The age-herald., 1898-04-07

| For man to declare that war cannot possibly be right in these days is to deny that it ever could have been right. Such a man declares that our fathers were alto gether wrong when they fought for inde- pendenee.
 He says that the Puritan was wrong when he went to church with gun in his hand. He declares that England was wrong
 when she destroyed the Armada that Spain sent to destroy her liberty. He says that the Greeks were wrong when they resisted Xerxes at Thermopylae. He says that the people of God were wrong when they went out to battle at Gods command, led by divinely selected leaders, and having Gods promise of suc- cess in their bosoms.
 The Bible is not a peace -at-any- price book. The Bible thunders against the op- pressor. The Bible has led in every fight for real liberty. The man who runs away from duty; the man who refuses help to a downtrodden people for the sake of sav- Ing his own hide will find small comfort in that book.
 Indeed, the peace-at-any-priee man might just as we'll close the book and consign it to the lumber room along with other rub bish. for he has already renounced its teachings.
 There are some things worse than war horrible as war is
 If would be a great deal worse than war for us to let two hundred and fifty brave Americans go down to a watery grave while resting in their hunks, and to go on unconcerned about it.
 If ia worse than war to let one American be assassinated and to preserve discreet silence about it for the sake or saVlpg trade.
 If is A great deal worse than war Tor us to allow 400 900 people to be starved at our very doors. while we, like the repropades of whom Christ told, passed by on the other side and give them nothing but empty pity.
 These are times when it is better to con- suit one's sense of right than the state of the stock market These are times when we ought to give duty the preference over dollars. and when the conscience should have its residence somewhere else than Ill ones pocket.
 These are times when 1t Is necessary, Tn order to right a wrong, we may say as David. the man after Gods own heart, "Blessed be the Lord, my strength, which teacheth my hands to war and my fingers to fight
 The things that 1t was once right to fight to get, it is right now to fight to maintain. It seems like the first principle in citizen- ship to say that each one of us owes some thing to preserve what our fathers have won for us. The man who says, "I love my country, but I cannot be expected to run any risk for 1t; when there Is cele- bration I will be on hand, but when there is to be battle count me out" is beneath contempt
 That is a nerveless, emasculated Chris tianity that would say that the United States is not under obligations to protect its citizens to the end of the earth. F Our government would not be respectable if it could not protect its citizens except when on it's own territory.
 When we were struggling for liberty La Fayette put his fortune and his life at our service. And he put us under bonds by what he did to extend a helping hand to others. Have we ever done the Ike Tor people struggling to be free? The principal thing we have done for struggling Cuba has been to watch our line of coast to see that no help was sent her, and at least one man who was convicted of fitting an ex- petition for her relief is now in the peni- tentiary in the City of Brotherly Love.
 The call of the hour is for us to do for Cuba what Lafayette and France did for us-
 The duty is emphasized by the atrocities of which Spain is guilty in Cuba A merci- ful God has made that island so fertile that hunger ought never to be known there. But mans iniquity has made it one stretch of desolation It Is a sad land today-a land without laughter, land without pleas ant conversation, land of hollow eyes and pinched features, and faces flushed with starvation's fever. That wretchedness has been brought about by Spain's deliberate iniautty, and we have booked on unmovad.
 That wretcbedness wfll be maintained until the American people lift their sover- egn arm and bid 1t stop. We cannot es- cape responsibility for 1t. Unless we etop 1t, since we cam stop it, we share the guilt. We are like Paul of Tarsus when Stephen was nnantyred, we stand by oonsenting to their deaitn
 We insist that the massacre of the Ar memians is a blot on the name of England. tll6 stRtA taL6 OA fVVpVVV N<uba4iS - a threefold shame to us. Just as the Saviour made a scourse of cords and drove the wicked traffickers out of the temple so 1t would seem to be our duty to drive out these oppressors from the face of that fair island. F It would take more cham the cunning of peace-at-any price newspapers to convince mo that Jesus Christ would forbid that. God planted our nation to foster justice and to spread liberty. It is well worth while giving our lives to achieve such blessed ends. If 1t is right for a man to fight to get his liberty, it Is right for me to help in his fighting. And may God do so to me and more also, if omit anything can do to help hdm toward his freedom 
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