p. 16 | Christian Apologies for War

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 4, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 23.

Christian Apologies for War

It seems sad to see an article from a “Christian,” soldier tho he has been, justifying war and its cruelties, as from Gen. O. O. Howard in the Independent. A prominent general of the United States army, who was never noted for his piety, expressed it much better when he said, “War is hell.” It is. General Howard quotes General Sherman as saying to him, “Howard, war is cruelty, and you can not too much refine it.” And the man of war spoke truly. The of-late frequent apologies for cruelty and war by professed Christians clearly show that the church is drifting rapidly from the view of Christianity which she once had. We mean the Protestant churches.