6 THE CENTRE DEMOCKAT, BELLEFONTE, YA. THURSDAY, MAY UNSELFISH WAR. Rov. Dr. Talmage So Oalla the Spanish-American Conflict, The Might is on the Side of the Night, Belng Inspired by Mercy, Can Have but One Outcome Waged to Assuage Suffering. Rev. Dr. Talmage in his latest ser mon gives cheer to the people who are saddened by the horrors of war, Text: Psalms 27: 8: “Though war should rise against me, in this will 1 be confi- dent.” The ring of battleaxes and the clash of shields and the tramp of armies are heard all up and down the Old Testa- ment; and you find godly soldiers like Moses and Joshua and Caleb and Gid- eon and scoundrelly soldiers like Sen- nacherib and Shalmaneser and Nebue- hadnezzar. The high priest would stand atthe head of the army and say: “Hear, O ye, Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not trem- ble, neither be ye terrified because of | officers would | give command to the troops, saying: | ad them And then the “What man is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicated it? Let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle and man dedicate it. And what man is he that hath planted a vineyard and hath not eaten of it? let him also go and re- turn unto his house, lest the battle and another in man eat of it. he die And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? let him go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.” Great armies marched and fought. In time of Moses and Joshua all the men were soldiers. When Israel came out of Egypt they were 600,000 fighting men. Abijah commanded 400,000. Je roboam commanded 800,000 men, of whom 500,000 were slain in one battle. Some of these wars God approved, for they were for the rescue of oppressed nations, and some of them Ie de- nounced, but judg- ment upon both victors and vanquished. David knew just what war was he wrote in the text: “Though should rise against me, in this will I be confident.” David raging himself in stormy times, and before appr rosching battles administers to himself the con- So to-day my theme is the *“Alleviations of War.” War is organ- ized atrocity. It is the science of assas- sination. It is the convocation of all in all cases it was a when war i "ie is encou solatory. horrors. It is butchery wholesale. It is murdered glorified. It is death on a throne of human skeletons. It is the coffin in ascendancy. It is diabolism at a game of skulls. But war is and it is now time to preach on its alleviations. First, 1 find analleviation in the fact that it has consolidated the north and the south after long-continued strained relations. It is thirty-three yearssince our civil war closed and the violences are all gone and the severities hav been hushed. But ever and anon, in oration, in sermon, in newspaper edi- torial, in magazine article, olitical here, on jy p, and in congressional hall, the old sectional difference has lifted its head, and for the first time within my memory, or the ory of any one who hears or reads these words, the north and the south are one. By a marvelous province the tion to our g years ago is represented at the front in this present family that le overnment 30 i in opposi- war. Nothing else could have done the work of unification so suddenly or 80 completely as this conf flict, At Tampa, at Chattanooga, at Richmond, and in many other places regi ments are forming, and it will be side by side, Massachusetts and Alaba New York Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina. Northern and southern men to gether unlimber guns and rush upon the fortifieation and charge upon the enemy and shout the triumph. The voices of military officers who were un- the and will the der Sidney Johnson and Joseph Hooker will give the command on the same | side. The old sectional grudges fore ever dead. The name of Grant on the northern side and of Lee on the southe ern side will be exchanged for the names of Grant and Lee on the same side The veterans in northern and southern homes and asylums are | stretching their rheumatic limbs to see whether they can again keep step in a march, and are testing wer they can again look along the gun barrel to sue- cessfull nim and fire. ery of “On to Richmond!” Washington!” has become the war ery of “Ou to Havana!” ‘On to Porto Rico!” On to the Philippine Islands!” The two old rusty swords that in other days clashed at Murfreesboro and South Mountain and Atlanta are now lifted to strike down Hispanic abomi- nations. Another alleviation of the war is the fact that it is the most unselfish war of the ages. While the commercial rights of our wronged eitizens will be vindi- cated, that is not the chief idea of the war. It is the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and multiform maltreatment. A friend who went out under the flag of the Red Cross two years ago to as suage suffering in Armenia, snd who has been on the same mis sion, under the same flag, in Cuba, says that the sufferings in Armenia were 8 comedy and a farce compared with the greater sufferings of Cuba At least 200,000 graves are calling tous to come on and remember by what process their oceupants died. It is the twentieth century erying out to the nineteenth: “Do you mean to pass down to ue the curse with which you have been blasted? Or will you let me begin under new auspices and turn the island of desolation into sa island Edenie?™ It is » war inspired by mercy, which isan attribute ln man imitative of the same attribute of God In no other age of the world could such a war have their eyesight to find whet! y take and “On to © ————————— B ¥ | in the cause of meroy, and another | me ried ma, | { isphere, and we go i , | of Cubans, I heold w ar been waged. The gospel of kindnens needed to be recognized throughout | Christendom in order to make such a war possible. The chief reason why most of the European nations are not now banded together against us is be- eause they dare not take the part of that behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish government, against the crusade of mercy which our nation has started. Had it been on our part a war of con- quest, n war of annexation, a war of aggrandizement, there would have been by this time enough flying squad- rons coming to this country noross the Atlantic to throw into panic every city on our American seaboard, The wars of the Crusaders were only to regain an empty sepulcher; the Na- poleonie wars, with their slaughtered men, were projected and carried out to appease the ambition of one man; of the 25,000,000 slain in Jew- ish wars; and of the 00,000,000 slain in wars under Julius Cesar; of the 180.- 000,000 slain in wars with Turks and Sa- 6,000,000 | racens; of the 50,000,000 slain in wars of | Xerxes;of the 20,000,000 slain in the wars of Justinian; and the 82,000,000 slain in the wars of Genghis Khan, not one man was sacrificed by mercy; but in this Hispanic-American war every drummer boy, or picket, or gunner, or standard bearer, or skirmisher, or sharpshooter, or cavalryman, or artil- leryman, or engineer who falls, falls becomes a martyr for God and his country, Another allevation of this war is that it is for the advancement of the sublime principle of liberty, ] which will yet en- girdle the earth. Not only will this war free Cuba, but finally will free Spain. By what right does a dynast r a " " that stand, and a corrupt court dominate a people for centuries, tax- ing them to riding in gilded chariot over the necks of a beggared population? There 10,000 boys in Spain growing up with more capacity to govern that nation than weak boy now in the Madrid palace ever possess. Before this let is over, the Spanish nation will be well on toward the time when a constitu- tional convention will assemble to es tablish a free government instead of the worn-out dynasty that now afflicts the people. The liberty of all nations, trans-Atlantic as well as cis-Atlantic, if not already established way and it cannot be Another alleviation is the fact that in this war the might is on the side of the right. Again and again have liberty 1ile lie death, are 11 + will the cont is on the 3% pped. | and justice and suffering humanity had | the odds against them. It was sowhen Benhadads’ Syrian hosts, who wers in the wrong, at Aphek came upon the small regiments of Israel, who were in the right, the Bible putting it in one of | those graphic sentences for which the book is remarkable—"*The children of | Israel pitche d before them like two lit- | tle flocks of kids, but the Sy the whole country.” It was so in awful defeat of the Lord's people at Gilbos and Megidda It was so cently when gallantand glorious Greece was in conflict with Gigantic Moham- medanism, and the navies of Europe hovering about the Bosphorus were in practical protection of the Turkish government, fresh from the slaughter of 100,000 Armenians. It was so when, in 1776, the 18 ¢« with no shipping 1 a few undrilied and poor ly elad sold were brought yrians filled the re- nonies, war ers, into a contest with the mightiest navy of all the the earth and an army that com- manded the admiration of nations. It was 50 when Poland was crushed It was 80 when Hungary went under. It has been so the struggles independence during all for Cuban now it our group 73 8 ne At~ wt our flotillas, which have heretofore But against a fee petent hantie powerful navy of ross AN0K rawling the enoug o send them as com Red sea sub- Pharoah's army. It these times, when only a few thousand Spaniards at most can reach our hem out to meet be 500,000 more if needed pletel under as when the is 80 n i them with 12 0 armed men, to backed up speedily with to ask for any a fair shot at the ships head and t h to Mf the We do not have but only this way, them mirac.e, ime enoug demolish This is one « cases in the world's history where might and right are shoulder to shoulder Another alleviation is In the fact that such an atrocity as the destrue tion of 20 Havana hi time of peace cannot with impunity be 3 lives in arbor in wrought in this age of the world's elvi- lization. The that infernalism need any further d a small the systematic graves of question as to who did is too well settled iscussion. But what crime putting into hundreds of or leaving them for the to take care If Spain could destroy 200,000 men, wo men and children, the slaughter of 206 people was not a very great under taking. But this one last deed will result in the liberation of Cuba, and the driving of Spain from this hemis- phere and the overthrow of that gov ernment, which will soon drop to pieces if it does not go down under bombardment of insulted nations There was danger that the long-con- tinued oppression of our neighbors in Cuba might be continged from genera tion to generation without sufficient protest on our part and the pronounced execration of people on both aides of the Atlantic, but that bursting voleano of destruction in the harbor of Ha vana fired the nation and shocked the whole elvilized world. All nations will learn that such an act eannot be re- peated without the anathema of all Christendom. As individual eriminals must be punished for the public good, and wo have for them courts of oyer and terminer, and penitentinries, and electric chairs, and hangman's gallows, #0 governments committd high erimes against God and hum ay must be scourged and hung up for the world'sindignation. When in Spanish waters our battleship, looking after our commercial interests and intend- ing nothing but quietnde, was hurled into tion and she men on board, time to ulter one word of prayer, were dashed Into the eternal world, the doom of the reigning house buzzards to | it was, compared with | their | thousands | unburied | of! | of Bpain was pronounced in tones louder than tho thunder which that night rolled out over the sen. Another alleviation is the fact that we have a God to go to in behalf of all those of our countrymen who may be in especial exposure at the fromt, for we must admit the perils. It is not a trifling thing for 100,000 young men to be put outside of home restraints and sometimes into evil companionship. Many of the brave of the garth are not the good of the earth. To be in the same tent with those who have no regard for God or home; to hear thelr holy religion sometimes slurred at; to be placed under in- fluences calculated to make one reck- less; to have no Sabbath, except such Sabbath as in most encampments amounts to no Sabbath at all; to go out from homes where all sanitary laws are observed into surroundings wheres ques. tions of health are never discussed; to invade climes where pestilence holds possession; to make long marches un- der blistering skies: to stand on deck and in the flelds under fire, at the merey of shot and shell must ad- mit that those thus exposed need espe- cial care, and to the Omnipresent God we we have a right to commend them, and | will commend them. cation may be interrupted, and letters started from camps or homes may arrive at the right destination, however far away our be from us, and however wide the seas that separate but . loved ones may and deep may hold Us, we the communication with them throne of God, It is a my try was recoverin Via 'stery just ns this coun. of hard times, should now be men who the way to pay more dow prosperon their homes wi ages should have til i shall be tu and with mysteries, wives miserable he pert IOUS Oppre roned back. national life nnd we way make ours by stabbing ourselves with sharp interrogation points, and plying the everlasting questions of “Why? and “How?” and “What” and “When?” While we must, of course, try to be intelligent on all public af- fairs, It is a glorious thing to do our duty, and then fully sud confidently trust ull in the hands of God, who has proved Himself the friend of our coun- try from the time when the Spanish ent wer it, to t governm to dise iards woul ad ke Now that we ‘ave work let us make that Spanis ernment get out of this hemisphere We do not want her any more with her injustices and barbarism, and stillet of eruelty hanging sround the shores of this free land. She must not breathe her foul breath ou our she must not again redden our seas with her butcheries. There bids falr to be a scone on the aoep as disastrous to the Spanish as that which “Armada” in 1588 Second, king of Spain, resolved o conquest of Europe, compass of his di tos winas; whelmed Philip the n the already in the minions, be sides Spain, their and were Naples and Sicily, and the Nother lands, and the East Indies, and the Canary and Molucea and Sunda and islands, and Mexieo and Phillipine Cuba and of the ndid parts of America. All the ns of the earth, England, to her ti Spanish king re some most nats were spl « except t underlir and the soived that even England must bow the knea. Although the destructive strength of modern battleships was then unknown, the Spanish Armada started for the subjection of England with about 140 great ships, with 2 60 guns, 4.000 eavairy horses and 32 000 en. The battleships were provisioned with 147,000 casks of wine and six months of provisions The com manders and officers these wat vessels were dukes and marqguises and nobleme At Plymouth, Eng land, on the 19th of July the prominent officers of the navy were ina bow ling alley, bow ling with great Lord Howard, Sir Martin Fr glee the high admiral, obisher, the daring ex- plorer, and Sir Francis Drake. the first circumnavigator of the world-when that the advan vi vy Ti ROYAD ide ie » game of the until the game was then went to investigate ings and sure enough that lect which was considered word came $0 them Armada continued at the Spanish was officers bowling an ‘ alley finished, out the tid. OE rer invinaible, and which was to bombard and over throw England, was approaching, but the invading navy was destroyed, for the Lord Almighty appeared in the fight. A storm such as had never swept the coast of England or aroused the ocean, swooped upon the Spanish Most of the ships soon went down une der the sea, while others were driven helplessly along to be splintered on the coasts of England, Ireland, Scot land and Norway. Another Spanish Armada is crossing the Atlantic, and we are ready to meet them. The same God who destroyed the Armada in 1584 reigns in 1808. May He in His might, Postal communi- | not | Armada. | bp $7.45 1% either through human arm or dumb | element, defeat this squadron, and give victory to the old flag of Admiral Far | ragut and David Porter! Yet what the world most wants Is Christ, who is coming to take posses | sion of all hearts, all homes, all na tions; but the world blocks the wheels of His chariot. I would like to see this century, which is now almost wound up, find its peroration in some mighty overthrow of tyrannies and a mighty building up of liberty and jus tice. 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