The record-union., 1895-12-23

CHICAGO, Dec. 22.-Many Chicago
ministers in their sermons to-day made
reference to the threatened war be-
tween the United States and England
over the Venezuelan dispute. The gem
eral appeal was for arbitration or
peaceful solution of the problem if the
country's dignity could be preserved.
Rev Dr. K W. Thomas of the Peo-
pies Church delivered many forcib1e re-
marks on the subject. and during his
sermon was interrupted frequently by
applause. I'm the great world move
ment the new must be free from the
domination of the old,'' said DR..
Thomas. I'm this we are asserting no
arbitrary claim, but simply affirming
the principles and policy by which we
have been guided in the past, although
ali too leniently on our part. 1t may be
a small affair for our Government to in
terfere in a little matter of dispute
over boundary line away down on the
eastern shore of South America, but all
we have asked is that the matter in dis
demand must be insisted upon, at what
ever cost. This country has never been
grasping, and never sought to absorb
other countries but, as you know, ra-
ther encouraged their independence"
The Rev. John Henry Barrows of the
First Presbyterian Church said land
grabbing for the sake of trade and COM
merce were intolerable in ancient Rome,
and they were intelerable now 1--WE
were guilty in the Mexican War and
God washed our crime in worse than
hell fire. l am glad the American peo-
pie with one voice have said that land
grabbing on the American Continent bv
European Powers must cease. This no
Bile and puissant Government. which
now, from the Atlantic. is rising in her
majesty and shaking her invincible
locks, has been touched by the ideal of
free American Government, and by the
sense of its own freedom
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd of All Souls
church, in referring to the Monroe doc
trlne, said he did not believe it was
wanted for America but for all the
WorIo. IL England must still persist in
olo-tlrne aggressionS by brutality of
1orce, the carnality of conquest and in
violating the law Of love that protects
the weak and defends the inefficient LET
the appeal of the United States he not
ohEV the arbitrament of war, but the
conscience OF the world. Let our nation
ask all the great nations of the globe
TO join in asking England for arbitra
ton
CLEVELAND (o), Dec. 22-Rev.
Aionzo u. Winters, pastor Of the Lo-
fdih-slreet NJ. T.. Church, tonight pre-
luded his sermon by stating that Eng
lana and America should not go to
war until every other means had been
tried to peaceably adjust the differ
ences. Mr.. Winters added. however
that If under the Monroe doctrine Eng
iand was an intruder, Cleveland's mes
sage was none too strong. and the
United States would be justified in on
posing England, even to an armed CON
f1lct, as last resort. He held. however
that england is in a position where for
her own future prosperity she dare
not fight, as France would then wind
up the Egyptian question to suit her
self, and Russia would swoop down on
Northern India inside of TWENTY four
hours
OPPOSED TO 'HOSTILITIES.
NEW YORK, Dee. 22.-President
Cleveland's recent message to Congress
regarding the boundary dispute be-
tween Venezuela and Great Britain
which has given rise to so much war
talk, was referred to by many ministers
in their sermons to-day All the divines
spoke in favor of moderation in the
discussion of the question with Great
Britain, and some went so far as to saw
that the very thought of a war between
the United States and Great Britain
was