Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1909-01-12
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ture By Rev I. "A. Grace. &. M. 81 German


cd upon usy Have the Russian
Bear. the English Iron, the French
and the American Eagle learned To
comminglc as IN the harmless inter-
course OF dovesf No, for shot AMI
she'd are in the easements OF those
leviashans or the deep. ammunition
enough to blow up a continent may
be found In their magazines. But
today their gums are masked as II
N the morning. the flag Sf Italy,
haif-masted. holds the pace OF MEL
anchoiy honor. The guns OF the
NATIONS are silent In reverence be-
lore me awful fu mination by which
the breath OF the omnfpotent God
has shaken an entire kingdom to It's
foundations. The omni potence OF
Godf Yes; we recognize It IN fear,
II not in charity ami love. We be-
feve In his power. "Hs toucheth
the mountains and they trembie.' .
Now. what 9 the lesson which this
unusuaT fraternizing OF the nations
In the port OF stricken people
teaches all who are willing to learn?
Namely. that God. our Father. ST. l
rules the nations. and thai when
'unholy ambitions urge them to be
host dc to each other, when prosper
ity on the high seas or In the marts
OF commerce leads them to the IA :
iac7ous belief that God Is on the
SIDE OF the most powerful guns, the
great Jehovah blows his breath up
on kingdom or empires and they
vanish from the sight OF men. II
nations forget In times OF prosper
ity to have reverence. love, charity
towards God our Father. He chasl
uses them with the rod OF affiic-
ton. and thus brings them IN abject
humility down TO His paternal feet.
has we'll nigh Frustrated the TIA Ian
he wei nigh Frustrated the Italian
government brings nat ons to their
senses, and under the Christening rod
they commingie in sad communion;
they muzzle their guns and meet
each other in sorrow. in friendship,
in love. In International charity.
God reigns. and His charity, like
His justice sndureth foreverl
Taking up that part III the prop
osi bon which dea with the broth
erhood or man. some OF us In view
OF racial. religious and sectional
strifes have asked ourselves how a
plat.tude has been able to live 50
long uncontrad cited, for, nothing
seems so strong as racjal prejudice;
nothing SO vir ilent as religious
wars; nothing so hursful to civic and
social development as the petty RI
-vairy between petty-minded peoples.
Though this is the most enlight-
ened OF the ages, and the peace con-
ference OF nations has sat at The
Hague in solemn de Iteration, stand
ing armies have been increased, ma
vies have been augmented, frontiers
and coast Zines have been fortified,
and aid for what? To guard a GER
tain strip of land against him whom
this platitude cals my brother"
but whom a mercenary, ambitious,
selfish, unchartabie spirit calls a
stranger, a foe, an enemy.
my brother" goes from America
to Russia to visit one section of
our great human family, and beho i'd ,
he IL suspected, followed, spied up
on, arrested, perhaps. and thrown
into prison because he has INDUCED
In that unguarded speech which is
common among members OF the
same family. Al Russian, Jew or
Gentle. yet my brother. accord
ing TO the p'atltude, comes to New
York, that he may enter upon a life
OF liberty denied him In the old
world. His American brother in
the garb OF an imm grant Inspector
meets him at the castle garden, tsl's
him he is diseased, or vicious, or a
pauper, refuses him passport and
return him broken hearted 20 the
land OF the Car.
Believing, as child believes a
fairy ta'e, that the brotherhood OF
man h something concrete, my in
nocent American brother" or we
have any American innocence) en-
ters china'S ceasst al kingdom only
TO find that he is regarded an a
western devil" whose designs are
neFarious, and whose death will set
tie all danger 70 his yellow broth,
erB" The siant-eyed Mongoia u
with smile as bland as fu1l moon
would purify his op'um-tainted
breath amid the breezes OF liberty
LOVING Americans. He VISITS hiS
"Amelican fiiends" and brothers on.
" to ind that our ports are closed
aga INST him and hfB coo1e labor
And so we may run the gamut from
nation to nation, from state TO state
from creed to creed, amost from
family to family, only TO end thai
the brotherhood OF man IL spelled
IN small letters and relegased to The