South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-03-21
ELEGANT EXTRACT.

ELEGANT EXTRACT.
Extract from a Sermon on War, de-
livered January rs, 1885, by Rev. Dr..
Channing-just published "The idea
of Honor is associated with war;, But
to whom does the honor belong 7 II
TO any, certainly not to the mass of the
people, but 10 those who are particu.
larly engaged in it. The mass of a
people, who stay at home and hire 9th.
ers to fight, who sleep 10 their warm
beds aud hire others TO sleep on The
cold aud damp earth, who sit at their
well spread board and hire others to
take the chance of starving, who nurse
the slightes, hurt in their own bodies,
and hire others 10 expose themselves
to mortal wounds and to linger in COM
fortress hospitals, certainly this, mass
reap but little honor fgom war. The
homer belongs to those who immediate
" engage init. Let me ask then, what
is the chief business of war? |. is to
destroy human life, to mangle the limbs,
to cash and hew the body, to plunge
the sword into the hears of fellow
creature, 10 strew the earth with bleed
ing frames, and to trample them under
foot with horses hoofs. 1t is to batter
down and burn cities, to turn fruitful
fields into deserts, to level the cottage
Of the peasant and the magnificent a.
bode of opulence, to scourge nations
with famine, to multiply widows and
orphans. Are these honorable deeds 7
Were you called to name exploits
worthy Of demons, would you not nat.
urally select such as these +? Grant
that necessity for them may exist. 1t
| is dreadful necessity such as a good
man must recoil from with instructive
horror and though it may exempt
them from guilt, it cannot turn them
into glory. We have thought that il
was honorable to heal, to save, to miti-
| gate pain, to snatch the sick and sink
ing from the jaws of death. We have
| placed among the revered benefactors
of the human race, the discoveries Of
arts which alleviate human suferings
which proiong, comfort, adorn and
cheer human life, and if these arts be ho'
norabe, where is the glory of multiply
ing & aggravating toriures and death i!
| szsza.s
Horrors of The Sea,-The brig Car.
oline arrived lately at ,Helford, from
America, after long and tempestuous
passage. After having been about a
week On her voyage, the man at the
wheel cried out "a rock ahead 10 The
| captain ran forward, and discovered a
boat. II contained six living men, but
in the last stage of wretchedness, and
| one man dead, lying ct the bottom of
the boat, whose blood they had drank,
and part of whose flesh they had fed
on in the morning These sufferers
were the only survivors Of a crew OF
fourteen. They had been about nine
days in the boat, driving about, suffer-
ing what no tongue can describe, from
hunger, and particularly from thirst.
Two that had died could bear the
pangs Of thirst no longer, and, in the
bitterness Of agony, drank salt water.
The consequence was, they became
deranged, and died. The FIRST victim
had been thrown overheard /; the Sc.
! cond remained in the boat, whose
mangled body manifested the irresista-
BILE cravings Of the hunger that his
barely surviving shipmates were suffer-
ing under.--Welsh paper.
y. The friends Of parson MuhIenberg
are determined not to submit to the re.
nomination OF Gov. Wolf. In this
| York, Cumberlaud-in short, 10 al
the counties where there are any, they
are preparing to send Delegates 10 the
| contemplated Lewistown Convention