Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1864-01-13

arc coupaTatiFely unknoWn 10 oacn otner.
the business is in some degree relieved of
its hardest and harshest features,-of
much of its intrinsic inhumanity and
barbarity. But where men, born, bred,
educated and baptized together, become in
cited to sheathe their swords in each 9TH
er's bosoms; where sons no longer hesi-
tate to apply the knife to their own faith
er's throats, when we behold our lakes,
rivers, seas, literally blushing with the
blood, and our every mountain-tor be-
come an altar for the sacrifice of those
who were once brothers, how shocking,
how appalling!
Yet war is not always an unmixed ca
lamlty. War is honorable, quoth JOAN
ma Baily,
war is honorable
In those who do their native rights maintain
In those whose swords an iron barrier are.
Between the lawless spoiler and the weak"
War may be esteemed an unmixed ca
lamity only as it seeks to subvert truth
to oppress and enslave the weak-to
introduce in the stead of constitutional
freedom either despotism or reign of
terror. Waged in the maintenance Of
principle, i'll defense of the rights of HUI
man Nature. to roll back the tide Of inva-
sion or to sustain bene6cent government
against the assaults of malignant. remorse-
less, high-handed, red-handed Treason, it
may not only be profitable, but absolute
ly necessary. But, says one. does not
the Bible explicitly and unqualifedly pro-
hibit war? The Bible" as another has
said, :" does not glory in war;" The most
splendid campaigns Of Joshua and David
are skctched in the fewest possible words.
Often single verse is crowded with facts
that would have been spun out into long
chapters in Spartan or in Latin history,
as alse been duly immortalized in Song.
Nor is there anything more natural than
that men should thus enaulge in glowing
descriptions of great battles, of daring
expeditions, of great brilliant exploits,
and Of dazzling victories for the sake Of
hereby illustrating the glory of the ma
tiops patriots and the valor of her de-
tenders. That the writers of the Bible
have. with singular unamity, ever abstain
ed from everything of the kind is no
small proof of their divine inspiration.
But while they have been TINS silent
touching this aspect of war, they have
not been so silent concerning the feelings
of godly and patriotic men toward those
enimes who attempt the overthrow of the
nation. They have not been so silent
concerning the justice that moved them
to euter the conflict, nor concerning the
thanksgiving to the "God of battles "
after that their triumph had been won.
Dr. Duff, the celebrated Scottish mis-
sionary in Calcutta, said he could not un-
derstapd how the, so called, deprecatory
!. portion of the Psalms could be consistent
with the teachings of the New Testament
until the Sepoy rebellion broke cut with
such terrific fury, and foes rose up filling
the land with violence, shaking the foun-
dations of society and Of government
threatening towns and cities with pillage
| fire aud sword, numbering the innocent
and defencelcss, prosecuting Christians
with especial malignity, making unresist
ing missionaries sacrifice to brutal lus
and deadly torture. and thus rolling back
the tidcof Christian civilization that iniqu
ity might come in again like food, and
heathenism. with all its horrors, anC
darkness, with all its barbarism and idol
airy, might be re-established in the land
, Not until then could it he known, realized
, felt that there are times in the outbreak
, ing of human enmity when the pleading
of mercy are in vain and justice mus
| draw the sword in war Of vigorous self
defence. 9ai f fTo'2'
f Nor is this all. z /" Surely the wrath o
e man shall praise thcc the remainder o
wrath shalt thou restrain. 1t is tn
e wonderful perogative of God to educ
i, good out Of vil.-to make even the wrat
b Of man, in the end, subserve bene6cen
d ends. Enterprises un lertaken often sole
G ly with view to selfish. nefarions result
# are made in the wise Providence Of Go
b to react to the pulling down Of the yer