Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-08-07
DANGER
"FROM DAN EVEN UNTO B"EER-SHEBA."

"FROM DAN EVEN UNlO bEEN-of1EbA.
Never since first 'thc morning stars sang together,
and all the sons of God shouted for JOY" has there
been so great imminence of a breach so deadly among
nations as to threaten the conversion of the world
into one mighty house of mourning as now.
Never before has the earth, from the rising Of the
setting sun, been so shaken by the tread of men pan
oplied for war, and eager for battle, as now.
Reason over in Europe has abandoned her throne,
and lunacy is prospecting as never before.
Mars seems to have deserted his home on the
Olympian heights to arouse anger and stir up strife
among mortals, over there.
In the madness of ambition, the ~mightiest mon
archs of civilization have thrown prudence to the
winds and with i~nsatiate lust of conquest, are reck-
lessly risking the very crowns they wear to add to
their dominions and herald their names and fame on
every shore, however distant.
Greed, avarice, ambition, and love of pageantry
and pomp and limitless power have seized the souls
of continental rulers. s.
God, alone, knows what the end shall be, and
where the limits of Kingdoms and principalities and
republics will be when the morning cometh after the
end.
Larger armies than Napoleon ever imagined, even
in the widest dreams of that Titan of destiny who
knew no fear, and dared call for troops in countless
numbers, are being modified so rapidly that within
the week the European continent, from the Baltic to
the Adriatic and from the Bay of Biscay to the Asi.
attic line, has been turned from a holiday play ground
into an armed camp.
Nor is the mobilization of armies confined to the
great powers on the continent.
The power to which, for purposes Of foreign con.
quest and subjugatlon, Daniel Webster declared:
ERome in the height of her glory is not to be com.
pared-a power which has dotted over the surface OF
the whole globe with her possessions and her mill.
tary posts, whose morning drum beat, following the
) sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the
earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the
martial airs of England, y is at white heat with the
war spirit from center to circumference
r Such armies and such navies, in the millions Of
s men enrolled and the thousands of ships riding the
r seas, and the vast, wealth required for their equip
ment, armament, supplies and service, is so incon
! ceivable it staggers the understanding of him who
!" undertakes the computation of their numbers and O
l. their daily cost.
With such munitions of war and such numbers O
@ men and such enormous resources, who can forese,
or foreshadow the suffering to humanity to ensu,
from it all, or what the end shall be?
He who engages to predict the result by declarin,
J. where the eagle of victory will finally perch is a dar
ing So0th .Sayer, indeed.
IS For the BEACoN's part, it can only suggest witt
Byron,
" 1.-The best of prophets of the future is the past,
III If we accept that as a basis for our forecast. W
cannot forget the song of Derorah that "the stars i
if their courses fought against Sisera'' for the avengin
&c of Israel.
80 And so, too, the stars in their courses tough
against 1.-THE gloomy athlete of the pugiism of war.
Bonaparte.
to Waterloo was history repeating itself.
IN But for rain in the night between the 18th an
ad 18th day of June, 1915, which produced the miscal
IN riage of Napoleon's plans in the forepart of the ba,
=" Gle, it might have been Wellington's Waterloo an
or the history of France and all Europe would not hav
been as it is today.
And so it may again be in our day and generation
on The God of battles, who controls the storms. IN
h. lightning and the gale, may once more disapnoir
the ambitions and plans of those who thirst for elor
IL and for fame by causing the stars in their courses
he fight against the one or the other of the high an
We fierce contendlng parties to the present day Europea
strife.