The leader., 1889-10-12

and the people who lift up and put down our
! American rulersl
To them l make this timely and SOL
emn and Christian appeal. Do you
not think people die fast enough with
out this wholesale butchery of war? Do
J you not think that we can trust to pneu-
monias and consumptions and apoplexies
and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic
choleras 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 filled by natural causes
with hundreds of thousands of corpses a
| year? 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, eyeieSS? Do you
not think that women might be appointed to
! an easier place than the edge of a grave
| trench to wiring their pale hands and weep
! out their eyesight in widowhood and child
lessness? Why, the last glory has gone out
| of war
There was a time when it demanded that
quality which we all admire--namely. cour-
| age--for a 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 slay him; or it was bayonet charge.
But now it is cool and deliberate murder,
and clear out at sea bombshell can be
sands Of private soldiers who have no inter.
est in the contest. for they were con
Scripted, are losing their hves their
General may sit smoking one of the
best Havana cigars after dinner of quail
on toast. 1t may be well enough for gradu-
ating students of colleges on commencement
day to crate about the poetry of war, but do
not talk about the poetry of war to the men
of the Federal or Confederate 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 Hagers-
town. Ahl you may worship the Lord of
Hosts, 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, and
[ pray that 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
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 build
ings, you may find that the old gallery of
crystal, that was taken down after the BeJn-
Iehem 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
lTOu III Un0 highest, dUC OH Ct1l Gh pOdCCs SOOo
will to men"
Again, suggest in regard to the Worlds
Fair that while appropriate places are pre-
pared for all foreign exhibits, we make no
room for the importation OF foreign vices.
America has enough of its own, and we need
no installments of that kind. A worlds fair
will bring all kinds of people. good and bad
The good We must prepare TO welcome, Cne
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. Petersburg Sabbath or any
Of the foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sab.
baths at all | think the Lord is more than
generous in asking only fifty-two days out of
Ihe 365 for His service. You let the Sabbath
90 and with twill go your Bible, and after
that your liberties, and your children or your
grandchildren will be here in America under
adespotism as bad as in those lands where
they turn the Lords day into wassail and
frolic
Among those who come there Will be, as at
other expositions, lordiy people who will
bring their vices with them. Among the
Dukes and Duchesses and Princes and
Princesses of other lands are some OF the
O0SU IQ6n anu WOIleu Ol dL OuO cdl Ull. AlC-
member Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord SALISBURY. But there is a snobbery
and funkeyism in American society that
runs after grandee, a Duke, Lord or
Prince, though he may be walking laza-
retto and his breath a plague. 1t makes
the fortune of some of our queens OF
society to dance one cotillion with one OF
these princely lepers. Some people cannon
get their hat off quick enough when they see
such 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 ana para
phernalia of circumstance make him attrac-
tive There is only one set OF len Com
mandments that ever heard of, and no class
of men or women in all the world are excused
from obedience to those laws written by I'm
ger of lightning on the granite surface of
Mount Sinai. Surely we have enough
American vices without making any drafts
upon European vice for 1892.
BY this sermon l would have the nation
made aware of its opportunity and getready
to improve it, and of some perils and get
ready to combat them. rejoice to beleve
that the advantages will oyertop everything
in that worlds fair. What an introduction
to each other of communities, of states, of
republics of empires of zones, or hemls-
pheres What doors of information will be
swung wide open for the boys and girls now
on the threshholdl What national and IN
ternatiopal educationl What crowning
of industry with sheaves of grain, and
what imperial robing of her with en-
broidered fabricsl What scientific ap-
paratus What telescopes for the infinitude
above and microscopes for the infinitude be-
meath, and instruments to put nature to the
torture until she tells her last secret! What
display of the munifcence of the God who
has grown enough wheat to make 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 Incidence or
dissipation if there be any without supply.
Under the arches of the chief building of
that exposition let capital and labor, too long