The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-11-16
WHILE WAR IS HELL
Still, 1t Arouses the Highest
Virtues
NATIONAL AND PRIVATE
Ri. Rev. William CreSweII
Doane Figures This Out.
NATIONAL AND PRIVATE

Albany, y. Y, Nov 15.-Right Rev
William Croswell Doane, in his annual
address to the priests Of mis- diocese to-
day made important reference to the
Spanish war the alleged abuses and ne
Episcopal church's idea Of acquisition
Of territory.
He said in part;
Hateful and hideous in It's essential
nature, and bringing Inevitable horrors
in its train, OF disease and death. of
broken hearts and desoiate homes and
OF evil passion reused mot hatred so
much as lust Of spoil and pride and boast
fulness and the accustoming 20 cruelty)
there is that, nevertheless in any right
eous war which develops the loftiest viz
tues of our race, patriotism, self-sacrifce.
patience, clemency. chivaIry, heroism and
the loving not of our own lives. Setting
aside the lower motives. which. like al
Toys in pureSt ores must enter into every
national or individual action, the torch
which lighted up this flame of fight was
kindled by the divine spark of pity for
the suffering and the oppressed. And
step by step, in the unaccounted for de-
struction OF our battleship. in the I'M
paralleIed victory of Manila in the blind
blunder of Cervera IN the matcflesS
siege Of Santa !, God has wrought out
mis- will and reveals his way. Not less
IL seems to me, in the humiliation than
in the honor Of the war. has He spoken
10 chasten any spirit of vainglory by
the dark shadow OF suffering in camp and
hospital, which an administration Of mill
tary affairs accustomed TO such duties
and expecting the emergency would have
avoided.
Just or unjust, wise or unw1se, nec-
essary or avoidable, the decision has been
taken out Of human hands as to whether
there should or should not be war with
Spain; the capture of Manila, the occu-
patton OF Porto Rico. the responsibility
for Cuba 1 shall be sorry if it begets
in US hamburger, which has been called
the disease of the Anglo-Saxon race. 1
look with grave anxiety upon the tremen-
dous problems which demand the utmost
wisdom OF craftsmanship. for whose ere
alton we have need 10 pray. But the
duties are upon US and the dangers are
before us and we must meet them like
men and in the fear of God and not APP
ply to the conditions of today counsels
that were wise q hundred years ago. nor
whine like ba bies at bitter dose of med
icine, or school boys over lesson that
is hard to learn. Courage and not com
planning prayer and not vain regret; con-
fidence and not cowardice. ought TO be
the spirit of the Christian citizen of Amer
lea today. We have won, not only a
victory over a brave but feeble foe. but
We have won unity among ourselves. the
knitting together of the English-speaking
race. the deliverance of an oppressed peo-
pie, an open way among the nations for a
purer faith, loftier liberty, finer civ
ilization. And We must pay the penalty.
too, of the grief and losses of the war
and of its heavy burden of national re-
sponsibility.
"Of the duty of this nation TO the
world today we ought to think and speak
upon our knees.
at is God who hath wrought this out
and VINO hath changed the face OF ohe
world, who has made the little one a
strong nation, who has wiped out, piece
Dy piece, off the map of America the name
even Of the nation whose illustrious son
discovered lns existence OF aus southern
hemisphere. who has built up the domi-
nation of the Anglo-Saxon over the Latin
race, who has almost reversed the miracle
of Babel by the mastery OF the English
speech in all civilized nations of the world
These are the conditions which confront
US. We cannot go backwards to the cir
cumstances or the duties OF a century
ago. Not conquest. but the acceptance o. /
responsibility in the world of which We
are a part among the nations and peoples
of the earth to whom we have message:
this is our duty. written, it seems 10
me for MIN who runs 20 read
IF we would make ourselves more true /
and faithful citizens: If We could do our
snare towards good government by the (
selection of good governors. il we would /.
those that are in authority by 1
the atmosphere OF a reformed and eleva- 4
ted public opinion. IL we would leaven I
the mass Of our political and social life /
by the leaven Of our own higher lives, 4
il We would govern ourselves. our homes. /
our cities. purely and well until he in 4
hUence spread UP and out and into the /
state and TO the federal government. we .
should help on toe time, when God can
use Us as II instruments 10 establish His .
sovereignty in the world