The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-10-05
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m -'. D''nop oiafh oi hhode Island
preached sermon with the above title at
Providence on Sunday, founded on St. I,uke
xx1-25. And unon tho oo,4,, d;,..,.. -
"po. 'ne eai'n uistress Oh ma
tlohS WIN perpiexity. we make some ex-
tracts from the discourse:
The folly and ambition of one or two rulers
backed and narhans nrood ~ III =. wv WI, uiuleis
thrstiess love of cIorv IN tha n.rt ~ wa sh anu
Mace have. ont of one or tw" 20 ,;t,,a ~ 1a1 pIp'
wb;cb = Jron nf COL 49, y, wv mus SPARKS,
cnished kinGIed This frobtG,i ,,a0; aaau eA.in.
ana now that # RACES ,ua whn conmsgIatlon;
extinguish II? 'oN"pe'en' W
And before n ;.oxt;no,,;,,a
how far If NOV sn,oaJS SnI, Mno can tel
ais lie thick and cIoss i, stIan lnaieil-
France and Pnssia the Sv,nnatis;as ls .nan
Powers yibrate donbtInIlv viii no. ~ Ssne. J 81
allow the balance of mower in Enrous ~ ~ bo to
seriously dsturbed,-eyery old monarchv ;s
concernetl IN stav tho nrooross - sUany ..'Ily -
ideas ali tbo nroorass;ra ps.Sss @ " lepuencan
are pledged to the extensipn af =, a., naaiCns
Mhofh Protestant;S,,, n,,J D Ol nuan riSnts,
something Of s1aLa-tha "IIs. Toi.. T nave
Roma an,oa,s TO- .ao..y noiy ratner IN
have inst taken from, bic hros~ ~ tuose WHO
crown and the sold;ors ,.1t'o III. um :ne secular
dom;n;ons become he oSnor. ~mU natI ilSaoeo ms
of the croot P,,ss;o,. ~ hn"s y ne ueeP voice
IaarJ aI,ho,,e.t 'an oeal - Deslnnlng 70 be
tbe SescenJsgts e ,ee 's - aot carlicuIate,G
for so,oo nr,a ~ so,d :, 'H piouu Eastman wait
ous sounds are heard in Great Pr;.a; oillu-
irish Eenian w,tcbss b;s onna..:4 D:..a'n ,[tne
is the pronhet wise enn,,ob to ,ornc. y
ture who can telI wbas ~ .o.ecast Ine lu-
God DESIGNS to bring ont pf II, sf;o 'nH Sloae
and nernIexitv2 = gu 'Ai' ui''resS
Meanwhile we ask what resu,ts nar h
pected to arise ont M of ths nrssan, s may oe ex,
war in EuropeP Some good onaht r. cs,,,o
out Of SO much evil; what beneficial effects
are conceivable? /? When. and upon what terms
| this war will cease. and to what extent ;f Of
| all, other nations NAV become entenI,ad ~
its miseries before it closes. no man Iv;nn 10 .
forecast enough to tell. Bnt lot II rosnit &c ~
may, we cannot help believino that th;s w no. ~
| is destined to be the puarantee of noooa tor .
| long time TO come. We arc accnsto,nod ~
say that our late civil war gives ns shs sssur' ~
ance that, whatever dffsyencs1 ,,a,, "o.a "r;ao
within the borders of our rennb;c in f,turo
there will be no more battles fonoht ~, o,,y
territory for many long wear. WHEN NO,
was carried on mainly or entirely tbrouob fbe
agency of great standing armies. orcanize.i
like machines, and recruited from the ranks
of those who make military life their busi-
Lnln0
| it is when men must be called from their
workshops, and offices, and their ploughiDg
in the field, to take up arms, and the best
blood of the nation sacrificed, f,4
1t is also very serious thing when wars
must be conducted on such scale as N we'll
nigh impoverish both the yanuuished and the
victor, and generation after generation be sub-
| jected to an almost ruinons Taxation m nov
| the cost of single war And this Is what 4
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BILE in Europe; all the great powers must
adopt the Prussian system. which makes
| eyerv citizen an Accommodated soldier VIII
| yery few executions. an abIe- -ho5iad mon ~,
reaching the ace of twentv-one ha;no ohI;ood o
| to serve in the army for three Years esco;v;,,r
thorough instruction in miIiiarv tactics =.
| there mnst he hv mntna1 o,roo...y .".SS, VI
al disarmameni In s;,hsr oasa senel-
pledge of peace: for If. on the event ~ A..
1oraton OF hostilities the whole oJ,,,t ,,o,,'Io
tion are liable TO he called into tbo 6oi a,os'
possible expedient will ha tr;ed - o'I;d dvtJ tIJ
| dire necessity Of war 0'N '-o
The terrible destruction attend;no ,h;s
present contest is in itself to some EXTENT
the guarantee of future peace. The resmIts
of recent battles have been such as tn slisnel
the illusion that modern improvements in the
construction of military arms tend to dimin.
ish the horrors of war. Those now ;nran
tions do indeed make the operations Of war
more and more of a science, and less and less less
matter of personal skill and hraverv. hnt
the farther this principle is carried. the more
absurd war becomes, and men NAV in time
| come to the conclusion that battles may as
well be fought by locomotives and steam bat
terles, as by living beings. In this event war
may continue to be very costly work, but
Its greatest evils are abated.
There is another incidental benefit which
may result from this present distress of ma
| tions, and that is to check the overwhelming
tide of luxury, extravaganza and enervating
vice. Paris; the metropolis of fashion, the
centre of refined cultivation, the emporium
of vice, presents to-day sad and strange
spectacle A veil is drawn over her splendors,
| the sounds of merriment are husbed. her
choicest works of art are concealed in hidden
places, her beautiful gardens turned into cat
| tie pens, her palaces deserted. no inoress into
the city, and no esress except through tbe
air, no communication with the outer world.
proud Versailles the headouarters of an in
vading foe, darkness where it was once so
light. silence where it was once so CAV. the
horrors of long siege threatening from with.
out, fears of rapine and riot within. no GOV.
ernment but that which the emergency has
| created, laborers without work. tradesmen
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