The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-10-18

To them 1 make this timely aud solemn
and Christian appeal Do you not think
people die fast enough without this
Wholesale butchery of war? Do you not
think that we can trust to pneumonias
and consumptions and apoplexies and
palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic
chO1eras the work of killing them fast
enough? Do you not think that the greedy,
wide open jaws of the grave ought to be
satisfied if filed by natural causes With
hundreds of thousands of corpses yearf
Do you not think we can do something
better with men than to dash their life
out against easements or blow them into
fragments by torpedoes or send them out
into the world, where they need all their
faculties, foOtless, armless, eyeless? Do
you not think that women might be APP
pointed to an easier place than the edge
of ga grave trench to wiring their pale
hands and weep out their eyeslght In
widowhood and ichildlessnessP Why, the
last glory has gone out of war.
There was a time when it demanded
that quality which we all admire, name
ly, cOurage-fOr man had to stand at
the hilt OF his sword when the point
pierced the foe, and while he was Staying
another the other might Stay him; or il
was bayOnet charge. But now it is cool
and deliberate murder, and clear out at
sea DOmbshell can be hurled miles
away into a city, or while thousands of
private soldiers, who have no inter-
est in the contest for they were con-
scripted, are losing their lives, their
&c neral may sit smoking one of the
best Havana cigars after a dinner of
quail on toast. 1t may be we'll enough for
graduating students Of colleges on COM
mencement day to crate about the poetry
of war, but do not talk about the poetry
of war to the men of the Federal or Con-
federate armies who were at the 'front.'
or to some of US who, as members of the
Christian Commission, saw the CHASTITY
hospitals at Antietam and Hagerstown.
All! you may worship the Lord of Hosts,
l worship the God of Peace, who brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus
Christ, that great Shepherd of the sheep"
War is an aCcursed monster and it was
born in the lowest cavern of perdition,
and1 prayIthat it may speedily descend to
the place from which it arose, its last
sword and shield and musket rafting on
the bottom of the red-hot mari of hell,
Let there be called a peace convention
for 1892, with delegates sent by all the
decent governments of Christendom.
and while they are in session, if you
should some night go out and look into
the sky above the exposition buildings,
you may find that the old gallery of
crystal that was taken down after the
Bethlehem anthem of eighteen centuries
ago was sung out is rebuilt again in the
| clouds, and the same angelic singers
are returned with the same librettos OF
light to chant GLORY to God in the high
est and on earth peace, good will to
men,"
Again, I suggest in regard to tho
| Worlds Fair that while appropriate
places are prepared for all foreign OK
hibits, we make no room for the importa-
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| of its own, and we need no new INSTALL
ments of that kind. A Worlds Fair will
| bring all kinds of people, good and bad.
| The good we must prepare to welcome,
the bad we must prepare to shun. The
attempt will again be made in 1892, as in
| 1876, to break up our American Sabbaths.
| That attempt was made at the Phila-
| delphia Centennial, but was defeated.
| The American Sabbath is the best kept
| Sabbath on earth. We do not want it
/ broken down. and substituted in the
| place thereof the Brussels Sabbath. the
! Vienna Sabbath, the st. Peters burg Sab
=, tn or any Of the foreign Sabbaths,
Iii" are no Sabbaths at all. L think
tbo T.oro is more than generous in ask
b+ndred and eixty-five for his services,
Won let the sabb, 'th go and with it will
on vonr Rible. and - fter that your Iiber-
Ties and vour chiIdre.1 or your grand
children will be here in america under d
despotism as bad as in tlioAe lands where
they turn the Lords Day th'o "oSSai
and frolic.
Among those who come there W. De;
as at other expositions, lordly peoh~"
who will bring their vices with them
Among the Dukes Duchesses, Princes and
and Processes of other lands are somo
of the best men and women of all the
earth. Remember Earl of Kintore, Lord
Cairns and Lord Skates bury. But there
is a snObbery and a hunkeyism in Amer
lean society that runs after a grandee, e
Duke, Lord, or a Prince, though he may
be a walking lazaretto and his breath &
plague. 1t makes the fortunes of some
of our queens of society to dance ono
cotiIIion with one of these princely
Iepers. Some people can not get
their hat off quick enough when they seq
such a foreign lord approaching, and
they do not care for the mire into which
they drop their knees, as they bow to
worship. Let no splendor of pedigree or
any pomp and paraphernalia Iof circum-
stance make him attractive. There is
only one set of Ten Commandment is that
ever heard of, and no class of men and
women in all the world are excused from
Obediauce to those laws written by finger
of lightning on the granite surface Eof
Mount Sinai Surely we have enough
American vices without making any
drafts upon European vice for 1892.
By this sermon 1 would have the Ma
ton made aware of its opportunity and
get ready to improve it, and of some
perils, and get ready to combat them. 1
rejoice to believe that the advantages
will overtop every thing in that Worlds
Fair What an introduction to zach other
of communities, of states, Of republics,
of empires, of zones, Of hemispheresl
What doors of information will be swung
wide open for the boys and girls now on
the Threshold What national and inter
national educationl What browning Of
Industry with sheaves of grain, and
what imperial robing of her with sm-
broidered fabrics! What scientific APP
paratus! What telescopes for the in
fuitude above and microscopes for the
infinitude beneath, and instruments TO
put nature to torture until she tells her
lat secretl What display of the mu-
nftcence of the God who has grown
enough wheat to make a loaf of good
bread large enough for the human race,
and enough cotton to stocking every foot,
| and enough timber to shelter every head,
making it manifest that it is not Gods
| fault. but either mans oppression or in
dolence or dissipation if there be any
| without supply.
| o, Christian Americai Make ready for
! the grandest exposition ever seen under
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