The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1898-05-27

St oJS;.,N 'fi' VIII DC nt."-psalm
The ring OF battie-ases AM, the o,,.h
shieids, and the tramp OF armies arc bea =
All up and down the Old Testament. nm
YOU ma godly soldiers like Moses. an
.osnua, . and Caleb: and Gideon, an
Snai'naneser, and Nebuchudnszznr Th
nigh Priest would stand at the hend or tb
nrny ana say: Hear, o Israel, We an
paonGh this day unto battle against YOU
| ehe",ieS, LOT not your hearts faint: fear n ot
and DO not trembie, neither be Va t,.rriaol
| because OF themr' aud then fhe onIcar
| woaiu give command to the troops saw
ing: what man is there that hath huiIt
h; nouse anu hath not dedicated 1t? lie
| nln go ana return TO his house, lest he di,
In the Dattio and another man dedicate n
Ao Auo What man Is he that hath planted ;
vineyard aud hath not eaten of it? Lot him
dis1 di go aug return unto his house. lest II,
ule IN the battle and another nan eat of II
Ahu Whae man is there that haiti, batrothnd
W''e ana hath not taken hcr2 T. et hin,
oapd return unto his house. lost he dia in
natt;e anu another man take her" Great
armies marched and fought In the tinrn
or Moses and Joshua all tho men yrro cal
u'erS. Nheu israel came out of E~vnt
there were 6Oo.000 lighting men. Abiinh
'Snlmanded 400 900. Jcroboam commnude1
oo'uJJ nlcn, OF whom 500 O00 were slain In
one battle. Soms of these wars CD :, -
proved, Tor thcY were for the rescue of Oh,
pressed nations. and some of them Ue
denounced, but II. all cases it was a iuip
m, upon poth victors and vauquished
Daviu knew Just what war was when he
Wrote IN the text. "Though war sbouI1 ris,
against me, In this will be confident,
s. Nlu ~ mere encouraging himself In
tian "fnf times ana before approaching bat
ties administers to himself the consoIatorv
90 90 to,oaN my theme is the Authorizations of
war. war is organized utrocity. IT is
the science OF aSsassination 1t is the CON
w,naI wJnedtaoh OF ail horrors. IT is butchory
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death on n throne of human skeletons IF
Is the collin in ascendancy 1t is di,boI;sm
et Il game of skulls. And the time il comin~
MneH war VIII he an impossibility. How
wiI, ~ hn ana future cannot say, but there
WI WI DC Il museum of curiosities in which n
lH'ner ana son will ono day be walkins,
ana the son will saw, What is that shnrn
curve" lnstrunent?' and the father will
viz, vii !nHt M IS sword" And the son
VIII say, What are those round pieces of
IRON: ana the father will reply sThosn nre
bullets and cannon balls and homhsbrjI.
nhoSe are the things with which i'm the
- .r'.rA AGES people Killed each other" Yet
the father will have hard work to make the
ron pSi"Ne that such things were over
uNeh Tor the destruction of human liC,
nut th"t time has not yet arrived and
h!'lhS on other occasions spoken to Won
OF tno "ASSravations of War" now thnt
war is actually here il is time To snn,I, nf
its alieviatious .''" Vi
tirst, lind an aiievation in the fact tbot
1t has consolidated the North ana Sonth
alter ionS-continUed strained relations. II
a. - III 'S-three years since our Civil War
ciosed, and the violences are MI gone and
the SeVeritieS have been hushed But evnr
anu anon, IN Grafton, in sermon in news |
paper editorial in magazine article on |
poIiticai stump, and in Congressional hall,
= the old sectional difference has Iiftc5 its
head; ana for tho first time within nv Nom
orr or rc Sr thc memory of amy one who hears
war put iifty years war: war of tonDun
war OIL Pen, war OF printing press. Ent Nv
y mhrrcious providence, the family tbot
m ''u III opposition to our Government thirty
NJ So, - represented at the front in
ms present war. Nothing else could have
lone the work of uniication so suddnniv
Dc so completely rs this conflict. At Tampo
!. Chattanooga, ut Richmond and in mnnv
= Lii ti"'c' the heros:imrnts are forminG and
{ VIII be side by sid" Nassnchusrtts nnI
,Ia2H'Ha, New York AID Georgia. Illinois
'h" Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina
>orthern ana southern men will tog.thrr ,
,"i.'iipeF eF ''in guns and rash upon the fortj- :
icatlon ana Charge upon the enemy mud
nout tie triumph. The voices OF n,iIitnr,, ! ,
'!l'Irra W!o We're under Sidney Johuson }
a." " - o7cpa HOOKER will give the command
~ Ihe same side. Tho old sectional i
:, - rVTSeS iorsVrr dead The name OF Grant Il
II ,he Northern side and of Lee on the
oNthern sid" will be exchanged for the I
amss o! Grant and Lee on the same siIr {
II" veterans in Northern and Southern +
80, oMrs ana aSyiums are stretching their il
gam keep step in a march and n-e tc.,in,, n
icir eyesiSht to find whether they ,.n,, h
gam look along the gun-barrel to success. n
NY take aim and fire. The old war crv (:
Aon TO hlrhmond!' and "On to WASH 81
WON! mas become the war cry of .On ii
etaVnna! ''On to Porto Ricol' son to d
NPhilippinc Isiands!" The two old rnstv -
Hs that IN other days clnshed ut Mur- il
N Eoro ana south Mountain and Atlanta t!
N9w lifted to strike down Hispani. q
a atfnations. .,
.,lWh her alicviation of the war is the fact ci
vt Is tht most unsclsh war OF the fiji
III nhiie thn commercial rights Of our Ia
Nscd citizens will be vind!cated. that W
" the chicf idea o. this war. I. is t%"
rat OF hundreds of thousands of nr,nin !,
m starvation and multiturm maitrcnt W
~ friend VINO went out under the g!
thithe i'"i Cross two years ago to as 81
=" {u'icfihS III Armenia. and who has m
o. tne same mission, and"r the same ma
M 'uh'i, says that th" Suiirrinps in to
were IL comedy and II farce CON VA
I'm ~" greater sutfeTngS of Cuba ga
ia tMo hundred Thousand graves are WI
us I" come on and icmem ber bv ya
VIM ''ss t3cir occupants ,lier. II il tIn mi
t"fn c'h'Gry crying 0It - he nine ell
thl 70 You mean to pass C. Dwn to us tE
~ VIII winch you hav" been. bias ted? In
or you let NJ" begin under new ans. Al
P!' N turn ihr island Of dcsoIn.ion into |
| an i Edcni.. ''''i 'ii'" 49,.
var iH,pircd hy mercy. which Is an s;y
,rnF maH i.2itGtivr .: til" same at Of
~ '."i. Ia no other Hg, OF the wi
nMDt1d such war haze been waa,rI to
-. Y "i kihrn"SS needed 20 be reco.,- Ire
NJ iiShput ChriStcndom in order TO Sp
'N ! W@f possible. The CHIEF r.a- an,
80. Not OF th" European nations arc 90
| ,,,c1 1h"'h together against us il be- rel
| r"nsI dare not take txr part %! TINT cit
! nrn.P cruelty. the Spanish Govern me
niuh.SSt IN" crusade Of mercy which tor
| our Pias stared. Hal lt been on our y
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