The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-04-13

| delivered 20 the Jews; but now Is My
! Kingdom not from hence"
The preacher said In part: 1T IS credi-
| table 90 your intelligence and your faith
! to schedule as a part OF your anniversary
exercises a sermon. 1 congratulate you
/ on the occasion OF your twcnty-siXth an
] nivcrsary. and consider 10 a compliment
! that you have invited me TO address you.
''lt has been a part of the kingdom Of
| TINS world 10 hght. All human history
! shows 30. aud suggests that the natural
| state OF mankind BOO nature is TO war.
ARBITRATION TO PREVAIL.
Arbitration Is la the air. and thank God
/ that I can think that whatever the fate
/ Of tho present treaty that this principle
/ viii ultimately aud ere long triumph. and
/ arbitration Will settle all differences be-
/ tween the two great Christian nations
/ England and America
God speed the day. u is Christ alone
| Who inspired tho treaty. Christian sonti-
mcnt will bring II about.
Christ said that lie could have SCI
cured plenty Of servants or soldiers TO
FIGHT his cause. H. could have Supplied
DIS army with heads as easily as he FED
tho ten thousand. Had lie Insisted on
making Himself King or emperor on this
earth what "a vast army could lie have
department in Himself lie could have re-
stored IFS dead soldiers % nfe. Al he
needed TO have done was 10 have said 50
90 obtain "a vast army. ChiValrous Potter
cut on a. soldiers ear. Christ SAIL. Put
up thy sword
pr Tudor said that Christians abhored
fighting He then painted a vivid pic
ture Of Tho feeling among Christs people
just before tho war and how they dread
al the struggle and with what reluctance
they went into 10. because war was anti
Christian and inhuman
Dr. Tudor related an incident Of John
ston az Piedmont when ne and Jackson
with their soldiers were there. Or Tu-
dor had "a circuit there They took pro-
visions 10 the army and General john
stOn was invited to the best bed In the
place lie declined, saying that a gene
raj should have mo- better quarters than
his men. and slept ont doors. he also
related am incident OF Beauresard who
when asked what his soldiers wanted. Tee
piled. "A soldiers wants are few. Have
you some nice buttermik?'
lie said that the most amusing char
acter that me came in contact with during
the war was "a chaplain I'm the Federal
army When the commandment was
questioned as 20 his whereabouts he fc-
piled in the rear. we havc TO hear him
preach said tho officer. but with him
"a divine service becomes divine pune
ishmcnt' 81 regret 20 say" said ihe
doctor that he was "a Methodist"
The speaker said that the battles OF the
future would Doe naval engagements ana
be wildly predicted what terrible results
would be-.
BE said that the human theory was that
there must De war. lie pictured the pro-
eress Of the world under peace. which
WAS much more preferable.
NoXt he spoke OF the kingdom Of Christ
Tortraying its beauties. lie said that
its boundaries were Immortality.
The Unseen forces were the most DOW
erful. ne said. lie illustrated this re-
mark with steam and electricity When
either became visible the force was
spent lie also used the mind and the
prayer 90 illustrate by
LET us look for the unseen and find
the eternal hc said
nr Tudor spoke OF two songs When
the cruel War Is over" and "Tcnting on
the Oid Camp Ground" and the erect
they had when sung near the close of ths
war;
Ic said there was am opportunity in
t.e time ol peace for courageous man
hood DOB withsandiue temptation aud i1
the quiet walks of life. He closed ,ho
discourse with an appeal 10 his hearers
&" prepare for Chriats kingdom