The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1911-05-05
TAKE THE RIGHT VIEW
(Goodwin's Weekly


The military arrangements for the
coronation of King George and Queen
Mary will cost 100000. Speaking
in Sheffield the other night, Mr.. Keir
Hardie, M. P, referring to this, said
civilization is to be excluded; bar
barism is to be put On show. There
is no room for Christ in the corona
ton procession. The god of war is
to reign supreme there"
The Honorable Kerr Hardie should
take less gloomy view of the mat
ter. The Christ was crucitied by
Roman soldiers, but they acted under
mandate of the civil law, which
for the hour was subordinated to the
cry OF furiously superstitous crowd,
led by coterie of religious grafters.
Think of it! The Saviour had
healed the sick, opened the eyest of
the blind, stilled the rage of the
storm and hushed the wrath of the
angered sea, and finally with cry
pierced the dull cold ear of death"
and caused the dead to live again.
But He also overturned the tables
of the money-changers and had driv-
en- from the temple the grafters who
had turned the sacred edifice into
den for thieves.
That was never forgiven Him, for,
as in England and the United States
today, so ii was in Jerusalem nineteen
hundred years ago, the gold combines
ruled, and when they wanted to carry
a point they set the machinery in
motion to lash the mob into rage,
sent out their blather-skites to prey
upon the dull intellects that made
up the crowd; predicted to them that
ruin would come to them unless they
asserted their crushed manhood and
struck for the right, and thus could
carry through any unholy measure
that they pleased or dispose of any
public enemy.
1t was in that way that a weak
judge was carried off his feet in
that way that the execution of the
Savior of the world was encompassed
But the army that did the work was.
on that day, subject to civil power,
even as the armies of Great Britain
and the United States, and hence the
danger does not lie in the military
arm, but through the corruption, the
and the unwisdom of the
civil power which controls thenarmy.
At the coronation the military will
act in this capacity entirely and 1t
will not have any bad influence. The
splendor of the showing will intesify
The loyalty of every Englishman,
arouse anew his patriotism toward the
Did soil, his pride in native land, and
sxalt him as citizen, which is alto
sether good, for, after all, the king
as well as the army in England is
subject to the civil power which has
It's source in the people.
One of the missions of the Messiah |
was to open the gates of freedom to
nan. England was the first nation to
enter that gate and to grasp the full
meaning of what freedom means in
IN enlightened sense. to-wit; freedom
lnder the restraint of righteous laws;
he freedom of enlightened man to
10 any legitimate thing to be pro-
ected in what he did and in what
vas legitimately his.
And where that is the rule, there
he rich and poor stand upon one
evel under the law; there all oppor-
unities are open to all alike; there
ZONES appear, and schools, and hospi-
ais, and libraries, and churches, and
here Christ is sure to have a place
ii every procession.
In 1.-THE days OF the savage splendor
If old Rome, the triumphal process
ions saw prisoners walking in chains
behind the conquerors car. In the
coronation procession in London there
will be naught of that; it will repre-
ent the civil power of great nation
Ind the division of the army present
will but represent one of the instru-
nents which that free people hold to
enforce their power.