The morning times., 1895-12-24
DH|Ms PREDICT Peace
What Local CIergymen Think of
the War Scare.
TALMAGE'S HOPEFUL VIEWS
He Says Ink, and Not Blood, VIII
Be SpiIled-Dr- McKIm, Dr. HsW-
lin and Others Share Hts Views.
Arbitration the only Christian
Mode of Settlement.

The grave concern aroused by the yene-
| zueian incident and the effect on the
financial world OF the Presidents message.
have afforded texts for pulpit utterances
| in this and other cities.
Believing that the views of the clergy
| are those OF the thinking classes, and repre-
sent the opinions or those who realize most
| keenly the disastrous results or war, The
| Times has obtained rroul several leading
divines expressions on the situation. They
are given below: - a5-
REV. DR. TALMAGE, First Presbyterian
Church: Il have no more idea that there win
be d war between England and the United
States than there Will be between the earIn
and the moon. The Presidents procla-
nation meant peace, not war, ana when
England sees that the people OF this conti-
nent are united and VIII stand firmly To-
getncr. there viii be no waI.
The TACT or two nations protesting TO
believe IN Christian principles going INTO
war would make Christianity The laugh
ing stock OF the universe. 1 don't think
the 3gItaI lion in Wal street and other coni-
nerciai centcrs viii be lasting.
"Tne tide Of DaIloilaI prosperity has be-
gun TO rise, and it's very difficult thing
TO stop Tide. This Is, no doubt, a serious
passage in national history aud a great
ink instead of h.oOd.
REV: HUGH JOHNSTON, Metropolitan
II. +. Church,
political move ON the part OF the Presi-
utDt ami That he did not consider The pos
sib.e result OF the proceeding.
But he continued, THE scare seems
10 have subsidized somewhat, and / hardly
expect that there viii be Il Conflict"
''Ihe English press seems to take a more
sensiiv view OF tie situation than its
American contemporaries. There are, oI
course, few exceptions"
REV. TEUNIS HAMLIN, Church of the
Covenant:
..It - 10 t,a r..gra,,o,t ,t., ..,,t;,ia- ,,,t,,
play part In such a serious thing the
embodiment OF nations IIegafd the whole
affair as a game OF politics and am not
clear in my own mind II the Monroe dOct rlDe
applies In this particular case, although /
do not mean 10 say that ii does not.
1t seems strange that after anexperience
or twenty-five years of arbitration two ma
ions should gu 10 war a bout such a small
LniDg as boundary dispute.
war Is great curse, but there are
worse Things than war, and in this age Of
OF arbitration, only the grayest causes
could justify war. England Is, no uouDt.
selrishiy aggressive in acquiring fsrriiOry.
but as 10 how far she Is IN the wrong ill
TINS particular cause does not yet appear
Is evidenced by the creation or this COM
mission TO ascertain this very fact.
so that conceding that the Monroe
doctrine does apply and that violation
would justify war, IL is still undetermined
whether the Monroe doctrine mas been
violated, and therefore, all talk OF war
turp business and depreciate values The
most patriotic attitude seems 10 me tC br
a patient waiting for further inflammation
REV. DR.. OLIVER A BROWN. Foundry
NJ. E. Church:
Peace, If possible. is my motto. but If
fight We must let US tight hard. of course,
We know very little except what has he ell
made public through the dispatches or LORD
salisbury and Secretary OlDey, Tut speak
ing from an American STANDPOINT, sin
cereiy hope We won't take the Jack track
nf mi fpv frf rTn~f a.zT,r
that viii give other nations TO understand
that we are one among Them j feel We
are quite as much interested in affairs
TINS continent as England, or any other
European country. could possibly be, and
certainly believe in the right and 1ustness
OF the Monroe doctrine. however, think
the entire question will be ad ,uSued and
without war
REV. DR.. M'KIM, Epiphany Church.
mo, don't think there will he war. 1t
would be shame and crime for England
and the United States TO make war upon
each other, and such u triIlinG matter as
great amount of territory is involved.
and good feeling OF both tine people OF the
United states and Great Britain would not
allow such a thing To happen.
1T may be that We have reached point
in the development of our national career
when ii Is necessary to give emphatic and
tion OF TINS nation 70 assist and maintain
the NJ onroe doctrine, but it would be
stigma upon our Christianity for The two
leading Christian nations of the world TO
plunge into war ertil the recourses of
diplomacy have been exhausted
REV. CHARLES A. STAKELY, First
Baptist Church:
at would be OF immense advantage to |
the world II II interfIatio dispute could |
he s.Itied by arbitration. War should |
never be thought of except in defense of
sOme great principle, and then only as a |
last resort Ii may sometimes be neces- |
sary In the interest OF peace.
THE Menroe doctrine, il l understand |
1t correctly and fully. IL wcrth defending,
even to the extent of going 70 war, II This |
should be found necessary No peace can |
he sweet or valuable that is purchased at |
the expense OF honor and safety"