St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1898-06-18
AN UNSELFISH WAR.

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DR.. Talmage Says Spain Must Quit
This Hemisphere.
The Alleviations OF War Set Forth-The
Advancement OF Liberty WIN Not
Permit Of Longer Spanish
Rule at Our Doors.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, in the fol-
lowing sermon, deals with conditions
as presented by the existing state of
war. The text is:
Though war should rise against me, In this
would be confident.-PSalms xvii,
The ring of battle-axcs, 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
maneser, and Nebuchadnezzar. The
high priest would stand at the head
of the army and say: "Hear, q
Israel, We approach this day unto
battle against your enemies, let not
| your hearts faint, fear not, and do
not trcmble, 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 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 q
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 betrothed a wife
and hath hot taken her? Let him
go 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
| mandcd 1000 men, of whom $4,000
were slain in one battle. Some OF
these wars God approved, for they were
for the rescue of oppressed nations, and
some of them He denounced, but in all
cases it was a 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
..Allcviations of War" War is orr
ganized atrocity. 1t is the science of
assassination. 1t is the convocation of
all horrors. 1t is butchery wholesale
1t is murder glorified. 1t is death on q
throne of human skeletons. 1t is the
coffin in ascendency. tits diabolism at
a game of skulls. But war is here, and
it is time now to preach on Its allevia-
tions
| First, had an alleviation 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 violcnces are all
gone and the seventies have been
hushcd. But ever and anon, in ora
tion, 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
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and the south are one. BY a mar
velous providence the family that led
in opposition to our government
80 years ago is represented Mt
the front in this present war.
Nothing else cosild have done the work
of unification SO suddenly or SO COM
pletely as this conflict. At Tampa, at
Chattanooga, ut Richmond, and in
many other places, the regiments are
forming, and it will be side by side,
Massachusetts and Alabama, New York
and Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana,
Maine and South Carolina. Northern
and southern men will together un-
timber the guns and rush upon the for
tification and charge upon the enemy
and shout the triumph. The voices of
military officers who were under Sid
ney johnson and Joseph Hooker will
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 side
will be exchanged for the names OF
Grant and Lee on the same side. The
veterans in northern and southern
homes and asyluns are stretching their
rheumatic limbs to see whether they
can again keep step in march, and are
testing their eycsight to find whether
they can again look along the gun bar
rel to successfully take aim and fire
The old war cry of ''On to Richnond!'
and .-On to Washington!' has become
the war cry of ION to lIavana!' "On
to Porto Rico!" ION to the Philippine
islands, The two old rusty sword!
that in other days clashed at Murfrees
boro and South Mountain and Atlanta
are now lifted to strike down Hispauit
denominations.
Another alienation of the war is tn,
fact that it is the most unselfish wal
of the ages. While the commercia
rights of our wronged citizens will bt
indicated, that is not the chief idea o
this war; 1t is the rescue OF hundred.
of thousands of people from starvation
and multiiorm maltreatment. A frient
who went out under the flag of the Rex
Cross two years ago to assuage suffer
| ing in Armenia, and who has been OF
the same mission, under the same dag
In Cuba, says that the sufferings il
Armenia were q comedy and . fare
compared with the greater suffering
of Cuba. At least 20O.OOO graves ar
calling TO US to come on and remembe
: by what process their occupants died
| 1t is the twentieth century crying on
| to the nineteenth: do you mean y
| pass dowr to ns the curse with whicl
: you have been blasted? Or will yo'
let me begin under new auspices ant
/ turn the island of desolation into an is
4 land Edenlc?r
1t is a war inspired by mercy, whicl
il an attribute in man Initiative of tin
same attribute OF God. In no othe
i age fthe world could such war hav