Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-10-07


American rulersl
To them make this timely and solemn and
Christian appeal. Do you not think people die
fast enough without this wholesome butchery
of war? Do you not think that we can trust tc
pneumonias ana consumptions and apoplexies
and palsies and yellow fevers and Asiatic
choleras the work of killing them fast enoughi
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 year?
WARS LAST GLORY GONE.
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 tor
pedoes or send them out into the world where
they need all their faculties, footless, armless,
eyeless? Do you not think that women. might
be appointed to an easier place than the edge
of grave trench to wiring their pale hands and
weep out their eyesight in widowhood and
childlessnessf Why, the last glory has gone
out of war.
There was a time when it demanded that
quality which we all admire-namely, courage
for man had to stand at the hilr of his sword
when the point pierced the foe, and while he
was Staying another the other might slay him;
or 1t was bayonet charge. But now it is cool
and deliberate murder, and clear out at sea
bombshell can be hurled miles away into city.
or while thousands of private soldiers, who
have no interest in the contest, for they
were conscripted are losing their lives, their
general may sit smoking one of the best
Havana cigars after dinner of quail on toast
1t may be well enough for graduating 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 Antie-
tam 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, and pray
that it may speedily descend to the place from
which it arose, its last sword and shield and
musket rattling 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 Bethle-
hem anthem of Is centuries ago was sung out,
is rebuilt again in the clouds. and the same an
gelic singers are returned with the same IL
brettos of light to chant GLORY to God in the
highest, and on earth peace good 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 new installments 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 Philadelphia 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 Sab
bath, the St Petersburg Sabbath or any of the
foreign Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at
all. think the Lord is more than generous in
asking only 50 days out of the 365 for his serv-
ice. You let the Sabbath go and with it will go
your Bible, and after that your liberties, and
your children or your grandchildren will be
here in America under despotism as bad as In
those lands where they turn the Lords Day
into wassall and frolic. assS -
DOWN UPON BLUE BLooDED VICE.
Among those who come there will be, as at
other expositions, lordly people who will bring
their vices with them. Among the dukes and
duchesses and princes and prlncesses of other
lands are some of the best men and women of
all the earth. Remember Earle of kintore,
Lord Cairns and Lord SALISBURY. But there
is .snobbery and funkeyism in American
society. that runs after grandee, a duke,
lord or prince though he may be walking
Iazaretto and his breath plague. 1t makes
the fortune of some of our queens of society to
dance one cotillion with one OF these princely
lepers. Some people cannot 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 and paraphe-nalia of circum-
stance make him attractive. There is only one
set of Ten Commandments that 1 ever heard
Of, and no class of men or women in all the
world are excused from obedience to those laws
written by finger OF lightning on the granite
surface of Mount Sinai Surely we have
enough American vices without making any
drafts upon European wee for 1892
BY this sermon l would have the nation
made aware of iCs opportunity and get ready to
improve it. and Of some perlls and get ready |
to combat them. rejoice to believe that the |
worlds fair. What an Introduction to each |
,ther of communities of States of republics, |
If empires. Of zones, of hemispheres! What |
loors of information will be swung wide open /
or the boys and girls now on the threshold!
ADVANTAGES BEYOND CONCEPTION.
What national and international educationI |
What crowning of Industry with sheaves of |
rain, and what imperial robing of her with |
embroidered fabricsl What scientific ap-
'aratus! What telescopes for the infnitude |
bove and microscopes for the infinitude be- |
eath, and instruments to put nature to the |
orture until she tells her last secret! What
display of the muniticence of the God who |
as grown enough wheat to make loaf of |
ood bread large enough for the human race,
nd enough cotton to stocking every foot, and |
nough timber to shelter every head, making |
manifest that it is not Gods fault, but |