The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-10-10

urlnk1nG out OF c0allceS made out OF
human skulls and filed with blood.
The United States government is the
only government in the whole world
that could successfully call such a
congress. Suppose France should call
Il, Germany would not come; or Ger
many should cal it, France would
not come; or Russia should call it,
Turkey would not come; or England
should call it, nations long jealous Of
her overshadowfng power in Europe
would not come. America, in favor
with all nationalities, standing out in
dependent and alone, is the spot and
1892 will be the time. May it please
the president of the United States, may
it please the secretary of state, may It
please the cabinet, may it please the
senate and house of representatives,
may it please the printing presses and
the churches and the people who lift
up and put down our American rulersi |
To them make this timely and sol
emn and Christian appeal. Do you
not think people die fast enough with
out this wholesale butchery of wara
Do you not think that we can trust to
apoplexies and palsies and yellow fe-
vers and Asiatic choleras the work of
killing them fast enougha Do you
not think that the greedy, wide open
jaws of the grave ought to be satisfied
if filled by natural causes with hun
dreds Of thousands of corpses a year2
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, arm
less, eyeless1 Do you not think that
women might be appointed to an cas-
ier place than the edge of a grave
trench to wiring their pale hands and
weep out their eyesight in widowhood
and childlessness2 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 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 de-
liberate murder, and clear out at sea a
bombshell can be hurled miles away
into a city, or while thousands Of
private soldiers, who have no interest
in the contest, for they were con-
scripted, 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 orate 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 ghastly hospitals
at Antietam and Hagerstown. Ahi
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 per-
dition, and l pray that it may speedily
descend to tAe place from which It
arose, its last sword and shield and
muslSet rattling on the bottom of the
red hot mari of hell. Let there be
called q 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 cen
turies ago was sung out, is rebuilt
again in the clouds, and the same an
gelic singers are returned with the
same librettos of light to chant
GLORY to God in the highest, and on
earth peace, good will to men"
DON'T LET FOREIGN VICES IN.
Again, | suggest in regard to the
Worlds fair that, while appropriate
places are prepared for all foreign ex-
hibits, we make no room for the inn
portation 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 peo-
pie, 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. Petersburg
Sabbath or any of the foreign Sab
baths, which are no Sabbaths at all.
think the Lord is more thar gen.
erous in asking only fifty-two days
out of the 365 for his service. You lei
the Sabbath go and with it will &c
your Bible, and after that your iber-
ties, and your children or your grand
children will be here In Americe
under despotism 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 exposihons, lordly peo
pie who will bring their vices with
them. Among the dukes and duch
esses and princes and princesses OF
other lands are some of thu best mer
and women Of all the earth. Remem
Der Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns ant
Lord Shaftesbury. But there is {
snobbery and funkeyism in American
society that runs after q grandee, {
duke, lord or prince, though b,
may be a walking lazaretto and hi
breath plague. 1tmakes the fortun,
of some Of our queens OF society t.
dance one cotllion with one of thes'
princely lepers. Some people canno
get their hat off quick enough whel
they see such foreign lord approach
ing, and they do not care for the mir
into which they drop their knees a
they bow to worship. Let no splen
dor of pedigree or any pomp and para
phernalia of circumstance make hin
attractive. There is only one set o
Ten Commandments that ] ever hear
of, and no class of men or women II
all the world are excused from ODE
dience to those laws written by finge
of lightning on the granite surface Q
Mount Sinai Surely we have enougl
American vices without making an.
drafts upon European vice for 1892.
BY this sermon would have the ns
ton made aware of its opportunit
and get ready to improve II, and q
some perils and get ready to comba
them. / rejoice to believe that the ad
vantages will overtop everything i
that worlds fair. What an introduC
ton to each other of communities, c
states, of republics, of empires. c
zones, of hemispheresl What doors c
information will be swung wide ope
for the boys and girls now on tn
thresholdl What national and intel
national educationl What crownin
of Industry with sheaves of grain, AN
| what immortal rnhinfr of her with en-