The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-06-13
NO MORE WAR.
It Has Almost Run Itg Last
Race in the
World.
Arbitrament Will Succeed
War Between the
Nations.

| al AUAUl UlOllCllU Will OtlCCCCu
War Between the
Nations.
BRooKLyN Spccial.-Dr. Talmnge preached
the annual sermon be.ore tho Thirteenth reg
iment. in tho Academy Of Music The sub.
Ject of the sermon was: "The Sword-Its
Mission and it's Doom" The text, Isaiah
34. s: my sword shall be bathed in hcav.
EN-"
Three l,undre'l md q lty.one times does the
Bible speak Of that sharp, keen, curved, mex.
orable weapon. which flashes upon us from
the teXt-the sword. Sometimes the mention
Ss applaudatory, and sometimes damnat ory,
sometimes as drawn, sometimes ~ sl,euthetl
In the Bible, and in much secular literature
the sword representa- all javelinA all mus
kets, nll carblnes, oil guns. oil police clubs,
aii hattle axes; oil wenpOnry for physical de-
fense or attack. 1t would he an interesting
thing to give the history Of the plough, and
follow its fnrrow all down through the ages,
from the first crop in Chaldca down to the
lust crop i'll Minnesota. IL would be interest
ing to follow the pen us it has traced its way
on down through the literature of nations,
from its first word in the first book to the
last word which some author last night
wrote us lie closed ilfs manuscript 1t would
be an interesting thing to count the
echoes of the Hammer from the
first mil driven, down through all the
mechanism Of centuries to the last stroke
in the cnrpenters shop yesterday. But in
this, my annual sermon us chaplain of the
Thirteenth regiment, propose taking up n
wenpon that hns done work that
neither Plow nor Pen nor Hammer ever
accomplished. My theme is the Sworl-its
mission md it's doom.
The sword of the text was bntlc,i in heaven;
that isit was sword OF righteousness, as
another soul may he bathed in hell, and the
sword OF cruelty md wrong. There is great
difference between the sword Of Winkiereil
aud the sword of Cataline, betwern the sword
of l.eoni,las and the sword OF Benedict Ar
mold. III our effort to hasten the end 0' war,
4 we have hung the sword with abuses und ex-
ecrntions, when it has had divine mission,
and whenin many crises ofthe world y history
II has swung for liberty and Justice, civilian
tion nnd Righteousness and God. At the very
opening OF the Billie and on the East side oi the
garden of Eden, God placed u flaming sword
to defend the tree OF lie. or the officer OF
the law, st. Paul declares. "He tcnreth not
the sword in vain," Through Moses God
commanded: "Put every man his sword by
thy sword upon thy thigh, 8 most mighty"
Ono of the old hattle shouts OF the Old
Testament was, THE sword Of the Lord
md Gideon.'' Christ, in great
cxigency, sntl, that such n weapon was
more important than n cont, for He declared:
ments and buy one. Again He declared: II
come not to send pence but u sword" Oi
Christ's second coming it is snid: "Out of
Ills mouth went sharp. two-edgcd sword. +"
Thus. sometimes figuratively, but oitener
literally, the divine mission of the sword is
| announced.
What more consecratcd thing in the world
than Joshua y sword. or Dnvid's sword, or
Gideons sword, or Caleb's sword. or Wash.
ingtOn n sword, or Mnrion's sword, or Ln-
fayettes sword, or Wrllington's sword, i or
kosriusko' Il sword, or Garibnl,li's sword, or
hundreds of thousands oi American swords
that have again and ugain been bntlicll in
heaven. Swords o; that kind have been the
best friends Of the human race. They have
slain tyrannies. prietl open dungeons. and
clcnred tho way for nations in their march
upward 1t was better for them to tnke the
sword nnd-te free, than liz under the opprs
sor's heel and suffer- There is somethinr
worse than ,lrnth, and that il Ii q if II must
cringe and crouch brore the wrong Turn
over the leaves of the worlds history, aud
find that there has never heen u tyranny
stopped or nation liberated except by tho
sword am not talking to you about the
way things ought to he, but about the why
they have been. What force drove buck the
Saracens at Tours. and kept Europe from
being overwhelmed by MohnInmedanism, and
subsequently, oil America given over 10 Mo.
hammcinnism? The sword of Charles Mar
tel mud Lis men. Who can ,lvnl enough in IN
tinities to tell what was compislcd for
In
Are? !n December last looked off and saw
in the distance the battlefield of Marathon.
and naked myself what was it that, on that
most tremendous day in history. stopped the
l'mrsipn hosts, representing not only Pcrsii
but Egypt, md Tripoli, md Aehnnistnn,
ana i'rioochistan, and Armcnia: IA host thnt
had Asia under loot and proposed to put
Europe under foot. and. if success ul in that
battle, would have submerged by Asiatic
barbarian, European civilization, md, ns n
consequence in after time, American tiviIi-
zution? The swords OF Miliades, and The
mistocles, and Aristides At the waving OF
these swords, the II 1000 lancers of Athens
on the run, dashed agninst he 100, 900 in-
solcnt Persinns md tramplel them down or
pushed them back into the sen. The sword
Of TINT day saved the best part o. the hemis-
phers, II trinity o: keen steel flashing in the
two lights-tl,e lights of the setting sun Of
barbarism. tho light the rising sMn OF civiii.
zation. Hail to these three great swords
bathed in lienyen!
What put amend to infamous Louis XVI's
| plan of universal conquest by which England
would have been made to kneel on the steps
| of the Tuilcries and the Anglo.Snx0n rnce
would have been halted and nil Europe rar.
nlyzed? The sword Of Marlborough, ut
Blenheim. Time cnme when the liomun war
eagles, whose beaks had been punched into
the lieart of nntions must be brought down
from their eyries. All other attempts had
disgrnceiully failed, hut tho Germnus
tho mightiest nation for brnwh ana brain.
undertook the work, aud, under God, sue.
ceeded. What drove buck the Roman cav
airy till the horses. wounded, flung their
riders, and the last rider persisted, and the
Hercynan forest became the scene of I.ome's
humiliation? The sword, tho brave sword,
the triumphant sword of Arminius. While
passing through France last January my
nerves tinglc'l with excitement and ] rose in
| the cur, the better to see the battlefield al
Chalons, the mounds and brenstworks still
visible, though nearly 500 yenrs ago they
were ahovelled UP. Here Attilu, the heather
monster. called by himself the "Scourgelof
God, for the punishment OF Christmas" his
| lie n massacre OF nations came to ignOmin-
ious de eat, and he put into one great pile
| the wooden saddles of his cavalry, and tho
spoils of the cities md kingdoms he had
sacked. and placed on top of this holocaust
the women who had accompanied him
ih His uefusttuS uurCl, OfucTlnk tnaG Inc
torch he put to tie pile. What power broke
that sword. and stayed that red scourge of
cruelty TINT was rolling over Europe? Tie
sword of Theodore and Actius.
To come down to later ages oil intelligent
Engishmen unite with all intelligent Amer.
cnns in snying that it wns the hssL thing
that the American colonies swung off from
the government OF Great Britain. 1t would
have been the worst nbs,,rdity of4. 900 years
If this continent had continued in Loyalty to
throne on the other eide of the sea- No one
would propose n governorgeneral for.the
United Stntes ns there is n eovernorgeneral
for Canada: We have had splendid queens
in our American capit o., but We could hardly be
brought to support queen on tho other side
oithcA Atlantic, lovely and good os yictorinis
The only use We have for earls audlors and
dukes in this country is. to treat them well
when they pass through to their hunting
grounds in the Far West or when their fort.
unes have lailed. reinforce them by wealthy
matrimonial alliance. Imagine tlis nation
yet part of English possessions! Thetroub.
10 the mother.country has to-day
xith Ireland would be a para:
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