The San Francisco call., 1898-04-04
WARM SUPPORT FOR MCKINLEY Rev.Dr. Coyle Uses Strong Language in the
 Pulpit.
Declares It to Be a Duty to Avenge the Maine Out
 rage.
America Cannot Refuse to Uphold Humanity in the Western
 Hemisphere.
Oakland Office San Francisco Call
 g0S RrOadway April 8,

"War With Spain was the subject of the Rev. pr. R. r. Coyle's discourse this evening at the First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Coyle deprecated the too frequent use of the sword to settle international dis putes, but said that in the present crisis with Spain the patient and highly com mendable course of President Mckinley justified war if the SDaniards did not speedily relinquish Cuba and make repa- ration for the loss of the Maine and the murder of it's gallant sailors. He spoke in part as follows:
 There is still vast deal of the war spirit latent in the breasts of men. and too often s !. Is the spirit of hell. It breathes and burns through the columns of many of our papers: Congress It flames out here and there in
 mass meetings and sometimes 1t thunders in pulpits dedicated to the gospel of peace Nor is this outburst of feeling always wrong
 I am very far from saving that the war spirit that the appeal to arms is never 1ustihable
 There are times in the history of nations when peace would be outrage. an injustice, a cowardly exhibition of inhumanity. There are
 times when righteousness demands that the
 sword shall be drawn Nothing else can meet the case. It was so when our colonies, after and na s in a xoke p n
 soW ansS S a9 Struck K n wai that conflict
 was g blow in the interests of humanity and for his glory It was so when Flo Fort Sumter CT the expense of the Union and by leaving the shackles on the slaves would have been a sin ham Lincoln said that 1t was also Gods war. and he was right. The men who marched and the men who fought and the men who died a race were missionaries of righteousness, So worthy of free and right thinking men.
 Nothing is ever settled until it is settled
 is of individuals. and nothing is ever right that is not religiously right, or in other words right in its relation to the eternal God All compromises all adjustments, all diplomacies not founded upon that rock are the makesnifts of an hour mere temporary. arrangements, which cannot stand, because they. ought not patched up peace. peace purchased al the or by a weak surrender of principle. Is a dis grace and a humliation-I was going to say certainly are times when the spirit that would demand peace at any price IS quite ,,1 as much I
 sheath the sword without abundant reason. and I not sure but more. First peace then mary, the supreme thing then draw the sword or put it in the scabbard as necessity may de-
 There I stand on scrptural grounds. and standing there, beg leave to make few ob- I do it. I trust with all due deference to the opinions of wiser men than myself. modestly, hestatingly but & nevertheless @ se sor fTmiy: T be pie. to realize that we belong. to the fellow ship of ai9ns b eTern afhs
 way, and that it is no longer right or possi- ble for us to remain isolated in our own hemis- and and the nations of the East take care of them. selves, and we will take care Of ourselves
 and too selfish, and proposes peace TOT us that rests upon foundation other than that | So long as we belong to the community of nations we are, according to our measure re. @ Re He 1Re Mer when the
 slaughtering the Armenians. putting E. helpless pillaging and plundering and scattering deso- iation. we had no right to fall back upon our | It is awful but as a peaceable and far away people we can do nothing Rather than in- destroyed and American missionaries to be un-
 protected. It was not a reassuring display
 And what shall we say of the movements in
 the far East? It looks as though China were about to be divided u I pa1nea 0st | thieves divide their booty. England will prob ably speak Japan will probably hay have some. some.
 up within her own coasts and do nothing?
 Upon what principle of justice, or liberty. or
 say. as was said in Brooklyn two or three
 weeks ago, that the time is at hand when
 that would corner the trade of China and con
 trol her ports for their own gain. We, too.
 for foe,; our own commercial wealth. not for our
 own uplifting, but we stand for freedom in
 must take account of America if you under
 take to destroy that liberty" Without right
 eousness the nations may cry peace. peace. 1 but there will be no peace
 Come nearer home. War has been raging and
 still rages almost within thin sight & of our shores;
 to be free. With a heroism, a determination
 that commands the admiration of all who love l liberty, they trying to break away from
 Already 100000 of them have gone down in
 rehearse at the close of the nineteenth century
 and ought, to mantle the cheek of the Chris
 floors of the United States Senate strong men
 wept like children. so dreadful was it. Even ! ~II 1In1 (S,,f..,
 are starving and dying at the rate of 1000
 day. The blowing up of the Maine was bad.
 ton through the land and the world. but
 awful as it it becomes completely in- significant alongside of the larger question of
 It will not do to say the people of that island worth ana sns and
 is unworthy of an American citizen. and on the lips of Christian s it is n nblasphemy against should their condition appeal to the sympathy and protection of the American people, who are strong. Say not that they are degraded. Say ciSilization Hs i @ Say not that they are poverty
 stricken and immoral. Nay, they our brothers and have right to our protection and the deiverence which we have it in our at Bunker Hill and suffered at Valley Forge and left the blood stains of their naked feet deserved to be free, the Cubans deserve to be | In this whole matter our President. in my
 wisdom dan of the pee Mhom he represents and of the exalted office he fills. Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just and President Mckinley has conscientiously sought to do the just thing. He is certainly entitled to the support and confidence and sym pathy of his countrymen in these days of trial. And all things considered. our people have exhibited a most commendabe self control. The provocation has been immense and hard to bear But they have borne 1t with a coolness and enuipose that always char acteristic of strength. Thank God for that. But occasions sometimes arise and the hour sometimes strikes when forbearance ceases to be virtue. Who will say that hour has not come?
 I do not speak for war God forbid. As a boy I lived through the scenes Of our great rebellion. I remember enough of 1t to make me shudder. Tn the gospel of peace I believe with all heart, and I preach 1t with ever-growing delight. But if Spain does not yield If she insists upon keeping her hard heel upon the neck of Cuba: if she refuses to end the outrages and abominations in that un- happy land and if she will not make repara- tion for the destruction of great warship 1 lying peacefully at anchor in one of her ports and for the blood of many of our gallant I soldiers-then. I say. let the sword of justice | fall let righteousness strike, and afterward will come the sweet angel of peace.
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