The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1889-10-17
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who lift up and put down our american
rulersl
To them I make this timely and 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
choleras the work of killing them fast
enoughf 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 yearg
Do you not think we can do something
! better with men than TO dash their life
cut against easements or blow them into
| fragments by tOrpedoes or send them ont
| into the world, whore they need all their
faculties, footless, armless, eyeless? Do
| you not think that women might be ap-
| pointed to an easier place than tho edge
of "a grave trench to wiring their pale
hands and weep out their eyesight IN
| widowhood and ,childlessness? Why, the
last glory has gone out OF war.
| There was 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 slay him; or it
was o bayonet charge. But now it is cool
| and deliberate murder, aud clear out at
sea Dombshell can be hurled miles
away into a city, or while thousands or
| private soldiers, who have no intor-
est in the contest for they were con-
scripted, are losing their lives, their
General may sit smoking one Of the
best Havana cigars after a dinner Of
quail on toast. 1t may be well 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 ghastly
| hospitals at Antietam and Hagerstown.
| All! 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,
| andI 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 mari of hell.
| Let there be called peace conyention
! for 1892, with delegates sent by all the
uecent BOSeFuueHiS Ol tHfASttuupAi,
! 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 chat the old gallery of
crystal, that was taken down after the
| Bethlehem anthem of eighteen centuries
| ago was sung out, is rebuilt again in tue
clouds, aud 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, | 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 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 il
| broken down, and substituted in the
| place thereof the Brussels Sabbath, the
| Vienna Sabbath the ST. Petersburg Sab.
bath or any CT the foreign Sabbaths
which are no Sabbaths at all. ! 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
| despotism as bad as in those lands where
they turn the Lords Day into wassaii
| and frolio.
! Among those who come there will be
| as at other expositions, lordly people
| who will bring their vices with them
| Among the Dukes Duchesses, Princes ane
and Princesses of other lands are somt
of the best men and women of all th,
| earth. Remember Earl OF Kintore, Lore
| Cairns and Lord Shaftesbury. But ther,
! is snobbery and a flunkeyism in Amer
| lean society that runs after a grandee,
| Duke, Lord or a Prince, though he may
| be walking lazaretto and his breatlf
plague. 1t makes the fortunes of some
| of our queens of society to dance one
| cotillion with ono OF these prineely
| lepers. Some people can not gel
their hat off quick enough when they so
| such a foreign lord approaching, an
| they do not care for the mire into whiGl
they drop their knees, as they bow I.
worship. Let no splendor of pedigree R
any pomp and paraphernalia iof circum
stance make him attractive. There IS
only one set Of Ten Commandments that [
ever heard of, aud 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 kot
Mount Sinai Surely we have enough
American vices without making any
drafts upon European vice for 1892.
BY this sermon / would have the Ma
ton made aware of its opportunity and
get ready TO improve IL, and OF some
perils, aud get ready to combat them. /
rejoice TO believe that the advantages
will overtop every thing in that Worlds
Fair. What an introduction to oach 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 aud girls now on
the threshold! what national and inter-
national edueationl What crowning of
Industry with sheaves of grain, aud
what imperial robing OF her with en-
broiderod fabrics! What scientific APP
paratusl What telescopes for the in
fiuitude above and microscopes for the
infinitude beneath, aud instruments 10
put nature to torture until she tells her
last secret! What display of the mu-
nifcenee Of the God who has grown
enough wheat TO make n 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 II there be auy
without supply.
O, Christian Americai Make ready tor
the grandest exposition ever seen under
the sunI Have Bibles enough bound.
Have churches enough established. Have
scientific halls enough endowed. Have
printing presses enough set up. Have