Weekly Trinity journal., 1864-09-03
War Everywhere.


Havoc, war, bloodshed and devastation, says
the San Francisco CaN, seem the fashion anu
passion of the times. So much is this the case,
that we heard Thoroughbred inhdel remark
when speaking of the seizure OF Danish ships ih
Chinese waters by the Prussian frigate, that the
world is coming to an end, for wars ana ruhors
of wars abound everywhere 1t is pretty much
so worlds end or no worlds end. Like small
pox, hydrophobia, duelling, and kindred insani-
ties, war is now contagious, customary anu
fashionable. Some people are coming TO believe
in the truth of the Apocalypse, who never be-
lieved it before. First, there is our own war, on
a scale which hides all others almost, by its ex-
tent, gigantic proportions, and the great prlnci-
Piles involved. Mexico is in similar condition,
somewhat. War hovers over the States of Co.
lumbia and all the republican countries Of South
America ready to draw the sword in indig-
nation at the outrageous action of Spain, and in
sympathy with Peru for the aggressions upon
her. Spain is waging war in Dominica, and
France in Mexico and Algiers. The chieftains
of the interior of Africa are always at war.
About all the Governments of Germany, thirty or
more of them, have hand in the Danish war,
which fights back manfuly against the odds,
and the present indications are that England and
France must take hand in the fight which
would most probably bring on general Euro
pean Poland is still using her manacles to
smite the Russian Bear whose claws are at the
same time feeling for her throat and tearing at
the jugular of the Caucasua. The Swedish
feet has been ordered to sea, doubtless to aid its
Scandinavian neighbor, and the mass of the
British populace anti-German, and calling
for interference in favor of the father of their
future Queen. In China, for one ortwo decades,
war has been in progress, and appears to be the
normal condition of the country. Chinese heads
are cleft from Chinese necks with swinging
sword cut and zip, without attendance OF priest
or PRAYER the avenging SWORD nissing lhe only
dirge A Prussian frigate is picking up all Dam
ish ships as waits in the Chinese seas, and John
Bulls fleet are about to knock the fortifcations
of Prince Nagota about his ears, like bull i'll
China-shop. 1t is merry dance the world is
engaged in. What does it all portend? or how
much consequence to the great sum and sub
stance of the universe, and of how much weight
with the Great Ruler all these tossngs about
of bloody heads, and filling up of new graves :?
Take a microscope of fmilliOn-magnifying power
place peach in the focus, in such way that
the surface of the rind may be reflected and
thrown, immensely magnfed, upon wall, and
it will be seen that the little fuZ on the surface
of the peach has assumed the character of trees
and forests their branches alive with animals
enjoying life like birds and squirrels, swinging
to and fro, flying from limb to limb, and as
among men, eating and tearing each other, with
out the modern Improvements and civilized ap-
piance of four hundred pound shot, fifteen inch
PARROTS, and iron-clads. We eat the peach, and
mash and masticate the amin llcula. But it is
not because they fight and devour each other.
Perhaps the lives of these creatures, invisible to
the unaided eye, but seen by God clearly, are of
as much Importance to him as our own. And
whether the earth-worms and man anmacules
fight or sleep, makes little difference in the great
lifetime of the stars. Let us not think that
what we do weighs oppressively upon Deity. We
are but living dust ON the peach rind.