The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-11-16
BISHOP DOANE'S ADDRESS
To the Priests ofhIs Episcopal Dioessa M
the Attitude ofths Church ia ReIsrsilts
10 the spnnIsh war.


To tho Priests ofhis Episcopal Dioesse nn
the Attitude oftlo Church Ia neGsreIlSs
TO the spanish war.
ALBANY, N Y, Nov. 15.-Right Rev.
william crosweli Doaue. in his annual
address to the priests OF his diocese to-
day, made important reference to tho
Spanish war. the alleged abuses and
the Episcopal church's idea of acquisl-
tion 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 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,
seif-sacrifice, patience, clemeHeY, chlV-
airy, herolsm and the loving not OF our
own lives. In the midst OF the mass OF
materialism and the covetOusness OF
earthly possessions. out from the smoke
and dust OF battle, comes the element
of ldeallsm OF other and nigner
thoughts than the mere taking OF ease
In the possession Of this worlds goods,
or the uneasiness OF envy or hunger for
their acquiring. Setting aside the
lower motives, which, like alloys IN puf.
est ore, must enter Into every national
or individual action, the torch which
lIrhted up this flame OF light was kim
died By the divine spark Of pity for the
suffering and the oppressed. And step
by step, in the unaccounted for destruc-
tion Of our battleshlp, in the unparal-
leled 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 he spoken
to chasten any spirit OF vain glory by
the dark shadow OF the Buiferings In
camp and hospital, which an adminis-
tration, Of military affairs accustomed to
such duties and expecting the. emer-
gency would have avoided.
Just or unjust, wise or unwise, nee
essary or avoldable, 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 re-
BlOnElUlIlkH NSuIls \ nAAftAA VIC ngAAS
IL Il begets In us land hunger, which has
been called the disease OF the Anglo
Saxon race. look with grave anxiety
upon the tremendous problems which
demand the utmost wisdom Of states
manshIp, for whose creation we have
need to pray. But the duties are up
on US and the dangers are before US and
we mist meet them like men and in the
fear Of God and not apply to the condi-
tIons OF to-day counsels that were wise
a hundred years ago, nor whine like
babies at bitter dose Of medicine, or
schooIboys over q lesson that Is hard to
learn. The brave and honest, and 1t
seems to me, the sensible and the only
attitude Is that Of waiting upon God to
learn and to get from him the wisdom
and the grace to work out his VIII.
which alas carved out with sword and
cannon and muSket. by fleets and ar
mics, a new place for this people among
the nations OF the world. The courage
and not complaining, prayer and not
vain regret, confidence and not coward
Ice, ought TO be the spirit OF the Chris
tian citizen OF America to-day. We
have won, not a victory over brave
but feeble foe, but we have won unity
among ourselves, the knitting together
OF the English-speaki race. the deliv-
erance Of an oppressed people, an open
way among the nations for a purer
faith, a truer liberty. q finer civilization.
And we must pag the penalty, too. OF
the grief and losses of the war and Of
its heavy burden OF national responsl-
bllity.
"of the duty OF this nation to the
world to-day we ought to think and
speak upon our knees. 1t IS God who
has wrought this out and who hath
changed the face of the world, who has
made the little ones strong nation.
who has wiped out, piece by piece, on
the map OF America, the name even OF
the nation whose illustrious son discov-
cred the existence Of Its southern hemis-
phere, who has built up the domination
Of the Anglo-Saxon over the Latin races
who has almost reversed the miracle OF
Babel by the mastery OF the English
speech in oil civilized nations OF the
world. These are the conditions which
confront US. We cannot go backwards
to the circumstances or the dutlesS OF q
century ago. Not conquest. but the ac-
ceptance Of responsibility In the world
Of which we are a part, among the ma
tions and peoples OF the earth to whom
we have a message; this Is our duty,
written It seems to me for him who
runs to read.
'Tf we would make ourselves more
true and faithful citizens, II we would
do our share towards good government
by the selection OF the governors II we
would surround those that are In au-
thorlty by the atmosphere Of reform
ed and elevated public opinion, II we
would leaven the mass OF our political
and social life By the leaven OF our own
higher lives; II we would govern our
selves, our homes, our cities purely and
well until the influence spread up and
out and on to the state and TO the fed
eral government we should help on the
time when God can use us as At instru-
ments 20 establish his sovereignty in
the world"