Dodge City times., 1890-06-13

". L..
preached the annual sermon to that regi
meat
The subject Of the sermon was: "The
Eword-Its Mission and its Doom" The
text, Isaiah 3i:5: my sword shall b, bath
4 in heaven"
Three hundred and fifty-one times does
the bible speak of that sharp, keen. curved
inexoravle weapon, which flashes upon Ii.
from the text-the sword. Sometimes the
mention is applaudatory, and sonnet. mes
damnatory, sometimes as drawn, some
times as sheathed In the bib.e and in
much secular liter Iture, tho sword repre-
cents all jave;in,, all muskets. all csrbines,
all guns, ali police cues, al battle axes,
all weaponry for ply sical defence or at
tack. 1t would be an interesting thing Il
give the history Of the plow, and follow
its furrow all down through the ages. from
the first crop in Chaldea to the last crop in
Minnesota. 1t would be interesting to fol
low the pen as it has tracked its way on
down through the literature Of nations.
from its first word in the first book TO the
last word somc author wrote last night a.
he closed his manuscr pt It would be an
interesting thing to count the echoes Of tho
hammer from the first nail driven, down
through all tho mechanism Of centuries
to the last stroke in tho carpenters shop
yesterday. But in this, my annual SER
mon as chaplain Of the Thirtesn,h Regi.
ment / propose taking q weapon that has
done work that neither plow nor pen nor
hammer ever accomplished My theme Is
the sword-its mission and its doom
The sword OF the text was bathe1 In
heaven; that is. 1t was a sword of righteous
ness, as another sword may be bathel in
hnn a thn ~
There is q great difference between the
sword CT Winxlereid AMI the sword OF
Leon:das and tho sword OF Ben edict
Arnold. In our effort to hasten the end of
war, we have hun /, the sword with abuses
and execrations. when 1t has had a divine
mission, and when in many crises OF the
worlds history it 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, God placed O flaming sword to de-
fend the tree Of lie. OF the officer OF ths
law, St Paul declares: "He beareth not
ths sword in vain" Through Moses God
commanded: "P1t every man his sword
by his side" David in his prayer, says:
'Gird thy sword up,n thy thigh, o most
mighty" One OF ths old battle shouts Of
the Old Testament was, "The sword OF the
Lord and Of Gideon" Christ in a great
exigency said, that such . weapon was
more important than cont, for He de;lar
ed: "ie that hath no sword, let him sell
his garment AMI buy one." Again He de-
clared: 81 come not to ssn1 peace but q
sword" OF Christs s,con1 coming it is
said, "Out OF his mouth went q sharp,
two-edeed sword" Thus. sometimes fig
uratively, but oftener literally, the divine
mission Of the sword is announced.
What put an enl to infamous Louis
XIV.'s plan Of universal conquest by which
England would have been made to kn,el on
the steps OF ths Tuileries and the Anglo
Saxon race would have been halted and all
Europe paralyzedl The sword OF Marluor.
ough. at Blenheim. Time came whea the
Roman war eagles. whose b,ak, had been
punched iato the heart OF nations must be
brought down from their eyries. AL other
attempts hid dis,rac.fully failed, but the
Germans, the migh,iest nation for Drawn
and brain, undertook the work, and, under
Gcd succeeded. What dro!e hack the
Roman cavalry till tho horses, wountcd,
flung their riders and the last rider perish
ed, and the Hereynian forest became The
scene OF Roms's humiliation! The sword,
the brave sword, the triumphant sword OF
last January my nerves tin ,led with excite
ment and rose in the car, the better to SEQ
the battlefield Of Chalons, the mounds AMI
breastworks still visible. though nearly fivo
hundred years ago they were shoveled up
Here, Attila, the heather monster, called
by himself the "Scourge Of Col, for the
Of Christians" ais life massa-
ere Of nations, ca ne TO iynominious defeat,
and he y t into one great pile the wooden
saddles OF his cavalry, and the spoiis OF tae
cities and kingdom, he had sacked, and
placed on top Of this holocaust the won N
who had accomp inied him ID his Gevasta-
ting march, ordering that the torch be put
10 the pile What power broke that sword,
and stayed that red scourgs Of cruelty that
was rolling over Europe. The sword of
Theodoric and Actius.
To come down TO tier ages, ali int,lli.
gent Englismeu un te with all Intelligent
Americans in saying that it was the best
thing that the American colonies swung off
from the government Of Great Britain. 1t
would have been the worst absurdity Of
four thousand years il this continent
should have continued In loyalty to
throne on the otnor side of the sea No
one would propose a Governor General for
the United States as there is a Governor
queens in our American Capitol but we
could hardly be brought TO support a
queen on the other side Of the AT. antic,
lovely and good as Victoria is The only
use we have for earls an lords and dukes
In this country is to treat them we'll when
they pass through to their hunting grounds |
in the Far " est or when their fortunes
have failed, reinforce them by wealthy |
alliance. Imagine this nation |
yet part Of English possession
The trouble the mother country has |
Today with Ireland would be |
} paradisaic condition compared with |
The trouble she would have with Us.
England and the Unitel States make excel
ent neighbors, but the two families ara too |
srge to live in the same house. What
} god-send that We should have |
parted, and parted long ago! But I can
.hink OF no other way in which we could |
nave possibly achieved Am.ric.n inde-
George the Third, the half
:razy kins, would no have let US go. Lord
North, his prime minister, would not have
ct Us 60. General Lord Corn wallis would
rot have let us 20, although after Yorx-
own he was glad enough TO have US let
linn 20 Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and
Monmouth, and Trenton, and Valley Forge,
we're proofs positive that they were not
willing to let us 60. Any committee OF
Americans going across the ocean to see
what could have been dons woul1 have
ound NO better accommodations than
london Tower. Ths only way it could
lave been done was by the sword, your
Ireat-Rrandfather's sword. Jenerson's
,en could write the Declaration Of Inde-
'sndeuce. but only Wash;ngton's sword
'ould have achieved IT. and the other
words bathed in heaven
30 now the sword has it, us,s, although
ID . shesthed sword There is not an
rmory In BROOKLYN, or New York, OF
or Cnfarn. or Charleston, or
Tow OfeanS, or any American city, tnaN
ould Be spared. we have in oil our
american cities Fufilan population who, x
housh they are small in number, ccm.
ared with tho good population, would
gain and again make rough and stormy
lines II, back OF our mayors and common
ouncils and police. h.re were not in the
rmories and arsenals some keen steel
Fhich, II brought into plsy, would make
uick work with mobocracy. There are
J every great community unprincipled