New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-23
1T WOULD BE A CIVIL VAR.
DIR. HUNTINGTON ON THE RELATIONS
OF THE TWO COUNTRIES.
IF WE MUST FIGHT. HE SAYS LET Us TRAIN
OUR GUNS on THE sTRoNGHoLDs OF saw.

IF WE MUST FIGHT. HE SAYS. LET Us TRAIN
OUR GUNS on THE sTRoNGHoLDs OF saw.
AGERY AND OPPRESSION
In his sermon at Grace Church yesterday morn
ing, the rector. the Rev. DIR. William r. Hunting
ton. referred follows to the Venezuelan dispute
DR.. Huntington took fer his text the words: "Sirs
ye brethren. why do ye wrong to anotherr'
Acts vii. 26. He said:
We to-day are threatened. vaguely indeed. but
really threatened by the spectre OF civil OF ali
the calamities that can befall mankind the worst.
If the Church Of Christ had clearly laid upon
her the duty Of sounding out in her most persuasive
tones, words of protest and remonstrance it is to-
day There is no time for haf-hearted smooth
nesses or non-commta common place. Let the
Let the NV world Know Were the Church
stands. in so far as as the pulpit has the power to
called this menace that is in the air menace Of
civil war. / have done from the conviction thai
the English-speakng race would deserve that name
and could be correctly characterized by none other.
ton and any quarrel into which we suffer ourselves
be either entced or dragged. mutual antago-
nists Is, and from the necessity OF things must be
family quarrel.
RELATIONS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES
am quite aware that language OF this sort is apt
call forth earnest protest from those who like
to think that We have civilization wholly Of
own making, civilization which dates from Bunker
Hil and Yorktown. and in which Europe has neither
let nor part But cannot thus airily snip the
threads of continuity. Say what We will. do what
may, the history OF America is a continuation
of the history of Europe. and the history of tho
United States is especially a CONTINUATION Of tho
History. Of England. on, Old World battle -neld.
civilization is what s has the tone and color that
it has, because in her eighteenth century wars
against the great Powers of the Continent England
came out victorious In those conflicts fathers
the Colonies played their honorable part and when
riding Of their own liberties they were able to show
that they had mot been @ ia sugh b the we arts Of IN
proud it's being to the expansion of ideas which
expand without explosion. Here there was more
space, and what We're only dreams in Europe found
as concerns England and ourselves the family heir.
looms the same Law, language and religion
Snd can G no " more get rid Of their reatonsSip by
quarrelling than brothers can shake OFF brother.
common with ourselves that can compare for mo-
ment with the treasure in which the United States
and England possess undivided and ndivisible In.
Yes strife between the United States and England
civil war Is II worth while? Ought such con.
Ought sS t it to be even so much as named among u:
or counted among possible contingencies?
rhee have been a the ssx Stores ars % Of
which chronicled. and rightly chroniced. in the
written that there was once war in heaven we know
that it is always war in he'll. and over against the
set a thousand volumes OF the devils wars. l-1
1t well becomes Christian nation before en-.
barking and with light heart war to conside,
under which Of the two headings the said venture il
likely to he classed If II Is the Lords war. well
and good and II II IL to be Satan's war; what then;
Let us keep the question on a high ground have
no mind stoop to the merely mercantile asnscts
OF II. II war is righteous war; no bankruptcy of
A or B or { Is any argument against the prosecu.
ton OF H. Nay. better that the whole land shoula
be bankrupt and that the nation should have to be.
gin all over again than that we should forfeit our
name for the approval OF Almighty God and loyaitv
10 His law
But surely those not our welghtiest or ON,
worthest representatives who forever haahine
into petty RACES over some question OF ina gns6 ~
suit or fancied slight, That II the most gSnui~c ~
dignity which Is the least suspicious os indisniSS
and those are the best-,empered men who nevss' ~
intemperance on the part OF others anger them "
THE MONROE DOCTRINE.
II would be inappropriate In this pace and arAA
these surroundings to enter upon a diycuss,or a
the merits Of the political question at issue. Ara
have neither the wish nor the purpose to do so IN
point. however. It may not be amss TO make scfnsk