The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-23

NEW YORK. Dec. administers In
nearly all churches of this city made
reference in their sermons today TO
the Venezuelan boundary dispute ana
the possibility Of war between the
United States and England.
DR.. Parkhurst. in the course OF his
sermon. said:
ct almost seems as if there was
providence in the way these Christ
mas DAYS synchronize the year with
events that are just now filling our
hearts with disturbance, and throwing
an uncomfortable shadow across the
-fack CT the near future. Now we do
not care to beat about the bush IN
this matter. but prefer TO go straight
to the mark by saying that If Christ
endOm wants to make The religion OF
Jesus. with its Bethlehem. its angelic
choir. and its anthem OF peace on
Earth a laughing story to the un-
Cody and a contempt to the heather.
the best thing ii can do will be to set
the two foremost Christian nations on
the earth Ito work blowing UP one an
others cities and blowing out one an
lother's brains.
Morally Impossible.
Unless we utterly misconceive the
sentiments of the Christianized mas
SEES 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 messages and pronunciamentos on
either side if the church of the Beth
lehem Christ comes out and records
its veto. Christianity, both here and
in England. is too thoroughly an in
tegral part of national life for armies
and navies to clash in warfare alt the
same moment that the churches of
the two countries are laundering
peace. This is not the place to enter
into a philosophical or historical ex-
position of the Monroe doctrine, only
1t is safe to say this ration is not go
ing to be drawn into an international
connict-tc. the dishonor of Christian
ity. the diSc0ura cement of civilization,
the destruction of life and treasure,
and the Generalization of our entire
organic Efe-in behalf of a doctrine
such THAT probably 80 per cent of
congregation as well informed as this
would not be able to state the doctrine
intelligibly and the other 10 per cent
who can state it disagreeing among
themselves as to whether the doctrine
is applicable to the present situation.
RAINING the Flame.
I'VE are not speaking disparagingly
Of loyalty to country or to patriotic
regard for our country's rights, but
patriotic passions are incensed and
can be easily fired to the point where
righteousness is ignored and reason
balanced consideration tabooed; and
that is the mischief of inflammatory
sheets that make the paying news
paper business of tanning the flames
of international animostiy. l wish for
two weeks it could be q states prison
offense to print newspaper headlines
with any thing larger than small CAPT
tails If the nations would take UP the
business that belongs to them first.
arG if England and the United States
would join hands in the rather more
GOSPEL enterprise of rescuing piliaged
and outraged Armenians from the
dirty, bloody grip of the Turk, these
two brothered nations would soon find
themselves in good Christian condition
spirit, possibly to settle that little
question of civil engineering down in
Venezuela in a way that would save
both parties not only their pride and
THEN heads but their Christian re-
pute.
Rev. Charles H. Eaton. pastor Of the
Church of the Divine Paternity, preach
ed a sermon on the wickedneSs OF war.
1t was deplorable, he said, that the
day on which Christians were to cele-
nrate the birth of Christ and to pro-
claim from every pulpit the doctrines
of neace. the nation should be eagerly
waiting the ultimatuEl Of statesmen
and mutterings of war should fill the
land. 1t was more deplorable still thal
the two most advanced of Christian
nations the two which had done mos
to do away with the possibilities OF
throw away arbitration and substitute
conflict. Without going into the merits
of the dispute, he would say the princl
nle involved in the Monroe doctrine
was such that even a statesman nae
h1,t an obscure Knowledge OF 1t, .ano
without proposing to usurp any OF the
functions of the statesmen now con
r;darinp the dispute he would say thai
there was no higher power to deter
mine the necessities Of war than re
iiorion If religion was useful in time
ofsneace only, he said, 1t could pc NJ
NE at all, and he. as minister OF tns
gosnel raised his voice in emphatic pro
test against war as d means ~ oo,',
Ting DISPUTE until all other means
bad baen exhausted for bringing aDou
- an7icable settlement. He beheVet
+he Teonle would visit upon the heat
Of any statesman or leader VINO dares
to bring about war without nIsl try
ing to arbitrate, swift ana uerrlpi
vengeance. .
God forbid he said. that the ma
tion should shrink from war Tor lea
of depreciating the value of stocks an'
securities. but God forbid, on the othe
hand. that the nation should plung
into war unnecessarily without hrs
hov,np tried every other means t.
bring about a settlement.
Cruel, Hateful, Wrong
In the course of his sermon OF
sfCivilization's Debt 10 Christlanlty.
fsev Or Madison G. Peters, of tn
Bloomingdale Reformed church said:
<eA.ssWar is cruel. wrong. War is he'll