The Progress., 1898-05-21
BLESSi-A T WAR.
Or. TALMAGE PORT: THE BRIGHT
SIDE OF THE CON ST.
THE BRIGHT
Alterations Of Our Hostilities With Spain.
Might and Right Going Hand In Hand.
No Room For Barbarian on the Western
Continent.

No Room For Barbarian on the vvester
Continent.
copyright. 1898. by American Press Asso
WASHINGTON, May 15-Most pertincn
to the exciting times through which W.
are now passing is this sermon of DIR. Tai
mage, In which he proposes to cheer the
people who are saddened by the horrors O.
war; text, Psalms xvii, 3, "Thouet
war should rise against me- in this will
be confident.
The ring Of battleaxes, and the clash OF
Shields and the tramp of armies, are
heard all up and down the Old Testament,
and you find godly soldiers like Moses and
Joshua and Caleb and Gideon and scoun-
drelly soldiers like Sennacherib and Shall
maneser and Nebuchadnezzar. The high
priest would stand at the head of the army
and say, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this
gay unto battle against your enemies, let
NOT your hearts faint, fear not and do not
tremble neither be we terrified because Of
them" And then the officers would give
command to the troops, saying: "What
man is there that hath built a now house
and hath not dedicated 1t? Let him 90
and return to his house, lest he die in the
battle and another man dedicate it, And
what man Is he that hath planted vine
yard and hath not eaten OF 1t? Let him also
60 and return unto his house. lest he die
IN the battle and another man eat of it.
And what man Is there that hath betrothed
o wife and hath not taken her! Let him 90
and return unto his house, lest he die in
the battle and another man take her."
Great armies marched and fought In
nme OF Moses and Joshua all the men
were soldiers. When Israel came out of
Egypt, they were 900, 600 fighting men.
Abijah commanded 400, OOO Jeroboam
commanded 500, 900 men, Of whom 500. 900
were slain In one battle. Some of these
wars GOD approved, for they were for the
rescue OF oppressed nations, and some of
them he denounced, but in all cases it was
judgments upon both victors and van
qulshed. David knew just what war was
when he wrote in the text, "Though war
should rise against me, in this will be
confident"
David Is encouraging himself in stormy
times, and before approaching battles ad- |
ministers to himself the consolatory. So
today my theme Is the "Alleviations of |
war. War is organized atrocity. 1t is |
the science OF assassination. It is the con-
vocation of all horrors. 1t Is butchery |
wholesale. 1t is murder glorifled It is |
death on throne Of human skeletons, It |
10 the coffin In asceDdency. 1t is diabolism
at Ramo of skulls. But war is here. |
ana 1t Is time now to preach on its alleyi-
atoms.
reunion OF North and South,
First, l find an alienation in the fact
that 1t has consolidated the north and the
south after long continued strained rela-
TONS 1t Is 80 years since our civil war
closed. and the violences are all gone and
The seventies have been hushed. But ever
nhu anon In Grafton, In sermon, in news |
paper editorial, in magazine article, on
poiitlcal stump and In congressional hall
Inc old sectional difference has lifted it's
head, and for the first time within my
memory or the memory of any one who
.ears or reads these words the north and
ne south are ono BY a marvellous provi-
fence the family that led in opposition to
'nr government 30 years ago is represent
at the front In this present war Moth
ng else could have done tho work of uni
cation SO suddenly or SO completely as |
his conflict. At Tampa, at Chateanooga,
Richmond and in many other places the
agiMents are forming, and it will be side
= side, Massachusetts and Alabama, New |
OK and Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana.
lame and South Carolina. Northern and
>uthern men will together unlimber the
nns and rush upon the fortification and
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