The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-04
AN UNJUST WAR.
More of the Golden Rule and Less of the
Rule of Gold Needed

Rule of Gold Needed.
Missoula, Sept. AT the NJ. E.
church to-day j. j. Hogan, organizer
of the Pioneers of the Pacific, occupied
the pulpit. In his morning talk he
made an allusion to the Filipino war
before beginning his sermon. This pre-
Jude was rather in the nature of
roast for the Mckinley administration,
as far as its war policy goes. Mr.. Ho-
gan said in part:
Il have been studying the late war
with Spain and the present skirmish
with the Filipinos. l had brother
who nearly lost his life in leading a
company against the Spaniards at
Santiago. While | believe in war as a
last resort and would be one of the
first to shoulder a musket to defend
my country against the assault of an
other, l do not believe in the principle,
My country, right or wrong. l would
change that to 'Right--my country or
any other This, my friends, is the
true principle underlying the brother
hood of man, which, like the gospel of
Christ, includes all mankind of what
ever race or cline You have probably
noted the fact that nearly all of the
great victories of the late war were
the result of disregard of orders on
the part of those who won. Had Dewey
failed he would have been criticised as
harshly as is General Otis to-day.
Some people do not stop to think that
Otis is probably following to the let
ter the orders that are issued to him
from the throne behind him. I firmly
believe that if our nations action to-
ward the Filipinos from the first had
been such as is prompted by the Gold
en- Rule we would not now be suffering
this sacrifice of men and money. Now.
nations have characters to maintain as
well as individuals. and if this coun-
try maintains its character and name
among the nations of the world, we
must have exemplified more of the
Golden Rule and less of the rule of
gold"
The sermon which Mr.. Hogan preach
ed had for its theme Human Wis
dom or What We Know" The text
was Fear is the beginning of wis
DOM
The sermon in part was
THE kind of fear that is spoken OF
in the text, understand to be not such
as one would have of an enemy, but
such as one would have of offending a
friend. Human wisdom Is but the de-
velopment of the divine spark that is
in man. We are made up of two ele-
ments-one a handful of dust. the
other the spark of that divine intelli-
gence by which we bear a resemblance
to our Creator Ever since the crea-
tons birth, man has been seeking
for knowledge. He has been up in this
clouds and down in the earth in the
vain effort to solve the mystery that
surrounds him. Yet, after thousands
of years, we are so far behind the di.
vine wisdom that we will never catch
up. Yet, from the way some men talk
one would think that they know more
than the Creator himself.
"A man here in Missoula said tc
| me the other day, in speaking of a
class of people that has recently beer
most unjustly treated under the cloak
of law: This people you talk about
are no better than animals, and they
| have no souls l felt like asking him
| when God had resigned in his favor
In conclusion, Mr.. Hogan said: Sci.
| entists have told us a great many
| things about the mysteries of life, but
| they have yet to tell us how the tad
| pole evolves into a frog or the cater.
| pillar into a butterfly Nor has any
| man discovered how the citizen of this
| earth evolves into the citizen of HEAVIER
without the saving grace of Him whom
| to know Alright is life eternal
At the evening service Mr.. Hogan
| preached upon THE Battles of Life,
the theme being the struggle for bread
as Illustrated in the recent labor dis
| turbances. Both services were of deer
| interest -....