The morning times., 1896-09-21
DR.. Talmage Says the C0un-
try Is Safe In November.
GOD WILL BE ON ITS SIDE
He Would Have Fear Thrown to
One Side-Ile Sees the Day of Pes
simism Passing-Wars Are Ended
for Arbitration Has Taken Her
Pmce-NOthing but Good.

yo!r cheeks bronze d aul yoIr spirits lighted
l han You home again with the words o
GehaZI to the Shunaamit.: Is IL well witt
thee? Is it well with thy husband? is il
well with the chiId:' On some faces
See the mark of recent grief, but all aloli
The track of tears l see the story OF resUr-
rection and reunon when all tears ar
done; the deep plo lSlilng of the keel, fol
lowed by the Iia>I u. ti" PhospnorcsCenCr
Now that l have asked YOU IN regar,
to your welfare, you naturally ask how
] am. Very well, thank you. Whether
was Ine brdcinE AR DI t..e mountains, or
bath IN the SURF OF Long Island beach, q
whether II is The Joy OF standing in thi
great group of warm-hcarted friends. q
whether IT is a new appreciation OF tht
goodness OF God, | cannot tell. s,mpl.
know | am grateful. 1t was SAID that join
Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, oc
caS:Gnaly got fast III his sermon, and I,
eNlr cate himself would cry 'HalieluIahi
/ am III no such prediCament today, hut
AIN ful! of the same rhapsodlC e elaCulal ION
Starting out tins morning on Il new ecole
s.astICai year, want to give you the key
mole OF my next twelve months ministry
| want To set II to the tunes of Antioch,
'Arsel and Coronation | want 10 ru,
a new trumpet stop INTO my sermpns Ne
dc wrong If we allow our personal sur
rows TO interfere with tire glorious fac,
that the Kingdom is coming.
No DISASTER COMING.
We are wicked II v. allow apprch"H
son OF national disaster To put down Oui
faith III God and III the mission of oui
American people. The God who hath
been on the side of this nation since Jul,
4, 1916, VIII see to IT that this nation
shall not commit suicICe on November )
1856. BY the time the unparalleled harvcsts
Tins ,n N E,., r.,
we shall be standing IN sunburst of na
uonal prosperity that VIII paralyze IL,
pe>siinlSts who by their evil prophecics
are disappearing tie God who hath GlcsI
this nation as lie hath hlest no other
The day is at hand. The first ray OF
the dawn | see i'll the gradual substitution
OF diplomatic skill for human butchery.
Within the last thirty years there have
been international differences which would
have brought a shock of arms in any other
day, hu; which were peacefully adjusted,
the pen taking the place OF the sword. The
Venezuelan controversy in any other age
OF the world would have brought shock of
arms, but now Is being so quietly adjusted i
that no one knows Just how il is being
settled.
Tile Alabama question in any otherace
of the world would have caused war be
tween the United States and England
HOW WAS IL Stlt'u. by iitD-bi- WaG OH
the Narrows or off the Mcrscy: BY the
gull stream of the ocean crossed 10y gulf
stream of human blood? BY the path way
of nations inCarnadined? No. A few " ise
men go into a quiet room at Geneva, talk
the matter over, and telegraph to Washing
ton and London, An settled Peace.
PeaCei England pays 10 the Unitcd States
the amounta warded-pay US really more than
she ought to have paid. But still, all that
a labama broil is settled-settled forever.
\ Arbitration instead of battle.
so. the quarrel aooIt the Canadian fish
cries in any other age would have caused
war between the United States and Eng
land. England said, Pay me Tor the i'll
vasiun OF my Canadian fisheries The
United States said, i Will not pay any
thing Wen, the two nations say, i
gGesS we had better leave the whole MAJ
ter 20 a comm ssion.' The commission is
appointed, and the commission examines
the affair, and the Commission reports. and
pay we ought, pay we must, pay We do
Not pound Of powder burned, no one
hurt 50 much as by the scratch OF a pin.
Arbitration instead Of battle.
SETTLED BY ARBITRATION.
so the samoan controversy in any other
age would have brought Germany and the
United States into bloody collision. But
all Is settled Arbitration instead Of batt--.
France VIII never again. think, through
he pcc.;lG..iO Uf an am DassadCr, bring on
bnti.r WITH other nations. She sees that
rod III punishment at Sedan. blotted ont
he French empire, and the only aspiranu
for that throne who had any right of cX-
pectatlon dies in war that has not even
he dignity OF being respectable. What is
The leaf that England would like To tear
put OF her history? The Zulu war Down
with the sword and up with the treaty.
We in this country might better have
settled our sectional difficulties by arltitra-
ton than by the trial of the sword. Phil
aDthropy said to the North: Pay down
certain amount of money for the purchase
Jf the slaves, and let all those born after
a certain time be born free. Philanthropy
at the same time said to the South You
sell the slaves, and get rid of this great na-
ioDal contest and trouble The North re-
Piled, i W ont pay a cent The South re-
Piled, 1 won't SELL War. War! A million
lead men, and a national debt which might
nave ground this milton to powder.
WHY did we not let William II. Seward
IF New York and Alexander II. Stephens
If Georgia 20 out and spend few days
under the trees on the banks of the Potomac
md talk the matter over and settle it,
IS settle it they could, rather than the
North pay in cost of war four billion seven
hundred million dollars, and the South
Ray four billion seven hundred and fifty
million dollars, the destroying angel leav-
Dg the firSt-born dead in SO many houses
Ill the way from the PeDobScott o the Ala
Dama. Ye aged men whose sons fell in
the strife, do you not think that W ould have
been better? Oh, yes! We have come to
believe, think. in this country. that ar
)itratiOn is better than battle.
LAST WAR ENDED.
Il may be mistaken, but hope that the
last war between Christian ma tiUns is
,Ddcd. BarharianS may mix their war
paint and Chinese ana Japanese go into
nIassacres, md Afghan ana Zsiu
IurI poisoned arrows. but l ihink Christian
nations have gradually learned that war
S disaster to victor as well as van
iuishcd, ana that almost anything fought
by blood is bought at too dear IL price
wish 10 God that this nation might be u
model Of Willingness for arbitration. A
general Of the United States rnly told me
hat all the wars that had ever occurred
between Indians ana white men had been
provo ked by white men, and that there was
NO exception TO the rule.
Behold the United states government
nd the North American Indian. The red
nan has stood M ore wrongs than / would.
IF you. We would have struck sooner
eeper. That which is right in defense of
Washington home is right In defense of a
ome on top OF the Sierra Navada. Be-
ore this dwindling red race dies COM
,letcly out, wish that this genera tion
night by common justice atone for the in
OF its predecessors In the day
Il Gods judgment, ] would rather be a
Modoc than a swindlng
United States officer ON an Indian reser-
-ationH'
The reverend gentleman in his sermon
eferred to money evils that existed and
,ointed out remedy. The doubling Chris
ians, the unsatisficd populations, the un-
ertainty of the times, all went to cause a
tate OF unrest, but the sunlight was ever
Lbove and around us as II was our duty to