Connecticut western news., 1896-06-04

vised by those Christian philanthropists, "Let the north pay in money for the slaves as property and set them free. " The north said, We cannot afford to pay" The south said, "We will not sell the slaves anyhow But the north did pay in war expenses enough to pur- chase the slaves, and the south was com pelled to give up slavery anyhow. Might not the north better have paid the money and saved the lives of 500, 900 brave men, and might not the south better have sold out slavery and saved her 500, 900 brave men? swear you by the graves of your fathers and brothers and sons to new hatred for the cham. pion curse of the universe-warl
 O Lord God, with the hottest bolt of thine omnipotent indignation strike that monster down forever and everl I'm prison it in the deepest dungeon of the eternal penitentiary. Bolt it in with all the iron ever forged in cannon or mold ed into howitzers. Cleave it with all the sabers that ever glittered in battle and wiring it's soul with all the bangs which it ever caused. Let it feel all the conf1agrations of the homesteads it ever destroyed. Deeper down let it fall and in fiercer flame let it burn, till it has gathered into its heart all the suffering of eternity as we'll as time. In the name of the millions of graves of its victims, I denounce it. Tbe nations need more the spirit of treaty and less of the spirit of war
 War is more ghastly now than once, not only because of the greater destruc- tiveness of it's weaponry, but because now it takes down the best men, where as once it chiefly took down the worst. Bruce in 1717, in his Institutions of Military Law" said of the European armies of his day, "If all infamous per sons and such as have committed capital crimes, heretics, atheists and all das- tardly feminine men were weeded out of the army. it would soon be reduced to pretty moderate number. Flogging and mean pay made them still more ig- noble Officers were appointed to see that each soldier drank his ration of a pint of spirits day. There were noble men in battle, but the moral character of the army then was 95 per cent lower than the moral character of an army to- day. By so much is war now the more detestable because it destroys the picked men of the nations
 Honor For Courage.
 Again, by this national ceremony we mean to honor courage Many of these departed soldiers were volunteers, not oonscripts, and many of those who were drafted might have provided a substi- ute or got off on furlough or have de- serted. The fact that they lie in theil graves is proof of their bravery. Brave at the front, brave at the cannon s mouth, brave on lonely picket duty. brave in cavalry charge, brave before the surgeon, brave in the dying message to the home circle. We yesterday put a garland on the brow of courage. The world wants more of it.
 The church of God is in woeful need of men who can stand under fire. The lion of worldly derision roars and the sheep tremble. In great reformatory movements at the first shot how many fall back! The great obstacle to the church's advancement is the inanity, the vacuity, the soft prettiness, the mamby pambyism of professed Chris tians. Great on @ parade, towards in battle. Afraid of getting their plumes ruffled, they carry a parasol over theil helmet. They go into battle not with warriors gauntlet, but with kid gloves, not clutching the sword hilt too tight lest the glove split at the back.
 In all our reformatory and Christian work the great want is more backbone, more mettle, more daring, more prow- ess. We would in all our churches like to trade off hundred do nothings fo1 one do everything. "Quit yourselves like men; be strong"
 Thy saints in all this glorious war
 Shall conquer. though they die.
 They see the triumph from afar
 And seize it with their eye.
 Sublime Self Sacrifice.
 Again, we mean by this national ob. servance to honor self sacrifice for oth- CTS. To all these departed men home and kindred were as dear as our home and kindred are to us Do you know how they felt? Just as you and would feel starting out tomorrow morning with nine chances out of ten against our re- turning alive, for the intelligent soldier sees not only battle ahead, but malarial sickness and exhaustion. Had these men chosen they could have spent last night in their homes and today have been seated where you are. They chose the camp not because they liked it bet ter than their own house, and followed the drum and fife not because they were better music than the voices of the domestic circle South Mountain and Murfreesboro and the swamps of Chicka- hominy were not play grounds.
 These heroes risked and lost all fol others. There is no higher sublimity than that. To keep three-quarters fo1 ourselves and give one-quarter to others is honorable. To divide even with oth- CTS is generous To keep nothing fo1 ourselves and give all for others is mag nanimity Christlike. Put girdle around your body and then measure the girdle and see if you are 50 or 60 inches round And is that the circle of your sympathies-the size of yourself? Or, to measure you around the heart, would it take girdle large enough to encircle bLo CIlCuOAO buO WOhAoi Ou want to know what we dry theologiani mean when we talk of vicarious suffer ing. Look at the soldiers graves and find out. Vicarious-pangs for others, wounds for others, homesickness for oth- CTS, blood for others, sepulcher for oth- CTS.
 Those who visited the national cerne- teries at Arlington Heights and at Rich- mond and Gettysburg saw one inscrip- tion on soldiers tombs oftener repeated than any other-"Unknown." When, about 21 years ago, I was called to de- liver the oration at Arlington Heights, Washington, was not so much inn pressed with the minute guns that shook the earth or with the attendance of pres ident and cabinet and foreign ministers and generals of the army and commo- dores of the navy as with the pathetic