The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-22
SECULAR LIFE IN spain
An Attack Upon Castilian Gus
toms by Prof. Nourse.
CUBA WAS OUR ARMENIA
The Speaker Who Filled the Pulpit
of the Eastern Presbyterian
Church Spoke Upon the Subject of
Our War With Spafn-Spnin's
Army Has smokeIess Powder and
Hit1ess Gums.

Prof. Robert Nourse, of West Falls
Church, Va, filled the pulpit at the East
ern Presbyterian Church yesterday morn
ing and delivered an impressive sermon
before large congregation the SUBJ
ject of .tonr Late War With SPAIN
He spoke in part as follows:
I'VE are told in the Bible that the
Lord came not to bring nor to send
| peace. but TO deliver a sword. We learn
that he made peace by sending this
sword. When the air of domestic life
is cloudy and murky there can be no
peace until the clouds are gone There
was no peace between the North and the
South and there never could have been,
had it not been for the Civil War. There
would be no peace in Cuba now, nothlng
but instruction, strikes, revolution,
bloodshed, cruelty. and oppression had
not the Government of free America
championed the Cuban cause.
Not every war is justified, but war
that has the establishment of peace in
view is justifiable. We are today still at
war with Spain, and let us arrive at the
real cause of the difficulty. The social
and civil life of the Dons is built upon its
apex. while ours stands upon its base
Theirs is based upon the aristocracy,
while ours depends upon the power of the
people.
everything in Spain works for the
welfare of the aristocracy, while in Amer
lea it works for the good of the people.
Everything IN the two countries is in re-
verse order. The monarchical govern
ment OF Spain is ruled by boy, who is
not old enough 20 handle gun. 1t is an
absurd state OF affairs that he should be
| king. and yet he has more titles than az
| OF our army officers put together.
Then Srain is priestridden. The priest
hood conducts the schools, operates the
banks in the colonial possessions, charges
/ 80 per cent interest for money and enter
into and attempt 10 control the secular
life of the people. There you have the
( secret of the interest of Rome in Spain,
rather than in this country.
The Pope is the godfather of the boy
king. He promised prayers for the sue
cess of the Spanish arms during the pres
emf war and tried in every possible man
| ner 10 prevent the war. He would have
interfered with America TO the point OF
/ irritation, in al probability, had not the
American cardinal advised him that his
1 course was unwise.
In Spain there is no chance for the
/ people TO become a part of the aristocra-
cy. The next thing is the priesthood, and
every family tries to get at least one
| member into the order. OF 100000 OF
! the people of Spain only 100000 are
able to read and write. 1t is to the adj
. I Of = he ri and tho pripSt-
hood to keep the people in ignorance.
Two of the greatest factors in the for
| nation of the nations of modern Europe
were the German reformation and the
French revolution. The religious light
and liberty of the reformation was re-
jected by Spain, and also the civil prin-
ciples of the French revolution. Our
early colonists adopted both, and have
prospered, while Spain has degenerated
until she is now the bankrupt nation of
the earth.
The light of reform and civil prin-
ciples of the French revolution did not
flourish in France as here, because of the
| prevalence of atheism. When the pres
ent war was well under way l heard
many men of learning and erudition con-
demning the congressman and all who
favored the conflict yet they were the
very men who had been foremost in pro-
claiming it the duty of England to wage
war with Turkey over the Armenian mas
sacres. Cuba is our Armenia, and no
man can consistently say that massacres
should stop in Armenia and oppose the
Intervention OF America in behalf of
| Cuba. The makers of peace are blessed
and reap great rewards, but not the in
! dolent lovers of peace.
THE blessings of our war with Spain
arc already apparent. The country is
reunited, every section of the land boast
ing of the bravery and gallantry of its
volunteer soldiers. Catholics and Pro-
testants were also united in the one COM
mon cause. The Catholics are the only
citizens who had to make a great choice.
and we are able 10 thankful that they
preferred to serve their nation to serv-
ing Rome
THE secret of the success of American
arms lies with the men who were behind
the guns. European nations with their
armies of serfs. eonscripts, and hungry
provincial peasants rely upon the arms
and not the men for their victories. and
we see the result Of such reliance in the
fighting exhibited by the Dons in Cuba.
They had snokeless powder and hitless
guns, while the men behind the Ameri-
can guns, even behind the old Spring
fields, won the day
The present war is not war begun
for the acquisition of domain. 1t was
inaugurated in behalf of suffering
humanity, but we will acquire territory
and that Is part Of our reward for maxi
ing peace among the nations which were
cohtendlng at Our threshold"