The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-06-13

NO more need of that war than at thia
moment I should plunge . dagger
through your heart There were few
| Christian philanthropists In those days,
scoffed by both north and south, who
had the right of it. If they had been
heard on both sides we should have
had no war and no slavery. TWAS ad-
vised by those Christian philanthro-
pists, LET the north pay In money for
| the slaves as property, and SGT them
free" The north said; 1--WE can not
afford to pay" The south said: 1--WE
will not sell the slaves anyhow" But
the north did pay In war expenses
enough to purchase the slaves, and the
south was compelled to give up slavery
anyhow. Might not the north better
have paid the money and saved the
lives Of SOC, 900 brave men, and might
not the south better have sold out
slavery and saved her 100000 brave
men? I swear you by the graves OF
your fathers and brothers and sons to
a new hatred for-the champion curse
of the universe-war! o Lord, God,
with the hottest bolt of Thine omnipo-
tent indignation, strike that monster
down forever and ever. Imprison II
In the deepest dungeon of the eternal
penitentiary. Bolt it in with all the
iron ever forged in cannon or nodded
into howitzers. Cleave 1t with all the
sabers that ever glittered In battle,
and wiring its soul with all the pangs
which II ever caused. Let 1t feel all
the confagrations of the homesteads
it ever destroyed. Deeper down let 1t
fall, and in flercer flame let it burn,
till 1t has gathered into its heart all
the suffering of eternity as well as
time. In the name of the millions of
graves Of its victims, l denoupce it.
The nations need more the spirit OF
treaty and less of the spirit of war.
War Is more CHASTITY now than once,
not only because of the greater de.
structiveness of it's weaponry, but be-
cause now it takes down the best men,
whereas once it chiefly took down the
worst Bruce in 17l7, in his "Institu-
tions of Military Law" said of the
European armies of his day: "If all
infamous persons and such as have
committed capital crimes, heretics,
atheists and all dastardly 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
ignoble. Officers were appointed to
see that each soldier drank his ration
of 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 the army of to-day. By so much Is
war now the more detestable because
it destroys the picked men of the ma
lions.
mean to honor courage. Many Of
these departed soldiers were volun-
teers, not conscripts, and many of
those who were drafted might have
provided a substitute or got of on
or have deserted. The fact
that they lie in their graves is proof OF
their bravery. Brave at the front,
brave at the lannon'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 gar
land on the brow of courage. The
world wants more of IL
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
namby-pambyism of professed Chris
tians. Great on parade, towards in
battle. Afraid of getting their plumes
ruffied, they carry a parasol over their
helmet. They go into battle not with
warriors gauntlet but with kid gloves,
nor 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 back
bone, more mettle, more daring, more
prowess. We would in all our churches
like to trade off hundred do-nothings
for one do-something. "Quit your
selves like men, be strong"
Thy saints in oil this glorious war
Shall conquer, though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
And seize 1t with their eye.
Again, we mean by this national OBJ
servance to honor self-sacrifice for 9TH
ers. 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 returning 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
to-day have been seated where you
are. They chose the camp, not because
they liked 1t better than their own
house, and followed the fife and drum,
not because they were better music
than the voices of the domestic circle.
South Mountain and urfreesboro,
and the swamps of Chickahominy were
not play grounds.
These heroes risked and lost all for
others There is no higher sublimity
than that. To keep three-uuarters for