Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1895-12-28
LAUNDERING FOR PEACE
Eminent New York Divnes on the
Possbi tiles Of War.
0S. PETERS, STRONG WORDS
Or. rarkhurst saws the TWO Nations
Would Retter Look After the
Dirty, nloody Turks.

New York, Dec 22-Ministers in near
!y all churches of this city made refer
ence today to the Venezuelan boundary
dispute and possibility of war between
the United States and England.
Dr. Parkhurst in the course of his
sermon said: "It almost seems as If there
was a providence IN the way these
Christmas days synchroniZe the year
with events that are now filling our
hearts with disturbance and throwing
an uacomfortab BILE shadow across the
track of the near future. Now, we do
not care to beat about the bush in TINS
matter, but prefer to go straight to the
mark by saying that if Christendom
wants to make the religion of Jesus,
with it's Bethlehem. its angelic cholf,
and it's anthem of peace on earth, a
laughing story to the ungodly and con-
tempt to the heathen, the best thing 1t
can do will be to set the foremost Chris
tan nations of the earth to work blow
ing up one another's cities and blowing
)ut one another's brains.
"Unless we utterly misconceiye the
sentiments OF the Christianized masses,
both here and on the other side OF the
water. such an issue will be morally
impossible There will be no conflict
that will go beyond the point of mes
ga ges and pronunciamentos on either
side. if the church of Bethlehem and
Christ comes out and records its veto.
Christianity, both here and in England,
IS too thoroughly an integral part of
national life for armies and nayies to
flash in warfare, at the same moment
,l,o oT,, Of
are laundering peace.
This is not -he place to enter into
philosophical or historical exposition of
| the Monroe doctrine, only it is safe to
| say this nation is not going to be drawn
| into an International conflict Of arms
! to the dfshonor of Christianity, the dis
| ,ouragement of civilizat ton, the de-
| struction of life and treasure and the
/ 1emoraliza ton of our entire organic
| life-in behalf of a doctrine that prob
| ably 80 per cent of a congregation as
/ we'll Informed as this would not be able
] to interpret and the other 10 per cent
iisagreeing among themselves as to
whether the doctrine is applicable to the
] present situation.
we are not speaking diSparaglngly
If loyalty to country or to patriotic
J
! triotic passions are incensed and can
oe easily fired to the point where right
! .ousness is ignored and reason and bal
/ anced consideration tabooed, and that
! is the mischief of inf1ammatory sheets
hat make the paying newspaper busl-
| ness tanning the flames of international
animosty | wish for two weeks it
could be a states prison offense to print
| newspaper headlines with anything
| larger than small capitals.
| "If the nations would take up the
! business that belongs to them first, and
| # 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 a way that would save
! both parties, not only their pride and
| their heads, but their Christian repute.'
| WICKEDNEsS OF WAR.
i Rev. Charles II. Ea ton, pastor of the
1 Church of Divine Paternity, preached
I A sermon on the Wickedness OF war.
1 It was deplorable, he said. that the day
! IN which Christians were to celebrate
i The birth of Christ and to proclaim from
i ,very pulpit the doctrines OF peace,
i tie nation should be eagerly waiting
i the ultimatum of statesmen, and NUT
i rerings of war should fill the land.
/ Without going into the merits of the
j dispute he would say the principle in
i voIved in the Monroe doctrine was such
i that even statesmen had but obscure
i knowledge of it, and without proposing
4 10 usurp any of the functions of states
:. men now considering the dispute, he
i would say that there was no higher pow
i ar to determine the necessities Of wal
i than religion If religion was usefu
4 in time of peace only, he said, it could
Il be of no use at all.
I WAR IS HE'LL"
In the course of his sermon on Civil
:, jzation's Debt to Christianity, Rev
:: DR.. Madison C. Peters of the Blooming
:, dale Reformed church said War is
y sruel, hateful, wrong. War is hell. The
:, political demagogues who a thi:
: Christmastide are shouting for war. vii
;. be branded by the second sober though
:, Of the American people as the criminals
II Of the 18th century. When these me1
}, had an opportunity to fight for thei
!: land. when the stars and stripes Were
}: trailed in the dust, they sent substl
;. tutes. A war between England ant
!. America could never be determined IN
:: til one or the other went into bank
ruptcy or had no more men to I'LL tn
i: ranks. AS preacher of the gospel 0
peace and universal brotherhood, l cal
$ for arbitration"
DECLARED FOR ARBITRATION.
:: Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 22.-Rev. Wash
: inston GLADDEN., in a sermon today
!: strongly deprecated the talk Of war TO
4: lowing the presidents message on tn
a. Venezuelan matter. He SAID:
r: Where is that petition signed by
MI majority of the members Oh parhamen
n: and addressed to our government ash
!: ing them to join in a perpetual treat
t: of peace by which all disputes shall
:. submitted to arbitration?
III Resolutions were adopted by u
{ Gladden's congregation declaring 1t
nj arbitra ton, and copies OF the same an
i DR.. Gladdens sermon will be sent
s. President Cleveland, the British amba
ell sador and Ohio's senators and congress
a.. men.
r. Washington, Dec. 22.-1n a numb.
ee: of pulpits of Washington today ALI
N: sions were made to the possibility
o. war with Great Britain. The mil
s: listers in their prayers invoked the q
-e:: vine aid that such calamity might
IT: averted. The Rev. Dewitt Talmage
'e: his discourse said. "And now, stan
/: ing here. SO near the Christmas day,
I'll hear unrolling from the sky the pea
-: anthems. There will be no war betWet
u: England and the United States. SUI
:: a war would be the greatest calam!
e.: since the creation OF the WoiIu. NAe
te, God forbid the universal bankrupt
3: and the universal slaughter.