Arizona republican., 1916-05-29

brotherhood is prevailing more and
 more.
 But Christian civilization was not
 destined to be introduced and estab-
 lished without war and blodshed. For
 three centuries the struggle continued
 with Rome, where centuries of despot-
 ism had so thoroughly inwrought the
 idea of the superiority of the ruling
 class into Roman thought and charac-
 ter as forever to unfit that nation to
 be the champion of the equality of man.
 Liberty was impossible so long as
 Rome lived Law there was in plenty, but not liberty under law.
 Then from the gloomy forests of the
 north God called the worshippers of Odin Thor, Balder and Hermod. and
 committed to these stern Teutons his
 sword. Before their irresistible on
 slaught civilization with all it's treas
 ures and religion with all it's insttu-
 tions, went down. What did it mean? | Simply that God had not abandoned
 His purpose to secure the rights of the individual. That was His terminal point, and when Roman power, culture
 and civilization disputed the right of
 way, they had to go down.
 Back into the forests of the north , carried Christian captives. who .etd t,,, "imple story of the Cross. At last the good 'uihgs reached the ears of the wild and rn,. hiess Saxons-your ancestors and niiffe. ]. we pluSh to admit relationship with these men Who dressed in the skins of wild bea. Us ana drank human blood out of hu,.Can i skulls, let us remember that with tiern l bravery was virtue and fear crime, i that their blood was untainted by vice. and their spirit linbroken by oppres- sion. Their government was demo- cratic, and all laws were ratified in popular assembly, with shouts and the clash of spear and shield. Their wild ] love of personal liberty and eXultant sense of independence were soon we'd
 ded to the Golden Rule, and became the progenitofs of our American spirit. At last liberty had found it's champion.
 When this splendid race stepped upon English soil. it seemed for time to tread liberty beneath it's heel; but
 the spirit of the Gospel gradually as-
 serted it's power. The Magma Charta
 was wfeEted from tyrant hands, the sovereignty of the king was trans
 ferred to the people, free institutions
 were established, and the divine right of the king" was circumscribed by the
 divine right of the people.
 Hut some. longed for purer air, for
 larger liberty. They came to these
 unknown shores to find for themselves
 wider civil and religious liberty. But
 h .af, ,HoH~ Iai
 thernselves they were as yet unwilling
 to grant to others. An unseen hand
 was forcing them forward, but they
 held back. The sword seemed about
 to fly from the scabbard, but they
 plead for it to be quiet. It could not
 be quiet, for God had given it charge
 God was forcing them toward larger
 expression of liberty than li,ey had yet
 dreamed of His purpose was gov ernment of the people, by the peol-le and for the people. q government in
 which every man should be equal to
 which the liberty should broaden the manhood 0f the citizens. and the weight
 of responsibility strengthen their character. a government in which the , Brotherhood of Man should be recog- ? nized and lived. As late as 1775 the , colonists had no thought of such a {. government for the Continental con ? gress declared that they had no inten- l tion of dissolving the union with Great ? Britain.
 2 But British oppression crushed them 9 so hard that it wrung from them the I cry that all men were created free and l equal and had an inalienable right to l life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness. Al last Gods eternal truth was h understood and expressed. The pent- |, up longing and passion of the cen f turies burst forth in that utterance. II
 sprang from the fatherhood of God s whispered in the Jewish doctrine of the t brotherhood of man. was sent to the . heart of humanity from the Cross s found expression in the struggles ot l. the early church. in the death of the n martyrs and in the wild songs of the t Northland. was written by the pen oi 8 Jefferson. and signed in blood by tho n heroes of the Revolution,
 = But for almost century thi: = larger expression of liberty and tn. e equality of man was hollow mocker, IT. to millions of our fellow men. I'm tt Revolutionary fathers were willing t' ', fight and die rather than to be taxed e. without representation; but at tn Q same time they were willing, for tn ' sake of the cultivation of their cottol 1 and tobacco, to hold in unwilling slav | cry q million of their brothers. In lS1 \ the United States went to war wit | England rather than allow the latte | to search her vessels and seize he | sailors; yet for 240 years we cntere | the homes of Africa and dragging ava \ men and women committed three mil | lions of them to slavery. Washington | Adams. Franklin Madison, Hamilton | Henry, Jefferson and other leader | were opposed to the system, and ad | vocated it's abolition, and the con | sciences of the men who had tough ' for their own liberties told them tha | they were violating the letter and spir | of the Declaration of Independence an | of the Gospel of the Son of God. Go | was speaking in gentle tones, but " ! refused to listen. Then He shook tn | continent with His voice, and for fou ! years we trembled at the sound.
 The North was slow to understan ! the South. At least when God put for ward Abraham Lincoln the South un derstood, and answered with the thun \ der of cannon against Sumpter. It significant that so long as the Mort \ fought ignorant of the deeper meanin II of he war she fo1pht in vain I'll