Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-10-08

/ God and the forces OF nature had de.
creed that slavery should pass away
and Il would have persisted from IN,
face OF the earth though the countless
! heroes OF the civil war had not given
TO the cause Of freedom the last full
measure Of devotion.
PRACTICAL CONDITIONS.
From this academic contemplation
OF the subject, let US, for a few minutes.
turn to the discussion OF the problem
I'm Us practical phases In anguish, the
sensitive heart cries out Men and
brethren, what shall we do 10 be
sayedY' Tho answer Is various. Toll
stoy the greatest writer, one OF the
greatest intelleCts, OF the age. has writ
ten recently upon this theme from the
viewpoint Of deep Christian conyic-
ton. Starting with the premise that
the scriptural injunction that thou
shalt not Kill ~ q divine law--impera-
tive, unyleldlng permitting no excep-
tiOns-he reminds us Of that ennob-
ling ultimate fact that before a man
Is emperor, soldier, minister or Jour-
nulst, he Is a mani e., an organic
being sent by the Higher VIII into a
universe endless In time and spact
In order after staying In It for an in
slant, to die namely to disappear
from Il. Therefore" he continues,
"all those personal social and even
universal human aims may place be-
fore myself and men, are an inslgnih-
can't owing 10 the shortness Of my life
as well ms 10 the boundlessness Of the
life Of the universe, and should be sub
ordlnated TO that higher aim for the
attainment of which I am sent into the
world-nnmely NJ being workman
OF God, of loving my neighbor, serving
him, aud acting toward him as ! would
wish him to act toward me- He tells
US that the great contamination peace.
so dcvoutly to be wished for Is attain
able not by any external general meas
ures, such IA arbitration tribunals, or
other conventions but merely by that
simple appeal TO the consciousness Of
each separate man.
THE GREAT SOLUTION.
From these premises he arrives by
memorable logic at practical solution
Of the problem Having IN mind ths
existence OF the war between Russia
this question as TO what Is TO be done
now when war is commenced, for me,
man who understands his destlna-
ton, whatever position ! may occupy.
there can be no other answer than this.
whatever be my Circumstance, whether
the war be commenced or not, whether
thousands Of Russians or Japanese be
killed, whether not only Port Arthur
be taken, but 81. Petersburg and Mos
cow--l cannot act otherwise than as
God demands Of me, and that there
fore / as a man can neither directly
nor Indirectly. neither By directing, nor
by helping, nor by melting to IL, par
ticpate In war; / cannot DO not wish
10. and / VIII not Wnat VIII happen
Immediately or soon from my ceasius
to do that which Is contrary TO the
win OF God, ! do not and cannot know,
but believe that from the fulument
Of the win Of God there can follow
nAhing but that which IL good for M
and for all mem
From this. the remedy OF (shall
say?) the traitor 10 his countpy, the
man with patriotic Instincts, borne
down, II you please, by the gross super
sutions and fallacies Of the ages,
shrlnks as he would shrink from any
innovation that would subject him to
the scorn and contempt, however un-
deserved, Of his fellow men, Am not
right I'm my conception that it Is the
voice OF wisdom that results VIII best
follC'g from modulating our ideals to
conditions as that actually exist? You