Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-05-07

wouIu propose to engage in slugging
matcn % settle dispute about ac-
counts. Yet since that time the Eu-
fopean armanlehts have been extend
ca 20 an unprecedented degree, and
wars have been in continual prorress.
krupp's gun foundry has become the
greatest industrial establishment in
Germany, and the most active invent.
i've and scientific minds the civilized
worli over are devoting themselves To
; the perfection of the engines of warfare
so that they shall be more destructive
To-day the busiest industries in this
country are the manufactures Of mu-
nitions OF war, and they are turning
out cartridges by the hundred million
to be used in killing human beings.
| Russia is ready to fall on English
commerce in case of war, hoping to
drive thousands of peaceful ships from
| the seas. She is planting torpedoes in
her harbors to blow up the great ves-
sells of her enemy and destroy the lives
of their crews, and in the dockyards
! aud gun shops of the empire the hours
uf labor upon the engines of war are
heightened by the use of the electric
| light which Christian civilization has
il trodueel. Night and day the
workers are ceaselessly at their toll
completing all sorts of Internal ma
sale slaughter are going on in England,
where the Government has thousands
of men at work to get ready ships and
munitions of war, and is giving orders
for the building of great numbers of
other vessels, more guns, more torpe-
does, and more shot and shell. Hos
pitfalls for multitudes of wounded men
are going up on the borders of Afghan
istan, ambulances are manufactured by
the thousand, lint is scraped, and sur
geons are sharpening their knives.
All these horrible preparations for
coming slaughter are going on in the
sight of the civilized and Christian
world, and they arr made by nations
which daily send up their prayers to
the Lord of peace and Righteousness.
Th, v are made not only in contraven-
ton of the teachings of Christ, but
even in contemptuous disregard of
them; and yet Christendom is not
shocked, is not surprised, any more
than we are surprised 10 see two bull
dogs snap at each other in the street.
Chrstendom rather stands by wonder
ing that the fight has not already oe-
gun, and ready to visit with its deris-
ion either power which refrains from
war because it would avoid bloodshed.
We hear, at least, of no general as
sembling of the Christians of Europe
and America to protest against the
awful struggle as crime against the
religion of Christ. A few advocates of
peace on principle have begged the
English Government to desst, but
they are laughed at as cranky vision
aries even by the clergy, who declare
that it is craven for an Englishman to
obey the precepts of Christianity and
not retaliate for blow.
All this may seem very common-
place, but why is it commonplace? Is
it not because such thing as genuine
Christianity has almost no existence
in the world? People do not expect to
see the teachings of the Sermon on
thu Mount obeyed, but treat them rs
as beautiful poetry mere
Iy. In their individual dealings they
do not pretend to be governed by them,
and collectively they disregard them
as matter of course.-N. Y. Sun.