The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-09-14
THE CESSATION
OF WAR SUBJECT
MR.. PENDLETON
STRONG AND INTERESTING SER.
,'~N is DELIVERED AT MORN
ING SERVICE OF FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH.

"The Cessation OF War" was the
subject of Rev. Eugene u. Pendlston
at the First Baptist church yesterday
morning. Mr.. Pendicton spoke in part
as follows:
The forty-sixth psalm is n song of
faith in troubIous times, a TIE Deum
sung by Luther in d great battle-song,
an anthem which Gods people can
sing yet again! Religion is never s.
vaIua ole as in seasons Of trouble, sick
ness, death: God is our refuge and
strength"
Passing TO the eighth verse the con-
queror, David, sings: Come, behold
the works of the Lord, what desola-
tions he hath made in the earth. He
maksth wars to cease unto the end
of tho earth; He breaketh the bow
and cutteth the spear in sunder; He
bu"neth the chariot in the fire."
What Desoiations!
Dismantled castles, ruined abbeys
art galleriesa frescoed cathedrals, all,
one with the hanging gardens of Baby
Ion and the tones of Alexandriar
learning,
We feel a great loss and sadness
at their destruction, but at best they
ent from the tower of Babel.
Come, behold the works of the
Lord" we are asked to come and see
some tragical sight, CHASTITY visages,
horrible desolations, piles Of carcasses,
human heads upon spikes, or heaped
in basketfulls, as presented to Jehu.
How many millions have been cut
off by the sword! Desolations by war.
until famine stalks with gaunt arms
gathering in the residue; women de-
vouring their own children, as in Je
rusalem. Pestilence follows famine.
fParls and London have oeen desolated
by plague, until there were scarcely
enough living to bury the dead. In
one city, 100000 passed away. during
a pestilence in modern times.
Desolations by waters which have
risen and rinsed the earth Of its I'M
clean inhabitants.
+, Desola;iOns by earthquake, swallow
ing up populous cities, as Pompeii and
Lisbon.
Desolations by the hand Of men in
battles and massacres without number
Desolations by the hand nf angels
as in Egypt, in the tents of Assyria.
1s5, 900 in a night, and several times
in the camp Of Israel.
Desolations by obnoxious creatures,
such as the grasshoppers in Egypt the
locdsts in our own land, csterpiilars
till the ground stinEs. Between Garth
dae and Utica, 100000 people fell at
one time victims to a plague which
followed locusts!
nesolation by storm Of hail and
wind!
or all Of these desolat1ons God is
the cause! Sin has been a blight upon
nations and civilizations, leaving their
palaces In heaps. Offences must needs
come into the world but woe to that
man. or people, by whom offences
come"
II 10 Gods Elect.
10 not forget that none OF these
desolattons could De without Gods
edict. He keeps books on men and
nations, and countries like the garden
of God, wlther and become a wild
erness when he breathes Judgment up
on Thorn. 1t matters little to Him,
who "naketh the wrath OF man to
praise him." by what means he exc
cutes his purposes. 81 am Cod" is His
only explanation.
There is a bright side to IT, for his
people:
What Peace!
He maketh wars TO cease!" His
voice quiets the tumult of war. He
brushes the great powers. Krupp guns,
steel dreadnaughts argosies Of the air,
are all one to Him.
When He speaks the earth rnelts
away. WHAT melting takes place in
time in mems hearts? Bitter strife
In America separated US fifty years
oSo anilnosity, carnage never more
rarnr2 Mt, but God melted it away! Be
held, the love feast at Gettysburg a
year ago. where blood had dyed every
acre Of the SOL be'oret
There arc two ways peace NAV be
made: One, by reconciling the diff
ferences and spirits of men: the 9TH
er, by breaking the power OF the bel
Hgerent, taking away their provisions
of war. God will conclude the present
war in one Of these two ways, appar-
emily now, it win be by the latter.
In the meantime there are some