The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-19
GOD WROUGHT HIS WILL.
So Rt. Rev. Bishop Doane Concludes
on Addressing His Clergy
on the Late War.
THE DECISION NOT OF HUMAN FRAMING.
We Must Now Accept tho Resultant Respon.
sibilities, Meeting Them Like Mon In the
Fear OF 0od. and Not Apply to Condi-
tions OF To-Day Councils that were Wiss
Century Ago.

Albany, N. Y, Nov. 15.-Rt. Rev
VIM. Crosswell Doane, in his annual
address to the priests of his diocese
made important reference to the Span.
ish war, the alleged abuses and the
Episcopal church's idea of acquisition
of territory. He said in part:
War ID Hateful and Hideous.
"Hateful and hideous in it's essen
tial nature, and bringing inevitable
horros in it's train, of diseases and
death, of broken hearts and desolate
homes, and of evil passions reused
(not hatred so much as lust of spoil
and pride and boastfulness, and the
accustoming to cruelty, there is that
nevertheless in any righteous war
which develops the loftiest virtues of
our race-patriotism, self-sacrifice, pa
tience, clemency, chivalry ,heroism and
the loving note of our own lives.
Higher Thoughts suggesaed.
"In the midst of the mass of the
materialism and the covetousness of
earthly possessions, out from the
smoke of battle, comes the element
of idealism, of other and higher
thoughts than the mere taking of ease
in the possessions of this worlds
goods, or the uneasiness of envy or
hunger for their acquiring. Setting
aside the lower motives, which, like
alloys in purest ore, must enter into
every national or individual action,
the torch which lighted up this fame
of fight was kindled by the divine
spark of pity for the suffering and the
oppressed. II w. 4
God Wrought Out His w,ll. n Y
And step by step, in the unaccount-
ed-for destruction of our battleship;
in the unparalleled victory of Manila;
in the blind blunder of Cervera: in the
matchless siege of Santiago, God has
wrought out His will and revealed His
way. Not less, it seems to me, in the
humiliation than in the honor of the
war has l1e spoken to chasten any
spirit of vainglory by the dark shadow
of the sufferings in camp and hospital,
which an administration of military
affairs accustomed to such duties and
expecting the emergency would have
avoided.
Tho Decision Taken Out Of Human Hands.
"Just or unj Just, wise or unwise,
necessary or avoiiable, 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 occupation of Porto Rico,
the responsibility for Cuba, shall be
sorry if it begets in us land hunger.
which has been called the disease of
the Anglo-Saxon race. l look with
grave anxiety upon the tremendous
problems which demand the utmost
wisdom of craftsmanship, for whose
creation we have need to pray.
The Duties Are Upon Us.
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 apply to the conditions
of to-day councils that were wise q
hundred years ago, nor whine like ba-
bies at a bit1er dose of medicine. or
like school boys over a lesson that is
hard to learn. The brave and honest,
and it seems to me, the sensible and
the only attitude is that of waiting
upon God 10, learn and get from Him
The wisdom and the grace to work out
His will. which has carved out with
sword and cannon and musket, by
heets and armies. new place for this
people among the nations of the