Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1866-06-05
THE WORLD ATWAR.
A strange controversion of idea

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| by the Christian world. AS sue
cedaneum for the slow process Of
moral, political and religious suasion,
governments and individuals claim
ing to be guided by the lamp Of
Christian civilization, seem all at
once to have taken to the "@tt5ma
ratio regum" of war as the arbiter
for settling difficulties and disputes
among themselves and converting
one another against their will. Mean
while, those nations which, "eI-
cathedral" are accursed as "heathen"
and set down by self-complacent
dogmatists who tread the "theologic
maze" as doomed to darkness and
perdition, present the only bright
spots along the earth's broad plane,
where absolute peace and quiet reign.
The actual condition of Christen-
dom to-day, says the New York
World, writing under the caption
we have adopted for our remarks),
affords striking commentary upon
an observation of Stuart Mill, that
"the remark of the early enemies Of
the Gospel, see how these Christians
love one another is not likely to be
made by anybody now" While the
Mohammedan and Pagan nations of
the world are getting on peacefully
and quietly enough, the Christian
powers in both continents are in q
ferment of war and wars worst pas
sions.
In the new world, Christian Can
ada is armipg against the Christian
Fenians; Christian Mexico is in
blaze of domestic conflict; Christian
Brazil and her republican allies Of
Eastern South America are thunder
ing away at the gates of Christian
Paraguay; Christian Chill and Peru
are battling for dear life with the
fleets of Her Most Catholic Majesty
Of Spain; and in our own model
Christian republic of the United
States, a great political party, pro-
fessedly devoted to progress and phi
lanthropy, is making the most per-
sistent and furious efforts to keep
alive and intensity all the hatreds, |
rancors and spites engendered by the
greatest and most terrible civil war
on record.
In Europe, Prussia and Austria, |
fresh from combined and success
full attack upon the laws of nations,
are preparing to cut each others
threats over the division Of the spoil |
snatched by them from the gallant
little monarchy of Denmark Italy
is summoning all her strength into
the field to strike for the liberation
Of Venice from the tyranny of a for
eign state; and France, while loudly
declaiming against violent solution
Of the great European questions of
the day, calls out her military re-
serves, and raises an army as large
as the host with which the First
Napoleon marched to the invasion of
Russia.
With what face can the missiona-
RES sent out by pious people in
Christian states to preach to the rest
IF the earth an evangel of peace on
earth and good will to man, under
AXE now to fulfill their errand 2
Turkey and Persia, Egypt and Mo-
rocco, really seem to be in less need
If such a dispensation just now than
ourselves. The Crescent just now
sheds milder and less baleful light
IN mankind than the Cross. Ii we
20 no further than our own capital
We must admit that the worst rawlings
If cruel and remorseless fanaticism
ander the conquering Islamite Caliphs
# old are daily paralleled by the
way in which men claiming to be
christian and republican Legislators