The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1898-11-19
LESSONS OF VICTORY.
AS 10 the Duty of the Nation We
Should Think and Speak
on Our Knees"

Albany, \. u, Nov. 15.-Rt. Rev. Will
nam Croswell Doane, in his annual ad-
dress to the priests of his diocese today.
made important reference to the Spanish
war, the alleged abuses and the Episoonal
church's idea of acquisition of territory.
he SAID IN part: Hateful and hideous
III us essential nature, and bringing inevi-
tapie horror IN its train of disease and
death, of broken hearts and desolate
homes and of evil passions reused (not ha-
tired SO much as Inst of spoil and pride
and boastfulness and the accustominc to
cruelty there is that, nevertheless. in any
righteous war which develops the loftiest
virtues of our race-patriotism, seif-sacri-
nee, patience, clemency, chivalry, heroism
ana the loving note of our own lives. In
the midst of the mass of materialism and
the covetousness of earthly possessions, out
from the smoke and dust of battle. comes
the element OF idealism, of other and high
er thoughts than the mere taking of ease
IN the possession of this --oriI'e -~<~a.-
the uneaSlneSS OF envy or hunger for their
acquiring.
Setting aside the lower motives, which,
like alloys in purest ore. must enter into
every national or individual action, the
torch which lighted up this flame of fight
was kindled by the Divine spark of pity
for the suffering and the oppressed. And
step by step, i'll the unaccounted for de-
struction of our battleship, in the un-
paralleled victory at Manila, in the blind
blunder of Cervera, in the matchlesS siege
of Santiago. God has wrought out His will
and revealed His way. Not less. it seems
to me. in the humiliation than in the
honor of the war has He spoken to chas-
ten any spirit of vainglory by the dark
shadow of the sufferings III camp and hos
pltal, which an administration of military
affairs accustomed to such duties and eX-
pectlnS the emergency would have avoid
ed
Just or unjust. wise or unwise, neces-
sary or avoidabe, the decision has been
taken out of human hands as to wheth
er there should or should not be war
with Spain, the capture of Manila, the
occupation of Porto Rico, the responsible
lty for Cuba. | shall be sorry if it be-
gets in US land hunger, which has been
called the disease of the Anglo-SaXon
race. l look with grave anxiety upon
the tremendous problems which demand
the utmost wisdom of a craftsmanship,
Tor whose creation we have need to pray.
But the duties are upon us and the dan
gers are before us and we must meet
them like men and in the fear of God
and not apply to the conditions of today
councils that were wise 100 years ago,
nor whine like babies at a bitter dose
OF medicine, or sChoOboyS over a lesson
that is hard to learn. The brave and
and the only attitude, is that of waiting
upon God to learn and get from Him the
wisdom and the grace to work out His
will, which has carved out with sword
and cannon and musket, by fleets and
new place for this people
among the nations of the world. The
courage and not complaining. prayer and
not vain regret, confidence and not cow
ardice, ought to he the spirit of the Chris
tian citizen of America today.
I'VE have won. not a victory over q
brave, but feeble foe. but we have won
unity among ourselves, the knitting to-
gether of the Englishspeaking race, the
deliverance of an oppressed people. an
open way among the nations for Il purer
faith, a loftier liberty, finer civiliza
ton. And we must pay the penalty, too.
of the grief and losses of the war and of
its heavy burden Of national RESPONSE
biity.
''Of the duty of this nation to the
world today we ought to think and speak
upon our knees.
1T is God who hath wrought this out
and who hath changed the faith of the
world. who has made the little one
strong nation, who has wiped out piece by
piece. off the map of America the name
even of the nation whose ilrstrious son
discovered the existence of its Southern
hemisphere who has built UP the domina-
tion of the Anglo-SayOn over the Latin
races. who has almost reversed the miracle
of Babel by the mastery of the English
speech in all civilized nations of the world.
These are the conditions which confront
Us. We cannot go backwards to the cir
cumstanccs or the duties of a century ago.
Not conquest, but the acceptance of re-
sponsibility in the world of which we are
a part. among the nations and peoples of
the earth TO whom we have a message:
this is our duty. written it seems to me for
him. who runs To read.
IF we would make ourselves more true
and faithful citizens; if we would do Our
share towards good government by the
selection of the governors. if we would
surround those that are in authority by
the atmosphere of a reformed and ele-
waited public opinion. if we would leaven
the mass of our political and social life
by the lcavcn of our own higher lives
if we would govern ourselves our homes
our cities. purely and well until the influ-
encc spread up and out and onto the state
and to the federal government we should
help on the time when God can use us as
fit instruments to establish His sovor-
eighty in the world"