The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1917-09-12

A,
DAY SEPTEMBER 3:
When the story of the United States shall have
been written it will be printed in three coors,
not necessarily the Red, White and Blue, because
that cannot be improved upon, but it will be
printed in buff, and blue and khaki. Buff will
represent the creation of the United States by
the boys who wore the buff in 76 The blue will
represent the boys who wore the blue, who held
together what the boys of '76 created, the boys
of 49, and the greatest of all colors will be that
which will enfold and encompass the other two.
That will be Khaki, representing 1917, which pre-
served not only to this nation but to all the ma
tons of the earth the right of majority to rule
themselves
have never been, l regret to say, much of a
religious man and think have great deal of
company, much to the greater regret of many of
us; in fact, | sometimes think that with a
large majority. But can see, and women
of Redwood County today, rising above every 9TH
er thing in lfe the picture and the teachings of
Gods son who was crucifed for mankind Rising
above every other consideration of life is the
promise given by Him that there will be peace
earth and good will toward men,
sharp-shooter who generally hits the bulls
eye, gave me a thought the other day which I
will elaborate upon along those lines Keep in
mind the figure Of Christ rising out of the
pires of DID, without an empire on earth, and
think of the influence which he has had upon the
human life-who made the greatest of all
tions since He earth and think of Him in
comparison with the three whom I will call
to your attention. There other that
might call to your attention perhaps equally no
torious and murderous as those whom I will name
But do not wish to tire you with great deal
of ancient history, that tired you enough when
you were going to school, But want to call your
attention to the fact that when you read ancient
history, medieval history, you reading
ly all the time of kings and kingdoms, and very
seldom read of men, women and children, except
ing in very noted cases. exceptional History
was divided into kingdoms, ruled over by certain
men families that produced kings
Not until Christ earth was thought
given to the ordinary individual All you read
about was kings and Lords, and when you think
of ancient history and of your medieval history,
there stands out throughout all history the names,
in my judgment, of three men that are somewhat
familiar to
We told the story of one of them in the
25th Chapter of the Second Book of Kings; his
name NebuchadneZZar He great
king in those days; he was king of Babylon and
he had two fronts that he fighting on, the
same as a certain Kaiser in these days. He was
fighting eastern front and on a western
front, and he himself was to be in little town
in between. This little town would resemble
somewhat the town of Potsdam today, where the
Kaiser directs the eastern and the western front
fights. Old Neb was remarkable king too, even
in those enlightened days, and he was somewhat
of general. He divided his forces so as to keep
both the eastern front and the western front busy
the same as the Kaiser is attempting to do today.
We will take no note of what Old Neb did on the
east because we don't care very much but what
he did in the west had great effect upon civil
ization. The western city that he was trying to
encompass was Jerusalem and the king of Judea
at that time was Hadikiah. Hadikah had about
him all the fighting of Judea and they were
BEND the barricaded walls of Jerusalem. and un-
der his direction they induced to and did
protect their rights of civilization, the same as
other people would Nebuchadnezzar was more
powerful king than Hadkiah. he had more re-
sources and he used better generals. He ordered
his troops to build wooden buildings around the
walls of Jerusalem, climb them, and enter
into and capture the city, and they succeeded in
the act
Hadikiah, who only thirty-two years old at
that time, according to the story of the Bible had
two sons that he thought great deal of. When
the troops of Nebuchadnezzar secured possess
sion of the city of Jerusalem they took Hadekiah
and his two and their two hundred best SOL
diers, including his bodyguard, and then Old Neb
in order that his subordinate officers might fit
tingly conclude the tragedy, said $50 to it; kill
all the maidens and young men in the city at
your pleasure And they did-and made good
job of it. Nebuchadnezzar wanted job of his
own, so he took the two hundred troops, the body
guard, to this little town that we will call Pots
dam, and for the edifcaton of himself. put to
death the two hundred splendid men, who be-
longed to the army of Hadikiah How did he put
them to death? By driving stakes down into the
ground and having the tops sharpened, and then
stripping the soldiers, threw them into the air,
so that they might alight upon the stakes and
wiggle until they died. That was old Neb's idea
of sport.
He went further than this. In small circle
he gathered together those who should have re-