The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-05-25


No Ecora For Ba, bss:sm on Ike Ve' 4
Oortn EFT
Nest pertinent to the exciting ,imes
through which We sre new passing IS
this sermon OF Dr.. Talnsge, N wnlch
he proposes TO cheer tire People VINO
sra sa6dsned By tee horrors OF war;
text, Psalms xvii, :, Though wsr
should rise agaiGst me, IN tbs VIII !
be confident. ;,
TIE ring Of ba:>leaxss, ar,a tee clash
cf shields, asd tie tramp CT srmles,
are hea.d all up ard dowa tie Old
Testament, ard you fnd gcdly soldiers
like Moses alS Joshus and Caleb and
Gideon and scourdrelly soldiers like
Ssnnscherib ard Shalmaneser ard
Netuchadne2Z2r. TIE high priest
would stsnd st the head of the army
and say, Hear, o Isrsel, ye approach
this day unto bSttle sgaicst your ere
mics, let rot your hearts fainr, fear
not and do not trsu be, neither te ys
terrified because OF them" And then
the officers would give comnsro 70
the troops. saying: What man IS
there that hath built asw house snd
hath not dedicated it Lst him 60
and return 10 his house, lest re die IN
tie battle ar6 another nan dedicate
it. And wnat nan is Re that hath
plsnted vineyard and hath not eaten
Of it9 LIE: aim also 60 and return u9-
to his house, lest he die N the battle
and smother man est OF it. Ana what
man is there that hath betrothed q
wife and hath not taken herr LIT MIN
90 and return unto his house, lest ne
die in the battle sn6 aEother man take
her" Graat srmies marched and
fought. In tine of Moses sES Joshua
all the men were soldiers: When
Israel came cut oS Egypt, they wsre
100000 fighting men. Abiiah com
manoed 400, ,OC0. Jeroboan cam
ms1ded 100000 men, of whom 500,
600 were slain in cne battle. Some OF
these wars God approved, for they
were for the rescue CT oppressed ns,
tions, and scme Of them ne denounced,
but IN all cases twas Judgment upon
both victors and varquiSheo. David
knew just Whist war was when he
wrote in the text, Though war should
rise against me, in this will be eolh-
dent"
David is encouraging himself in
stormy times, and bsfore approaching
battles administers to himself the con
solatory. So todsy my theme IS the
s.Allevistions Of War" War Is or
esnize6 atrocity. It is the science OF
assassination. Il is the convocatIou
of all horrors. It is hatchery whole,
sale. It is murder glori6ed. Il is
death on throne of human skeletors.
It is the coffin in sscen6ency. l. IS
disbolism at gan'e OF skulls. Bu!
war is here, and it is tims noT to
preach On its alleviations.
First, I fnd an alleviation II the
fact that it has consolidated the north
and the south after long continued
strained relations. It is 80 yesrs since
our civil war closed, and the violences
are sll gone and the seventies have
been hushed. But ever and anon IN
Grafton, in sermon, in newspaper edI
torial, in magazine article, On political
stump and in congressional hall the
old sectional difference has lifted its
head. and for the first time within my
memory or the memory OF any one
who hears or reads those words the
north and the south are one. BY q
marvellous providence the family that
led in opposition to cur government
80 wears seo is represented st the front
in this present war. Nothing else
could have done the work OF unlhcs,
ton so suddenly orso completely SIS
this conflict. At Tampa, st Cnatta
noogs, st Richmond ard in many
other plsces the regiments are form
ing, and it will be side by side, Mas
sschusetts and Alabama, New York
and Georgia, Illinois and louisiana,
Maine and South Carolina. Northern
and southern men will together unliu-
ber the surs and rush upon the for:l:
cation and charge upon the enemy ano
shout the triumph. TheToice OF mill
tary officers who were under Sidney
johnson and Joseph Hooker will give
the command on tie same side, the
old sectional grudges 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 srs stretching their
rheumatic limbs 10 see whether lhey
can again keep step in 8 march and
are testing their eyesight to ind whe-
ther they can again look along the gun
barrel to successfully take aim and
fire. The old war cry of."On to Rich.
mond! and 'On to Washington y
has become the warcry OF "On TO Ha
vana!n "On to Puerto Rico!" "On to
the Philippine Islands" The two old
rusty swords that in other days clashed
at Murfressboro and South Mountain
and Atlantis are now lifted TO strike
down Eispsnic sbominations.
Another alleviation OF the war is
the fact that it is the mcst unselfsn
war of the ages. While the CONNER
cial rights of our wronged citizens will
be vindicsted, that is not the chief
idea OF this war. It is the rescue Of
hundreds Of thousands CT people from
starvation and multiform maltreat-
me7t. a friend who went cut under
the fag OF the Red Cross two years
ago to assuage suffering IN Armenia,
and who has been on the same mission
under the flag, in Cuba, says that the
spferings in Armenia were a comedy
md farce compared with the greater
suferings OF Cubs. At least 200, 600
graves are calling 10 US to come on
and remember By wha! process their
occupants died. It IS the twentieth
century crying out to the nineteenth:
do you mean to pass down to Us the
c1rse with which you have been
plasteos 0: will you let ne begin
under new auspices and turn the island
of desclation into an island EdenicI'
It is 8 war inspired oy mercy, which
is an attribute Ia man initiative Of the