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The Deadly Military OF Lord Wolse
ley.

We rejoice to see the .hethodisI
Times is for making war on War: In
q leading article recently entitled,
"Christ or Apollyon Which? the edi-
tor exclaims: HAS not the time come
for all who have any trace of the mind
of Christ to make war on Warp and
again, zone thing is certain. We
Christians cannot repudiate RESPONSE
bility for the horrible condition of Eu-
rope. If we all acted energetically
together, we could make a European
war impossible,n In previous issues
this paper contains a series of address
es or sermons by Mr.. Hugh Price
Hughes, M. A., delivered at the sun
day Afternoon Conferences at st.
James's Hall, in which the ."deadly
delusions" contained in Lord Wolse-
ley's late address at Birming ham are
powerfully exposed.-EmgllSh pa
per.
Lord Wolsely is trying to make bis
project of compulsory army service
palatable to Englishmen by associat-
ing it with high words about patrot
ism and the growth of our Empire.
He thinks he knows how to perfume
his poison. But Colonel G.. Pomeroy
Colley has told us that 'no nation ever
did or ever will accept con.
scription except of necessity"
What Lord Wolseley now ia
vors, Sir Garnet Wolseley condemned,
remarking in 1882 that we need only
90 To Hamburg to see thousands OF
ablebodied men leaving the country to
escape from the internal and cursed
burden of universal service. Thanks
to the conscription his lordship glori-
fies, nationalities in these days are
born into state Of servitude. Young
Italy, Bulgaria, Greece, are stagger-
ing under burdens which threaten to
stife out their life. Freedom, to main
ain it's being, must live In garment
of iron newborn peoples whose ener.
gies should be devoted to Increasing
their vigor and stability, must spend
their life-blood in supporting vast ar
maments; nations can only preserve
their liberties by bearing self impos-
ed woke of slavery; in order to pre-
serve peace we must threaten war.
This is our so call Christian civil.
lization! Well may Mr.. Hughes, IN
burning words, called upon the
Churches of Christ to rouse them;
selves, At this moment France and
Germany are madly and wickedly
armipg for the most terrible and use.
ess war of the century, and the
hurches are dumb. The ministers
of Christ are standing with folded,
arms calmly looking on as the cailous
crowd looks on when two infuriated
fools are stripping for fight In a oaek
street. Will no one protest against
this unparalleled wickedness?, Mr.
Frederic Harrison is quite right III
holding the Christian Churches re.
sponsible for European wars. II
Catholics and Protestants Joined hands
on great social issues. as Lord Nelson
devoutly suggests, they could at once
nut q veto on war. If they allow eccle'
siastical differences or false patriot
ism to keep them silent, they will be
resnonsible before God and man fol
the rivers of human blood which theil
silence permits to fiow."
If all such war "Lords" as Wolseley
were com mpelled to serve as privates IN
war and in battle put in the front it is
more than likely their views would be
modified. Who would say that SUCH
assignment could be unjust. The peo'
pie ought to decree that it should be SC
done. ~, , y