The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1889-10-30
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Gladstone who worships the God of peace, |
and Boulanger who worships himself The |
fact Is that the nations are sick of drinking |
out Of chalices 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 congress. Suppose France should call |
1t, Germany would not come; or Germany |
should call it, France would not come; or |
Russia should call it, Turkey would not |
come; or England should call it, nations |
long jealous of her overshadowing power in |
Europe would not come. America, in favor |
with all nationalities, standing out indie |
pendent and alone, is the spot, and 1892 will
be the time. May it please the President of
the United States, may it please the Secre-
tary 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
rulers! ....r
TO them make this timely and solemn
and Christian appeal. Do you not think
people die fast enough without this whole
sale butchery Of war? Do you not think
that we can trust to pneumonias and con-
sumptions, and apoplexies, and palsies, and
yellow fevers, and Asiatic choleras the
work of killing them fast enough! 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 corpses
year2 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, footless, armless, eyeless? Do
you not think that women might be ap.
pointed to an easier place than the edge Of a
grave trench to wiring their pale hands and
weep out their eyesight in widowhood and
childlessness! Why, the last glory has
| gone out of war.
| There was time when 1t demanded that
quality which we all admire-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 q
city, or while thousands Of private soldiers,
who have no interest in the contest,
for'they were conscripted, are losing their
Eliyes, 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
mencement 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. An! 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 1t 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 librettos 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-
pie, 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 1875, to break
} up our American abbaths. The at
tempt was made at the Philadelphia
Centennial, but 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 Sabbaths, which are no Sabbaths at
all. l think the Lord is more than gener-
GUS in asking only fifty-two days out of the
35 for his service. You let the Sabbath 20
, 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 frolic.
Among those who come there will be, as
at other expositions, lordly people who will
3 bring their vices with them. Among the
Q dukes and dnchesses and princes and prin
. cesses of other lands are some Of the best
Z men and women Of all the earth. Remem
! Der Earl of Kintore, Lord Cairns and
i Lord Shaftesbury But there is Q snob
berry and 6unkeyism in American so
{ ciety that runs after a grandee, duke, ,
A lord, or prince, though he may be walk
4 ing lazaretto and his breath plague. i
q makes the fortune Of some of our queens o
r society to dance one cotillion with one O.
!. these princely iepers. Some people can no
g get their hat of quick enough when they
: see such foreign lord approaching, ant
they do not care for the mire into which
n they drop their knees as they bow to wor
: ship. Let no splendor Of pedigree or an,
a pomp and paraphernalia Of circumstances
4 make him attractive. There is only one SO
: Of Ten Commandments that ever heard Of
+ and no class of men or women in all til,
Z world are excused from obedience to thos,
' laws written by finger Of lightning on th,
I granite surface of Mount Sinai. Surely w
v have enough American vices without max
4 ing any drafts upon European vice for 1872
4 BY this sermon would have the nation
2 made aware of its opportunity and &c
4 ready to improve it and Of some perils, an,
d get ready to combat them. l rejoice Il
d believe that the advantages will overtol
!, every thing in the worlds fair. What al