Show CIIIIIITItMTY AM WIt The seiulr ns well aft the religious presi In the United States Is jUlt how giving a Scent amount 01 space and effort to the discussion of the question under what Ireumstame a Christian notion Is I JutllId In going to Nor slid tile same theme Is I to u great extent engrossing the American pulpit Extreme Ex-treme vews are being expressed on llh sides I ot the controversy Some writers go 10 grot length In oplng nr holding It to be unjustifiable under almost tiny circumstances others go n corresponding distance In the opposite direction maintaining that n self respecting nation ought to resent by nets of war even slight Insults and In Judea I Dut n robust common sense character charac-ter s to a considerable degree the I predominant l sentiment of the country I The American forces pulpit and people I ore neither pugnaelou faluou lot cowardly They nre not disposed to engage I en-gage In war on trivial grounds nor with precipitancy It It I not so long In Ihey onicrged front a very severe 81nrCbCY one that they I have forgotten ltd trials horrors and deaMIII eonlun They show a disposition to avoid It as long us they can without Injury to their elfrslt And the slm In I which the considerate judgment ot mankind will hold them But they da not Interpret the teachings I teach-ings of Christianity as absolutely prohIbItIng pro-hibiting war from any motive On tho contrary 1I0001Ilng opi Ion among I the thoughtful Intelligent and ifllglous classes of the country Supports the administration I ad-minIstration as far 119 It has gone In 1 Cuban amilra and holds that war Is I I preferable to retrograde action by this 1 govrnment that would permit a prolongation pro-longation of past conditions on the Island of Cuba Recently a correspondent of the Troy Times submitted a number of questions I ques-tions bearing upon the relations of Christianity to war and Itev To lo Kamilit n Trrsby terlan minister replied re-plied to them Tlu questions I and an I lirwers are subjjlned J as a fair sample I I of American religious thought upon I the subject 1 Tlrst Judges from Ills teaching I 03 written In the gospel It Jesus Christ were to be I Inaugurated this day as 1rcBlclent of thIs country what would I Iw I Ills wishes hope policy ininner vt conducting matters and the results oCt I ew > 1 4 11 il I L J I to the Ills achievements In regard innlsh Cuban and battleship Maine affairs In answer to this question I would say that were Jesus President nt tho United States He would evlleiuly wish for peace lie would hope for nn honorable adjustment of difficulties while His policy would be to seek reparation for the wrong protection for the weak food for the starving And shelter for the shelterless and the result re-sult would be In accordance with Ills wlnhm Ills hope and Ills policy Heconil If Chtlst were today to M crowned as the ruler or the Spanish government what would be m Policy Innnner oC conducting the trtrs oC Plate and the result In regard to the United States Cuban and battleship Maine nffnlrsr Ift answer 10 this question I think that under the clreum tftnces suggested Ju mid take L Ounmtl of Himself after this manner Or vkhat Ring as he goeth to en counter another king In lor mill riot sit doin first ned take coun1I whethe he Is I able nllh tn thou rnnol to mt hIm that 0l1leth against him vilth twenty thousand Or else while the other la Yet n crnt WO oft he sendeth an ambassage and nsketh conditions of pence Third rrom verse 3 to s8 chapter chap-ter v St Matthew I Is I an Instruction of Christ to Ills Apostles Is It Intended for us ordinary people also These are Instructions In parabolic form and uere ner Intended to be taken literally Aa principles tit Can lnet they are oC lvetsal app fell lien s definite law they hoc no standing In the court of Christian common moms They simply forlol1 1 1 venkeance they 00 nol nnnul rII billion They enforce forgiveness of Injuries hut they do nt f tie ny hat whatsoever n mail sowlh that hnll he nlo reap FourlhIt my neighbor hOlld In mil and violently injure me viould < 1 diminish ml honor If I I did I not uso rome means to resent the Injustice Certalnlv Jr us resented the blow which lie recelvd In the presence ot Ihe high priest And H told < Ills dl la clplcs on one occasion that the time had come for action Ul him tint hath no anoid sell hid cloak and buy one riflh It the German government should dMIberntelr Insult the English envirnment would the lioror nt the 1nglUh Kovernment be diminished If llie latter did not resent It And avcnle IIWI A dellbrnl Insult demands ont mnt not on account oC pergonat ven go note hut In the Inlre tit 01 nciIYI Arid Po 0 rational Insult demal on npology or rlnrllllon not on Account or the nation itself jut much na In theIr the-Ir of nil nations Paul mays that n ruler I In 0 minister of God an Avenger tr wrath 10 him that doth Pill Tho ood and Father of our Leld Jeou Christ Is I the 00 ot battles novell no-vell os the led 01 peace Vengeance 1lonllh unto 01 lout It lot I anite polhl that mn rally be the trip ru treat for Inflicting It |