The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-09-05

Rev. Clarence T. Brown spoke at tbs
First Congregational church yesterday
on THE Outlook After the War" He
said III part:
Text: The scepter of thy kingdom is
a right scepter." Psalm XIX. 6.
We have had a short war: brief, but
glorious; brief, but epoch-making, so fan
as America is concerned. 1t is unique
war. Since the government was founded
no military movement. l take it, is likely
to be so productive of new issues as the
war just closed. The war OF the fHteEllon
was not a new issue properly speaking ~
was an old question at last settled. BUT
with the victories that have percned upon
our banners during this summer, there
have come new issues for American polIcy
and American Christianity. II mas peeh
said that if the stories OF Manila ana the
destruction of CeTTeraS fleet mad. been
found in the Bible, an account wherein
so many noble warSlips had been utterly
destroy SO many sailors and marines
had been killed on the one side, with the
loss of but one life on the other, the critics
OF our da- would have said: We could
have no better proof that that book is
fiction; such story as that would con-
denim any historical book
You VIII remember CAPTAIN Evans
famous remark, God and the gunners
were on our side. But L take 1t that II
was not question of God getting on our
side but the question OF our getting on
Gods side. God is always on the side OF
human liberty The time was some one
has said, that men sought exclusively to
ally themselves with providence by faith;
the philosophy of the great Nazarene
seeks to ally mankind to providence not
only by faith but by knowledge.
Do you not believe that God is back of
the laws of nature and of life. and that
our surest way Of allying ourselves with
him and his movements is to find out and
use. to chain and harness and guide the
forces round about US? l believe that
those guns were on Gods side.
Back of the gun is the gunner: back
OF the gunner is the school; back OF the
school is the gospel; back of the gospel Is
God. If that is true, those miraculous
victories would surely seem to mean TO
America the triumph not only of guns. but
of school houses, for among the SpaniardS
there is IS per cent of illiteracy and double
allowance of grog, while with us there Is
but u per cent of illiteracy, and no groS
issued before the battle. 1t would seem
3 triumph of American ideas; and if it is
that it is Il triumph that will stay a
triumph and viii grow. If our victories
are the victories of American ideas then
indeed We have the secret of a permanent
Imperialism, for there is nothing that
can withstand the imperialism of an idea.
The outlook after the war is determined
b. the nature of the conflict. by the is
sues involved. by the motive with which
our American brothers and sons went into
the conflict, and by the quality of the
ideas and the manhood which were repre-
scented therein and if anyone were wise
enough to say just what those things
were and are, then 1 am sure he should
have the data by which to form a fairly
satisfactory philosophy for our Immediate
future. The index hnGer or IN future Is
the brave and generous hand of the Amer
lean soldier.
Turning from the sea with its splendid
victories, to the land we lind maryels. not
of escape, but nlarvelS of almost uneX-
an1pled courage. sacrifice. patience. chiv-
airy Of the noblest type. Ii has been
were the soldiers battles. = The battle is
in q large measure always the soldiers,
of c0urSeg but it does seem to obserVant
students of cur last campaign. that the
BATTLES and the Victories We re in a p sculyar
sense those of the private soldiers, who
were ready TO fight with the leader il pos
sible equally ready fight without him;
ready &c. Tight in one = own regiment III ne
could keep with it. just IS ready to fight
with another regiment if he happened 10
find his way into it. A great many in
stances have already come 10 Our knowl-
edge of.men who. while that WI -ir' t-'e
was raging. in that broken, tangled battle
field OF Sam Juan, fell out OF their own
regiment and then went rlghC IN fShtlnS
traVely in some other regiment. Foreign
observers looked on in establishment, and
said. American soldiers do not tight like
any other soldiers in the world - One
young fellow. speaking of that charge up
San Juan hill, in a letter home said, 1t
was AN intense moment. which | cannot
describe. to see Old Glory going up San
Juan hill inch by inch, while the boys
were falling on all sides
Let us bRptiZe our hearts. our minds.
our clllZGHSnlD. III the SlOTA WHICH SHOtl6
in these boys, white and black. they
marched against almost unexampled
odds and difficulties, never retreating
single inch.
And then l think. too. that the stories
from the hospitals are as splendid as
anything in all history-the glorious
chivalrv of Sydney has been repeated a
hundred times in our camps and in our
hospitals. Here is the story of one Blair.
a regular" wounded severely. with two
volunteers" in worse state than him
IL q r-N
a canteen from a dead enemy ard pain
fully crawling 800 feet back TO these two
comrades. taking not a drop himself for
his own parched lips. but handing it to
lar. but you are volunteers and have
families. and died giving them drink.
But that is not a single instance The
correspondents report from all sides the
most glorious examples of unselfishnesS,
of patience. of the kind of courage that
can lie in the mud and wait. with death
staring in the face. without a murInur.
Twelve soldiers Were lying in one group
waiting fer the operating table. with
death staring them in the face, when one
thee. sweet land of liberty" and the 70
all join in. the quivering. quavering
chorus the plucliest, most glorious
music that has been heard for 80 years.
l think II is good for US to know these
thin@s 90 think about them, to think of
them before the altar of God. with the
dear fiaS which has waved over so many
and about the place where the Christ is
wont 10 be lifted up.
Is Il not. too. a splendid thing to read
or all sides how our own coloTeG men of
the Twenty-fourth behaved in sueh glor-
iOUs fashion and to reflect that black
men for whom white men 30 years ago
Were giving their lives to set them free.
IN the very next generation marched UP
San Juan HIN, a splendid spectacle of
h1roisa and undaunted courage follow I
ing The same banner, u9on which they
saw Inscribed, Freedom for the on
pressed? 1t is splendid 1t is encoHr- /
aging The best cure for the evils OF
liberty is more liberty" Let US never for
a moment American citizens. have aught /
bur a political philosophy which trusts
the people.
Oh. bat it is inspiring to find such he
roiSm in cur sons brought OUT by the /
fierce searchlight of these las months
It is reassuring. II gives US heart to
graphic with evils that still cling to US.
There is vitality unbOunded: there is |
undannted- there is chiValry in |
in the American people. !
north and south. upon which we can !
bank for the long, long future. Turn on |
the light everywheret
It is awful that we have to refer to UNI |
1t is the only black spot in all the SPLEEN j
did field OF glory. Just where the re- /
sponSibility lies l am not wise enough to |
tell. Something. / SuDDoSe. can be said |
try. of the hurry in which we went TO /
war. but suppose there still remains a i
coHsidera bic margin of blame which can |
be traced back TO that accused political !
ong the SpciiS Young men, if any of /
you have ever been tempted in the last /
few years, to side with the people who !
were talking about civil service reform
you were tempted to sympathize with I
he men who called civil service reform