New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-12
War Not Always Murder
Says DR.. Eaton in Mad
isOn Avenue Church
CANT ARBITRATE
TEN COMMANDME
Many Sermons Approve
Presidents Stand in
Present Crisis

The cry Of the pacifsts. Peace at
any price" and the argument that
war is essentially murder" were an
swered yesterday in sermon by the
Rev. DR.. Charles Aubrey Eaton, pas
tor Of the Madison Avenue Baptist
Church. Many other ministers deliy-
cred patriotic sermons, backing up
President Wilson's decisive stand In
the present crisis, but few Of them
we're as blunt as DR.. Eaton.
He declared that the American peo-
pie to-day. except for a "healthy mi
nority," have been gripped by a too
dominant spirit Of pacihsm, just as
Germany is obsessed on the subject OF
war. He expressed the opinion that
the United States was a greater ma
ton and commanded greater respect
from the rest Of the world when, with
population Of only 100000, 1t
crushed the Parbary pirates, than It
does to-day. while its 100.000,0OO pop
ulation see things through a fog Of
sentimentality.
oTf war is murder" he said. then
Washington and Lincoln were muir
derers'
"Sonetimes war is murder and
sometimes 10 is NOT he declared. III
a burglar came into your bedroom at
night and killed your wife, that
would be murder; but il you reached
d hDF rra no
manhood. There is absolutely no
compromise between the right and
the wrong, and there can be none. You
can't arbitrate the ten command
ments; you keep them or you break
them.
81 am convinced that at heart the
American people are sound | hope
the American peop will arouse them
selves and say to all the world that
the time has come to act, that per-
manent civilization must be built to
stand against tyranny. injustice and
militarism, and for justice, liberty
and manhood
President Wilson was compared
with Lincoln By the Rev. Dr. A. f..
Keigwin. at the West End Presby-
terrain Church
said about Wilson as were said about
lincoln, who strove TO save his broth
ers Of the North and South from war
and death" he said. 81 know what vii
son accomplished at Princeton single
handed and against the strongest oppo-
sition when he found an aristOcracy Of
breeding and an aristocracy of wealth
there. Do YOU remember, after the
sending Of that most important note,
that the President retired TO the White
House and was not seen for two days
| believe that when the historian writes
of this neriod those two days of silence
win stand out as the days when the
President was seeking wisdom and guild
ance from Cod
In urging a united people, the Rev.
DR.. &. Edward Young, Of the Bedford
Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, also
spoke OF Lincoln.
"What would Lincoln do in this ma
tional crisis?" ne asked. Judging by
what he did in the crisis Of his day, he
would exercise the almost infinite pa
tience President Wilson has shown, and
once he announced decision he would
enforce it vigorously 10 the end He
r-ouId form q coalition Cabinet OF the
strongest men of all parties
The Rev. Dr.. Percy Stickney Grant,
Of the Church Of the Ascension. charac-
terized America as a worshipper Of the
cod of bluff" and IS a nation given
too much TO jollying7 and the push
ing-it-through" spirit. He urged re-
turn to the days Of Lincoln, when
whole-hearted patriotism and simplicity
of purpose ruled public sentiment
Universal military training was ad-
vocated by Rabbi Samuel SchuIman in
Tcmple BETHEL. Fifth Avenue and Sew
rrtv-gixth Street. Rabbi stephen 5.
wise. At the Free Synagogue service IN
Carnegie Hall. declared that the Amer
lean people will refuse TO be "Prus-
sianizedv into entering war with a
"people temporarily drunk with blood