The San Francisco call., 1898-04-25
Rev. R. F. Coyle Declares the War Just and
 Holy.
Good for America, Good for Cuba, Good for the
 World.
Come Sickness, Devastation and Fi- nancial Loss, Old Glory
 Will Win.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call.

SU6 BroadWay, April "A.
 Rev. R. r. Coyle of the First Presby- terian Church spoke tonight on Peace, War and Righteousness taking for his text The work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever" After referring to our moving army and navy and the spirit of war that pervades every one he said
 Now all this Is worth thinking about in con- nectlon with our present difficulty with Spain. It may paralyze trade, 1t may cost a vast deal or treasure, and the life of many a gal iant soldier and carry sorrow and heartache on sea and devastation on land, and produce consequences that will be felt around the world. Now that the start has been made no one Is wise enough to tell where it will end. It may be short or 1t may be long, It may be be Il. local b., or it may spread along all our ever dreadful 1t may be, the outcome of it will be good-good for America, good for Cuba,
 And particularly SO, because the United states draws the sword, not for purposes of commercial advantage. but in the name and for the sake of humanity. Our neighbors are in trouble They are suffering and starving and dying. They have been robbed and plundered ana oppressed until their groans and appeals have sounded across this broad land and aroused it's sympathy and kndled its indg nation; and through it's Congress and Pres- gent gent the people have said to Spain: Stop! manity you shah no more crush and con sume these brave islanders, By your treach- erous and infamous misgovernment you have forfeited the right to fly your dshonored flag oyer oyer Cuban soil any longer. Begone, and leave these people free and independentr Uncle sam was good while saying it-too long, per- haps-out he said 1t at last with an emphasis that made tyranny tremble and now he Is backing 1t up with the solemn and Immortal declaration with his soldiers and battleships
 70 my mind there Is something grand and sublime about 1t. In all history so far as ] can recall. 1t stands alone. The principle be. n,nd thls struggle on the part of the United Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are going to war Tor the welfare of the other man. We are pIaylng the good Samaritan We are bind ing up the wounds which Spain has made We are are spendlng millions of money and giving tens or thousands of soldiers to die if need be, to liberate poor ignorant impoverished race. whose help we do not need and whose independence will probably do nothing to en- rlch us our purpose is purely unselfsh. All compel the Spanish Pharoah to let her peo- pie go. II IS noble mission and can no more lall than the purposes of God can fall It IS cause worthy Of the flag which Wash ington carried and Lincoln defended and hundreds of thousands of heroic men died to keep in the sky. As it goes into the battle on land or on sea, it will go at the head of soldiers who fight for justice, for liberty for humanity. Tor God And as 1t comes out of always has in the past, and be more than ever 'Old Glory" It will be one on which heaven can smile in benediction. This uprising is holy Our cause is righteous, and the fruit of right eousness IS peace Beyond this struggle and because Of 1t. on the open gates of the twen- tieth century. the eyes of the world will read the great lesson enforced by the United States that tyranny must stop, and that the poorest and weakest and most Insignificant of men have. right to be justly and humanely gov