The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-17
Is DR.. Lyman Abbott Right?

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us fiatfooted that universal peace" il
not possible. That wars viii end only
when injustice ends. That peace Will
never pronounce It's benedictlon on a
world uniustly ruled.
We ask in all sincerity of purpose II
the theories OF this learned theologian
are correct either as philosophy OF
a religion.
II war and war aiono is the correct.
or of evil, then on what hypothesis
does he base the coming on earth OF
the prince Of Peace?
II we unchaln Satan and the min
lens OF hell with him. and let them
stalk the earth, shall we expect in.
justice to flee before them and the
blessings of bountiful peace to follow
in their footsteps?
He'll, with all the meaning that it
implies, is Gen. Sherman's definition
OF war. and does DR.. Abbott tell us
that justice is its ministering hand
maiden and plenty and contentment
its harvest?
Was II so when barbarians fought
barbarians, or has It ever been 30
when enlightened nations met each
other on the field OF mortal combat to
fight out their grievances? Was gen
tleness, justice and everything of good
report at any time the legitimate har-
vest OF war
In his book, entitled Destruction
and reconstruction" printed In 1877,
Gen. Richard Taylor devotes several
pages to recounting tho profigacy, cor.
ruption and bitter and intense hatred
following in the wake of our Civil
War.
To recapituIate all that he says
would be but TO open afresh the pes
tering sores OF those evil times which
perhaps are better undisturbed. but he
ends several pages in tho most classic
description OF the dissolute, luxuri.
ous and profligatc corruption no found
at the seat of government, that would,
no says. have put 10 the blush tho
age Of Nero;
"'fhe years OF Methusolall and the
pen OF Juyenal would not suffice to
exhaust the list, or depict the benight.
ed state into which we had fallen: but
Il can be asserted of the popular idols
of the day that, unveiled, they re-
sembled Mokanna. and can each OK.
claim:
Here, judge, IL hell, with all his pow.
or TO damn,
Can add one curse to tho foul thing,
ami"
That was the condition of the NOR
ais and the justice that the Civil War
left this country In. What will be the
situation in Europe when her war.mad
people return to sanity?
viii universal peace" ever be en-.
throned? We had rather believe with
John Mitchell, tho organizer of com.
mon labor, than with tho eminent the.
ologian who edits tho outlook.
john Mitchell says in the same mum
Der of Life;
MY judgment is that in very much
less than one hundred years the dis.
OF nations and the perma-
nent establishment of international
peace VIII be cosummated, There
are many forces now at work in this
direction, among which none Is more
important than the organized labor
and as this movement of
labor grows In strength and influence
throughout the world. as the doctrine
Of tho brotherhood of man which II
exemplifies finds lodgment in the
hearts of all men. their determination
to refuse 10 fight 20 kill their broth.
ers win grow until war, with it's de.
vastating power and bfutalizing eff
Iect, shall have been banishcd from
the earth"
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