Telegram-herald., 1890-06-02

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Sworc-its Afszsioa an1 Its Deem TIE
text, Isaiah x1xiv. 5. ny sword shall IL
b1shod IA heaven
Three hanarea and hfty-one times does
The b-bls sPeAk ot thai sharp. keen caryed,
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nom the text-the sword Sometimes the
mention = explanatory and sometimes
oaHan@tcry, sometimes ssaraSn sson-etl mes
- sheAteet IL The b-cle, AID IL much
secular literature. the sword repressnts al
y2Fclisa. al muskets al osrbincs, al guns,
zlpoLeseiuts. az ba-tle axes, ali weaponry
foE pbyslczl dslexse or attack. IL wOald
be a. Interesting thing 20 give the history
; OF the Fl0w. and follow is tuFrOw al down
/ through the ag~s from the hrst crop IN
Chsldea % the last crop IA Minnesota. Il
would De Interesting % follow the Pen IS
II has tracked It's way On down through the
literature Of nations. from us first word IA
the first book 20 the last word which some
cuthor last night wrote as be closed his
manuscript IL would be a. Interesting
thiDg 20 count tho echoes OF tie Hammer
from the first nail driven, down through
al the mechanism OF centuries - the last
rokein the carpenters shop yesterday
bcg n this. my annual sermon Is chaplain
| C,ftbe Thirtesnth regiment, propose tax
. ing up weapon that has done work that
neither PlOw nor Pen nor Hammer ever
| accomplished Ny theme Is the sword-!ts
mission and It's doom
SwORD or RIGHTEoUsSEss
The sword OF the text was bathed in
heaven, that IS. IL was a sword OF right
eo9snsss, a. another sword may DC bathed
in hell. and the sword OF cruelty and
| wrong There is great difference be-
tween the sword of Winklcreid aud the
sword OF Catalne, between tho sword Of
Leonidas and the sword Of Benedict Ar
nold. In our effort 70 hasten the end Of
war, we have hung the sword. with abuses
/ and execrations, wnen it he's had a divine
/ worlds history il has swung for liberty
/ and justice, civilization and righteousness
| and God. AT the very opening of the Bible
/ and on the east side Of the Garden of Eden
I God placed flaming. sword 10 defend the
tree OF life. OF the officer Of the law ST.
/ Paul declares: "He beareth not the sword
in vain" Through Moses God commanded:
Put every man bis sword by his side. :"
| IL 81.
| upon thy thigh, 0 most mighty" One Of
the old battle shouts OF the Old Testament
was, THE sword of the Lord and Of Gid
con" Christ, in a great exigency, said
that such q weapon was more important
than a coat, for be declared: He that hath
no sword, lot hin sell his garment and buy
one" Again he declared: Il come not to
send peace but sword" OF Christ's sec
ond coming it is said: out of his mouth
went a sharp. two edged sword Thus,
sometimes figurat!vely, but oftener liter
| ally. the divine mission Of the sword is an
nOunced.
What more consecrated thing in the
world than Joshua's sword, or Caleb'S
sword, or Gideons sword, or David' 3
sword, or WGshinSton's sword, or Marion's
sword, O. Lafayette's sword, or WellinS-
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| ibaldi's sword, or hundreds of thousands
of American swords that have again and
again been bathed In heaven. Swords Of
that kind have been the best friends of the
human race. They have slain tyrannies,
| pried open dungeons, and cleared the way
for nations in their march upward. II
was better for them 10 take the sword and
| DC free, than lie under the opprcssor's heel
| -r,fr sc 81 : bo-
| death, and that Is life If it must cringsand
crouch before the wrong. Turn over the
| leaves Of the worlds history, and find that
there has never been tyranny stopped or
a nation liberated except by the sword /
am not talking 20 YOU about the way
things ought 70 be, but about the way they
| have been. What force drove back the
! Saraccns at Tours, and kept Europe from
being overwhelmed by Nohammedanism,
and, subsequently, all America given over
! TO MohammedAnisln' The sword Of Charles
| Martel and his men. Who can deal enough
| IN infnities 70 tell what was accomplished
| for the worlds good by the sword OF Joan
/ of Arc'
! In December last looked OF and saw IN
the distance the battlefield OF Marathon,
I and | asked myself what was 10 that, on
I that most tremendous day in history,
stopped the Persian hosts, representing not
/ only Persia, bet Egypt, and Tripon, and
| Afghanistan, and Beloochistan, and Ar
/ menis; a host that had Asia under foot
and proposed to put Europe under foot.
and, If successful in that battle, would
have submerged By Asiatic barbarism
European civilization. and. as a conse-
. quence in after time, American civilization ,
I The swords Of Miltiades, and Themistocles,
a1d Aristides At the waving Of these
swords the eleven thousand lancers of
/ Athens on the run dashed against the one
/ hundred thousand insolent Persiaus, and
I trampled them down or pushed them hack
/ into the sea. The sword of that day saved
F the best part Of the hemispheres, a trinity
/ of keen steel flashing iu the two Lights
the light q the setting sun of harbarism.
+ the hight of the rising sun Of civilization.
I Hail 60 these three great swords bathed IN
I heaven.
THE SWORDS WORK TOR GOOD.
/ What put an end % infamous Louis
/ ZYTs plan q universal conquest. by
+ which England wouId have teen made 70
I kneel on The steps 81 the Tuileries AID the
T Anelo-Ssxon race would have been halte1
I and al Europa para yzsd' The sword of
+ Marlborough. 20 Blenheir1 Time came
when the Roman war eagles. whose heoks
bad been punched into tho hearts - ua-
I tons. mus. be brought down from ths.r
+ svries. Al other attempts bsd disgrso>-
+ fully failed Jlt tae Germans. the nj iShtiest
T nation FOR hravn ard brain. undertook ths
F work. and. under God. succeeded. What
drove back the Roman cavairT tll TIE
+ bo-ses. wounded frng their riders ard ths
iast rider perished. and The hercTDian
forest oecsne tas sc-ns of Rome = h1rai-l-
scion Iae sworf the brsve s~ord, re
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