The Washington herald., 1914-08-29
Who Ruler
ny EMORY !. HAYNES.

One cannot help asking this question. 1t is forced
upon the mind daily Can anybody stop this vast
European WARP Certainly no human ruler. The
forces let loose are 50 great that all human ex-
perience is agreed that there is no power the
earth that is the next higher power Then the mind
stands trembling and afraid. Who rules? 1t is a
perfectly rational question. In an hour when the
major part of the rulers of man refuse to rule but
decree misrue, is chaos inevitable
1t is not technically, religious answer to reply,
the Ruler of the whole earth He has not thrown
down one jot or title of His law. Not an ounce
of this overpower has been paralyzed. 1t is as po-
tentia it last June. The government over all
governments is equal to any possible demand upon
it here in August, and its energy will not waste be-
tween now and next January
Our minds remain fixed in the trust that the
electric lights will burn" just the same next Novem-
Der. We do not doubt that steam will still expand
and push piston-rod on an engine next year We
do not pretend to know how these powers originate,
beyond the silent assent of the same mind that the
Creator the Great Intelligence causes and sustans
them.
Though all human governments were to cease
benevolent acts such sending the mails policing
the streets against thieves yet the sun would rise
and set the same. The minute accuracy OF the al
manac is unchanged to the second the crosses
the solstice in September.
To the Power that maintains this vast clockwork
fidelity in matter turn. We cannot refuse the
rational appeal to that Power In a crisis when the
love of man for his fellows fails and widely he
seeks to kill his fellows what is the Power doing
which ripens the corn so widely? There seems no
hitch no halt in the corn. see the farmers cutting
it. Whole fields go down like moved regiments" of
armies. 1t is the harvest on time.
Is it the harvest among the nations? 1t certainly
must be. The Power does not take care of corn
stalks and wholly neglect nations of human beings.
Behold the grass Of the field, which today is and
tomorrow is cast into the oven" But it is by con-
trast that we are to think of the human race.
No should be so bold as to say what is being
done by this world power. But only fool could
cast away his faith in progress and the order that
is its law
We may ask how supreme power could master
continent of angry men. Master it? Prevail over
up in the mind. Replies so awful that one hestates
to shape them in words. The breath of life, in
every unit of ALL could be stopped by the Power
that gave that first breath to US
1t is when rulers recognize their accountability
that they rule best. Our civilization had progressed
so far that millions were intelligent They have not
ceased to be So by any declaration of war" The
intelligence of the world waits helpless, in awe,
nothing doubling. Mankind is the object of tender
affection by ruler who ages on ages of happy
human life on this globe High above it have been
hung servant suns and moons and stars. The cons
of time are not to be defeated on a little area of
Belgium.
We proudly built ships that the Atlantic Ocean
could not conquer. Then we could not conquer the
passions of little human souls So the ships are
tied up, helpless, afraid of the wrath of man.
Surely it is just the date in the century TO look
reverenty to the Power 1t is Indispensable The
Power. Abjectly dependent it, we lift our faces
Who is ashamed to confess that this is his
hopel Already new reverence comes, like be-
lated dawn, upon the Swallowed world. Already the
chastened spirit is prevailing over the conce that
is always cruel The sowing in tears will be reaped
with Joy.