The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-03-01


of the disaster. Let us calmly and dis
passionately await the result of their ver-
dict and not anticipate their judgment"
Sermon. by New York Pastors.
NEW YORK. Feb. 8-In the course Of
his sermon, the Rev. DR.. Charles II. Park
hurst, pastor of the Madison Square Pres
byterian church. referring to the Maine
disaster. said:
so far as relates to the definite ascer-
tainment OF facts. that. of course, is a
duty incumbent upon the general govern
ment in a way that il can devolve on no
one else. and that duty the general gov
eminent Is conscientiously and dignifiedly
discharging. But as to the kind Of moral
reception that is to be accorded 10 those
facts when ascertained and as to the moral
tone. that is a thing that Is proper to be
determined not by the president, not by
the cabinet, not by congress. but by the
moral sentiment of the church Of Jesus
Christ In these United States.
1t would be wise to remind ourselves
that there are two distinct questions in
Voived In the present situation: First,
what is our righteous duty toward Spain,
~ view OF SPANS attitude toward the
Cubansy Second what Is our righteous
duty toward Spain. in view of SPANS at
titude toward us?
IF the situation f. such between Spain
and Cuba that we ought. as Christians, to
so to the relief Of the Cubans. why. then
let US go. II the words of the Hebrew
epistle, Remember them that are in bonds
as bound with Them means that Americans
Christians ought to fight for oppressed
Cubans and murdered Armenians then let
US send an equipped fleet to Havana and
dispatch another feet OF the same kind to
the Bosporus.
ma oh
ent circumstances is that even while We
find ourselves In FRACTIONAL relations with
some existing national power or other, il
is well to exercise self-controi Not a
great while ago il was England that We
thought had committed an affront and If
the sentiment of earnest and self-content-
ed people had not promptly and very en-
phatically asserted itself. We might in a
few days have become committed and In
volyed TO a degree that withdrawal and
pacific adjustment would have been i'm
possible. War would have been declared
II the country had yielded to the solicita-
tons Of some of the same mentors that
have declared themselves in war pals,
now.
In the Church OF ST. Peter and st. Paul
Father Sylvester Malone spoke to a large
congregation on the possibilities of a war
between the United States and Spain. He
said in part:
II am for war. If war is declared-not
only as an American, but as a Catholic
priest. Ii the United States honor is al
stake, give your life II necessary to sus-
tain IL. That is the true American and
Catholic principle. / do not desire 10 see
war, but II ii comes We must abide by the
governments decision and show our true
spirit as American citizens. Whether 1t
Is war or peace, we must do our duty
We must support the government and its
president, whether he may be a Demo
crst or a Republican. People should be
calm and wait for the decision Of Presi-
dent Mckinley. If the Maine was de
stroyec by design. we should strike the
blow II justified or demand indem-
nifty"
DR. Homer Welman. OF the Episcopal
Church Of Atonement. Brooklyn, referred
10 the war talk last night in his sermon.
He said in part:
Never since the DAYS of the Spanish
inqusitinn have such terrible deeds been
countenanCed as have been in Cuba. There
surely must bee something wrong with
nation that would do such things. War
would be barharism. but II must be re-
sorted 10 10 stop a worse kind Of barbar-
ism. The discipline or the Maine was
beyond question ard the Gala NIFTY could
not have been due 20 the careIessness Of
her officers and men. The only remaining
possibility is that the calamity was
planned 10y some one who was or had been
connected with the Spanish government"