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I blessings of war. ■ Dfl. TALMAGE PORTRAYS THE BRIGHT I SIDE OF THE CONTEST. ti ** ony Hostlllkte, VVHh Spain. BbW MiS?*? _.... . AB —wt ■■ ■■ I - popyricht, X. Xtton.] riCan I WASHINGTON, May 15.—Most pertinent I so the exciting times through which we I us now passing is this wraon of Dr. Tal- I mage. iu which be P r °P o,es to oheer the | "" pl o w ho are saddened by the horrors of I war- teri> Pw,,,nß MV,1 > 8, “Though | war should rise against me, in this will I It- ha confident. I The ring of battleaxes, and the clash of ■ shield®, and the tramp of armies, are | all up and down the Old Testament, I tW ] you -find godly soldisrs like Moses and I Joshua and Oaleb and Gideon and zcoun- I drelly soldites like Sennacherib and Shal- I manoscr and Nebuchadnezzar. The high E nriest would stand at the head of the army gay, "Hear, O Israel, ye approach this | unto battle against your enemies, let not your hearts faint, fear not and do not B tremble, neither be ye terrified because of | them!’’ And then the officers would give I ; »mmand to the troops, saying: "What I ' man is there that bath built a new house | j and hath not dedicated it? Let him go I I sod return to hia house, lest he die in the g ? battle and another man dedicate it. And I I what man is he that hath planted a vine ? F yard and hath not eaten of it? Let him also go and return unto hia house, lest he die £ jn the battle and another man eat of it. | And Whatman is there that bath betrothod • wife and hath not taken her? Let him go if. and return unto bis house, lest he die in I - the battle and another man take her.” Great armies marched and fought. In r time of Moses and Joshua all the men were soldiers. When Israel same out of Egypt, they were 600,000 fighting men. Abijab commanded 400,000. Jeroboam commanded.Boo,oos men, of whom 500,000 were slain in one battle. Some of these ware God approved, for they were for the rescue of oppressed nations, and some of them he denounced, but in all cases it was ' a judgment upon both victors and van | quisled. David knew just what war was when he wrote in the text, “Though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident." David is encouraging himself in stormy times, and before approaching battles ad ministers to himself the consolatory. So * today my theme, is the “Alleviations of War. ” War is organized atrocity. It is the science of assassination. It is the con vocation of all honors. It Is butchery wholesale. It is murder glorified. It is death on a throne of human skeletons. It is the coffin in ascendency. It is diabolism at a game of skulls. But war is here, and it is time now to preach on its allevi ations.' Reunion of North and South. First, I find an alleviation in the fact that it has consolidated the north and the south after long continued strained rela tions. It is 88 years since our elvil war dosed, and the violences are all gone and the severities have been bushed. But ever and anon in oration, in sermon, in news paper editorial, in magazine article, on ; political stump and in congressional ball & the old sectional difference has lifted its I and for the first time within my memory or the memory of any one who hears or reads these words the north and tbe south are one. By a marvelous provi dence the family that led in opposition to our government 80 years ago is represent ed at the front in this present war. Noth ing else could have done the work of uni fication so suddenly or so completely as this conflict. At Tampa, at Chattanooga, at Richmond and in many other places the regiments are forming, and it will be side by side, Massachusetts and Alabama, New York and Georgia, Illinois and Louisiana, Maine and South Carolina. Northern and southern men will together unlimber the guns and rush upon the fortification and charge upon the enemy and shout the tri umph. The voices of military officers who were under Sidney Johnston and Joseph Hooker will give tbe command on the same side, tbe Old sectional grudges for ever dead. The name of Grant on tbe northern side and of Lee on the southern side will be exchanged for the names of Grant and Lee on the same side. The vet erans in northern and southern homes and asylums are stretching their rheumatic limbs to see whether they can again keep step in a march and are testing their eye sight to find whether they can again look along the gun barrel to successfully take aim and fire. The old war cry of “On to Richmond!" and “On to Washington!" has become the warcry of “On to Ha vana!" “On to Puerto Bioo!” “On to the Philippine Islands!" The two old rusty swords that in other days clashed at Mur freesboro and South Mountain and Atlanta are now lifted to strike down Hispanic abominations. An Unselfish War. Another alleviation of the war is the fact that it is the most unselfish war of the ages. While the commercial rights of our wronged citizens will be vindicated, that is not tbe chief Idea of this war. It Is the rescue of hundreds of thousands of people from starvation and multiform maltreat ment A friend who went out under the flag of the Bed Cross two years ago to as suage suffering in Armenia, and who has been on the same mission, under the same flag, in Cuba, says that the sufferings in Armenia were a comedy and a farce com pared with the greater sufferings of Cuba. At least 800,000 graves are Walling to us to seme on and remember by what process their occupants died. It is the twentieth century crying out to the nineteenth: “Do you mean to pass down vo us the curse with which you have been blasted? Or will you let me begin under new auspices and turn the Island of desolation Into an Island Edenlo?” It is a war Inspired by mercy, which Is an attribute in man imitative of the same attribute of God. In no other age of the world could such a war have been waged. The gospel of kindness needed to bo recog nized throughout Christendom In order to wake such a war possible. The chief rea wn why most of the European nations are not now banded together against us is be cause they dare not take tbe part of that behemoth of cruelty, the Spanish govern ment, against the crusade of mercy which our nation has started. Had it been on our part a war of conquest, a war of an nexation, a war of aggrandizement, there would have been by this time enough fly ing squadrons coming to this country across tbe Atlantic to throw into panic every city on our American seaboard. The wars 6f the crusaders were only to regain an empty sepulcher; the Napoleon ic wars, With their 6,«D0,000 slaughtered > men, were projected and carried out to ap pease' the ambition of one man; of the 25,- ■>oo,ooo slain In Jewish wars and of the ■ 1 60,006,000 slain in wars under Julius Cursor, of the 180,000,000 slain in wars with Turks and Saracens, of the 60,000,- 000 slain in wars of Xerxes, of tbe 20 000 • 000 slain in wars of Justinian and the 83 - 000,000 slain in tbe wars of Genghis Khan not one man was sacrificed by mercy, but in this Hispanic-American war every drummer boy or picket -or gunner or standard bearer or skirmisher or sharp shooter or cavalryman or artilleryman or engineer who falls fails in the cause of mercy and becomes a martyr for God and his country. The Principle es Liberty. Another alleviation of this war is that it is for tbe ad va nee men tof tbe sublime principle of liberty, which will yet engir dle the earth. Not otily will this war free Cuba, but finally will free Spain. By what right docs a dynasty like that stand, and a corrupt court dominate a people for centuries, taxing them to death, riding in gilded chariot over tbe necks of a beggared population? There are 10,000 boys in Spain growing an with more capacity to govern that nation than will the weak boy now In tbe Madrid palace ever possess. Before this eonfikt i« over the Spanish nation will be well on toward the time when a constitutional convention will as semble to establish a free government in stead of the wornout dynasty that now afflicts the people. The liberty of all na tions, transatlantic as well as cisatlantic, if not already established, is on the way and it cannot be stopped. * • Napoleon 111 thought he had sucoossf al ly driven the principle out of France when on the 2d day of December, 1851, he rode down the Champs Elysees of Paris, con stitutional government seemingly crushed under the hoofs of his steed. Bfit did it stay crushed? Let the batteries on tbe heights above Sedan answer, and the shout of 260,000 conquering hosts, and the letter of surrender to Emperor William tell tbe story. “Sire, my brother, not having been able to die in tbe midst of my troops it only remains for me to place my sword |n your majesty’s hands. lam, your majesty, your good brother, Napoleon. Sedan, 1 September, 1870." That monarchy having fallen, then the French republic resumed its march. A Good Beginning. Another alleviation is that the war opens with a great victory for the United States. It took our government four years to get over the fiasco at Bull Run. A defeat at the start of this present war would have been disheartening to the last degree and would have invited foreign intervention to stop the war before anything practical for God and humanity had been aocom-' pliahed and would have prolonged the strife for which we are hoping a quick termination.' In tbe most jubilant man ner let this victory of our navy be cele brated. With the story of the exploding battleship fresh in the minds of the world, it required do ordinary courage to sail in to the harbor of Manilla and attack the Spanish shipping. That harbor, crowded with sunken weaponry of death—to enter it was running a risk enough to make all nations shiver. But Manilla is ours, and the blow has shaken to the foundation the palaces of Madrid, and for policy’s sake the doubtful nations are on our side. For Commodore Dewey and all who followed him let tbe whole nation utter its most re- - sounding huzza, and, more than that, let us thank the Lord of hosts for bls guiding and protecting power. “Praise ye the Lord! Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord!” Might Allied With Bight. Another alleviation is tbe fact that In this war the might is on the side of ths right. Again and again have liberty and justice and suffering humanity had the odds against them. It was so when Ben hadad’s Syrian hosts, who were in the wrong, at Aphek came upon the small regi ments of Israel, who were in the right, the Bible putting it in oneof those graphic sentences for which the book is remark able, “The children of Israel pitched be fore them like two little flocks of kids, but the Syrians filled the whole country." It was to in the awful defeat of tbe Lord’s people at Gilboa and Megiddo. It was so recently when gallant and glorious Greece was in conflict with gigantic Mohamme danism, and ths navies of Europe hover ing about the Bosporus were in practical protection of the Turkish government, fresh from tbe slaughter of 100,000 Arme nians. It was so when, in 1776, tbe 18 colonies, with no war shipping and a few undrilled and poorly clad soldiers, were brought into a contest with the mightiest navy of all the earth and an army that commanded the admiration of nations. It was so when Poland was crushed. It was so when Hungary went under. It has been so during all the struggles heretofore for Cuban Independence. But now it is our powerful navy against a feeble group of incompetent ships, crawling across the Atlantic to meet our flotillas, which have enough guns to send them as completely under as when the Red sea submerged Pharaoh’* ariny. li.l*-so in these times when only a few thousand Spaniards at most can hSech our hemisphere, and we go out-to meet them with 125,000 armed men, to be backed up speedily with 800,000 more if needed. We do not have to ask for any miracle, but only a fair shot at tbe ships beaded this way and time enough to de molish them. This Is one of the cases in the world’s history where might and right ate shoulder to shoulder. Crime Must Be Punished. Another alleviation is In the fact that such an atrocMy as the destruction of 266 lives in Havana harbor in time of peace cannot wlii tapubity be wrought tn this age of the world’s civilization. Th* ques tion as to who did that infernaUsm is too well settled to need any further discussion. But what a small crime it was compared with the systematic putting into their graves of hundreds of thousands of Cu bans or leaving them unburied for . tbe buzzards to take care of I If Spain could destroy 200,000 men, women and children, the slaughter of 266 people was not a very great undertaking. But this ope last deed will result in the liberation of Cuba, and the driving of Spain from this hemisphere and the overthrow of that government, which will soon drop to pieces if it does notgodown under bombardment of in sulted nations. There was danger that tbe long con tinued oppression of our neighbors in Cuba might be continued from generation to generation without sufficient protest on our part and the pronounced execration of people on both sides of the Atlantic, but that bursting volcano of destruction in the harbor of Havana fired the nation and shocked the whole civilised world. All na tions will learn that such an act cannot be repeated without the anathema of all Christendom. As individual criminals must be punished for the public good, and we have for them courts of oyer and ter miner and penitentiaries and electric chairs and hangman's gallows, so governments committing high crimes against God and huibanlty must be scourged and hung up for tbe world’s indignation. When in Spanish waters our battleship, looking . - after our commercial interests and intend ing nothing but quietude, was hurled into, demolition and the n.cn on board, without time to utter one v.ord Os prayer, were I dashed into tho eternal world, the doom of tho reigning houao of Spain was pro nounced iu tones louder than the thunder which that night rolled out over the sea. God Is W«h Us. Another alleviation Is the fact that we hove a God to go to in behalf of all those of our countrymen who may be In especial exposure at the front, for wo- must admit the perils, it is no trifling thing for 100,- 000 young men to be put outside of home restraints and sometimes Into evil com panionship. Many of tbe brave of the earth are not the good of tbe earth. To be in the same tent with ■'those who have no regard for God or home, to hear their holy religion sometimes slurred at, to be placed under influences calculated to make one reckless,do have no Sabbath except such Sabbath as in most encampments amounts to no Sabbath at all, to go out from homes where all sanitary laws are observed into surroundings where questions of health are never discussed, to invade climes where pestilence holds possession, to make long marches under blistering skies, to stand on deck and to. the fields under fire at tbe mercy of shot and shell—we must admit that those thus exposed need especial care, and to the omnipresent God we have a right to commend them and will com mend them. Postal communication may be interrupted and letters started from camps or homes may not arrive at the right destination, but, however far away our loved ones may ba from us and how ever wide and deep the seas that separate us, we may hold communication with them via the thrpne of God. A shipwrecked sailor waa/pund floating en a raft near the coast of California. While In hospital he told his experience and said that he bad a companiou on the same raft for some time. While that com panion was dying of thirst be said to him. “George, where are you going?" and the dying sailor said, “I hope I am going to God.” “If you do,” said the rescued sail or, “will you ask him to send some wa ter?” After the death of his companion, the suvitor said, the rain came in torrents and slaked his thirst and kept him alive until ha was taken to safety. The survivor always thought it was tn answer to the message be had sent to heaven asking for water. Thank God we may have direct and instantaneous communication with tbe Lord Almighty through Jesus Christ, bis only begotten Son, and in that faith we may secure the rescue of our imperiled • kindred. Is not that a mighty alleviation? Fray For Our Country. Until this conflict is ended let us be much in prayer for our beloved country. Do not let us depend upon the friendship of foreign nations. Our hope is in God. Out of every misfortune he has brought this nation to a better moral and financial 1 condition, and so let ns pray that be will lift us out of this valley of trouble unto a higher mountain of blessing. It is a mystery that just as this country was recovering from a long season of hard times so many of our industries should now be halted; that business men who thought they could see their way to pay their debts and build up more prosperous enterprises and endow their homes with mere advantages should have to halt and wait until the perfidious oppressor of Cuba ■hall be turned back. But individual and national life is always clothed With mys teries, and we may make ourselves miser able by stabbing ourselves with sharp in terrogation points and (dying the everlast i ingquestions of “why?*’and “How?" and “What?” and “Whan?" While we must of oourse try to be intelligent on all public affairs, it'ls a glorious thing to do out duty, and then fully and confidently trust all in the hands of God, who has proved himself the of our country from the time when the Spanish government fitted out an expedition to discover it to this time when Spaniards would like to de stroy it. Morning, noon and night let us oom i mend this beloved land to the care of a i gracious God. That he answers prayer is , so certain that your religion is a hailucl . nation if be does not answer It. Pray that . in reply to such supplication the farmers’ I boys may get home again in time to reap the harvest of next July, that our busi . ness men may return In time to prepare l for a fall trade such as has never yet filled . the stores and factories with customers, , and that all the homes in this country now i saddened by the departure of father or i brother or son may months before the t Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays be i full of joy at tbe arrival of those who will i for tbe rest of their lives to i tell of double quick march, and narrow i escape, and charges up the parapets, and , nights set on flre with bembardment, and , our flag hatfied upto plaoes from which , other flags were hauled down. Away With Barbarism. I Now tbat.we have started on the work i let us make that Spanish government get i out of this hemisphere. We do not want 1 her any more, with her in justices and bar barism and stilettos of cruelty, hanging ' .arotAd the shores of this free land. She ' must not breathe her foul breath on our I winds; she must not again redden our seas - with her butcheries. There blds fair to i be a scene on the deep as disastrous to the I Spanish as that which whelmed their armada in 1588. Philip 11, king of Spain, resolved on the conquest of Europe, and ; already in the compass of his dominions, I besides Spain, were Naples and Sicily, ana , the Netherlands, and the East Indies, and 1 i the Canary.and Molucca and Sundaand . Philippine islands, and Mexico and Cuba, t and some of the moat splendid parts of America. All fihe nations of the earth ex- I oept England were to her underlings, and . the Spanish king resolved that even Eng . land must bow the knee. Although the , destructive strength of modern battleships I was then unknown, the Spanish armada started for tbe subjection of England with' ■ about 140 great ships, with 2,600 guns, I 4,000 cavalry horses and 82,000 men. The [ battleships were provisioned with 147,900 i casks of wine and six months of provl , alone. The commanders of i these war vessels, ware dukes and tafcr . qulses and noblemen. At Plymouth, England, on the 19th of July tbe proml . nent officers of ths navy ware In a bowling , alley, bowling with great glee—-Lord , Howard, the high admiral; Sir Martin t Frobisher, the daring explorer, and Sir > Francis Drake, the first circumnavigator ( of the world—whsu word came to them i that the Spanish armada was advancing. ! The officers continued at the game of ths . bowling alley until the game was finished , and then went out to investigate the tl [ dings, and, sure enough, that mighty fleet i whielTwasoonsideredinviDCibleand which was to bombard and overthrow England . was approaching, but the invading navy i was destroyed, for the Lord Almig'hty ap t peared in tbe fight. 014 and New Spanish Armada. i A storm such as had never swept tbe coast of England or aroused tbe ocean ; swooped upon the Spanish armada. Most of the Ships soon went down under tbs ssa, while othen were driven helplessly along to be splintered on tbe coasts of England, Ireland, Scotland and Norway. Another Spanish armada is crossing the Atlantic, and we are ready to meet them. The same God who destroyed the armada In 1588 reigns in 1898. May he In his might, either through human arm or dumb element, defeat their squadron and. give victory to the old flag of Admiral Farragut and David Porter! Yet what the world most wants Is Christ, who is ooming to take possession of all hearts, all homes, all nations, hut the world blocks the wheels of his ebsriot. I would like to see this century, which is now almost wound up, find its peroration in some mighty overthrow of tyrannies add a mighty building up of liberty and justice. Almost all the centuries have ended with some stupendous event that transformed nations nnd changed tbe snap of the world. It was so’ at the close at the fourteenth century; it was so at the close of the fifteenth century; it was so at tbe close of the sixteenth be: tury; it was to st the close of tho seventeenth century; it was so at the close of the eighteenth cen tury. May it be more gloriously so at the dose of tbe nineteenth century! “Bieased be tbe Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting, and let the whole earth be filled with his glory." Amen and amen! Everybody Bays So. 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