The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-06-07
NO MORE WAR.
1t Has Almost Run Its Last
Race in the
World.
Arbitrament Will Succeed
War Between the
Nations.

s: my sword shall be bathed in heav-
Three hundred and fEty-one times does the
Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved, mex
orabie weapon, which flashes upon us from
the text-the sword. Sometimes the mention
is explanatory, and sometimes damnatory,
as drawn, sometimes as sheathed.
In the Bible, and in much secular literature,
the sword represents all j~avelins. all mus
kets, all carbines, all guns. all police clubs,
battle axes, all weaponry for physical de-
tense or attack. 1t would be an interesting
thing TO give the history OF the plough, and
follow its furrow all down through the ages,
from the first crop in Chnldea down to the
last crop in Minnesota. 1t would be interest
ing to follow the pen as it has traced it's way
on down through the literature of nations,
from it's first word in the first book to the
last word which some author last night
wrote as he closed his manuscript. 1t would
be On interesting thing to count the
echoes of the Hammer from the
first nail driven, down through oil the
mechanism of centuries to the last stroke
in the carpenters shop yesterday. But in
this, my annual sermon Us chaplain of the
Thirteenth regiment, ! propose taking up q
weapon that has done q work that
neither Plow nor Pen nor Hammer ever
accomplished. Ny theme is the Sword-its
mission and it's doom.
The sword of the text was bathed in heaven;
that is, it was q sword OF righteousness, as
another soul may be bathed in hell, and the
sword OF cruelty and wrong. There ia q great
difference between the sword Of Winkiereid
and the sword of Cataline, between the sword
of Leonidas and the sword OF Benedict Ar
nold. In our effort to hasten the end OF war,
we have hung the sword with abuses and ex-
ecrations, when it has had a divine mission,
and whenin many crises ofthe world e history
1T hos swung for liberty and justice, civiliza-
ton and Righteousness and God. At the very
opening OF the Bible and on the Eastside otthe
garden of Eden, God placed a flaming sword
to-de.end the tree o. lie. OF the officer OF
the sword in vain" Through Moses God
his side" avid in his prayer saws aGird
thy sword upon thy thigh, o most mighty"
One of the old battle shouts Of the Old
Testament was, THE sword OF the Lord
and Gideon. Christ, in great
exlgency, said, that such q weapon was
more important than a coat, for He declared:
HE that hath no sword, let him sell his gar.
ments and buy one. Again He declared: II
come not to send peace but d sword" OF
Chrise's second coming 1t is said: "Out of
His mouth went a sharp. two-edged sword"
Thus. sometimes fguratively, but o!tener
literally, the divine mission Of the sword is
announced. .n.
What more consecratcd thing in the world
than Joshua's sword, or David's sword. or
Gideon's sword, or Caleb's sword. or Wash
ingtOn,s sword, or Marion's sword, or La
fayette's sword, orr Wellington's sword, For
kostiusko' q sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or
hundreds OF thousands OF American swords
that have again and again been bathed in
heaven. Swords o: that kind have been the
best friends OF the human race. riey have
slain tyrannies. pried open dungeons, and
cleared tho way for nations in their march
upward. 1t was better for them TO take the
sword and be free, thar lie under the oppres-
sor's heel and suffer. There is something
worse than death, and that is life if it must
cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn
over the leaves of the worlds history, and
find that there has never been q tyranny
stopped or q nation liberated except by the
sword. ! am not talking to you about the
way things ought to be, but about the way
they have beer. What force drove back the
Saracens at Tours, and kept Europe from
being overwhelmed by Northumberland, aud
subsequently,, all America given over to Mo-
h~ammedanism? The sword of Charles Mar
tel and his men. Who can deal enough in in
fnities to tell whit was accomplished for
the worlds good by the sword Of Joan Of
Arc? In December last / looked off and saw
in the distance the battlefield of Marathon,
and l asked myself what was it that, on that
most tremendous day in history. stopped the
but Egypt, and Tripoli, and Atghanistan,
and Beloochistan, and Armenia; q host that
had Asia under foot and proposed to put
Europe under foot, and, If success ul in that
battle, would have submerged by Asiatic
.barbarism, European civilization, and, as q
consequence in after time, American civil.
zation? The swords Of Miltiades, and The
mistocles, and Aristides. At the waving OF
these swords, the LOCO lancers CT Athens
on the run, dashed against the 100, 900 in
solent Persians and trampled them down or
pushed them back into the sea. The sword
OF that day saved the best part OF the hemis-
pheres, q trinity OF keen steel flashing in the
two lights-the lights of the setting sun of
barbarian, the light o!:.the rising sun Of civil.
cation. HAL to these three great swords
bathed in heavenl
What put an endsto infamous Louis XVI.'s
plan ct universal conquest BY which England
would have been made to kneel ON tile steps
OF the Tuileries and the Anglo-Saxon race
would ave been halted md oil Europe par.
alyzed? TIL sword Of Marlborough, at
Blenheim. Time came when the Roman war
eagles, whose beaks had been punched into
the haart.o OF nations must be brought down
from their eyries. All other attempts had
disgracefully failed, but the Germans
the mightieat nation for Drawn and brain.
undertook the work, and, under God, suc.
ceeded. What drove back the Roman cav
airy till the horses. wounded, flung their
riders, and the last rider persisted, and the
Hercynian forest became the scene Of Rome's
humiliation2 The sword, the brave sword,
the triumphant sword Of Arminius. While
passing through France last january nv
nerves tingled with excitement and ] rose il