The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-17

State, may IL please the CABINET may IL
please the Senate end House OF Repre-
seniatives, may it please tho printing
presses and the churches and the people
who lift up and put down our American
rulersl
To them make this timely and solemn
aud Christian appeal Do you not think
people die fast enongh without this
Wholesale butchery OF war; Do you not
i think that we can trust to pneumonias
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 IL filled 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
ont against easements or blow them into
| fragments by torIedoes or send them out
| into the world, where they need all their
| faculties, fOotless, aTmless, eyelessi Do
| you not think that women might be ape
pointed to an easier place than the edge
of "a grave trench to wiring their pale
hands and weep out their cyesight in
widowhood and ,childlessness! Why, the
last glory has gone out OF war.
There was a time when it demanded
|
! ly, courage-for a man had to stand at
,,'e hit Of his sword when the point
ME, 'ced the foe, and while he was Staying
anofse ar the other might STAY him; or it
was n b, 'yonet charga- But now it is cool
and DELHI srate murder. aud clear out at
sea n poufL shell can be hurled miles
away into a CITY, or wille thousands OF
private soldiers, who have no inter-
est in tho contest for they were con-
scripted, are losing theta lives, their
General may sit smoking one OF the
best Havana cigars after q. dinner OF
quail on toast. 1t may be well enough Tor
graduating students Of colleges s'n COM
mencement day to crate about the l"etry
of war, but do not talk about the po'ry
of war to the men of the Federal or Coz
federate armies VITO were at the 'front.'
or to some Of us wlro, as members OF the
Christian Commission, saw the CHASTITY
hospitals at Antietam and Hagerstown.
All! you may worship toe 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 or perdition,
and 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 rcd hot mari of hell.
Let there be called u peace convention
for 1892, with delegates sent by all the
decent governments of ChrLstendom,
and while they are in session, II you
should some night go ont 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 Garth peace, good Will to
men,"
Again, l suggest in regard to the
Worlds Fair that, while appropriate
places are prepared for all foreign OK
hibits, we make no room for the impOrta-
ton Of foreign vices. America has enough
of it's own, and We need no new INSTALL
ments Of that kind. A Worlds Fair win
bring all kinds of people, good and bad
The good we must prepare to welcome,
tho bad we must prepare to shun. TIL"
attempt will again be made in 1892, as i'll
1876 to break up our American Sabbaths.
That attempt was made at the Phlla-
delphia Centennial. but was defeated.
The American Sabbath is the best kept
Sabbath on earth. We do not want 1t
broken down, and substituted in the
place thereof the Brussels Sabbath. the
Vienna Sabbath the st. Peters burg Sab
bath or any Of the foreign Sabbaths,
which arc no Sabbaths at all. l think
the Lord is more than generous in ask
ing only fifty two days out OF the three
hundred and sixty-five for his services.
You let the Sabbath go and with it will
go your Bible, and after that your liber-
ties and your children or your grand
children will be here in America under
des pOtism as bad as in those lands where
they turn the Lords Day into wassai
and frOlic.
Among those who como there will be,
as at other expositjons, lor,sIy people
who will bring their vices with them.
Among the Dukes Duclkesses. Princes and
and Processes of other lands are some
of the best men and women of all tho
earth. Remember Earl OF Kintore, Lord
Cairns and Lord Shaftesb uMy. But there
is a snobbery and flunkeytsm in Amer
lean society that runs after grandee,
Duke, Lord, or Prince, though he may
be walking laZaretto and his breath
plague. 1t makes the fortunes of some
of our queens of society to dance one
cotillion with one of these princely
lepers. Some people can not get
their hat off quick enough when they see
such a foreign lord approaching, and
they do not care for the miro into which
they drop their knees, as they bow to
worship. Let no splendor of pedigree or
any pomp and paraphernalia Iof circSm-
stance make him attractive. There Is
only one set of Ten Commandments that
ever, heard of, aud no class of men aud
women in all the world are excused from
obediance to those laws written by finger
of lightning on the rgranite surface sof
Mount Sinai Surely we have enough
American vices without making any
drafts upon European vice for 1892.
By this sermon l 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. |
rejoice to believe that the advantages
will overtop every thing in that Worries
Fair. What an introduction to zach other
Of communities, of states, of republics.
OF empires, of zones, of hemis pheresl
Whist doors Of information will be swung
wide open for the boys and girls now on
the threshold! What national and inter-
national education! What GROWING Of
Industry with sheaves of grain, and
what imperial robing of her with em-
broidered fabrics! What scientific APP
paratus. What telescopes for the in-
fnitude above and microscopes for the
infipitude beneath, and instruments to