The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-04-11
PRAY T0SAVE USFROM WAR
REV. DIR. LINES so ENDOWED HIS
 CONGREGATION

terday-Humanity Appears to Demands Cessation of War in Cuba-Church and Sunday School Offerings at St. Paul's Yesterday Amounted to 2,5OO
 The early service at St. Pauls at 6:9O yesterday was largely attended, and about two hundred were at the holy communion at 7:15. The second com munion followed at 9:3O, and at 1O:SO the church was completely filled for the morning prayer, the sermon and the third communion. The decoration was very effective, Easter and calla lilies back of the altar, tulips and calla lilies about the pulpit, hydrangeas, palms, etc, in other places.
 The offerings for work in connection with the new organ, for special parish | obligations, for missions, etc, were | over $1,800, which, following subscrip- tion in the parish of more than $5,OO0 for the new organ, is counted large. The Sunday school was out in full | numbers at p. nl., and the carols were sung with much spirit. The offerings for the year were presented and the objects announced. They were more than $700, and many objects, parochial and missionary, were remembered. So | the offerings in St. PauPs yesterday were above $2,5O0 Five hundred flow ering plants, provided mainly by George Hotchkiss and John c. Hollis ter, were presented to the scholars and | all the flowers in church were sent to the sick people. The surpliced choir under the direction of Mir Fowler did | their part well in making a good Eas- ter at St. Paups.
 | The rector's sermon in the morning was upon the coming of the risen Jesus l to the disciples at the close of the day | of the Resurrection, saying, Peace be l unto you" The sermon closed with reference to current events as follows: A generation has passed since an | Easter came with the voice of peace 1 in this country, so silenced by the clamor of war. On that Easter day thirty-three years ago, when peace had come after four years of civil war, | l cruel death of our great president. 1 That tragedy seemed to bring over the | land a deeper shadow than the war to which the country had stern,y set it. self War clouds have appeared now and then in this generation, to quickly pass, and leave us with the feeling that with the ocean between us and possible enemies we might live in peace with little thought for armies or na- vies. And now the dream of peace is rudely broken and we appear drifting into war. All along the seaboard prep arations for defense against a foreign l foe are pressed and wherever coal is mined, iron wrought or supplies of war produced there is activity and urgent | haste in which neither Sunday nor night makes break. So Lent has run | it's course and Easter finds us face to | face with war.
 Under great provocation the nation has proved worthy of the best tradi- 1 tions. of the Anglo-Saxon race for steadiness and soberness of mind. The 1 president and his cabinet have been patient, wise and discreet so as to win the worlds respect. A few irrespon-
 
 newspapers which it is discreditable to read have brought disgrace upon us and have hindered the governments S well meant efforts to preserve peace, but the thoughtful people are with the president. Humanity appears to de- mand that the war waged with such cruelty and barbarism in Cuba should cease that an island so rich in what the world needs, so near to us, should not be given over to interminable war and murder and starvation.
 We thought that the great powers of | Europe should have said to Turkey that the massacre of the Armenians must stop, and we counted it shameful that their petty jealousies prevented great Christian nations from speaking the potent word which would save 8 Christian people from destruction by l Mohammedans. The time appears to have come when this nation should give utterance to the voice of human ity and declare, so that the word must be needed that one of the fairest and | richest islands of the world, almost
 within sight of our shores, shall not year after year be the scene of such | thought comes to me that the United States must play a larger part in the
 worlds affairs than we have thought necessary or wise. I hope that we shall find our place beside the mother
 country, ever standing for commercial
 freedom, for civilization, for justice
 and humanity and good religion. It does not become Christian preachers
 to speak of war as ether than to be dreaded and avoided if possible. Our message is one of peace, and the pulpit ought to pay it's tribute of honor to
 those in highest authority who labor
 for peace. While it may be counted
 in Lent and Holy Week to have our
 minds so filled with rumors of war,
 it has made an opportunity day by
 day by a multitude of Worshippers in
 our parishes to pray for the president
 and for congress. To pray for peace,
 to ask God to order events and to di-
 rect men so as to bring peace-that is
 all that most of us can do. Our vioces
 will not be heard so as to influence
 those who shall determine peace or
 war, but we can pray to the God of
 peace and to Christ the giver and the
 Prince of Peace to save us from war.
 It may be that war must come. Then