Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-02-07


day, the preacher leading the process
sion to the cemetery to decorate the
graves of our sons and brothers VINO
gave up their lives in fighting for their
country, has warmer spot in our
hearts, for the words of praise he ut
tiers on such occasions.
At the same time that the inter
parliamentary peace congress at 81.
Louis passed q burning resolution ask
ing this government to end the far-
eastern war. General Daniel e. Sickles
in q speech at the ceremonies over the
LAYING of a corner stone OF monu-
ment to Jewish soldiers who died in
the civil war, made Il plea for war on
che ground that is was ordained by
Coda statement which has elected
a storm of comment. Among other
things General Sickles is reported to
have said:
"No death is more glorious than
death for ones country. In the provi-
dence of God war was ordained. ana
the human race will always fight for
what ii loves. This nation was found
ed thru war. In the days we are I'M
willing to fight for our liberties we
shall surely lose the respect of the
world. We have had wars since the
world began. Therefore we shall al
ways have wars.
ITO say that war has been ordained
81 providence is to fly in the face of all
The teachings of the Nazarene. author
of the new dispensation." says the At
lanta Journal. The Albany Times
adds that such AN appeal to providence
is most inconclusive. since many bar
harous practices have been suffered in
the providence of God that haze not
been fixed cternally on the race, Even
If II be admitted, contends the Wash
ington Post, that the Old Testament
and other history prove that GOD or
dained war, still
ut must be quite as freely conceded
that the teachings of Christ po'nteoiy
and overwhelmingly condemn war.
There is nothing in the Naw IeSta-
ment more conspicuous thaa ihls
phase of Christ's work among men.
And the sta Ting fact that Christian
nations have made little ~ no prog
ress toward ti',1l abo!iticr of wa
does not change the other great fact
that a belief in the final triumph or
Christianity implies a belief that way
will eventually be eliminated from
human institutions"
Another spcune" at the ceremonies
at Salem Field was Mr.. No'han
Straus, who said he hoped t:ert. might
come "a time when war Will be 1erk-
oned a survival Of barha.ism.' Conn
menting on thes, two vic US, the Chi
cago Post asks, (Which is right"
Some time ago in one of our daily pa
pers the writer read that in Springfield,
Mass. in spite of the fact that churches
of nearly all denominations took part
in the recent religious revival there
many of the clergymen have taken ex-
ceptions to some of the statements
made by Rev. DIR. A. c. Dixon and
Evangelist w. j. Cozzens. In speaking
of theater-go DR.. Dixon said the
Iroquois theater fire in Ch'cago, was
the vengeance of God
At the Hope Congregations. church
this morning. Rev. DIR. Samuel H.
Woodrow, took for his text, did God
Destroy the Iroquois Theater? DR..
Woodrow sald the statements that the
fire was the vans ,,nce IL God had
aroused much comment, and he ana
other clergymeu in the city had been
asked regarding them. He declared
that he did not believe any of the
great disasters were the judgment of
God, and added:
ITO feel sure that such a God of
wisdom, power and love controls all
things in infinitely of more worth to
the world than any question concern
ing the ethics of theater- going. The
assertion that God destroyed the 1ro-
quois theater reflects on the moral
character of the God of the universe
and is serious thing to bring
Some years ago in Ohio, one Sum
day afternoon a large crowd gather
ed on a bridge spanning the river to
witness the ceremony of baptism. The
law of gravity asserted itself. the
bridge broke and several persons were
killed and drowned. Was this he
vengeance of God?"
During the past summer at Rich
mond, Va. while Rev. w. F. DunaWay
OF Ashland, was eXhorting his hearers
in Cool Spring church, at Lee, Va, to
take Christ as their refuge in times
of storm, lightning struck the building
and injured eighteen persons, several
of them seriously, besides splintering
a part of the door, tearing a hole thru
one of the pews and causing panic
among the congregation. Was this
"the vengeance of God?"
And while we are bordering over
this and kindred subjects, concerning
which no man living has any positive
knowledge, listen to Frederick Harri-
son in the Positivist Review:
"History can show no contrast more
fragrant than that of the brutal
bigotry of Russia with its ferocious
fetiehism like that of a Dahomey saw
age, it's blasphemous mummeries and
it's horrid excavations, as compared
with the human and social religion of
patriotism and family that animates