Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1898-06-24
AN UNSELFISH WAR.
DR.. Talmage Says Spain Must Quit
This Hemisphere.
The Alterations of War Set Forth The
Advancement of Liberty win Not
Permit OF Longer Spanish
Rule at Our Doors.

as presented by the existing state oil
war. The text is:
Though war should rise against me In this
would be confident xvii, B.
The ring of battle-aXes, 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 scoundrelly
soldiers like Sennacherib, and Shall
manescr, and Nebuchadnezzar The
high priest would stand Mt the head
of the army and say Hear, o
Israel, We approach this day unto
battle against your enemies, let not
your hearts faint, fear not, and do
not tremble, neither be We terrified be-
cause Of them" And then the officers
would give command to the troops,
saying: what man is there that hath
built IA new house and hath not dedi-
Gated it? Let him go and return to
his house, least he die in the battle
and another man dedicate it. And
what man is he that hath planted a
vineyard and hath not eaten of it? Let
him also go and return into his house,
lest he die in the battle and another
man eat of it. And what man is
there that hath bctrothed wife
and hath not taken her? Let him
20 and return unto his house,
lest he die in the battle and another
man take her." Great armies marched
and fought. In the time of Moses and
Joshua all the men were soldiers.
When Israel came out of Egypt they
were 100000 fighting men. Abijah
commanded 100000 Jeroboam COM
manded 100000 men, of whom 100000
were slain in one battle Some of
these wars God approved, for they were
for the rescue of oppressed nations, and
| some OF them lie denounced, but in all
eases it was n Judgment upon both vic
tors and vanquished. 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
battle administers to himself the con-
solatory. So to-day my theme is the
"Alleviutions of War" War is or
ganized atrocity. 1t is the science of
assassination. IL is the convocation of
all horrors. 1t is butchery wholesale,
1t is murder gloriiied. 1t is death on a
throne of human skeletons. 1t is the
coffin in ascendcncy. 1t is diabolism at
a game of skulls. But war is here, and
it is time now to preach ON Its allcvia-
tons.
First, had an alienation in the fact
that it has consolidated the north and
the south after long-continued strained
relations. 1t is 80 years since our civil
war closed, and the violenccs are all
gone and the seventies have been
hushed. But ever and anon, in ora
ton, in sermon, in newspaper edito-
rial, in magazine article, on political
stump, and in congressional hall, the
old sectional difference has lifted its
head, and for the first time within my
memory, or the memory of anyone who
| llNdl W ltdNlo blltot NOllSt lllt llOl vi
and the south are one. BY mar.
velous providence the family that led
in opposition TO our government
80 years ago is represented at
the front in this present war.
Nothing else colld have done the work
of unihcation so suddenly or so com.
pletely as this conflict At Tampa, al
Chattanooga, at Richmond, and in
many other places, the regiments are
forming, and it will be side by side
Massachusetts and Alabama New Yorl,
and Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana
Maine and South Carolina. Northern
and southern men will together un
Timber the guns and rush upon the for
titication and charge upon the enemy
and shout the triumph. The voices o.
military officers who were under Sid
ney johnson and Joseph Hooker viii
give the command on the same side
The old sectional grudges forever dead
The name of Grant on the northern
side and of Lee on the southern sid,
will be exchanged for the names o
Grant and Lee on the same side. Tn,
, veterans in northern and southern
homes and asylums are stretching theil
rheumatic limbs to see whether they
can again keep step in march, and are
testing their cycsight to find whether
they can again look along the gun bar
rel to successfully take aim and fire
The old war cry of ION to Richmond!
and "On TO Washington has becom,
the war cry of "On to llavana!" "Or
to Porto Rico" "On to the Philippin,
islands," The two old rusty sword
that in other days FLASHED at Murfrces
boro and South Mountain and Atlanta
are now lifted to strike down llispaui,
denominations.
Another alienation of the war is til
fact that it is the most unselfish wa
of the ages. While the commercial
rights of our wronged citizens will b.
indicated, that is not the chief idea o
this war. 1t is the rescue of hundred
of thousands of people from starvation
and multiform maltrcatment. A frien
who went out under the flag of the Re
Cross two years ago to assuagc suffer
ing in Armenia, and who has been o.
the same mission, under the same flag
IN Cuba, says that the sufferings i
Armenia were comedy and fare
compared with the greater suffering
of Cuba. At least 100000 graves ar
calling TO US to come on and remembe
by what process their occupants dice
1t is the twentieth century crying on
to the nineteenth: "Do you mean t
pass down to MS the curse with whic
you have been blasted? Or will yo
let me begin under new auspices an
turn the island of desolation into an i.
land Edenlc?"
1t is a war inspired by mercy, whic
is an attribute in man initiative of th
: same attribute of God In no othe
) age of the world could such war hay
| been NynUpd Vhu rnS,,a1 Of l,;,1,o,