DR. TALMAGES SERMON. SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. The Subject, "Alleviations of War," Most Pertinent to t?»e Kxcitlnff Times Through Which We Xre Now Passing— Cheer For Those Whose Hearts Are Sad TEXT: "Though war should rise against me, in tbls will I be confident."—Psalms 27, HI. The ring of battle-axes and the elasli of shields, aud the tramp of armies are henrd all up and down the Old Testament; and vou find godly soldiers like Moses, and Joshua, and Caleb, and Gideon, and scoundrelly soldiers like Sennacherib, and Sbalmaneser, and Nebuchadnezzar. The High Priest woubl stand at the head of the army and say: "Hear, 0 Israel, ye ap proach this dav unto battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faiut; fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them!" aud then the officers would give command to the troops, say ing: "What man Is there that hath built a new house and hath not dedicated It? Let him go and return to his house, lest ho die in the battle and another man dedicate it. And what niau Is he that hath planted a vineyard and hath not eaten of it? Let him also go and return unto his house, lest he die in the battle and another man eat of It. And what man is there thut hath betrothed a wife and hath not taken her? Let him go nnd return unto his house, lest he die In battle and auother mau take her.'' Great armies marched and fought. In the time of Moses and Joshua all the raon were sol diers. When Israel came out o( Egypt there were tiOO.OOO lighting men. Abijah commanded 400,000. Jeroboam commanded 800,000 men, of whom 500,000 were slain in one battle. Some of these wars God ap proved. for they were for the rescue of op pressed nations, aud some of them He denounced, but in all cases it was a judg ment upon both victors and vanquished. David knew just what war was when he wrote in the text, "Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident." David is here encouraging himself in stormy times, and before approaching bat tles administers to himself the consolatory. So to-day my theme Is the "Alleviations of War." War is organized atrocity. It is the science of.assassination. It is the con vocation of all horrors. It is butchery wholesale. It Is murder glorified. It Is death on a throne of human skeletons. It is the cofiln in ascendancy. It is diabolism at a game of skulls. Aud the time is coining when war will be an impossibility. How far in the future I cannot say, but there will be a museum of curiosities in which a father and sou will one day be walkiug, and the son will sav, 'What is that sharp, curved instrument?" and the father will reply, "That is a sword." And the son will say, "What are those round pieces of iron?" and the father will reply, "Those are bullets and cannon bulls aud bombshells. Those are the ttyugs with which in the Dark Ages peopleTdlled each other." Yet the father will have hard work to make the SOD believe that such things were ever used for the destruction of human life. But that time has not yet arrived, aud having on other occasions spoken to you of the •'Aggravations of War," now that war is actually here it is time to speak of its alleviations. First, I find an alleviation in the fact that It has consolidated the North and South after long-continued strained relations. It Js thirty-three years since our Civil War closed, and the violences are all gone aud the severities have been hushed. But ever and anon. In oration, in sermon. In news paper editorial, in magazine article, on political stump, and In Congressional hall, the old seetional difference nas lifted its head; and for the first time within my mem ory, or the memory of any one who hears or reads these words, the North nnd the South are one. It was not a four years' war, but n fifty years' war; war of tougue, war of pen, war of printing press. But by a marvelous providence, the family that led in opposition to our Government thirty years ago, is represented at the front in this present war. Nothing else could have done the work of unification so suddenly or so completely as this conflict. At Tampa, ut Chattanooga, at lUchmond. and In many other places the regiments are forming, aud it will be side by side, Massachusetts and Alabama, New York aud Georgia. Illinois aud Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina. Northern and Southern men will together tinllmber the guns aud rush upon the forti fication aud charge upon the enemy and shout the triumph. The voices of military officers who were under Sidney Johtisou and Joseph Hooker will give the command on the same side. The old sectional grudges forever dead. The name of Grant on the Northern side and of Lee on the Southern side will be exchanged for the names of Grant aud Lee on the same side. The veterans iu Northern aud Southern homes and asylums are stretching their rheumatic limbs to see whether they can again keep step in a march, aud are testing their eyesight to find whether they can again look along the gun-barrel to success fully take aim aud fire. The old war cry of"On to Richmond!" and"On to Wash ington!" has become the war cry of"On to Havana!" "Onto Porto liico!" "Onto the Philippine Islands!" The two old rusty swords that in other days clashed at Mur freesboro and South Mountain aud Atlanta, are now lifted to strike down Hispanic abominations. 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 citizens will be vindicated, that is not the chief Idea of this war. It is the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and multiform maltreat ment. A friend who went out under the flag of the Ked Cross two years ago to as suage suffering in Armenia, and who has been on the same mission, under the same | Hag, in Cuba, says that the sufferings in Armenia were a comedy and a farce com pared with the greater sufferings or Cuba. At least two hundred thousand graves are calling to us to come on and remember by what process their occupants died. It is the twentieth century crying out to the nlne i teenth: "Do you mean to pass down to us the curse with which you have been blasted? Or will you let me begin under new aus pices ami turn the Island el desolation into an island Edenic?" It is a war inspired by mercy, which is an attribute in man imitative of the same at tribute of God. In no other age of the world could such a war have been waged. The gospel of kindness needed to be recog nized throughout Christendom in order lo make such a war possible. The chief rea son why most of the European nations are not now banded together avainst us is be cause they dare not take the part of that behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish Govern ment, against the crusade of mercy which our nation has started. Had it been on our part a war of conquest, a war of annexa tion, a war of aggrandizement,there would have been by this time enough flying squadrons coming to this couutry across the Atlantic to throw into panic every city on our American seaboard. The wars oT the Crusaders were onlv to regain an empty sepulchre; the Napoleonic wars, with their six million slaughtered men, were projected and carried out to ap pease the ambition of one man; of thetwen t.y-flve million slain in Jewish wars and of the sixty million slain in the wars under Julius Ciesar; of the one hundred and eighty million slain in wars with Turks and Sara cens; of the fifty million slain In wars with Xerxes: of the twenty million slain in wars of, Justinian; and the thirty-two million slHln In the wars of Genghis Kahu, not one man was sacrificed for mercy; but In till.-' Hispanic-American war every Arummei boy, or picket, or gunner, or standard bearer, or skirmisher, or sharpshooter, ot cavalryman, or artilleryman, or engineei who falls, falls In the cause of mercy, and becomes a martyr for God and his Country. Another alleviation of this war is thai It Is for the advancement of the eubllm# principle of liV which will yet engirdle the earth. > will this war frea Cuba, but flnaftj v fj-ee Spain. By what right does a p that stand, and a forrupt court domiuitu i people for cen turies, taxing them riding in gilded chariot over the ne«» of a beggared population?*^ Another nrmviation is that the war opens with a great victory for the United States, in the most jubilant manner let the victory of our navy be celebrated. With the story of the destroyed battleship fresh in the minds of the world it would require no or iinary courage to sail Into the harbor of Manila and attack the Spanish shipping, rbat harbor, crowded with sunken wea ponry of denth, to enter it was running a ri9k enough to make all nations shiver. But Manila is ours, and the blow has shaken to the foundation the palaces of Madrid, and for policy's sake the doubtful lations are on our side. For Commodore Dewey and all who followed him let the whole nation utter Its most resounding huzza; and more than that, let us thank he Lord of hosts for his guiding and pro tected power. "Praise ye the Lord! Let sverythlng that hath breatu praise the Lord!" Another alleviation is the fact that in :his war the might is on the side of the right. Again and again have liberty and ustice and suffering humanity had the odds against them. It was so when Ben lildad'sj Syrian hosts, .who. were in the wrong, nt Aphek, came upon the small regiments of Isrnel, who were in the right, the Bible putting it in one of those graphic sentences for which the book is remark able—"The children of Israel pitched be fore them like two little flocks of kids, but :tie Syrians filled the whole country." It was so in the awful defeat of the Lord's people at Gllboa and Megiddo. It was so recently when gallant and glorious Greece was in conflict with gigantic Mohumme lauism, and the navies of Europe hovering ibout the Bosphorus were in practical iirotection of the Turkish government, fresh from the slaughter of one hundred thousand Armenians. It was so when, in 177(i, the thirteen colonies, with little war shipping and a few undrliled and poorly :lnd soldiers, were brought into a contest with the mightiest navy_ of all the earth ind an army that commanded the admira tion of nations. It was so when Hungary went under. It has been so during all the struggles heretofore for Cuban indepen lenee. But now it is our powerful navy with enough guns to send the opposing fleet as completely under as when the lied Sea submerged Pharaoh's armv. Another nlieviation is the fact that wo iiuve a God togo to iu behalf of all those jf our countrymen who may be in especial sxposure at the front, for we must admit ;lih perils. It is no trifling thing for 100,- }OO young men to be put outside of home restraints and sometimes into evil com panionship. Many of the brave of the jarth are not the good of the earth. To jetu the same tent with those who have 110 regard for God or home; to hear their noly religion sometimes slurred at; to be placed under influences calculated to make jne reckless; to have no Sabbath, except such Sabbath as in most encampments imounts to no Sabbath at all; togo out from homes where all sauitary laws are observed into surroundings where ques tions of health are never discussed; to in fade climes where pestilence holds posses don; to make long marches under blister ing skies; to stand on deck and in the llelds under lire, at the merey of shot and shell—we must admit that those thus ex posed need especial care, and to the Omui present God we have a right to eommend them, and will commend them. Postal communication may be interrupted, and letters started from eamps or homes may not arrive at the right destination, but however far away our loved ones may be from us, and however wide and deep the seas that separate us, we may hold com munication with them via the throne of Sod. A shipwrecked sailor was found floating on a raft, near the coast of California. Willie in the hospital he told his experi ence, and said that he had a companion ou the eame raft for 6orne time. While that companion was dying of thirst he said to him: "'George, where are you going?' 1 and the lying sailor said: "I hope I am going to God." "If you do," suid the res cued sailor, "will you nsk Him to send some water?'' After rtie death of his com panion, the survivor said, Hie rain came in torrents, and slaked his thirst and kept him alive until he was taken to safety. The survivor always thought it was in an swer to the message he had sent to heaven asking for water. 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