The Irish standard., 1915-02-06
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However, also many weeds -four
ished, vice and sin assumed bold airs.
Justice was termed injustice; sensu-
atty paraded brazen.faced in its
nakedness through all the streets and
exposed itself in theaters and public
places; the most venerable bulwarks
were RACED amid scornful laughter:
the most sacred things were desecrat-
ed and abused. Earthly pride wished
to dethrone God and destroy the spir.
itual ORDER There was also much
quarreling and wrangling and petti.
ness In our conduct and Christianity.
Scarcely one bond united us brothers.
Even with reference to religion and
the Fatherland, the bonds that unite
most closely, our people were at odds.
!. Popular educators, priests,
preachers often let their hands drop
in despair and lost all faith in the
good traits Of human nature. Many
sighed: Lord God, our work is in
vain. If you do not interfere. then
we must see our people and country
sink into the morass!'
God Will Purge.
"And now God has taken the tools
from our hands; now He Himself
wishes to purge mankind with fire
and sword and blood. And He will
purge. That is our consolation.
'The war will accrue to our bene-
fit Even now, shortly after the bat
tie cry has resounded, we see the
good in human hearts reasserting it.
self and triumphing over all the low.
petty and vulgar instincts. All self
ish considerations have been set
aside. Who could have thought q
year ago that this disrupted and torn
German people, set upon itself by
wild-eyed agitators, could be so firmly
united that all social and party an
tagonism would be wiped out; that all
religious differences would cease; that
all would be bound to one another by
a great love of the Fatherland, ar
dent Christian charity, holy spirit of
sacrifice and self-denial? All are
ready to offer their blood and treas
ure, life and property for the general
welfare. The generosity of the hui
man soul has awakened again. The
noble and good and great increase in
proportion to the misery crying to-
heaven, the bloody tears shed, and the
signs heaved by heavy hearts.
"This struggle will be a war of
liberation, in the sense that the slum-
bering, sin-slaved human soul will
wake again to life and liberty: that
we shall again become a morally
strengthened, pure and holy people, q
united nation of brothers.
Germany is only one of at least
five great countries that will be recon-
pensed in this way for the terrible
price they are paying in blood and
treasure. OF course, for men who in
sist on having their heaven on earth.
regardless of consequences to society.
and who would have us believe that
man, like the irrational animal, ends
with the grave, this consideration is
of no value.
Still, even they will have to admit
that war is not by any means the
worst of evils. Take this illustration:
During the Franco-Prussian war
about $4,000 officers and men were
killed on each side. That means sor-
row in 100000 homes. Do we realize
that the divorce demon annually dis.
rupts as many homes in the United
States alone? Unless restrained, this
monster, born of as fierce a passion
as the lust for blood, will bring sorrow
and misery to as many homes as are
likely to be grief-stricken on account
of the awful world war! And the
death Of brother or father on the
battlefield does not mean the scandal
and rehashing of filthy details Incl
dent to the average suit for divorce
and it's exploitation by sensational
daily press.
Then there is the social evil, which.
as was indicated by cartoon in the
Survey about a year ago, annually
claims about 10000 women in this
country alone! What an appalling
number must be sacrificed on the
altar Of Lust throughout the entire
world!
Also, the Alcohol demon devours
his tens Of thousands every year.
Homicide takes another ten thousand.
Preventable industrial accidents and
diseases claim over fifty thousand
according to conservative estimates of
acknowledged authorities on Ameri-
can industries! In short, there is a
long list of peace horrors" as vora-
cious and Unsuitable as Mars, which
take their enormous toll year after
year. And yet we are thoroughly
shocked only when we see men slain
in large numbers by means of bullets
and the sword. The silent, syste-
matte butchery of tens of thousands
of children and women, as well as of
men, by peaceful evils, troubles only
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