Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-29

| shell, nor the telephone, nor a topo-
graphical may. 1t is true enough that
the Japanese use the Shimose powder,
which unites in itself safe and de-
structive qualities to an extraordinary
| degree: but DR.. ShimOse. VINO invented
! this power and who is tolerably
| pure product of native Japan IN re-
spect to his birthplafe. growth, en-
vironment and presumablc beliefs, hal
| to take what may be called Christian
smokeless powders as the basis for his
| studies and experiments, for the simple
| reason that paganism had produced
nothing of the kind to awaken his in
yentiye genius and to lead him on
thru his many years of experimental
| work.
The inevitable logic of the above is
that Christianity has made it possible
for the Japanese to successfully wage
war against Russia. Pagan progress
could not have accomplished this re
suit after reading this editorial, it is
no stretch of the imagination to call
Christianity the gospel of war.
Some one else must have noticed
this editorial:
"tThe Courant' has not spoken at
any time of the production of modern
killing machines-high-p guns
and the lke--as a distinctive note of
Christianity, or as one of it's nobler
achievements.
A bible agent in the far east was
quoted as saying that Japan's sue
cesses in this war had put into the
Chinese head the idea of progress
without Christianity. "The Courant"
thereupon pointed out that the people
of Japan are indebted for their extra
ordinary military skill and equipment
for their ships, their guns, their
knowledge of explosives, their re-
markable attachments in strategy and
tactics, their instructed Oyamas, To-
COS, Nogis and kurokis-to the science
which they found, and profited by, in
Christian countries, and could not have
found in any pagan country That
was, and is, a simple statement of fact.
Does this explanation clarity? Does
it not rather strengthen the argument
that Christian countries scientif-
ically wage successful wars? What is
the real meaning OF the words Chris
tan country?
Charles Battel Loomis evidently has
an idea that to mix up Christianity,
war and prayer, belongs to the centur-
les past rather than the present year.
He writes as follows:
1--WE often read in history of gener-
ais praying to God for success, but
do not remember to have ever seen a
hi FL ,,sa
sion. / am one who personally does
not believe in war, although my SYM
pathies are with the Japanese in the
present conflict, but I +. am willing to
submit a prayer that have made for
use in any army:
30, God, we who are about to plunge.
into battle pray Thee that Thou wilt
be with us and so direct our guns that
we may NOW down the enemy like
chaff May we kill hundreds out
right and MAIN many more. thereby
causing gloom and desperation to settle
upon the hearts and the hearthstones
of our enemies.
90 Thou God of Battle, enable us to
make many widows and orphans; let
there be hundreds of home desolated;
let there be devoted sons left to mourn
the fathers that we shall kill; let there
be distracted wives and mothers to
cry increasingly at the loss of the light
of their homes and the support of their
declining years.
80 God, if there be good men on the
other side who pray to Thee for sue
cess, turn Thou their prayers to empty
words.
Let it be given to us to sink more
ships and to cause more misery than
Sur enemy. with all his striving, can
DO: and this we ask for the sake of
Christ who labored to bring peace ane;
good will to earth. Amen
1t goes without saying that this
Drawer only asks for results that come
into every war. The figures of this now
closed war between Japan and Russtn
and fresh in the minds of the people.
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