A MILITARY PEOPLE by T.

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 12, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 19.

A MILITARY PEOPLE.

By T.

The San Francisco Call has this editorial paragraph:—

“The rapidity with which the various States are filling their quotas for the volunteer army is a new proof that while we have commercial habits we are at heart and in spirit a military people. It does not take much to get the average American to leave his plow, his yardstick, or hammer, to get his gun and follow the flag.”

Yes, the present war with Spain is manifesting the fact most significantly that the United States is filled with those who “are at heart and in spirit a military people.” Then where is the long promised “universal peace”? And is it not something of an anomaly, to say the least, for one of the “foremost Christian nations” to be also “at heart and in spirit a military people”? Where is there anything in all the life of Christ that would show Him to be anything else than the Prince of Peace?

Do not lay this war spirit at the door of Christianity. The Gospel commission does not send men into the world to take life, but, like their divine Lord, His followers are to seek to save life. T.