The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-19
CHRISTIANITY AND WAR
ADDRESS BY RET. CHAS. CUTHBERT
 HAZEL OF UNION SEMINARY.

ple-our Opportunity in Our New
 Colonies.
 The Mems club at the United church last evening was addressed by the Rev. Charles Cuthbert Hall, president of Union seminary of New York, on the subject Christianity and War; He said in part:
 "All patriotism is not belligerent and all patriots are not fighters, Without going into the motives which produced our recent war with Spain, now that that war is over, I hope that the war spirit among our people will pass away and that they will not further be car ried away with love for the blood of conquest.
 T wish especially to draw the distinc- tion between patriotism and the war spirit I believe that all war is evil Even war that is begun for the pur- | poses of civilization is a sad and dire necessity and never to be resorted to until all other methods of solving the difficulty have been carefully consider ed. There is no desire on my part to deteriorate from the high moral quail ties displayed in war; the love for the | flag for which heroes are ready to doe; the mercy shown for suffering enemy. These deeds are great and glorious but they are not war. They are flashes of human nature.
 Again, I would draw a distinction between Christian patriotism and Chau- vanism, that type of patriotism which is blind in it's love of country. To the | republican Chauvinist this country is big enough and rich enough to do any thing, and is strong enough to defeat any other nation. There never was or can be such nation as this. yield to no one in the admiration which I feel for what our country has accomplished, | or in my belief in what it may be able | to accomplish in the future. But the ideal for Christian patriotism is far | higher than that of the patriotism of 1 Chauvinism.
 There are three glorious attributes of Christian patriotism: First, wholesome regard for the soundness of the nation $ inner life; second, recognition of kin ship with allied nations; third, recogai- l tion of the stewardship of the world.
 "As to the first of these, it is the duty
 of the Christian citizen to develop true | the nation. He must recognize that a
 nations strength and greatness are de- | pendent not upon the fertility of it's
 soil, as it's natural resources, or in the | number and fighting strength of its
 people, but in the moral character of its
 people. So the Christian patriot is more thoughtful for the morals of his
 country and does not regard so much
 the triumphs of his country which are l showy and brilliant. The Christian | patriot has no zeal for the showiness which makes clean the outside of the I blotter and leaves the inside unclean.
 Such patriotism should have regard for | other things than the increase of mili-
 tarism which is reactionary. It should | seek for the increase of knowledge l among the people of the country for l the rational investigation and solution
 of social problems, such as the liquor | question. It should seek for more econ- | omical modes of living and for purer love for the beautiful and more
 thoroughness in work integrity in the
 Ese of money among the people and the freeing of the public service from the baneful influence of the spells system The citizen who seeks such things as these may never be called upon to draw
 the sword for his country, and his voice
 may never be heard throughout the
 country, but his patriotism is no less
 real than that of the man who shows
 his patriotism on the field of battle.
 ''As to the second requisite of Christ ian patriotism, to say tha we must rec
 ognize a kinship with allied nations is I am aware, to assert that patriotism
 is more than nationalism. I know that the doctrine of isolation is held by many
 whose sagacity and sound Judgment is 1 beyond question. But it may perhaps be true of nations as of individuals
 that he who saves his life shall lose it, It is not well to let the traditional
 policy of isolation of our country gc to long unchallenged. It is time that
 the situation of our country seems tc
 suggest that we should be an isolated
 nation, but how do we know we may
 not have ben mistaken in our readiness
 of the sign? Do we know that we are
 to be isolated? An! It seems to b2 tht
 rart of the Christian patriot to work
 very circumspectly. It is too soon te affirm what God has in store for this
 country-too soon to say that there shall not be some great union with the English-speaking peoples"
 As to the third requisite of Christian
 patriotism, that it should recognize g stewardship of the world, Dr. Hall quot
 ed extensively from MT. Kidd's recent
 book, "Control of the Tropics" in wh!ct
 the writer says that England and the United States are to exert great infu-
 ence in the development of tropica
 countries-a fact that s better recogniz- ed by the continental countries than by | England and the United States them selves. Referring to our recent sudder
 acquisition of territories in the West
 Indies and Antilles, he said: "Shall we
 regard our colonies as Spain and France
 seem to have regarded their colonies as the spells of war to be held with a
 military hand? This would not be con sistent with Christian patriotism Ii
 we treat our colonies thus it will pre- cipitate upon them the most awful con- | seuuenceS. We should regard these