SPURGEON ON THE WAR.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 109, 31 March 1871, Page 3

SPURGEON ON THE WAR.

Mr. Spurgeon (says the ' Echo') has published an address to Louis JS'apoleon and tbe Kin<T of Prussia, containing some remarkably strong language. He is by no means complimentary to either of the monarchs.

jJe says; —" Perhaps you are not both alike, and only one of you is to blame for beginning this dreadful fight; but I don't know your secret tricks, for kings are as deep as foxes, and it is safest to lay it on you both, for - hen the right one will be sure to get it Did either of you ever think what war means ? Did you ever see a ma?i's bead smashed, or his bowel's ripped! open ? Why, if you are made of flesh aiitl blood, the sight of the |i«or until, "tlio blood oozing out of Hixn, ■will 111 -t to . a Kitten, 1 can t bear even to see a rat die, or any animal in pain. But a man ! Where are your hearts if you can think of broken heads, splintered bones, heads smashed in, brains blown out, bowels torn, hearts gushing with gore, ditches full of blood, and heaps ol limbs and carcases of mangled men ?" This is a disgusting description, as Mr. Npurgeon admits, but if men read a few more of these disgusting descriptions they might do fewer disgusting things. He concludes : — ei You fight for glory, do you? Don't br such fools. T am a plaintalking 'Englishman, and I toil you that the English for glory is damnation, and it will be your lot, 0 Kings, if you go on cutting and hacking your fellow men." We don't know whether Mr. Spurgeon is opposed to war always and under all circumstances, but his address reminds us of the lines in the ' Biglow Papers— If you take a sword and dror it, And [io run a felLr through, Q-uv'meut ain't to answer for it, Grod 'ill send the bill to you.