Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1889-09-13

war -FOUR ullllon seven nunufeu mluiOn dol
iai's, ana the sOuun pay tuut Uiiiiun ca mum
dred and fifty million dollars, the destroying
angel leaving the first born dead in so many
houses all the way from the Penobscot to the
Alabama Ye aged men, whose sons fell in
the strife do you not think that would have
been betteri Oh yesl we have come to be
lieve, | think, in this country, that arbitra-
ton is better than battle.
CHRISTIANS ARE PEAcEABLE. .
may be mistaken, but hope that the last
war between Christian nations is ended
Barbarians may mix their war paint, and
Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but
! think Christian nations have gradually
learned that war is disaster to victor as well
as vanquished, and that almost anything
bought by blood is bought at too dear price.
! wish to God that this nation might be a
model Of willingness for arbitration. No
need Of killing another Indian. No need Of
sacrificing any more brave Gen. Clusters.
Stop exasperating the red man. and there
will be no more arrows shot out from the
reservation. A general of the United States
army, in high repute throughout this land,
and who, perhaps, has been in more Indian
wars than any other officer, and who has
been wounded again and again in behalf Of
our government in battle against the In
occurred in this country between Indians
and white men had been provoked by white
men, and that there was no exception to the
rule. While we are arbitrating with Chris
tian nations, let us toward barbarians carry
ourselves in manner unprovocative of con-
test.
inherit large estate, and the waters are
rich with fish, and the woods are songful
with birds, and my corn fields are silkeu and
golden. Here is my sisters grave. Out
yonder, under that large tree, my father
died An invader comes, and proposes to
drive me off and take possession Of my prop
erty. Re crowds me back, and crowds me
on, and crowds me into a closer corner and
still closer corner, until after a while l say:
"Stand back don't crowd me any more, or
III strike What right have you to come
here and drive me off of my premisesl
got this farm from my father, and he got it
from his father What right have you to
come here and modest lnef You blandly
say: ooh, know more than you do. I be-
long 10 a higher civilization. cut my hair
shorter than you do. Icould put this ground
to a great deal better use than you do And
you keep crowding me back and crowding
me on into a closer corner and closer cor
ner, until one day l look around upon
my suffering family, and, fired by
their hardships, l hew you in twain
Forthwith all the world comes to your
funeral to pronounce eulogium, comes
to my execution to anathematize me. You
are the hero I am the culprit. Behold the
United States government and the North
American Indian The red man has stood
more wrongs than / would, or you. We
would have struck sooner, deeper. That
which is right in defense of a Brooklyn home
or a New York home is right in defense of a
home ON top of the Rocky mountains. Be
fore this dwindling red race dies completely
out, wish that this generation might by com
mon justice atone for the inhumanity Of its
predecessors. In the day of Gods Judgment, |
l would rather be a blood sneared AIodoc
than swindling United States officer on an
Indian reservation! One man was a bar
barian and a savage, and never pretended to
be anything but a barbarian and savage. /
The other man pretended to be n representa- |
tive of a Christian nation. Notwithstanding /
all this, the general disgust with war and the |.
substitution Of diplomatic skill for the gilt |
tering edge of keen steel is a sign unmstaka- !
bic that 1.-THE day is at hand"
RAPID TRANSIT A JOYFUL FACT
I find another ray of the dawn in the com
preston of the worlds distances. What a
slow snail like. almost impossible thing would |
have been the worlds rectifcation with four
teen hundred millions Of population and no
facle means of communication; but now,
through telegraphy for the eye and tele- |
phonic intimacy for the ear, and through |
steamboating and railroading. the twenty
five thousand miles of the worlds circumfer- |
ence are shriveling up into Insignificant brew
ity. Hong Kong is nearer to New York than
a few years ago New Haven was; Bombay, |
Moscow, Madras, Melbourne within speaking |
distance. Purchase a Geographic chart and |
by the blue lines see the telegraphs of the |
land and by the red lines the cables under |
the ocean. You see what opportunity this is /
going TO give for the final movements of
Christianity. A fortress may be months or |
years in building but after it is constructed il /
may do all its work in twenty minutes |
Christianity has been planting its batteries for /
nineteen centuries. and may go on in the |
work through other centuries; but when /
those batteries are thoroughly planted, those /
fortresses are fully built, they may do al |
their work in twenty-four hours The world |
sometimes deridcs the church for slowneSS of |
movement Is science any quickeri Did it |
not take science five thousand six hundred |
and irty-two years TO find out 50 sample a
thing as the circulation of tho human blood |
With tho earth aud thesky full Of electricity, |
science took five thousand eight hundred /
years before it even guessed that there was
any practical use that might be made Of this |
subtle and mighty element. When good men |
take possession of all these scientific forces and
all these agencies Of invention, do not know /
that the redemption of the world will be |
more than the work of half day. DO we not |
read the queens speech at the proroguing OF |
parliament the day before in London! If |
that be 50, is it anything marvellous that in 1
twenty-four hours a divine communication /
can reach the whole earthl Suppose Christ /
should descend on the nations-many expect |
that Christ will come among the nations per
onaly-suppOse that tomorrow morning the 4
Son OF God from a lowering cloud should de /
scend upon these cities Would not that fact /
be known all the world over in tweuty-four /
hoursl Suppose he should present his Gospel |
in few words, saying: Il am the Son Of 1
God; came to pardon all your sins and to I
heal ali your sorrows; to prove that | am q /
supernatural being l have just descended /
from the clouds; do you believe me, and do /
you believe me nowP Why, all the tele- /
graph stations Of the earth would be crowded |
as none Of them were ever crowded just after 1
a shipwreck. l tell you these things to
show you it is not auiong the impoSsibilities ,
or even the improbabilities that Christ will |
conquer the whole earth, and do it instanter. |
when tae time comes. There are fOretoken- |
ings in the air. Something great is going |
soon to happen. do not think that Jupiter
is going to run us down, OF that the axle Of |
the world is going to break; but mean some
thing great for the worlds blessing and not 1
for the worlds damage is going to happen. / |
think the world has had it hard enough. /
Enough, the London plaques Enough, the I
Asiatic choleras Enough, the wars. Enough, |
the shipwrecks Enough, the CONGREGATIONS. /
LOOK OUT FOR CELEBRATION.
l think our world could stand right well /
procession of prosperities and triumphs. I
Better be ON the lookout Better have your |
obscrvatories open toward the heavens, and /
the lenses Of your most powerful telescopes |
well polished Better have all your Leyden /
jars ready for some new pulsation Of mighty /
influence. Better have new fonts OF type in /
-FOUR printing Ofrces to set up some astound- I