Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-20
Loyalty to American
Flag---Sermo blythe
Rev. Gay c. White
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had to happen. Our eyesight has been
so strengthened hat we can study
the canals on the planet Mars. Our
hearing has been extended SO that
we can listen to u own voice after
it has travelled the circle-of the globe.
Our voice is so attuned to the in
visible waves of sound and of cleo
: tricity that we can speak and all the
world may listen to our whisper. Our
fists have been SO strengthened that
where once we could reach only to
the end of a knotted club, we can.
now srike a blow at a distance of
twenty-five miles and shatter cities
and hillsides into crumbling ruins.
1t was inevitable that with such.
physical development, and the souls
Of men standing still, there would
come a tremendous conflict involving
all the nations in it's deadly mael-
strom. But in this war the souls of
men will grow to more than match
the destructive temptations Of great
physical The souls of men
will so cherish life and freedom and
Justice that they will forever abhor
the arbitrament of arms and compel
a federation of nations that shall
keep the peace of the world.
our Hope in God.
1t is coming, as surely as God Is
God. Our hope is in Him It IS
Gods war! Men may struggle but
God is not blind. The Gospel alone
can save Germany and Mexico and
Japan and our own fair land. We all
need the same healing touch OF the
Christ.
In it all let US pray to be from
hatred and bitterness. On, now we
need God, every one OF us. a we
have within our hearts the spirit OF
Edith Cayell, who going 70 her exc
cltion. remarked to a friend, y see
now that patriotism is not enough. !
ml1sf die without hatred or bitterness
toward anyone Our soldier Doys
must pray for the men whom they are
irving to destroy. We must love the
neonie whom a terrible necessity com
pels us to kill. We must tnat
to destroy physical life is not So tef-
rihIe az to be untrue to the Iunda-
mental principles OF society. Whsn
those principles are endangered py
an insane people, mad with the lust
of mower. somebody is going TO gel
hurt. VIZ do not try to yindlcate Wal
hit II Is easier to yidicate war ina
"a indicate injustice. Fed Tor q gen,
eration upon a false philosophy ina
might gives d man the right 70 WoFk
his own selfish. hellish will, the Ger
man neople are obsessed Win lls
idea that they must rule q Wofld
rrhev have been h~ypnotized py ~
ideai "a false and terrible as .
have no permanent abiding place 81
rent ia he'll where it came from. ~.
ID nray for the German people. Iol.
knows they need Y prayers. - 8
uray for their emancipation FfToni ~
nrsson house Of the soul, the tyrann.
~ q False ideal. which is after all lhs
beginning of all t~yrannies
Indictment 81 Germany.
me Indictment of Germany u ne
4 matter 81 rumor. We nave Us \.
ffnbitabIe testimony Of Cnrlsllai
stafesmen whose word Is $50 Iru ~
dennitK we cannot question. Ai, gas
sador Gerard, Brand Whiliock, IT,.
bert Hoover, DR.. Van DYKE, \. 8
men are not sensationalisLss lley 81
not liars: they + soper I = g,
christian men. sn.E
evidence Germany pianneu lel
war: Germany expected lne IS
Nerrnany began the waravyea caal T.,
sxcug the Sins of our aliies. Ao a.. Is
~ excuse our 0Mnn nationa ~,
anminfp. but At sth&ta1nere u sGa:s1ncr
eace. on