Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-10-06
spurgeon on the War Path.

That original and unipuc preach
e., Sturgeon, has lately made on
Of his characteristic fulminations
The European War has exercis
ed him TO That extent that he ha,
addressed a letter to Napoleon anr
King William, in which he takes
those bellicose gentlemen tartly to
task for their little quarrel and
scrimmage
Spurgeon rises above the nice
questions Of Court diplomacy and
sticks to his Bible taught humanity.
He is eminently practical. lie
makes a stiff argument, ad h0m-
iaem, that bear reproduction. lie
thus quotes - Gin. Times.
Did either Of You ever think of
what war means? Did you ever
see mans head smashed, or his
bowels ripped open? Why, if you
are made Of flesh and blood, the
sight Of one poor wounded man,
with the blood oozing out Of him,
will make you feel sick. / don't
like TO drown kitten; can't bear
even to see a rat die or any animal
in pain. But a man where's your
heart if you think Of broken legs,
splintered bones, heads smashed
in, brains blowed out, bowels torn,
hearts gushing with gore, bitches
full Of blood, and heaps of limbs
and carcasses of mangled men2
Do you say my language is dis
gustingI How much more dis
gusting must the things themselves
be! And you make them! How
would you like to get a man into
yon palace garden and run a knife
into his bowels or cut his throat
If you did that you would deserve
to be hanged; but it would not be
half SO bad as killing tens of thous-
ands, and you know very WE'LL that
this is just what you are going to
do. Do you fancy that your drums
and flies, and feathers and fneries
and pom?, make your Wholesale
murders enc whit the less abomina-
bic the sight Of Cod =? Do not
deceive your elves; you are no
better than the cut-throats whom
your laws condemn.
Better? why. you are worse, for
your murders are so many. Think,
| pray you, for your poor people
will have to think whether you'd or
no. Is there so little want in the
world that you must 90 tramping
on the harvest with your horses
and men? Is there so little sorrow
that You must make widows by the /
thousands? Is death so old and !
feeble that you must hunt his game
for him, As jockals do for the lion ?
Do You imagine that God made ]
men for YOU to play with? Are |
they only meant for toys for you
to break 0 Kings, a plowman tel S
you that their souls are as precious
in Gods sight as yours they suf-
rs much pain when bullets pierce
.hem as ever you can do; they
nave homes, and mother and sisters,
lLd their deaths will be as much
yept over as yours, perhaps more.
How can you sit down to eat
when you have caused war? Does
lot the blood rise in your throat
md choke you? Or are you only
lewis with crowns on? Creatures
Who are never suckled at a wo-
aan's breast, and therefore have
10 human feeling? 1t will be haId !
or you to think of the blood you
ave shed when you lie dying, and
larder still to bear the heavy hand
If God when he shall cast all muir
lerers into hell Whichever it u of
-ou that has been the cause of this
wicked war, ! say you smell of
'lood; you ought to be more hated
han the common hangman. and in
tead ofhcing called His Majesty"
on ought to be hooted as a de-
non.