The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-16
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is THE WAR RIGHTEOUS I?
The Rev. Dr. Morgan, at
Park Reformed Church,
Says Our Cause
Is Just.
BENEFITS FROM THE CONTEST.
Many Other Clergymen
Preached Patriotic Ser
mons Yesterday.

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| Park Reformed Church. last night
preached a sermon on the subject, Right
eous War and Some of It's Lessons" He
| chose his e x from / Chronicles, VI: p.
'sThe War was of Cod He said in part;
The text is a portion Of the history be-
| tween the sons of Reuben and the Hagar-
ftes, a people OF whom we know com
| paratively little. The sons OF Reuben won
| the battle and the reason given was that
The cause was righteous. The question
Is often asked: Is war ever justiilaDie!
We answer that war in itself Is contrary
| to the will of God. It is not part OF HIS
| original, Divine plan. But we must take
things as they are and not as they ought
to be. sin has done and is doing its work
| in the world, and must be treated largely
as it treats us. Hence we may answer
the question asked in the beginning in the
Affirmative. Many illustrations are found
in the Old Testament Scriptures The
tribes of Canaan proved themselves limit
for service of God and hence God COM
manded them to be blotted out. The war
of the Revolution we believe is an i'm
stance in hand. There was a great prin-
ciple at stake, nat of Right or Wrong
We were oppressed, and even England
today would probably agree to this fact.
Our Civil War was another illustration
of this wrong in our land. Man was en-
Shaving his fellow men. 1t was right for
us to rise up and strike up the shackles
from the slave and declare him forever
free.
Nevertheless war is always to be de-
precated, for many reasons. 1t entails
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poor men, the laborer, the mother, the
wife. The glory is reaped by only a few.
1t is not even the Spaniard who is to
suffer by the punishment which we shall
infliot upon Spain. 1t is oftener the one
who remains at home and who will get
no share of the glory, but only suffering
to the ull. But oppression must not be
UNDECIDED. And this we have seen in its
worst forms at our very door, until the
cry of the oppressed has reached to
Heaven. We believe that God has made
US the sword by which the oppressors
shall be cut down and oppressed made
free.
"Al the conditions Of a just war seem
to be- fulfilled at this time. SDain's well
known cruelties are nameless. h is
the same as in the days of the Inquisition
with its thumb screws and pincers and
everything for which the name implies.
Her history In Contra and South Ameri-
ca, her treatment of the Aztees and the
Jucas. as we'll as her treatment of the
Cubans and the PHILIPPINES, show not only
that she is unfit to rule her colonies. but
that the world around as has been tend
ing to civilization. She is the same as
she was four hundred years ago. She
has proved herself as unfit to rule as the
C~araanites. referred to above. and we
may therefore conclude that it is Gods
will that her hand should be stayed. In
the next place the attitude of the United
States makes the Righteousness of this
war more apparent. were our mo-
tives in declaring war? Upon this ques-
|,tion everything hinges. We have only to
refer to the Presidents ultimatum to
neighbors is emphasized and the destrllc-
ton of our battleship Maine receives
minor mention. We are aware this did
not please many of our citizens. Our mo-
tive is not revenge. Hence our battle cry
is not Remember the Maine
DR.. Morgan here quoted copiously from
Gently by Senator Hoar of Massachu-
seuts.
We do not desire territory" continued
Ne aa'i Il Tor cemmeffai power wv ,o FOR ''es we
merce. We have declared war simply
and only to help the oppressed.
alsuba has fallen among thieves, and is
bleeding, suffering and dying, and we are
the good Salnarltans who shall, through
the ministry of shot and shell, and by the
help of Almighty God, pour oil into her
wounds and bring her to a place of SAT-
ETY.
of Providence. Columbus was an Italian,
but was sent on a voyage of discovery
by Queer Isabella, of Spain. The Pill
grim Fathers were descended from famiI-
les in Holland, Franc and England, and
came to these shores in order that they
might snjoy. Christian liberty. The set
and introduced slavery. 1t seems to be
a strange fact, but in course of time God
raised up descendants of the Pilgrim
Fathers who wiped slavery from our
fair e~scutcheon and the question was for
ever settled In all civilized lands. Now,
after, from fouur hundred years in the
Providence of God, we declare war
was discovered, and, singularly enough,
the first naval fight was fought on the
other side of the globe. The truth of
Gods word that hi makes all things
work together for the good for those who
love Him; Is being seen.
DR.. Morgan showed where many bless
ings would flow as the result of this
Holy War. Spain, herself. would be
benefited. Cuba and the Philippines would
North and South of this country woul be
unified. and England, the mother coun-
try. and our own, understand each other
better than at n time since the reyo-
luton.
missions" he said in closing. will be
enlarged and Christian Missionaries. will
follow our soldiers and sailors across the
of Christ. and usher In the Kingdom of
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