The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-06-09
General Howard Says That Plan Is
Altogether Too Good For
This World.
But Tyrants Are to Be Subdued Not By Soft Words
But By Hard Embellishments Should Be
Alert For Opportunities War Will Open

Cleveland, Ohio, June Sat the second
session of the seventy-Second annual
meeting of the Congregational Home Mis-
sionary society today, the president Cen
eral o. o. Howard, delivered his annual
address. His subject was: WAR, Arbi-
tration and the New Demand for Ameri-
can Home Missions
He spoke in part as follows:
our Lord hos His own ways Of leaed-
ing men. He has led our people and our
president in a way that they did not
dream of, step by step, to face new diff
culties and new problems. He is requir-
ing US, as he did in the days Of slavery,
to remove obstacles out of His path. The
obstacles that have now come to the front
are centuries of extortion, murder, assas-
sination, the Staying of hundreds of
thousands of innocent people by slow
starvation and avarice, and tyranny pro
longed which no pen can describe.
I'VE wanted to do all things by peaceful
methods. We wanted TO extend our in
fuence from man TO man and from nation
to nation by forcing every element of
peace and good will. We seemed to think
that the gospel property and sufficiently
the redemption of our own society but
the reformati ton of nations. Arbitration
we had settled upon as something that
would cause all wars to cease and all
bloodshed and cruelty resulting there
from We looked at our own supreme
court. We saw how difficulties Of every
noture were settled by its decisions be-
tween the states was not likely to occur
again. We strongly believed that if we
could have national tribunal like that
of our supreme court somehow established
not very clearly defined to our minds,
which carry out it's decisions into practi-
col execution, no possible contingencies
would arise to make war possibility,
necessity; and yet. with a president thoro-
ughly christian, conscientious to the last
degree. loving peace and peaceful meth
DDS with all his heart, we hove come
into the midst fanother war, between
this nation and Spain. Our navy. promp-
tlv organized and quickly enlarged, mas
already struck heavy blows and the army,
ShS'@ANAH
or is already enroute, to seize and hold
territory beyond the limits of our domain
Nations have not yet progressed far
nor have people been yet thoro-
ughIy instructed enough in the principles
of human liberty and righteous law to
warrant a reasonable expectancy of uni
versol arbitration. The level of the in
ternational law is the highest reach ma
tons can attain and hold at the begin
ming of the Twentieth century.
when peace comes and our hearts ore
united. north and south, east and west
oh. that we might be prepared to carry
the glad tidings Of peace in simplicity 10
those who come to us from other nations!
81 beg of you at this epoch, which APP
oears to me to be the beginning of convul-
sions and revulsions in human society to
out Yourselves. you who are leaders in mis-
sionary work. the attitude of diligent
leaders ready to receive such revelation
as the Lord our Savior may give you,
1irectlv or out Of His Holy Word"