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'.Once 10 Every Man And Nation
Comes The Moment 10 Decide. !"

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Inferno has a hell beneath all other bells
prepared for those timid beings soho in
sisted on being neutral IN the eUerlast-
ing fight bettoee1s good and evil. This
toGr is a fight bet,Ceers those forces Of
good and emil"
This is an extract from letter by
Samuel Harden Church, president of
the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, to
intimate friend in German iversity
The letter presents an illuminating DIS
cussion of the cause of the European
war, Professor Church has clearly
stated the case. drawing his facts from
the official statements made by the
Emperor of Germany and other Ger
man, Austrian and Russian officials.
Every man of honest mind and sheart
who wants to know the cause of the
war, which has produced such woe as
the world never knew, shall read it.
This letter, written early last winter,
he's attracted such attention in this and
other countries thatit has been publish
ed in pamphlet form for general dis
tribution.
The statement quoted from Professor
Church's letter, that Dante found
hell beneath all other bells reserved for
those who in the everlasting fight be-
tween good and evil prefer to be neu-
trail for fear of some personal harm.
ought to be remembered not only as to
this war, but as to everything else
which bears on right and wrong. In
this case, as Professor Church says,
war is fight between the most un-
scrupulous, murderous war machine
ever created, representing the Hohen-
zollerns and the Hapsburg as standing
for "the divine right Of kings to rule, =
on the one hand, and the democracy
of the world, on the other hand
Every man who does not believe in
divine right of kings to rule" and
ruin. and who believes in democracy;
every man who does not believe in the
deliberate, premeditated murder of in
nocent women and children on he high
seas. is of necessity on the side of the
Allies.
Every man who believesA in the
''divine right of kings to rule or ruin.
who believes in the deliberate murder
of innocent women and children on the
high seas, and every man who upholds
the .unspeakable and indescribable
atrocities that have wrecked and ruin
ed Belgium, is on the side of Kaiser
Wilhelm,
There is no other ground on which
any man can stand, unless he prefers
that form of neutrality for which the
lowest of all hells is reserved,
In Lowell's 1.-THE Present Crisis.
appropriate in name and appropriate
in through to the crisis of this hour,
though written many years ago, is the
following, which fits the situation:
Once to every man and nation comes
the moment to decide
In thestrife of Truth and Falsehood, for
the good or evil side;
Some great cause, Gods new Messiah
offering each the bloom or blight;
Parts the goats upon the left hand and
the sheep upon the right;
And the choice goes by forever 'twixt
that darkness and that light.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong
forever on the throne
Then to side with Truth is noble when
we share her wrecked crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit,
and t is prosperous to be just;
Then it is the brave man chooses, while
the coward stands aside,
Doubling in his abject spirit, till his
Lord is crucified,
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