Evening journal., 1916-01-10

generation mas burned them az the
stake, the other has gathered up their
ashes in the golden urn OF history.
Another noted characteristic of the
Crusaders was the enthusiasm engen-
dered. Many regard this as unreal
and visionary yet it is as certain and
definite a quality as electric energy
Without enthusiasm life is forceless
and futile. IL Is one OF the richest
and rarest elements OF the human
soul IL may. like sheet-lightning,
become vague and dissipated. II
needs TO be forstered, nourished. di-
rected. Any system Of education or
culture that disregards, depreciates
or destroys this faculty commits a
crime against the individual, immeas-
urable and objectionable. without
II no great movement was ever car
ried TO successful issue. Look out
upon your friends. and see how few
are gifted with this admirable quail
ity OF zeal II you have but a faint
spark, feed and fan il to a flame. Use
IL in the promotion OF some great pur-
pose and thus become one OF the
worlds greatest benegactors.
Il is urged against the Crusaders
that while they had enthusiasm they
lacked judgment, plan and method. II
makes a most valuable combination
when you can unite in your character
zeal with common sense. You ask
me which prefer, l will answer both.
Il takes both velocity and weight to
make momentum; both powder and
bullet TO make effective shots. Just
as in nature there are the two forces,
centrifugal and centripetal, the one
extensive and the other intensive, so
3 there ought to be in every well bal
anced human life both of these ele-
ments. The one to give force, the
other solidity.
II had been decided 10 spend a year
in preparation before setting out upon
the crusade; but many were impa-
tient. desiring TO start az once. They
/ prevailed upon Peter the Hermit 10
] lead them. Seventy-five thousand. In
two divisions, one under the direction
OF Peter. the other led by Walter the
Penniless. started overland TO Jeru-
/ salem. They had no commissary. no
base Of supplies, no means OF sub
sistence. In the forests OF Austria,
and in the mountains OF Bulgaria, at
tackled by robbers and brigands,
preyod upon by the people OF the
regions through which they passed
only a remnant reached CONSTANT
nople. and these were almost entirely
destroyed by the Turks as soon as
they crossed into Asia. Let no one
depreciate the importance OF pre-
paredness. The secret of success in
everything is in getting ready.
He that tries to cut cross lots will
usually find the way not only the
longest, but also the most disastrous.
Method and organization are invalua-
BILE II is the difference between a
disciplined army and a mob: between
an old hand sickle and a modern self
binder Some decry political ma
/ chimes. The machine Is all right, tho
fault is the wrong use to which Il is
put.
When the year was finished there
assembled the greatest army Europe
had seen. The Scot left his focks
and the Norseman his fish, the Frank
his vineyard and the Teuton his
fields. They had the greatest leaders
OF the day, Count Raymond of Toul-
ouse Count Stephen OF Blois; God
frey Bouillon of France and Tancred
the mirror OF knighthood. Monk
and knight-prince and peasant-sold
all their worldly possessions TO equip
themselves for this great enterprise
IL was a glorious sight-600 600 men
on richly caparisoned steeds. Their
plumes and banners waving in the
breeze. Their swords and spears and
battle axes glistening i'm the sunshine.
ombarking not with the motive of
world gain or of selfish ambition. but
with the purpose OF rescuing the tomb
Of the worlds Christ from the hands
of barbarous inhdels
When this great army reached the
Golden Gate. the Greek emperor, at
Constantinople, fearing they would
cast a covetous eye upon his own
possessions. hastened to ferry them
across 10 the Asiastic shore There
the Turks disputed every foot Of their
advance. Acre was captured only by
an awful siege. and but remnant of
/ forty thousand was left OF that vast
army. They passed the foot hills Of
Lebanon with its eternal SHOWS; they
skirted the shores of the Mediterran-
/ can and when they reached jana il
was in the month of June. the Year
of Our Lard. 106. When they mounted
the hills overlooking Jerusalem. a
/ cheer broke forth from every throat
and then they alighted and garbing
themselves in sackcloth and ashes,
they knelt in penitence and prayer.
But ahead Of them was stormy work
The city was captured by a terrible
siege, in which many of the inhabi-
tants were put to the sword and at
last the remaining we're carried into
slavery.
There are many who decry the in
! consistencies of the Crusaders as fol-
lowers of the Prince Of Peace. II the
warlike spirit of the Crusaders was
indeed inconsistent how much more
so is the condition of our modern civil
lized nations? All Europe is a great
military camp. The roar of artillery
and the rattle OF musketry thunders
day and night throughout an entire
continent. Tennyson in his Locksly