The Forrest City times., 1890-06-07
] DOOI OF THE SWORD.
t Had ih Hission, Has Plsysd It's Part,
 and Now Must O.
Chaplain T. ps wiss rslnags Prsachss the Annual f-rmon Before the Thirtsenth New York Militia-Ths Great Lessons Of war-Peaes Universal Dawn&

preached tho annual sermon to that regi- ment
 The subject of tho sermon was: "Thc Sword-Its Mission and it's Doomn Tho text, Isaiah 3i:5 My sword shall be bath cd in heaven"
 Three hundred and fifty-on limos does the bible speak of that sharp, keen. curved, inexorable weapon, which flashes upon us from the text-tho sword. Sometimes tho mention is applaudatory, and sometimes damnatory, sometimes as drawn, some times as shcathed. In the bible, and in much secular literature tho sword repre- sents all jave'ins, all muskets. all carbnes, all guns, all police cluts, all battle axes, nll weaponry for physical defence or at tack It would bo an interesting thing to give the history of the blow, and follow lts furruw all down through tho ages, from the first crop in Chaldea to the last crop in Minnesota. It would be interesting to fol low tho pen as it has tracked its way on down through tho literature of nations, from it's first word in tho first book to the last word soma author wrote last night a3 he closed his manuscr It would be an interesting thing to count the echoes Of tho hammer from tho first nail driven, down through all the mechanism of ccnturics 10 the last stroke in the carpenters shop yeSteFuaf. put m tuls, ny HHHudt SCF- mon as chaplain of the Thirteenth Regl- ment l propose taking weapon that has done a work that neither blow nor pen nor hammer ever accomplished. My theme Is the sword--its mission and It's doom
 The sword of the text was bathei in heaven; that is, 1t was a sword of righteous | ness, as another sword may be bathel in ! he'll and the sword of cruelty and wrong 1 There is great difference between tho sword of Wiuxlcreid and tue sword of l Leonldas and tho sword of Ben edct l Arnold. In our effort b hasten the eud of war, we have hung the sword with abuses
 and generations. whoa 1t has had divine l mission, and when in many crises of the worlds history It has swung for liberty and justice, civilization anl righteousness and God At tho very opening of the Bible and on tho East siie of the Garden of Eden, God placed a flaming sword to de- | feud the tree of life. Ot tho officer of ths
 law, St Paul declares; 'sHe beareth not the sword in vainn Through Mosss God commanded: "Put every man his sword | uy his side" David in hls prayer, says:
 "Gird thy swori upon thy thigh, Q most mighty One Of ths old battle shouts os
 the Old Testament was, ''rne sword of ths 1 Lord and of Gldeon.r Christ in great exiscncy said, that such a weapon was ! moro important than a coat, for Ho deslar
 ed: "-io that hath no sworl, let him sell his garment ani buy ons." Again He ae- clared: "l come not to ssnt psaea but n sword-a Of Chrisrs seooni coming 1t is saidi s'OIt of his mouth went sharp two-edeed swordn Thus sometimes fig. uratively, but oftener literally, the divine mission of the sword is announced.
 1 N hat put an end to infamous Louis | sxg n 1 England would have be3n made to knse. on l shu steps of the TuIleriss and tha Anglo. Saxon race would hAva been haitaa and all I Europe paraIyzedi Tho sword or Aarghor ough. at Blonhcim Time cana whoa tho Roman war eagles whose bsaiss had been punched into tho heart of nations must De 1 brought down from their errles. Ali other
 attempts had disgracsfutiy failed, but the I Germans, tho mighlieSt aatisa for brawn ani brain, undertook tha work, Ana. under Scd suceosdci What droso back the i Roman cavalry til thc horscs woun led, dung their riders and tho iast rsder perish. i si, and the ilcrcynian forest became the
 scene cF lsomc's humiliation The sword tho brave swosi inc triumphant sword ot Armlnlus. hiic passing thron yh Franco Sst January my nerves tinglei uitA exslta. nant aud 10 @ in the car. thn better t0 soc
 
 5reassworits stlli yisib.e. though nearly five lanirea years aeo tAsY wers shageled un 1 Here, Attsia. tho ho4taca monster, called | oy himself tho ''ScolgEs og Got, for tho punishment Of ChrlstiAHs,A A ais life a inassa ITO cl uattnns, cana to iggomlnEous defcat, and ha pat Into one gvoat nile tue wooden 1 saddles oE uis cavalry, and tho spolss of tae sities aud kingdoms ha had lelea, and l slacod on top of tais hslocaast tho wom sn
 sho had aecoup inicd hsm in hls devasta-
 sing march, ordering that ihe torch be pa,
 Q the p.lc, What power broke that sword.
 smd stlycd thai rcd seourssa ef cruelty ihat 1 vas rolling over Eur0psi Tla sword of i lhcodoric and Actius.
 ! To come dowa so lstor agus, all lntsIll i gent Englisnea nnsc with ail intelligent
 Americans sa saying Shat lt WAS tac best sllsag that tho American colonies swung off
 rom the government ot Csraas titan It scad have been tho worst ahsaraity Of | four thousand years II this continent 1 should have continued in loyalty 10 Il l throne on tho oiAor side oi tho sea No
 ,nc would propose Governor General for .he UnHed States as thore IS Governor. General for Can da We have hal splendid queens in our American Capitol but we ,ould hardly be brought to support . 1 queen on the other side of the Atlantic. I lovely and good as Victoria k Tho only I lse wn have for caris ani lords and dukes
 n this country ls. 10 treat tham walt when
 .hey pass through to thasr hunting grounds
 a tue Far Nest or whoa their fortunes nave failed, reinforce them by wealthy
 matrimonial alliance. Imagine this nation | set part of English posses sions [
 Tho trouble tho mother country has .o-day with Ireland would he paradisaic condition compared with
 she trouble shc woali havo with us 1 England and the Unitol States maxa axce,- ent neighbors, but the two families arc too argo 10 live in tho same house. What Ia god send that wo should have parted, and parted long aSol Hut l can 1 think of no ether way in which We could
 aave possibly achieved Amsrican inde. pendenoe. George tho Third, tho half.
 sraxy king, would no have let us go Lord North. his prime WinistcF, would not hava
 ct us 70. General Lord Cornwailis would
 not have let us 70. although alter York
 own he was giai enough to have us let aim go Lexington, and Bunker Hiil, aud I Monmouth, and Tronton, and Valley Forge, were proofs positive that thay wsre not
 willing to lot us go Any commit a of l Americans going across tho ocsau to soc what could hayc been done would hava 1 Eonnd no potter ccosamodotlons than 1 London Tower. Tho only way .it cotfid nave been donc was by tho sword your l great grandfather sword JcfYersonss pen could write the Declaration of inde- pendencc. but only Washington's sword 1 sould have achieved t. and tho other
 words bathed in heaven.
 l 50 now the sword has it's uses, although 1 Il Is a shcathed sword. There is not an
 armory in Brooklyn, or New York, or Philadelphia or Chicago, or Charleston, or New Or cans or any American ciiys that ould De spared. No have in al our
 American cities rnfiian population who,
 though they arc small in number, com
 pared with tho good population, would again and again mako rough and stormy times lf, back og our mayors and common
 councils and pcsicss thsro wero not in the 1 armorles and arsanals soma keen steel
 which. If bFougat into play. would mako
 quick work with monocracv. Thero are