Christianity and the Manila Fighting
The press despatches, giving the account of the recent fighting at Manila, are full of glowing expressions in regard to the American soldier's deeds of slaughter. On one bulletin displayed in letters formed by small electric lights were the words, "The California boys fought like demons." There is a strange inconsistency between the trumpeted profession that this is a Christian nation and these descriptions of the fighting done at Manila. And if any one will lay aside his prejudices and fancies and look at the actual facts he will readily see that the people, not of this country alone but of the whole world, are in an excitable frame of mind that tends more to the strife of warfare than the quiet pursuits of peace.