New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-23

howsnuch talk there is just now of doctrine ana
seeiyg also that doctrine matter well within hne
IN Questions sI Where doctrine is involved moth
ing more important than that we anG Nth shell
and The letter Of the SSSsTn mer rs the
,hn the spirit dactI t d s at when they
iortR What the conviction thss iaS sma1
What What w anor ,ns t to a5 That is
waysin which large minded theoiogaams, 'ooh Ne smss
interpret the OF reg sSs1 wsre to and
slit political doctrine after the same tasna1n s The
par Ts Msfe dO sS Which holly
should not find the essence OF ~ a 10 ~ The A.
sntis no subVertng Of that form Of governm1sn,
which we call free? But will any one preen ab ,
sion at the hands Of the people from %a1m
we orxnaE derived them and to o Mh SSn? ne W
any M pretend that civil liberty and persona which
dom and all those ether es e dear are any safer
in the hands Of Latins. even when called repup
,ss. ssn nSe are called R hS
Let get back to our main mnrpo and free Eng
land say the wickedness OF sueh nf III
70 predict that In many nursery the land over over
10y will presently he pSung s sh0' Of a
Voices and with perhaps little adm Sdsn OF
real AND grand array OF scientific
methods and instruments OF precision, se vssd ~
look We have feeling that grown men at this
late day ought TO know better What nations snouiu
pe 80 guns as TO feel restless ard unhappy until
shall have been proven just how mucn damage the!
can do. how many houses unroof. how many mn
women and children s,aughter?-al this say.
While it has its unspeakably awful side has also
its Juvenile SIDE as well ;he warsa h o nes AGO TO
have outgrown and like other childish things pu,
/ know 1t is urged that war is the school OF man
hood end that unless the youth OF a nation are
from time to time led out to battle there us n s sl
sue certain decay of fibre and rotenhess hat 'h
bones But II this reasoning be SOUND. wna ~,
maguidcert school OF manhood ought central <i,o S
10 * Where II is war all the time, ana now inuSn
more vrility ought we to look to ma ia bsn
where revolutions happen every year eriodoay con-
But il war; like poverty. is destined to be ga Always
with US et US at least endeaspf and savagery
Unworthy it may be OF so ngh ana loi! a. ~
there is sense in which 1t Is deeply true rb me
Chrstendom represents the Kingdom OF Ish h hSns
is a border line where the king dom OF ight shaues
off by impercepuble degrees INTO me knSuVmiI oa
darkness u eyer SsyHnq la the habi,atons Of
cruelty and where iniquy reigns pnah in that d.
rec.ion II trained they must be any whittier rather
than swung Inward upon Christendom itseI.
ARMENIAN sUFFERINGs.
Armenia cries aloud for help and cries in VAIN
.Our cous,ry Is desolate," she exclams' our
cities are burned with fire, our land strangers ue
vour in our presence and it is desoiate as over
thrown by strangers" Yet all tho while the Sreae
Powers so-called, sit by, and look on, ana 90
II fight we must dear friends LET our battle , be
against the fury of the oppressor who stands ever
Tesdv 10 destroy; let 1t be against pirates slave.
drivers and tyrants not against the cvilizers OF
n the WoT race f not against its friends
My fellow worshippers you anu "a, M. 80 fonS
cans nrona There is no nobler Only let to
II that Amercanism Is OF the geiu,ne Hpe, an
Americanism self-possessed in face OF provoca'ion'