The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-05-22


your enemies, let not your hearts faint.
fear not, and do not tremble, neither
be ye terrified because of them," and
then the officers would give command
to the troops, saying: What man is
there that hath built a new house and
hath not dedicated it? Let him go and
return to his house, lest he die in the
battle and another man dedicate It.
And what man Is he that hath planted
vineyard and hath not eaten OF it?
Let him also go and return unto his
house, lest he die in the battle and
another man eat Of 1t. And what man
is there that hath betrothed wife and
hath not taken her? Let him go
and return unto his house, lest he die
In the battle and another man take
her" Great armies marched and
fought. In time OF Moses and Joshua
all the men were soldiers. When Is
rael came out Of Egypt they were 6O0,-
600 fighting men. Abijah commanded
100000. Jeroboam commanded SOO,-
600 men. Of whom 100000 were slain in
one battle. Some of these wars God
approved. for they were for the rescue
OF oppressed nations. and some Of them
he denounced. but in all cases it was
judgment upon both victors and van
quished. David knew just what war
was when he wrote in the text:
Though war should rise against me,
in this will be confident"
David is encouraging himself in
stormy times. and before approaching
battles administers to himself the con-
solatory. So today my theme is the
"Alleviations of War" War is organ
| lied atrocity. It is the science OF as
sassination. 1t lis the convocation of
all horrors. 1t is butchery wholesale.
II is murder glorified. 1t is death on
throne Of human skeletons. 1t Is the
coffin in ascendancy. 1t is diabolism
| at a game of skulls. But war is here.
and it is time now to preach on its al
! leviations.
4 First, 1 find an alienation in the
/ fact that 1t has consolidated the north
/ and the south after long-continued
/ strained relations. 1t is thirty-three
/ years since our civil war closed, and
! the violences are all gone and the Sc
/ verities have been hushed. But ever
and anon. in oration. in sermon, in
| newspaper editorial, in magazine ar
ticle. on political stump, and in con-
gressional hall. the old sectional diff
| ference has lifted its head; and for the
/ first time within my memory. or the
memory of any one who hears. or reads
/ these words, the north and the south
/ are one. BY a marvellous providence,
| the family that led in opposition to our
/ government thirty years ago. is rep
resented at the front in this present
war Nothing else could have done
! the work Of unification so suddenly or
so completely as this conflict At
Tampa, at Chattanooga. at Richmond,
and in many other places the regi-
ments are forming. and it will be side
| by side, Massachusetts and Alabama,
4 New York and Georgia, Illinois and
! Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina.
Northern and southern men will to-
! gether unlimber the guns and rush
upon the fertilization and charge upon
! the enemy and shout the triumph. The
voices of military officers who were
under Sidney Johnson and Joseph
Hooker will give the command on the
same side. The old sectional grudge is
forever dead. The name OF Grant on
the northern side and OF Lee on the
southern side will be exchanged for
the names of Grant and Lee on the
same side. The veterans in northern
and southern homes and asylums are
stretching their rheumatic limbs to see
whether they can again keep step in a
march, and are testing their eyesight
to find whether they can again look
| along the gun-barrel to successfully
take aim and fire. The old war cry
of "On to Richmond" and "On to
Washington" has become the war cry
OF "On to Havana!" "On to Porto
Rico!" "On to the Philippine Islands -
The two old rusty swords that in other
days .clashed at Murfreesboro and
South Mountain and Atlanta, are now
lifted to strike down HIspanie abom-
nations.
Another alleviation Is the fact that
in this war the might IS on the side OF
the right. Again and again have liber-
ty and justice and suffering humanity
had the odds against them. II was
so when Benhadad's Syrian hosts. who
were In the wrong. at Aphek. came
upon the small regiments of Israel.
who were in the right. the Bible put
ting 1t in one OF those graphic SEN
tences for which the book is remark
aole-"The children of Israel pitched
before them like two little hocks Of
kids, but the Syrians flled the whole
country" 1t was so in the awful de-
feat OF the Lords people at CfIbaa
and Megiddo. 1t was so recently when
gallant and glorious Greece was in
connict with giEsntic Aobammedan-
lEm, and the EaRies of Europe hover.
Ing about the Bosphorae we're ID pfse.
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