l MONDAY, MAY 27. 1907. um Almanac for Tomorrow w Inn rises 4:25; acts 7:15. Signed: 11:93 a. at; 11:43 p. m. * Waumo “urinal. TELEPHONE ‘ , cute ‘64 -Bcanch Office, Nor-walk. , . l2»! -—Edlterial Room. . " m —-Iuainaaa Office. .. , tflll—ldltor'a Residence. _' ass-e ”City Editor's Realdance. f useomc ol‘nscrbnv.’ ~, A Outed Convocation of Butler er, I. A. M., will be held at its mm: May 28th, 1907, at 8 o'clock p. to. Work. Past Master Degree. All I. A. Masons cordially and Internally Invited. Fraternally yourd, . ROBERT M. WLICOX, Sec’y. COMFORTABLE ASSURANCES. All the congressmen who went to the Isthmus and who have expressed them. selves in public since they came back have spoken in the highest terms of the situation there, of the progress of the work, the amount already accom- plished and of the prospects of ulti- mate and complete success. Speaker Canon, in his paraphrase of the “Pike's Peak or Bust" motto of the prairie—schooner navigator of old days, says “We will dig the ditch or bust," and undoubtedly we shall “dig the ditch,” although several may “bust" or be ”bust" in the dining. The visit of « the congressmen has done a lot of Rood in informing them of conditions at first hand and they will be able to talk intelligently and convincingly to their fellow members at the next ses- Iion. This will be especially advan- tageous when the men who have been opposed to the project or doubtful about it heretofore, acknowledge their change of views and become the advo catoa of it. Among those who are es- pecially enthusiastic over what seems to be the prospect is Congressman John Dalzell. “I do not believe," he says, "a single member of Congress who was on that trip returned with the slightest doubt of the feasibility of the canal project. They all returned enthusiastic, and believing this great work will be completed within a short erperiod of time than has been esti- . mated. The work is going forward very satisfactorily. The system is perfect. Every department has its responsible bead and. so far as we could judge, these heads are all com- petent men. I think there will be no resitation upon the part of Congress to grant such appropriations for the if Work as are reqeusted. All the mem- bers wanted to be assured of was that the money spent down there was being used properly and that the country is getting the value of every dollar. .. Those who have visited the canal zone and inspected the work are convinced that is the case.” To know from the personal observw tion of men who are'able to judge and whose opinion is of value that the money “is being used properly and that-L the country is getting the value ‘of every dollar," as Mr. Dalzell says, is at great element of c'ontentlnent in the situation and makes patient waiting possible and more easy. These assur— ances, like those of Congressman Hill, are ’very satisfactory indeed. MEMORIAL DAY SENTINEL. , The Sentinel willkbe issued as a morning paper on Memorial Day. next Thursday. Advertisements, news items etc» should reach the office of publica- tion Wednesday afternoon. , I; Momoriafl‘Services at The Church (Continued From First Page). ' whocertainly caught the spirit of , Jesus’ gospel, was also veryvcareful and very qualified in his statements, and advised his people in Rome in these words, “if it be possible, as Inuch as lieth in you, live peaceably K with all men." . ,~.*I ask you to consider with me this evening the perplexing question as to bother war is wrong or right. Is ere any cost too high to pay for peace? On one day of the. week which be- gins today we shall gather with the grauful hearts of a free people around fla’bjreves of men who gave their lives thhhtheirfellowmen might have their rightful freedom and that the nation ‘ ould live in unity and righteousness. And this day has an added signin- We and should make us thoughtful use in our own day, the same have just been enacted and the svstill resounding with the echoes I)? ha awful strokes of war. Our own ., has but a little time emerged . a. brief but bitter conflict; our or country is now paying the - '30! a humiliating strife, and all the world hang threatening and It. still the deepening shades of world, foremost in the declara- ‘ Christian principle. the two most under the spell of Him , heritage is peace, together ‘ from the clouds of conflict behind a trial of desolation, triumphal arches to men . suds are red with the blood of lemon. this question, one of the grav- r age, men are divided. There . whose unequivocal answer War is wrong, always and y a. crime. And there are anwho believe that war is W who are ready on the mo . .7 ”Wwvm "-m qul slavery. Better than any peace . heat by its arbitrament to decide their privileges and rights. Upon both sides are arrayed men of genuine character and profound thought. When We consider the facts ,of war we have a dark and terrible picture. It seems upon its face clearly to be the resort. not of the divine reason of man, but of mere brute force. it is a temporary adoption by men of the character of beasts, emulating their ferociousness, like beasts rejoicing in blood; seeking with the tiger's paw and teeth to overcome and kill. The ancient poets so likened it in all their songs. in a most familiar and oft-re- peated passage of ancient literature, Hector returns his little child Astyar mix to the arms of Andromache, iii- voklng a blessing on the young child's head; that “he may bring home bloinly spoils and so make glad his inollier‘a heart." And all this frank and honest lan- guage of the poets, seems at first thought to give us the real character of war. It is the employment of am- mai passion and the dethronemcnt of divine reason. And how strangely do the ethics of war deny the principles which men universally hold in iiiues of peace. Those things which in peace are hein- ous crimes, are in war regarded as the noblest virtues. Then look for a moment at the efv feats. It severe the relations of com-- merce and friendship between nations. These are the commonplaces of na' tional conflict. The picture is one of starving children, impoverished homes; the soldier is relentlessly call- 8d from the embrace of aged mother, Iovl,ug wife, children, brothers and fair friend. He suffers and dies, and these all, with nothing more to do with the war than babes unborn, these must suffer and (lie with him. War dulls the moral conscience and sensibility. in its hour men come to regard that as a glorious thing per- formed iu the name of national honor, which is condemned as a savage, bru~ tal crime done by an individual. ' Our minds fill with horror at a sin gle murder; but We read with relative cqmplucence of the cruel slaughter of a thousand Russians by Japan’s guns and bayonets. We hunt the murderer of one man to the very scaffold and re. juice that justice has been done. We receive Kuroki, the murderer of a thousand men. with acclamations of applause. How strangely inconsistent. Do you know that in this age in which we live, war is still the chief factor in the poverty of the world. The figures are appallng. The other day we had one warship in Boston harbor. Do you know for the money it costs to maintain that one ship, four Harvard universities might be endowed. This is not a mere revel of rhetoric. There is absolutely no temptation in recalling these things to your mind. to indulge in extravagances. Exagger- ation is impossible. No picture can approach reality. One of your own leaders truly said that “War is Hell." Here then are the evils of war: Man made to be a bmthcr to man, becomes his deadly foe: man. whose duty it is to mitigate his follaws‘ uufe faring. makes the infliction of suffering the study, the invention and the end of his life. been in the light of truth and fact, war is organized murder. We see that to such miseries and crimes innocent human beings have been exposed again and again often for unworthy causes and still oftoner when no Worthy end was gained. Ami as the thoughtful, earnest man thinks on these things he realizes how difficult is the adjustment between pa— triotism and Christian principle. While these words of his Lord “Love your enemies." , “Render not evil for evil" ring in his ears, his words in justifies.~ lion war, like Macbeth'a "Amen," stick in his throat. Still. Jesus knew that he was send- ing war upon the earth. In the light. of the real character of war, how strange a prophecy! But there is an- other point of view. There is another and different chain of argument. , it is a necessity to progress. These dispufauts uliirm that all its physical ills, awful as they are, are but neces stiles and ends to a higher moral good. Evil is the necessary contrast to good. We only learn what justice is as we contend against injustice. Freedom is to be gained and comes to be rightly prized only as we fight against tyran- ny. Unity can only be gained and maintained by the ties which bind men in the presence of a common foe. The divine emotion of love for country is engendered only by struggle against the nations’ enemies. They point to us the lessons which we learn from the day we celebrate this coming week. The noblest. element of charac- ter is the sacrifice of self. The whole dispensation of the province of God involves the giving up of life that life may be gained. War is thus elevated to a moral act by sacrifice, by the mix- cd effect of glory and of grief. The argument in brief is this. The ills of war are mainly physical. Nature has ordained these ills that by them moral good may be attained. And as we reflect on this side of the pic- ture We leave the side of Sumner and stand with Wendell Phillips and we look upon the faces of the men who today gather in our churches in mem- ory of their fallen comrades, not as we did a tow moment ago, as murder- ers whose hands are red with blood, but as saviours following the example of the Saviour of men in a noble act of self-sacrifice. And We must solve our problem by trying to penetrate to the fundamen- tal principles of ethics. What is it that akes any not right or wrong? Not is physical effect, nor its tem- porary result. not always the act as it is seen. No. The ethical judg- ment of every act goes back of the set itself into the sphere of motive. And so the right or the wrong of war is measured only by the purpose .for which it is waged, by the motive which prompts its declaration. If a war is one induced to gratify a selfish ambition; to satisfy rapacity, or vanity, or to uphold a tyranny, then Christianity condemns it But the very condemnation of these things makes it a right. and a duty to oppose them. Our answer must be, a war is right or wrong as its motives are good or bad. If one side is wrong the other must be right. The bloodiest conflict over wages is infinitely better than the most peace-k NG “Esau uni; o ' . 7 wear. any .1, .' that does not recognize justice and the human rights of every race and every man. What principles then may we lay down, by which a nation should be guided. First of all, to encourage ev- ery effort looking toward a compact of peace among the nations. But what shall be its attitude when unprovoked, war threatens. it should be to the last moment to seek every other means. it should yield CVef‘y possible point, remembering the noble words of the pagan Socrates, that it is more shameful to do a wrong than to receive one. War is the nations’ right, but one which should be exercised above all others, anxiously, deliberately, fear- fully. If any act ought to be perform- ed with reverent four, with anxious trembling before God, with the most solemn impiisllion into motives, wllh the most prayerful consultation of conscience, it is that of declaring war. it can have no justification except in clear and stem necessity, in unques tiouublv justice, in thc righting of such wrongs as every other means have failed to avert. There is no excuse for rashness, passion or illndvised haste. But, when the inevitable hour has come; when justice has defied the re peated appeals of the just; when tyranny vauntlngly before the eyes of a free nation. plants its heel upon the oppressed, when a nation defies God and humanity. then must that people whose ruler is God and whose sacred trust humanity, in humanity's name and in the name of God, offer health willing and unhesitating sacrifice. For righteous war is, has been and always will be infinitely better than a craven and dishonorable peace. There is an un-Christiun peace as Well as an on. Christian war. At such an hour Chris: says: “’l‘hinkest thou in the face of wrong and hate and injustice and tyranny I came to send peace. Nay. I came not to send peace but a sword." Is our questioned answered? The answer Is this: Peace may be either right or wrong. War may be either wrong or right. The same Jesus who was and loved the peace of the world, also declared the necessity for war. A righteous war is ever better than an unholy peace, and an unrigbtcous peace is over worse than War. Righteousness has ever' brought at the cost of conflict. 1 have no wish to forget the days of forty years ago and all their sacred moaning. We were bought with a great price and there were many Cni- cary‘s at Gettysburg, at Appomattox, at Antietam. Suid one speaker at the recent Peace Conference: "We should wipe out the memory of every battle.“ 1 say, a thousand thousand times no. No, not unless I could also wipe out the injustice against which they were waged. The trouble is that we are forgetting them. We are living on great bless- ings which cost us nothing, but which Were purchased for us, and we are be. coming more and more neglectful= and are not willing to even forego our pleasure one day a year in reverent gratitude. We have allowed these broken down and aged men to decor. me their own graves while we have gone our way in thoughtless pleasure. The time has at least come when we should do this work, when they should be our honored guests. It is because of them and their fallen com- rades that we are blessed above all peoples in that we live in a good and noble land. A nation which surveys the world from an eminence of its own worthy attainment. Founded upon a glorious history, reared upon a record in the mom, of honorable struggle, on dowed by the benedictions of its count less fallen heroes, consecrated to the fulfillment of a nations' noblest imv pulses and highest hopes. Born in pov~ eriy, raised in persecution, crowned with prosperity. a self-made people. Fortunate in its honored parentage; hallowed by prayer, by sacrifice and all that goes to make a nation's rec 0rd holy. A nation which knows no potentate and owns no serf, whose dul- lng aims are high and whose God is the Lord. The century just closing has been one of wars. Does the horizon of the future reflect the sunlight of peace? Not while a single shadow of cruelty and tyranny darkens the face of the heavens. In the East there live two rulers whose very breathing is cruelty and hate, thousands of whose suffering subjects are ground under the heel of a devilish despotism. The miscreant governor of Turkey and the cringing Russian seem insensibie to every ap- peal of human sympathy. And soon‘ er or later the Christian nations must lay aside commercial interest and wipe it horible tyranny from off the. face of Europe. This is not time for flippant, care- less living and thinking. The coating Thursday might not to be given up to idle sport, but. in honor of those men who have made us an honorable land. The sacrifice of the men whose memory we bless this evening brought freedom for one quarter millions of our fellowmcn and wiped from the face of our land the foulest of its stains. Let the day be held sacred as the nation's sabbath and let us learn from Its scenes and memories the divine lea. sons of national justice, freedom.“ honor and duty which its holy sacrifice holds up before the eyes of the na- tion's sons and daughters. And the truest lovers of peace are those who love righteousness with war better than they endure unrighteous- nose with peace. Members of Douglas Fowler Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, and other comrades, may God-bless you and make us reverentiy grateful for you and for your fallen comrades. May we be worthy of the priceless blessings which are the gifts of your hands. . been NORWALK CHURCH SERVICES. a———_. Large Gathering Held In Methodist Episcopal Church. The Memorial Sunday services in the Norwaik Methodist Church were largely, attended last evening in spite of the lnclemency of the weather, and the Buckingham Post of the Grand Army of the Republ c. with McKinley Command of the 8p nlsh War Veter- ans. and the Woman'is Relief Corpa turned out a surprisin ly large propor- tion of their members lp to hear the annual sermon preach in their honor, CI _ ‘ Barons goes further than a heaping spoonful of other kinds. " A rounded spoonful ‘ lands Try it and see. , You will be surprised at the saving. CLIVIW ILIIII POWDII 00.. law ‘I'Ol‘l. of “'_ mael- ___-' by the Rev. Frank I). Torrey, pastor of the church. The service opened with an inspir- ing song service. led by the quartct and chorus of the church, while it is safe to say that the Norwaik Church was never more beautifully decorated than for the service of last evening. Under the artistic and skilful man- aegment of O. J. Clar the from of the church was made b utlful with tings, banners, bunting, palms and red and while carnatious. At the close of the service members of Mr. Clark's Sun- day school class presented flowers to each of the guests of honor as they were leaving the church. The following is the program: Organ Prelude—March du Syiiode, . ............ Suiut Sauna Hymns—America and Calvary. Quartet and Chorus—4‘0 Thee, 0 Dear Country ................. Eichbcrg Prayer. , Solo—-—Thc Lord is My Light . Allitson Mr. Sterling. Scripture lesson. Offertory—Ji‘enting Tonight, Male Quurictte, composed of George Hirsl, H. P. Price, liarry Sterling ,and Charles G, Ives. Hymn-Marching to Zion. Sermon by the pastor. llymn~—lluttle Hymn of thc Republic. Organ Postlude—Marcho Mllitalrc. ...... Clarke During his sermon, the Rev. Mr. Torrey made impressive reference to the veterans and the work they had done. The turn out of Grand Army veterans was the durgeat in. years, there being about fifty members of Buckingham Post alone. SOUTH NORWALK BAPTIST SER- The services at the Smith Norwalk Baptist. Church were unusually inter- esting. In the morning the pastor gave a report of the forming of the great Northern (‘onvcntion of Baptists, which was one wry important fact of the onward movement of the denonr inatiou. Governor Hughes, of New York state was the tira't president elected. The evening service was giv- en to a talk showing the relation be- tween liuptlsts and the Jamestown Exposition. The thought of the ser- mon was "Hold fast. that which thou hast." During the Iiible school ses- sion the pastor gave a~short talk on the Calvary Baptist, School, of Wash- ington, and the great Work done there. DARIEN METHODIST CHURCH. Memorial Day was observed at the Methodist Episcopal Church, yester~ day. A most impressive service was held in the morning, the sermon by the pastor. Rev. T. N. Laine, being on The Heavenly Inheritance. The decorations weer excellent, and in the afternoon. Flags were added which had a beautiful effect. In expectation of a delegation from the Soldiers‘ Home, but the rain prevented them from coming, and much regret was ex- pressed by the friends at. their ab-- Sencc. The exercises opened with a service of song, followed by My Coun- try ‘Tis of Thee and other appropriate selections. The address on The Heav- enly Rest. proved encouraging to all. Great Reductions SPRING SUITS FOR MEN AND BOYS. Mlllllllll. .0. 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