The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-10-24

not think that the greedy, wide open jaws
of the grave ought to be satisfied if filled by
natural causes with hundreds of corpses
ycart Do you not think we can do some
thing better with men than to dash their life
out against easements, or blow them into
fragments by torpedos, or send them out
into the world, where they need all their
faculties, footlcss, armless, eyelcss2 DO
| YOU not think that women might be ap.
pointed to an easier place than the edge of
grave trench 70 wiring their pale hands and
weep out their cyesight in widowhood and
childlessness? Why, the last glory has
gone out Of war.
There was time when it demanded that
quality which we all admirc-namely, cour-
age-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 bayonet charge.
But now it is cool and deliberate muir
| der, 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 COM
mcncement 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
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
shcep:n
| War is an accursed monster, and it was
born in the lowest cavern of perdition, and
| l 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 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 librcttos 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 peo-
| pic, good and bad The good we must
prepare TO welcome, and the bad we must
| prepare to shun. The attempt will again
be made in 1892, as in 1876, to break
up our American SabbathS. The at
tempt was made at the Philadelphia
| Centennial, burt was defeated. The Ameri-
| can 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 for
eign Sabbatks, which are no Sabbaths at
all. think the Lord is more than gener-
GUS in asking only tifty-two days out Of the
| 365 for his service You let the Sabbath 60
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 wassail
and frolc.
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 prin-
cesses of other lands are some of the best
men and women Of all the earth. Remem-
ber Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
Lord Shaftesbury. But there is snob-
berry and funkeyism in American So
ciety that runs after grandee, a duke a
lord, or prince, though he may be walk
ing lazaretto and his breath plague. 1t
makes the fortune of some of our queens of
| society to dance one cotillion with one Of
these princcly lepers. Some people can not
| get their hat off quick enough when they
see such foreign lord approaching, and
thew do not care for the mire into which
| they drop their knees as they bow to wor-
| ship. Let no splendor of pedigree or any
| pomp and paraphernalia Of circumstances
| make him attractive. There is only one set
of Ten Commandments that 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 max
ing any drafts upon European vice for lS92
By this sermon would have the nation
made aware of it's opportunity and get
ready to improve it, and of some perils, and
get ready to combat them. I rejoice to
believe that the advantages will overtop
every thing in the worlds fair. What an
introduction to each other of communities,
of States, of republics, of empires, Of zones,
Of hemispheres! What doors OF informa.
tion will be swung wide open for the boys
and girls now on tho threshold! What
national and international education! What
crowning of industry with sheaves of grain,
and what imperial robing of her with en-
broidered fabrics! What scientific appara-
tusl What telescopes for the intinitude
above and microscopes for the infnitude
beneath, and instruments to put nature to
the torture until she tells her last secret!
What display of the magnificence 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
,yerv head, making 1t manifest that it is
| not Gods fault, but either mans oppression
orindolcnce or dissipation if there be any
without supply.
Under the arches of the chief building OF
that exposition let Capital and Labor, TOO
long estranged at last be married, cach
taking the hand of each in pledge OF eternal
fidelity, while representatives of all nations
stand round rejoicing at the nuptials and
saying: "What God hath Joined together
let not man put asunder." Then shall the
thrcnody of the needle woman no longer be
heard:
| Work, work, work.
Till the brain begins to swim;
| Work. work, work!