Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1895-12-28
Eminent New York DiVInes on the
Possibi tiles of War;
DS. PETERS STRONG WORDS
Dr porNhurst says the TWO Nations
Would Better Look After the
Dirty. bloody Turks.

Now York Dec. administers IN near
w all churches of this city made reIer-
ence today to the Venezuelan boundary
DISPUTE and possibility of war between
tho limited States and England.
DR.. Parkhurst in the course Oh MS
sermon said: 1T almost seems as II there
was q providence IN the way these
Christmas days synchronlze the year
with events that are now hlllng our
hearts with disturbance and throwing
an uncomfortable shadow across the
track of the near future. Now, we 90
not care to beat about the bush IN TINS
matter, but prefer to go straight TO the
mark by saying that if Chrlstendoh
wants to make the religion OF Jesus
with it's Bethlehem. it's angelic cholT'
and it's anthem of peace on earth'
laughing story to the ungodly ana con-
tempt to the heather, the best thing II
can do will be to set the foremost CHRIS
tian nations of the earth to work dow
ing up one another's cities and blowing
out one another's brains.
Unless we utterly misconceive the
sentiments of the Christianized masses,
both here and on the other side or the
water such an issue will be morally
impossible There will be no conflict
that will go beyond the point of mes
sages and prOnunciamentOs on either
side if the church of Bethlehem ana
Christ comes out and records It's Veto
Christianity, both here and in England,
is too thoroughly an integral part OF
national life for armies and naVleS TO
clash in warfare, at the same moment
that the churches of the two countries
are laundering peace.
This is not the place to enter into
philosophical or historical exposition OF
the Monroe doctrine, only 1t is safe 10
say this alton is not going to be drawn
into an interna tiOnal conflict Of arms
to the dishOnor of Christianity, the dis
enlargement of civilization, the de-
StructiOn of life and treasure and the
decentralization of our entire organic
nfe-in behalf of doctrine that prob
ably 90 per cent of a congregation as
well informed as this would not be able
to interpret and the other 10 per cent
disagreeng among themselves as to
whether the doctrine is applicable to the
present situation.
1--WE are not speaking disparaglngly
of loyalty to country or to patrlotlc
regard for our cOuntry's rights, but pa
triotic passions are incensed and can
be easily fired to the point where right
eOusness is ignored and reason and bal
anced consideration tabooed, and that
is the mischief of intlammatory sheets
that make the paying newspaper bust
ness tanning the flames of international
luminosity. / wish for two weeks 1t
could be a states prison offense to print
newspaper headlines with anything
larger than small capitals.
eff the nations would take up the
business that belongs to them first, and
If England and the United States would
Join hands in the rather more gospel
enterprise of rescuing pillaged and out
ragged Armenians from the dirty, bloody
grip of the Turks, these two brother
nations would soon find themselves in
good Chistian condition to settle that
little question Of civil engineering down
in Venezuela in way that would save
both parties, not only their pride and
their heads, but their Christian repute."
WICKEDNESS OF WAR.
Rev. Charles H. Eaton, pastor Of the
Church of Divine Paternity, preached
a sermon on the wickedness Of war.
Tt was deplorable, he said, that the day
on which Christians We're to celebrate
the birth of Christ and to proclaim from
every pulpit the doctrines Of peace,
ire nation should be eagerly waiting
the ultimatum of statesmen, and NUT
terings Of war should fill the land.
without going into the merits of the
dispute, he would say the principle in
volyed in the Monroe doctrine was such
that even statesmen had but obscure
knowledge of it, and without proposing