The record-union., 1897-05-31

it would cost Nearly 1900 years one
had stood and protested against the
anointment of Jesus, contending that
the oil ought to be sold for money to
aid the poor The name of that man
was Judas. Too many men measured
the spreading of the gospel-the sacred
feelings of the heart and soul, their
faith in God and the value of souls, by
a commercial value 1t would not pay,
Mr.. Mel said to slight ones neighbor
by refusing to make known to him the
great truth that all men are brothers.
Naturally, DR.. Miel observed, his
ideas led on to the spirit of the SER
vice. Every man who believes, he
said. in the brotherhood of man. ought
to work for those things which will
do away with war. How grandly, he
asserted, might the Grand Army of the
Republic, in time of peace, wage war
upon the spirit of war. If war must
come, and come it will, he continued,
then let them strive to take the sword
out of the hand of hatred and tyranny
and ambition. and place it in the hands
of justice, cool, careful and deliberative.
In the face of that brotherly spirit
abroad to-day, the speaker said, that
spirit of grateful memory for those who
died that the nation might live, the
mounds of earth which mark their last
resting place are decked with flowers,
unmindful whether they wore the blue
or the gray. They were brothers.
Whatever, the origin of man, the
speaker continued, no doubt existed but
what he was brought up with as much
love of blood as there is in the tiger.
After the bloody Franco -Prussian war,
men had said there will be no more
war, Nations will resort to arbitra-
ton. War is too bloody." but they
had reckoned wrong. A dozen wars
have occurred since then. The world
spirit has not yet been drowned in
blood. Never, he said, was there a
time when there was such a demand
for cannon and other machinery of
war. Never was there a time when so
much brain power was exerted to Gre
ate new engines for the destruction of
men in war. The worlds war debt,
the speaker said, is appalling, and foots
up a total of nearly thirty thousand
millions of dollars, and no nation had
much to show for it ALL while the in
dustry of the working people pay the
greater part of it. If men are broth
ers, he said, it is about time they were
reconciled. If men are all Gods chill
dren, it is about time they were learn
ing better manners.
DR.. Mel touched upon the Cuban sit
uation in no doubtful terms. IT, he
said, such things are to be permitted,
then civilization has drifted backward,
the brotherhood of man is all rot"
and the power of hell is stronger than
the spirit Of right The deeds which
are being done are crimes against hu-
in warfare, but in deliberate murder,
cries out to God.
When the great struggle in Ameri-
ca ended, the minister continued, not a
single man was killed for treason.
There was no cruelty. The Cubans. he
urged, need relief and sympathy. 1t is
said they are poor and that there is
but a handful Of them, and for that
reason they need us. They deserve
liberty and the help of a free nation
in achieving it. Every American
should be a brother to. those seeking
liberty as Americans sought theirs. To
him, it seemed to be the duty of the
Government to act and act speedily.
America is the herald and the leader Of
new era, and to her God entrusted
liberty that it might be advocated.
If. concluded DR. Mel, Spain will not
put a stop to the abomination going on
daily in Cuba, the stencil of which is
offensive to the nostrils of the whole
civilized world, then the United States
should step in, and in such case, the
power of war should be welded, not
with bitterness and hate but with JUS
tice and charity, which in the end
would bring the world one step nearer
to the universal brotherhood of man.