The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-07


is very old practice, and is a polite
name for robbery on large scale
nao and Jezebel seized the vineyard
of Naboth.
The old Roman empire, 1000 years ago.
did not stop till it had annexed all of
Europe and a good shce of Asia and
Africa. But the day of retribution came
at last. The warlike tribes of the north
swooped down like avenging eagles on
that decaying and corrupt body-the
Roman empire-and rectified her bound
aries over again. The empire was dis
membered and the map Of Europe was
changed.
ARE ARMED TO THE TEETH.
'It is subject of great concern to the
friends of the gospel of peace that
Christian Europe presents today the
spectacle of a huge military camp. All
the nations of the continent, as we'll as
England, are armed to the teeth and
are living in mutual dread and distrust
of each other. They are devoured by an
Unsuitable ambition of conquest and do
m1n1on or by fear of invasion. When
you see heavy clouds surcharged with
the electricity of war hanging over
these nations, you may expect the thIIn-
der-clap Of battle to resound at any mo-
ment. Armed nations like armed indi-
V1duals are a constant menace to one
another and are easily provoked to fight.
And these military forces, instead of
diminishing, are unhappily. increasing
every year. AS soon as one nation aug
ments it's armament, its neighbor fees
1mpelled to do likewise in self protec-
ton
When we consider the immense num-
Der OF men that are torn from the bosom
OF their families in the Prime of life.
that are withdrawn from active indus
trial pursuits, when we see these young
men negotiating in idleness in time of
peace, and luxuriating in license and dis
sipation In time Of war, we may form
some idea of the moral, material and
social evils resulting from such sys-
TEN. In contemplating these standing
armies, the calm observer might be
forced to conclude that European gov
ernments were primarily established to
Destroy rather than to- save life, to
foster happiness and develop the re-
sources of a country.
A PRAYER FOR CONGRESS.
MAY God SO guide our legislators and
statesmen that they may never be be-
trayed into initiating European govern
ments by the establishment of formidable
standing armies God forbid that we
should ever become intoxicated with the
wine Of Imperialism or militarism, but
may we always follow the traditions of
the fathers of the republic.
Hitherto We have presented to the
world a beautiful spectacle Europeans
accustomed at home to meet a soldier
or gendarme at every street corner, on
arriving in this country have been filed
with surprise and admiration that a ma
ton of so vast an extent, and with such
an immense population contains an army
of only 25,0OC men. They have been
forcibly impressed with the fact that
they can travel from Maine to California
without meeting single soldier. They
sec that every citizen Of the United
States Is a soldier without uniform, en-
gagged in the active pursuits of life and
ready at moments notice to defend
his country. They would feel that We
are a strong nation because We cheer
fully bow to the majesty of the law
and are not confronted and intimidated
by military satraps. May this fair
picture never be defaced.
Every Christian nation of the world
has its own national flag, it fights under
its own chosen leaders, it listens to its
own favorite war cry.
But there is one banner before which
they all should bow, and that is the ban
nef of the cross; there is one Leader
whom they SHOULD all revere and wor-
ship-and that is Christ the Prince OF
Peace. There Is one clarion trumpet to
which they all should harken, and that
is the trumpet Of the Gospel.
THE teachings of the Gospel form the
only basis of peace for the rulers of the
earth. All the arts and resources of d.
plomacy will be In vain; all the courts
or arbitration and peace conferences that
ever shall assemble will avail but little
as experience demonstrates. All their
deliberations will be SO much waste pa
per, unless their decisions are guided
and framed under the invocation of the
Lord of Peace who sits enthroned on the
cross.
MAY NEW CENTURY BE PEACEFUL.
God grant that the new century which
has just dawnel upon us may inaugurate
a new era of peace, fulfilling the prophe-
cy of Isaiah, They shall turn their
swords into plowshares, and their spears
into sickles, nations shall not lift up
sword against nation, neither shall they
be exercised any more by war. May
the Christian rulers contend among them
selves, not az to which shall invent the
most death-dealing weapon of war, but
which shall devise the most useful i'm
plements of hushandry and agriculture
May the people of the several states of
our Union strive in friendly emulation
in outstripping one another in the paths
of progress and enlightenment and ma
terial prosperity. May trade and COM
merce, the arts of science flourish, may
her citizens be more and more conspicu-
Gus for justice and temperance, for fra
ternal charity, for rectitude Of character,
for every civic and religious virtue, ana
for every quality that uplifts and en-
mobiles the man, and may the blessings
of Christianity be difuSed throughout