Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-12-02

Editor Courier:
I have had the pleasure OF reading
lin recent Courier David Starr Jor-
dams editorial on Social DarWlnlsm,
the Spacious Justification or the Law
'of Might by Nations at War 1t does
me good to read such editorials, and
to know that we have got such cap
able. SO we'll informed men as MT.
Jordan to speak and write in defense
Of the pacific principles of the gospel
I, of Christ, the prince OF peace.
When | read his quotation from
Hietsche, referring to Christ. saying
on the mount Blessed are the peace
makers, for they shall be called the
sons Of God; but say unto you: bless.
ed are the war makers for they snail
be called the children Of Odin, who
is greater than Jahve.
When I read that | was reminded
of what | have often thought, and
wanted to say that it would certainly
be quite an accommodation TO matters
of peace advocates, to have that testl-
mony of Christ translated so 1T would
read. cursed are the peace makers,
for they shall be called the children
Of the devil. unless they join the
military ranks on one side or the other
and fight until one side or the other
is knocked out or surrenders. The
followers of Christ, the prince OF peace
can laugh at their opponents and
opposers and enemies for he says,
"If any man serve me, let him follow
me, and where I am, there shall my
servant be- What if they are hated
and despised, rejected of men. he
saws to his followers, If the world
hate you, We know that 1t mated me
before it hated you; If We were OF the
world, the world would love it's owner
but because We are not Of the world,
but | have chosen you out of the
world, therefore the world hateth
you
Again he says, Remember the word
that / said unto you, the servant is
not greater than his lord. II they
have prosecuted me, they will also
persecute you; If they have kept my
saving they will keep yours also
Everything pertaining to Christ and
his kingdom, is of foreign birth. He
saws he is not of the world, he says
his kingdom is not Of this world, and
for that reason his servants would
not fight, for he says they are not of
the world, hence he says, Ye must
be born again. Except man be
born again he cannot see the king
dom of God" He cannot comprehend
it, or appreciate, or enter into It..
There has to be new birth, in order
to get into this new kingdom, and no
two things are more unlike than this
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more unlike than this kingdom, and
Kingdoms of this world, and no two
things more unlike, than the Christian
system, and the war system. The one
is not only intended to modify the
spirit and practice of the other, but
to totally annihilate it and does do
1t, wherever it is received in it's spirit
and practice, whether in our hearts,
in our homes, in our schools, in our
churches, or in our country.
But the friends and advocates of
this blessed gospel of peace and right.
must remember that we are no more
Christian nation than other nations
that are now killing each other
by wholesale in Europe. Hence all
this talk about preparation for war
If we were nation of Christians, we
would not want to use the weapons
and preparations we have got. The
only armour that Christians should
wear is described in the sixth chapter
of Pauls letter to the Ephesians, COM
.mencing with the thirteenth verse.
wish every reader Of The Courier
would read the chapter.
Yours for Righteousness and peace.
A. Yost.
Libertyville, Iowa.