harmony with the teachings of God's own +revelation, and infinitely more correct than the antiquated teaching of +the past, according to the most eminent authority in the world. If in +former times it was taught that the atmosphere was forty-five miles +high, who now would continue to adhere to such a belief, when with +their own' eyes they can see meteoric stones burst into flame one +hundred miles from the earth, thus proving the atmosphere to be +considerably more than that height, as in order to become so heated as +to glow it must collide with atmospheric particles for many miles. The +same may be said of history, study it in every phase, turn on the side +lights, and you will find that in many cases it is very different to +what you have always been taught. The immense congregation which +thronged the tabernacle were now beginning to find out that their +former teachers were of the antediluvian school, but that a man with +enlightened mind and scholarship so acute that it could not be measured +by academic degrees had come among them. This progressive and advanced +teacher, however, warned them that in the midst of all their +advancement they would find that Israel's God was their God, and that +they would have to obey Him, and live clean, faithful, fruitful lives, +so as to one day hear the "Well done," and enter into the Master's joy. + + + + +CHAPTER III. + +_SECRETARY-TREASURER THOMPSON'S DEATH--A + SURPRISE FROM THE FAR-OFF EAST._ + +The most pious and trusted of all the tabernacle officials was John +Thompson, who, though not handsome in the outer man, was in soul +beautiful. Indeed, his homeliness was at one time the subject of a +good joke, when an old friend of Mr. Melvin's, who was a noted +scientist, in visiting him, attended a Sabbath service, and seeing him +(that is, Mr. Thompson), said to a bystander: "I have long sought for +the missing link to establish the development theory, but the last +place I ever expected to find it was in Mount Zion Tabernacle, and yet +there it is!" + +In spite of jests, however, the secretary-treasurer had the qualities +of mind and heart which go to make the true man, and when word was +borne to his pastor that he was seriously ill, Mr. Melvin lost no time +in reaching his couch. The first question he asked was, "Are you +suffering much, Brother Thompson," who, in reply, said: "I am suffering +great bodily pain, but though heart and flesh fail I am trusting in the +living God." The fifteen minutes that followed were too sacred to +record, and when the minister left the sick man's chamber it was +noticed that his face looked as if he had been treading on the +borderland of Paradise. Next day, as our clerical friend was entering +the home of his afflicted official, he met the medical doctor who had +been in attendance, and asked him if there was any hope for his friend. +The doctor said that if his trouble had been attended to in time his +life would have been saved, but now no power on earth could do more +than prolong it for a few days. Mr. Melvin saw that what the man of +skill said was correct, as he had frequently noticed that Mr. Thompson +was in poor health, if appearances went for anything, and altogether he +was so busied with his duties and deeds of charity that he neglected +himself until there was no chance for medical science to give him, as +it would have done under Providence, if consulted in time, years of +usefulness. Next time the pastor visited his dying parishioner, he +received some good advice from one who was not nearly so learned as +himself. Said he: "If your sermons possessed the spirituality which +they do philosophy and common-sense, the congregation would soon +receive a great spiritual uplift." Mr. Melvin was a very sane man, and +heeded not the rebuke except to profit by it. Indeed, it was a marked +compliment to him that his teaching was endorsed by the best man in his +congregation while on the verge of the heavenly kingdom. + +Next day the minister called again to see his faithful officer, and on +inquiry found that his hopes still rested upon his Saviour's blood and +righteousness, and in the conversation which followed Mr. Thompson +said: "How little in this hour do stocks, bonds and mortgages, houses +and lands, trouble one. The only house of which I can now think is the +one to which I have a clear title through a loving Saviour's +sacrificial death, and it has not been formed by human hands, for its +builder and founder is God." As Mr. Melvin bade farewell to his friend +on this occasion, he saw that he was steadily sinking, and would soon +be in the house of many mansions. About two o'clock next morning the +door-bell at the parsonage was so vigorously rung that everybody was +awakened, and a message was handed in, asking the pastor to go, if +possible, at once to Mr. Thompson's, as he was just dying. + +Mr. Melvin dressed quickly and passed out into the darkness of the +night, soon arriving at the home of the dying man. One glance showed +that the sands had almost run out, but upon his feeling the hand-clasp, +the sick man revived for a time and said, "Eye hath not seen, nor ear +heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, the things which +God has in store for those that love Him." After uttering these words +he seemed to be exhausted, and sank down deeper into his pillow. Mr. +Melvin watched him, and after a time saw his lips move, and placing his +ear close to them, caught the words, "Home at last, home at last." +Then the lips ceased to move, and all could see that the ransomed +spirit of the redeemed man had passed beyond the river. + +The people of Carsville and of the world had now an evidence that +character and true worth could not be measured by outward appearance. +During the hours that the body of the sainted Thompson lay in state and +was deposited in God's acre the flags were flying at half-mast, and +every business place was closed. In spite of unattractive exterior the +people of all languages and creeds in the place recognized the fact +that a broad-minded man, full of loving sympathy for all classes and +creeds, was not dead, but had been translated. + +Mr. Melvin always looked with a certain measure of suspicion upon +holiness people, believing that there was more hypocrisy than sanity in +all that sort of thing, and called to mind the case of Sambo who +professed it, and when asked by his good old-fashioned class-leader, +who knew his weakness, if he had during the past week stolen any ducks, +said, "No, massa." "Any geese?" "No, massa." "Any turkeys?" "No, +massa." "Bless the Lord, Sambo, you are on your happy way to heaven." +As the leader passed on to admonish the next, Sambo turned to his +neighbor and whispered: "If massa had said chickens he had me; I was at +de roosts of Widder Simpkins last week." + +Mr. Thompson had, however, never professed it, but his life gave +evidence that he possessed it, and his pastor thought it wise never to +mention that much misunderstood word "holiness" again. + +Shortly after the burial of the secretary-treasurer there came to +Carsville a straight military-looking young man with an indifferent +air, who procured employment at the foundry, and whom the minister +noticed in the congregation, intercepting him at the close of the +service to find out who he was and to welcome him. The person was +Leonard Devoau, who had returned from Manchuria, where he had fought in +the Russian army at Port Arthur and Mukden, escaping from the former to +the latter disguised as a Chinaman, where he took part in the world's +greatest battle. Mr. Devoau said that he was born at Ottawa, the +capital of the Dominion, and always loved adventure, and it was this +love that led him to enlist in the Russian army, and pass through the +frightful scenes at the above places. + +Mr. Melvin was much impressed by the bearing of the young stranger who +had returned from Manchuria so recently, and invited him to the +parsonage so that they might get better acquainted. During the course +of the evening he asked his guest if he was fond of soldiering, and in +reply was told that when he left Canada he was in love with the idea, +and even after the awful experiences of Port Arthur, where he was often +for hours together in a perfect hell of fire, he thought he would love +a fair fight in the open, and accordingly broke for Mukden. He told +the minister, however, that this great battle, including the retreat, +was even worse than the siege, as in the former large bodies of them +had frequently to face about and charge with the bayonet to press back +the hordes of Japanese who were continually driving in upon them. + +Mr. Devoau said: "When you think of the fact that we could never meet +our enemies when we were not outnumbered from two to three to every one +of our own men, you will concede that we never had a fair chance, but +put them man to man and they could never withstand the Russians in a +bayonet charge. The disparity in numbers is very evident from the fact +that the Russians had only 300,000 infantry and 26,700 cavalry at +Mukden, while opposed to this was a force of 650,000 men, or, for all +practical purposes, just double the number. We fought them for +nineteen days along a front one hundred miles in length, and were only +then defeated by an accident, bringing off 1,300 guns out of 1,360, and +a larger quantity of baggage, marching into headquarters, as the corps +of General Linevitch actually did, with banners flying and bands +playing as if they were just fresh from the parade ground. Marshal +Oyama may go down in history as a great strategist, but in my humble +judgment General Kuropatkin is greater. The general knew full well +that if he had one more army corps he could have cut in two the long +drawn out flanking force of his antagonist, crumpled it up, and turned +their victory into a disastrous and decisive defeat. As it was, at the +close of the war General Linevitch confronted the enemy with 1,000,000 +men in arms, and they, unwilling to try conclusions when there was man +for man, made a peace favorable to Russia on the whole. As +corroboration of this I give you the word of the foreign military +attaches to the Russian army." + +As Mr. Melvin did not in his own home consider it in very good form to +inquire into the past history of Mr. Devoau, he soon visited him at his +lodgings and asked him concerning his life. He said, in answer to the +question, that he had been brought up by Christian parents, who held +that any deviation from the path of moral rectitude was an awful thing, +and consequently he himself had never gotten astray morally; his +besetting sin, he said, was a love for wild adventure by flood or +field, and he was now perfectly satisfied and desired no more of that +kind of thing. He had foolishly thought that there was much glory in +war, but after seeing its hydraheaded hideousness, and himself testing +its fearful hardships, he was prepared to denounce it as anti-Christian +and barbarous, except in a defensive sense. Also concerning his +education he had helped different members of his father's family in +their studies, and had thus been prevented from entering upon a +university course, though he had undergraduate standing. + +The pastor of the tabernacle said he was surprised that with his +standing he should enter a foundry, and work his way just as one would +who had no earlier advantages, but the reply was a very rational one, +for he said he and his brother had decided that when they had mastered +every detail of the business, and had saved sufficient money to warrant +it, they would start a foundry of their own. "While in the Russian +army," he continued, "I discovered that the prospect for iron founders +was brighter than for most classes." + +The minister now asked his new friend if he would like to join the +tabernacle, and at the same time gave him a hearty invitation, but he +said he could not conscientiously join, but would attend the services. +Mr. Melvin said, "Now I am not a bigot, and do not insist on every one +doing as I do, and being what I am. How would you like to simply +become a member of our Young People's Society, where we would help you +and you could help us?" "I will do that," said Mr. Devoau. + +The new acquisition to the Debating Club of Mount Zion Tabernacle +proved a great drawing card, as it was well known at the foundry and +all around that he possessed a fine moral character and could always be +relied upon. Before asking him to connect himself with the society the +minister had not only talked to him personally, but had also written to +Ottawa, and asked concerning his past life, and found that he had told +the truth, and that, as he himself said, "The worst things he had ever +done, and that only since entering the army, was to smoke a cigar and +play a game of cards without stakes." + +The pastor and his officials, however, were soon to receive a rebuke +when Mr. Devoau told them, after they had been praising him for his +clean life, that if they had more of the loving Christ spirit instead +of lauding him they would be out into the lanes and alleys, into the +highways and byways, gathering in the lost and sinful rather than those +who had always been moral. "It seems to me," he said, "the Church is +more needed to foster and guide those who have had their garments +stained with sin than those who without any credit to themselves, but +to the instruction and coercion of puritanical parents, always kept +themselves clean." + +Mr. Melvin was so struck with the fact that the young man who had +rebuked them possessed true worth that he invited him to relate his +experiences during the war in an address, when the whole evening would +be given up to him, and on which the tabernacle doors would be thrown +open to the public. The invitation was accepted, the young ex-soldier +announcing his intention of relating some of the incidents in +connection with the storming of 203 Metre Hill, of which he was one of +the defenders, and the assaults on the entrenchments at Mukden. + + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +_203 METRE HILL AND MUKDEN._ + +Before a crowded audience and under the auspices of the Young People's +Club, Mr. Devoau said: "Now, before I launch right out into a +description of battle charges, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to +understand that I feel so humble and modest in this matter that I +believe if I had never seen Port Arthur the defence would have been +just as stubborn, and if I had not been in the advanced works at Mukden +the battle would have lasted nineteen days all the same, and the army +of the Czar would have been saved. Nothing worthy of notice occurred +during my long voyage from Montreal; at least everything was so tame in +the shape of the railway trip from Ottawa to the above-mentioned place, +and the tossing upon the waters of the mighty deep until a blockade +runner landed me at the seat of war, to what followed afterwards that I +will not weary you to-night by relating it. + +"When I arrived at headquarters General Stoessel did not require my +services, as Russians only were preferred, but I pleaded so hard with +him through an interpreter, and told him I had come all the way from +Canada, and was just spoiling for a fight, telling him at the same time +if he desired to know more about me to send a cable message to their +consul at Ottawa. This seemed to satisfy the general, and he at last +assigned me to the Prebensky Regiment of sharpshooters that held 203, +after testing me with a rifle. I soon got well acquainted with my +comrades, and a jollier lot of fellows never lived, who had no end of +fun at the expense of the little niggers, as they termed the Japanese. +Our fun, however, was shortlived, for one day the hills opposite our +position burst into flame as though struck by lightning, and 203 Metre +spurted flame, and boiled like a cauldron from a succession of fearful +explosions, as shells alighted upon it. Our colonel signalled us to +lie close. Every little while a gun would be tossed clean into the air +by the explosion of an eleven-inch shell, and sometimes a whole squad +of men would be literally torn to pieces, legs, arms and fragments of +flesh flying in all directions. This pounding made us dreadful angry, +a number of the men swearing fluently, even the grey-haired colonel, I +was told, made some unmentionable remarks, and I, who had never sworn +in my life, made some very sarcastic references to the proceeding. + +"Those horrible eleven-inch shells made bomb-proofs and covered works +of all kinds very little more secure than the open. Many men were +struck down around me, some of them horribly mangled, and portions of +the works literally smashed to splinters, but such is war, and some +call it glory. + +"After this fearful hammering had gone on for a time with hell reigning +all around, as suddenly as it started the appalling din ceased, and +nothing could be heard but the piteous moaning of men who were so +horribly mangled, many of them, that if their own mothers were present, +they could not recognize them. During the awful bombardment, just as +we had expected, the enemy, who had made considerable progress under +cover of the night, had advanced right to the foot of the hill. +Hitherto we could see nothing, as not a soldier was in sight, and all +that we could do was to pound the naked hillside, but now the little +brown squads, in twenties, began rushing across the fire zone, and it +appeared as if they were reserves coming up to reinforce the men at the +base of the hill. + +"Our blood was up after the abuse we had received, and we pounded them +with big guns, pom-poms, Maxims and rifles, but still they came, and +quickly forming, marched up the valley of the shadow of death until a +shrill whistle rang out, when they turned square toward our position, +another whistle and they doubled files, and came on with splendid +precision. Their colonel, a grey-haired veteran, stood on a spur, and +heedless of shrieking missiles, had only one thought, and that was of +203. It is true the hill had been assaulted before, while it is +equally true that the enemy had been beaten back with frightful +carnage. Now, however, something seemed to say that the end was near, +as old Teleda, the veteran of twenty-seven engagements, stood as if on +parade, directing the attack. His men sank to mother earth singly and +in mangled heaps, but he had no eye for their dead or ear for the +moaning of their wounded; 203 was the game, and anything smaller, such +as noting the mutilated forms upon the blood-drenched sands in the +valley, was beneath contempt. A battery of six guns came up to the +foot of the hill at a gallop, the gunners setting them at an angle of +many degrees, so as to rake our works, but though they concealed +themselves as best they could, our sharpshooters frequently got a bead, +and an artilleryman would throw up his hands with a shriek and tumble +in a heap. + +"After a rest the enemy opened again, the hills in front spouting +flame, and the battery at the foot of our position vomiting death. +Between the explosions, however, and they came thick and fast, we saw +the figures of men as numerous as ants swarming up the base of the +hill. Our machine guns were soon angled upon them, and our rifles sent +rattling volleys among them, but the explosions in our position now +come so frequently that we are soon choked in clouds of dust, and +battered by splinters of gun carriages and even falling sand bags. The +signal now rang out to fix bayonets, and this was no sooner done than +hand grenades were hurled in upon us, the explosions of which tore the +heads off some of our men, the legs and arms off others, but the most +sickening sight to me was that of a man not three yards away who had +the fore part of his chest clean torn away, leaving his mangled lungs +exposed to view. At this stage observation was cut short by a whole +battalion of Japanese infantry tumbling over the parapet, followed by +swarms of reserves. We sprang upon them with the steel, and a +frightful conflict ensued, men fell dead in twos, often with their +bayonets buried in one another's bodies. For two or three minutes +nothing could be heard but shots, and imprecations, and shrieks, and +rattling steel, and then all was over, 203 Metre Hill was taken, but +after we got out--that is, all that was left of us--it was turned into +a smoking volcano by the shells from our forts around, and the enemy +nearly shared our fate in being ejected." + + + + +CHAPTER V. + +_THE BATTLE OF MUKDEN--AND CALL OF MR. DEVOAU AS ASSOCIATE MINISTER._ + +After the recital of the fall of the key to Port Arthur, the speaker of +the evening gave his experiences in the world's greatest battle as +follows: "I arrived at Mukden long before the fight, and after the +famous victorious charge of Poutiloff up the slopes of Lone Tree Hill, +by which the Japanese were driven out with fearful loss, I wanted to be +one of its defenders, but General Kuropatkin seemed to know all about +me, and insisted that I connect myself with the force holding +Yuhungtun. I was angry and thought I was going to miss the liveliest +part of it, but the general knew better. + +"There was a good chance to become acquainted with the men before the +conflict, and I found them really fine fellows. Some were capital +marksmen, and as the enemy's outposts drew nearer amused themselves by +sniping the men in the advanced pits, and many a Jap whose head only +was visible did we see lifted out of his hole with his brains oozing +out of a bullet perforation in his upper story. The time came at last, +however, when 1,000,000 men confronted each other in the lines of +battle, who were destined to suffer a loss in killed, wounded and +prisoners within three weeks of 250,000 men, or just one-fourth of the +entire number. Although the battle proper lasted about nine days, what +with preliminaries and the rear-guard action which followed, it might +be safe to add ten more. The struggle was fearful, and nobody was so +much master of the situation as our commander-in-chief, who knew from +the beginning where the blow would fall. + +"General Rennenkampf, the Cossack chief, had with his staff traversed +the entire one hundred miles of front and had handed in his report to +his superior. The plan of Marshal Oyama was to outflank our army and +cut off its retreat, and after surrounding it pound it, until it +capitulated, but in Kuropatkin he had met a man so able in strategy +that he could easily outgeneral him and bring his plans to naught. +When the eleven-inch shells which had wrought such destruction at the +port began to fall it soon became evident that the works on which had +been expended the labor of months and the skill of the best engineers +were going to dust. In spite of the fact, however, that we were +outclassed in numbers and heavy artillery our men put up a terrible +fight. After a fearful pounding with all kinds of guns, one day the +enemy in overwhelming force came upon us with the bayonet, and after a +hand-to-hand struggle, without parallel we believe, in which the ground +was piled with the slain, we were forced out and our works taken. +During the awful struggle which cost us our position, I was struck in +the side by the steel of a Jap, which cut a groove between two of my +ribs, but although I was not seriously hurt I recognized the fact that +one inch more, or possibly half of that, and to-night instead of +talking to you I would have been in a nameless grave on Manchuria's +plains, with my warrior shroud for a winding sheet, until the earth +would give up its dead. + +"It is a remarkable fact that although people said, with the advent of +modern repeating arms and machine guns, that bayonet charges were no +longer possible, as such rushes in force would spell annihilation, yet +there never was a battle in all history where so many charges were made +and in which cold steel crossed so often as at Mukden. + +"Word now came to us that our army had taken the offensive in the +centre, and was forcing the enemy back, and encouraged by this we +determined to retake our lost position. As we were forming for the +attack the divisional commander came along, and noticing the shortage +of officers, said to the colonel of our regiment: 'Take the most +experienced men from the ranks and put them in charge of sections and +companies.' Although this was said in Russian, I had now picked up +enough of the language to understand it. The colonel did not like the +advice and said: 'General, this is contrary to custom; you know we need +to safeguard these positions by the use of a little red tape.' The +general became furious and said: 'Red tape to ----! It has been the +curse of the army in the past, and it will curse any army, and at, best +bring nothing but humiliation. What we want is merit, which +practically means experience and courage with a large amount of +intelligence thrown in.' It was now evident to the colonel that he +must obey his superior officer, and he came over to me and said: +'Devoau, I want you to take No. 5 Company, as its officers are all dead +or wounded.' I set my teeth and obeyed, believing that I myself would +soon be as they. All was soon ready and the order was given, 'Forward, +steady under cover.' When we reached the open or fire zone two +whistles pierced the air--one to deploy in loose order and the other to +double. We now swept forward, the enemy's batteries opening upon us. +The men of my company went down, sometimes one and sometimes three or +four in a heap at a time. As we reached our old position I was +perfectly furious because of our losses, and though I had never sworn +in my life before I yelled between my clenched teeth, 'Give them +_hell_, boys!' Just as we were tumbling in upon them our colonel, who +was braver and better than any of us, was shot through the brain and +instantly killed. Even though the colonel was killed and whole +companies had gone down in that awful rush, the Japanese might as well +have tried to stem Niagara's torrent as to beat back our infuriated +men, and all that was left of them got out faster than they had charged +in. The night within the village was one that would never fade from +memory. The streets were strewn with broken rifles, twisted sabres and +bayonets, dismounted guns, broken gun carriages and dead men, some of +whom still clutched each other in the grip of death. I was now +ordered, though I felt unequal to the task or honor, to take temporary +command of our decimated regiment. + +"In trying to hold on to our old position we had to withstand some +terrible bayonet rushes on the part of the enemy in efforts to retake +it, and our regiment, which entered the battle with 2,450 men, had just +585 left to respond to the order to retire. Another regiment lost +1,100 men. The place assigned us in this most, orderly retreat was in +the rear-guard, and just as we took our places our brigade commander +was decapitated by the explosion of a pom-pom shell, and I was ordered +to hand over my regiment to a major and take charge of the brigade. + +"We had an awful time during the retreat, but every onrush was stemmed, +and at each repulse of the foe our men, with bayonets dripping red, +cheered to the echo. + +"The war was now practically over, and although every man of ours had +two foemen opposed to him, the Japs had a narrow escape from defeat; +nothing but the accident of a duststorm averting it, by enabling them +in the darkness thereof to break the lines of General Linevitch when +his men could not see a yard ahead of them. + +"When we reached headquarters I, having nothing but a temporary +connection with the Russian army, went to my chief and tendered him my +uniform and arms, telling him, as there was not likely to be any more +fighting, I would return to Canada. He, however, refused to take +anything, saying that as a mark of honor and appreciation I must retain +them, and after saying 'Good-bye' to my battle-scarred comrades I went +to the station to entrain for the coast, and as it steamed out a crowd +of officers and men waved their caps and handkerchiefs, shouting, +'Canada for ever; long live Canada and the Canadians!' I felt I did +not do much for them--any one, perhaps, would have done better--but I +had done my little best, and they had trusted and honored me. I like +the Russians; they are good fellows, and are greatly slandered in the +West. They have a moral code, and with some exceptions, they live up +to it, and any nation that crosses arms with them will pay a heavy toll. + +"In closing, I presume you would like to know more fully my opinion of +war, and in giving it I will say that if you murder a man by shooting +or stabbing him you are merciful, but if you kill him by exploding an +eleven-inch shell, in many cases he will be torn to fragments and his +dismembered body scattered over an acre of ground. In other instances +that I have seen at Mukden and 203 Metre Hill, men have been mortally +wounded and left an unrecognizable mass of flesh and blood, which for +days heaved with anguish and life, while others, after hours and +sometimes days of agony, died with broken bayonets protruding from +their backs, having entered as gallant breasts as ever swelled with +breath and life. + +"I have forsworn war for ever, after the dreadful scenes which I have +witnessed, and there were scenes which I did not witness, in far-off +Russia and Japan, which were infinitely more appalling, where was seen +the dreary sobbing of broken-hearted widowhood and the piteous wailing +of hungry, fatherless children. Added to this was the pale-faced +sorrow of sisters bereft of brothers and sweethearts, who had lost +those who would have been nearer than brothers, and who now with broken +hearts ceased to live and began only to exist in hopeless despair. The +Russians met in their foes armies trained after the pattern of the +German military system, and none of us ever again desire to cross +weapons with men trained as those are, who have learned from that land +of advanced scholarship and military superiority. The Japanese were +foemen worthy of their steel, but instead of their arms being +dishonored fresh lustre was shed upon them." + +At the close of his address Mr. Devoau was applauded to the echo, after +adding as a rider that in his denunciation of war he would, of course, +make an exception of defensive operations. + +The next Sabbath in the morning service Mr. Melvin started the +tabernacle congregation by announcing that as he would soon reach the +retiring line, and as the immense congregation, with its many needs, +overtaxed his strength, he had long thought of an associate who, when +he retired, would take full charge. Continuing, he said: "I have +spoken to Mr. Devoau and asked him if he would not abandon the thought +of a life so selfish as that of making himself one of the foremost iron +founders in Canada and join me in the work of preaching and teaching. +His answer has been favorable, if it is the will of the people, and he +has further said that if it is their will he will accept it as the +Master's will." + +A meeting of the officers of the church was called for Tuesday evening, +when the matter was discussed, and Mr. Devoau's profession of faith +heard, when he told them that he was of French-Canadian parentage and +could not subscribe to every technicality. His frankness and +fearlessness won every heart, a vote was taken, and he was unanimously +called to be associate pastor of Mount Zion. + + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +_FURTHER TEACHINGS AND HOW THEY ARE ESTIMATED._ + +After his ordination the new preacher took his place in the pulpit once +every Sunday, and being now a close student of theology as well as of +other subjects, he soon became an eloquent and powerful speaker, and +the entire congregation was delighted with him. The last Sunday of the +national year, Mr. Melvin announced a sermon on "The Ideal Relationship +of Capital and Labor," prompted by the recent trouble at the foundry +between employers and their hands. The preacher of the day said: +"Beware of so-called socialism, for it trenches very closely on the +borderland of anarchism, and after having listened to lectures and +sermons an hour long and read many books upon that much-abused topic, I +am constrained to turn to the teaching of the Man of Nazareth, and find +in that teaching something more rational and common-sense than +elsewhere. In the first place our Saviour recognized property rights +when he said, 'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto +God the things which are God's.' This doctrine is for the workingman +as well as for his employer, and enables both to procure homes for +themselves and hold them in their own right. + +"We cannot fail to recognize the fatherhood of God, and if so then we +must recognize the brotherhood of man, for all men truly should be +such. If you and I have come to that point where we regard every man +as our brother, on the authority of Jesus Christ, the social problem +will be solved, and the capitalist will regard and treat the man who +toils for him as the son of his Father God, and the toiler will regard +the employer as not only his brother, but co-heir with himself to an +incorruptible inheritance. Much depends, brethren, on the exercise of +that charity which translates love. Love one another and you will use +one another aright. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, +and there was life as the wounded Israelites looked upon it, so there +is life in a look at the crucified One, and there is more than that, +there is adjustment of relationships between husband and wife, between +pastor and people, between citizens and their chief magistrate, between +capital and labor. I can do no better than lift my hand toward the sky +and utter that little classic, '_Ecce Homo_,' and He is the Man of +Sorrow." + +The senior pastor's sermon had a marvellous effect upon the people, and +it was said that the iron workers' difficulty was soon settled on the +Christ principle. The next Sunday being July 1st, the anniversary of +Confederation, the Rev. Mr. Devoau preached a sermon in keeping with +the day, and said "that the Iroquois term 'Kannatha,' which was very +restricted in its meaning, and only signified a collection of wigwams +or huts--a village, we might say--had become corrupted into Canada, but +now stood for dominion power and nationality. The population had grown +into many millions, and the area was 3,750,000 square miles, or nearly +as great as the entire continent of Europe. The mineral and coal +deposits are almost inexhaustible, and the exports and imports the +astonishment of the nations. + +"The growth of our cities is simply wonderful. Winnipeg has doubled +its population in five years; Calgary has nearly trebled the number of +its citizens in the same period, while Montreal has become the New York +of Canada. Truly the words of our text apply specially to us, 'He hath +not dealt so with any nation, and as for his judgments we have not +known them.'" + +Continuing, the speaker said: "The God who has so wondrously blessed us +since 1867, when a confederation of our leading provinces took place, +expects us to be rational and sane, and stand for unity and +consolidation of languages and creeds, that Canada may show to the +world what the brotherhood of man means and that the Saviour's teaching +has been put into practice upon our ocean-girt shores. A large number +of our people do not know what the term Canadian means. They will do +well to remember that it takes in not only the people of old Ontario, +but the people of the greater Canada beyond, with its diversity of +speech and polity, and no responsible person would say or do anything +that would not tend to weld together the different doctrines and +tongues. If we are true to God and each other we will one day stand in +the front rank of world powers, and our fleets, not of war, but of +commerce, will ride upon every sea. The battle of the Sea of Japan or +Corea proved that battleships were not worth the coal that steamed +them, but our mercantile marine is of priceless value, for it carries +our wares to every land and our commerce into the marts thereof and +into every clime." + +Immediately upon the close of the sermon, Mr. Melvin, who had occupied +a seat upon the platform, arose and said, "This is the best sermon to +which I have ever listened; it is truly the teaching of a man who is +saner and wiser than his fellows." Upon the utterance of these words +the vast audience broke into thunders of applause, evidencing the fact +that it was the sentiment of all. + +As the summer advanced, Mr. Devoau invited Mr. Melvin to take a trip to +Ottawa with him, as he was going to visit his parents for a day. The +invitation was accepted, and these two kindred spirits started off on +an early train for Canada's beautiful capital, where they were met by +Mr. Devoau, senior, who heartily welcomed the friend and colleague of +his son. As they walked toward the home of the Devoau family, whom +should they meet but the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Prime Minister +of Canada, who was out for a stroll, and with whom the elder Devoau was +well acquainted. Both preachers were at once introduced to the +Premier, who was very gracious and genial. Mr. Devoau said they were +having a day's recreation after their recent teachings. Sir Wilfrid +said: "I will not ask what those teachings were, as I am sure they were +all right." Mr. Melvin said: "They were not exactly like those of the +Scotchman, who was asked if his health was good, and he said, 'I am no +verry weel the day, for last nicht I was teaching the bairnies doon at +the hall hoo to vote.'" Said he, "We are not exactly teaching people +how to vote, but we are trying to pound sin out of them." The Premier +then made the hit of the day when he said, "Get all the sin out of them +and they will vote right." + +After a splendid day, during which they visited the noble pile on +Parliament Hill and had a sail in a steam launch on the majestic river, +the pastors of the tabernacle returned to Carsville, where at the Young +People's meeting the senior minister related their experiences while in +Canada's beauty spot, as the capital city might be called. He told of +meeting the Premier and of his friendliness and geniality. "This +country," said he, "has had gentlemen in that position, and it has had +statesmen for prime ministers, but it never so strikingly combined the +two great qualities as in the person of him whose name will be engraven +with a surpassing lustre upon the bead-roll of the nation, and the name +will be that of the Right Hon. Sir Wilfrid Laurier." + +Mr. Melvin, who did not feel quite so strong recently, thought of +seeking a much-needed rest in retirement for a time at least, now that +his colleague was immensely popular, and could now handle the entire +congregation, though it never was so large. However, just as he was +preparing for this move an invitation came to him to enter upon higher +educational work, which he at once accepted, saying that, he would +still preach and teach, and would really have a larger field in which +to do good, and the change of air and scene would be as good as a rest. + +The people of Carsville expressed much regret at the departure of one +who was known as an admirable citizen as well as an able and effective +minister. Mr. Melvin, however, always told them that he was leaving +with them a man after his own heart. + +Before the day of his leave-taking a farewell banquet was tendered him, +at which were appreciative after-dinner speeches, the chair being +occupied by Rev. Mr. Devoau, informally. Abraham Thompson, Esq., +senior member of the Board, when called upon, said: "I am grieved at +the departure of one who has been everything that I could +wish--broad-minded, sympathetic, and scholarly--one in whom all could +alike trust, ever finding in him a wise counsellor and a safe guide; a +man of splendid mental balance, of unusual wisdom. To say that I +endorse his teachings is not enough; I heartily endorse all of it, and +pray that the Great Head of the Church will bless and keep our mutual +friend, together with his much appreciated partner, unto their +journey's end." + +The next called upon was Thomas Edwards, the leading merchant in the +place. He was shrewd in business and a keen discerner of men. He +said: "Though I am not on the same side of politics as Mr. Melvin, yet +in the main I think his teachings are sound and the product of a sane +mind. Personally, I have learned to respect him. I will, like one who +has preceded me, go farther and say I have learned to love him, and +wish him and his godspeed in a ministry which has been a blessing to my +whole house." + +The next official was Edmund Garvin, general manager of the foundry, +and a man of intense perception. Said he: "I have noticed that our +worthy senior pastor, whose removal I deeply regret, always stood for +unification in the home and independence, and not only there, but in +the church and nation, and I may say his sentiment is mine. I, like +him, am no hanger-on--only poltroons are that--and no man in his right +senses would be anything but a brother to all the races and creeds in +our country, and in all his utterances our clerical friend has proven +himself not only wise as a serpent, but also a true Christ man. I wish +him and his amiable wife great happiness and success in future life." + +The chairman now saw that as the time was getting late they must close, +and said in a few closing words that his colleague had endeared himself +to him, and had done more for him than he could ever repay. "I, like +yourselves, regret his departure, but feel that he is going into a +field of great usefulness, and he doubted not that he would be happy +and prosperous." + +Shortly after Rev. Mr. Melvin's departure old Uncle Reynolds, as he was +called, was struck by a pilot engine at the station, and so seriously +injured that he was taken home in the ambulance. He was the most +saintly man in the tabernacle, and Rev. Mr. Devoau, now in full charge, +was sent for. His practiced eye at once told him that the old man's +hour had almost come. Stooping down he said, "Uncle, how is it with +your soul?" and opening his weary eyes the aged veteran said, "It is +well; it is well." Talking for a moment or two with his pastor he +said: "Our dear Bro. Melvin is gone from us, but, oh, how precious are +his teachings! As the result of them my feet are on the Rock of +Ages--the rock of Christ--and I have long since found out that 'all +other ground,' as the sacred bard says, 'is sinking sand.'" + +Coming back late in the evening Mr. Devoau said, "Uncle, is there light +in the valley?" and the dying man raised his feeble hand and blessed +his pastor, and whispered to him that he had already been a blessing to +many and the people loved him. Then he said: "Oh, yes, the valley is +bathed in light; for He has said, 'At evening time it shall be light.'" +With these words trembling upon his lips the old man swept through the +gates of paradise, a ransomed soul. + +Finished as was the course of this saintly man, yet the great world, as +in all such cases, moved on, and with it the teaching of the new pastor +of Mount Zion. + +Speaking to the young people some time after this, he said: "Let there +be no misunderstanding concerning what I stand for, and what we all +should stand for. I am for liberty of conscience, freedom and +independence, along all lines, both religious and national, even to the +granting of home rule to poor, old, long-suffering Ireland, which, by +all means, it should have, and is justly entitled to in this twentieth +century. + +"The question arises, How can we best qualify ourselves for the +salvation of ourselves and fellows, and the working out of our destiny +along general lines? I answer, by consecrating our ransomed powers to +the great Arbiter of Destinies, who stands behind all forms and +systems, but ever watchful of His own." + +At the conclusion of the address Mr. Henry, principal of the Public +School, arose and said: "I beg that the Young People's Club will place +upon record, and in letters of gold engrave and place amid the archives +of the church, the admirable and fearless utterances of this evening." + +Mr. Henry was followed by one who, in the educational world, stood +higher than he, namely, the head master of the Collegiate Institute in +Carsville, who capped everything by saying, "'Pro bono publico,' and as +well as being for the public good, though I am an independent in +politics, I will say that the Rev. Mr. Devoau has the faculty of always +saying the right thing, and his teachings are an inestimable boon to +all classes in this place." + +In a few mouths after this the pastor of Mount Zion was honored with a +degree from world-renowned Harvard, and his influence increased, and +his ministry truly became one of reconciliation and power, until the +ever-circling years at last brought near the Age of Gold. + + + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Alter Ego, by W. W. 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