The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1915-02-17


at the morning service to a very
large congregation. His subject
was "The Burden of War and Who
Is Responsible" the occasion being
peace Sunday. In his sermon the
pastor did not mnco words and said
in part:
'What / shall say is based upon
documentary evidence furnished by
the Association of Internatio al
Cancellation, of which j am cor
respondent member Twenty thous-
and clergymen in this country have
been asked to answer certain
questions sent out by the Carnegie
Peace Union and published extern
sively throughout the country in the
press.
"The burden of war consists first
in cost of lives. From 1903 to 1905
there were nineteen wars, which
cost the world more than 5,00,000
lives out of 100000 engaged in
the field. During that period thcre
was spent $23,5OO, 100000 besides
the waste of material and labor.
The present war up to January /
had cost $1,000, 900, 900, an average
of $46,OO0,0O0 a day. The peace
cost of armies and navies is still
greater, ten nations expanding 3d.
00O,O0O,000 annually, while the
worlds war debt is $4,000, 900, 900,
with an annual interest of $1,000
100000. a.
'Tn these wars race hatred IS de-
veloped, national obligations repud-
lated, international treaties are vIc-
lated, and the agreements of solemn
conventions set aside. The homes of
100000 soldiers are burdened
with anxiety, fear, sorrow and
desolation, with 100000 homes in
Belgium in ashes and misery and
Z, 100000 people facing starvation,
who are fed at cost of 6,250, 900
a month, with most of the money
and the food going from the United
States. The women and children
are the most sufferers, and since
the earliest time they have been
made the prey Of the invaders and
the conquerors, while modern .arules1
have. not risen above the brute
level. The evidence from the Balkan
war resulting from the commissions
Investigations show many unwilling
mothers. Children born during the /
struggle in Belgium are nervous and
defective, and statistics show that
it will take three generations to re-
pair the injury done.
"The church has received an
stunning blow, and the non-C Christ
ian nations are looking askance
upon Christian justice. The Orien-
tai mind is interpreting Christianity
as cannon, battleships, rifles and
devised for the destruction of the
earth. Christian missionaries are
paralyzed. An eyewitness in Cen
trail Africa says that it is hell let
loose The 1000 German mission
aries are in danger of getting their
passports to the skies and we will
sing their praises here as martyrs
to a righteous cause. Somebody
will have to answer to a
righteous Judge for all this.
1t is the spirit which makes
war. We are celebrating hundred
years Of peace since the treaty of
Client between England and Ameri-
ca. There is 1000 miles of national
boundary between United States and
Canada. Not gun, fort, battle
ship or sentinel and 100 years Of
peace. This result was achieved by
Canada and the United States by
a treaty of disarmament and the
two nations agreed ITO live side by
side as neighbors. Every national
boundary line in Europe is bristli'.
with forts, cannon, bayonets, and
practically all Of them bedrabbled
with blood.
HFrlo tLuoo aoaoa.ae hah.oI th.a