Milford chronicle., 1901-03-22

As DR.. Raleigh declared, that when 80 |
miles at sea off the coast Of New Eng
land the cattle on board the ship. as well
as himself, scented the clover on the New
England hills. so we. amid all the tossing
waves Of the worlds controversies. in
hale the rpdulence Of the white lilies Of
universal peace. Is it not time that the
boosted invention Of new and more ex-
plOsive and more widely devastating
weapons Of death be stopped forever and
the gospel have a chance and the ques-
ton be not asked, How many shots can
be fired in a minute? but How many
souls may be ransOmed in a day? The
world needs less powder and more grace,
fewer fOrtresses and more churches less
power to destroy and more power to save.
Oh, / am sick of the warcries and the ex-
tinguished eyesight and the splintered
bones and the grave trenches and the
widOwhOod and Orphanage and childless-
ness which sob and grOan and die in the
wake of the armies on both sides of the
sea! Oh, for less of the slaughter weap-
on and more OF the evangelizing inkhOrn!
Oh, for the stopping of the science of
assassination, that crime of crimes, that
woe Of woes, that horror of horrors, that
he'll of hells-war, which this moment
stands reeking with blood and washing
itself in tears and disappearing the heav
ems and pushing off the edge of this life
men who have as much right to live as
you and | have and blasting homes in
which there dwells as much lOveliness as
in our own. Would that the merciful
angel Of my text take the last weapon of
! war and fling it off and fling it down with
{ such force that it shall clang on the low
/ est round Of the perditiOn where the first
/ keen edge OF human strife was sharpen
I ed! War! In the name of Almighty
! God and Of all the homesteads it has de
/ strOyed and is now destroying, / hate it,
! / denOunce it, curse it!
If our Bible is true-and no other book
that was ever printed is as true as that
I book, which Moses began and John fin
| ished-then the time will come when all
the weapons If cruelty will stop and the
inkhorns Of evangelizatiOn will have their
way. In the museums of the world the
carbine and the cannon and the bOml
will be kept as curiOsities, and children
will be incredulOus as parents tell Their
that civilized nations once employed sucl
instruments of death and more incredn
lOus when told by their parents that the
army that killed the most men was COZ
sidered the most glorious army The rec
horse Of carnage that ST. John saw il
vision, and the black horse of famine
and the pale horse Of death will b,
stabbed. and the white horse Of prosperit,
and peace. mounted by the King o
Kings. will lead the great army with ban
ners. Through the cOnvicting. convert
ing, sanctifying power Of the Elerna
Spirit may we all march in that process
sion! Hail. thou Mighty Rider Of tn
white horse in the final triumph! Swee
down and sweep by. thou Angel of tn
New Covenant, with the inkhOrn of tn
worlds evangelization 1.-THE mountain
and the hills shall break forth into sing
ing, and all the trees Of the field sha
clap their hands. Instead Of the thor
shall come up the fir tree, and instead O
the brier shall come up the myrtle tire,
and it shall be to the Lord for a nam,
for an everlasting sign that shall not b
cut off"
Copyright, 1901. by Louis KlOpsch, N. ~