The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1917-11-15
RETRIBJTION
(BY w. H. DUGDALE)

dence and national pride is a prom
inent characteristic of the people, it
is only fair to presume that in the
face of the occurring events the peo-
| pie should be justly indignant and
stirred to action, Great bodies move
slowly, but the mills of the gods
grind slow but exceedingly fine.
The atrocities perpetrated by the
Germans have far outstripped the
limit of federation, and as it takes
drastic methods to meet drastic con-
ditions and check the onslaught of
relentless foe, puts us as a nation
face to face with hard problem not
easy to solve. OF course we will do
our duty-make every effort to- nit
igate the inevitable loss of life and
property, but at best it is an awful
undertaking and as a nation We feel
equal to the task. The men and WO-
men have responded bravely and
cheerfully to the call for men and
money; and no nation ever had more
express enthusiasm than is in evil
dence today in the good old US. A.
Retribution will inevitably follow
when Gods laws are violated or
Gods power is questioned. Note
recent case in Texas. "A fellow hoast-
ed in bar room that there was no
God-that the whole thing was a
myth. Suddenly he got quiet and
when spoken to he discovered that
he had lost his speech and then and
there was, struck dumb and for sew
eral days could not utter syllable
He changed his mind and today is
firm believer in retribution. 1t mat
tiers not whether it be individuals or
nations, it will come 1t came to
Brutus, it came to Cassius, it came
Ito Mark Anthony and Cleopatra fell
under it's heavy weight,
Human retributiOn is uncertain
depending on discovery or other for
tuitous circumstances, but moral
retribution is as sure as life, as sure
as death. And the kind of retribu-
ton that will be meted out to the
kaiser as rile result of this war and
his relentless efforts to create sorrow
and hardships on the innocent vic
tins of his despotism will De a dl,
vine retribution which belongs to
eternity.
Human and legal retribution we
may elude by concealment; divine
retribution we may avert by a time
ly repentance. but moral retributiOn
we must suffer. and that not by any
arbitrary sentence of a despot but
by the natural action of an equitable
law as old as eternity and as i'm
mutable as Cod and is as natural as
the pain that follows the contact
with fire.
1t is God given instinct that will
: not only permit but sanction the
atrocities that are of daily occur
, renee and executed by the Germans.
Who can conceive of a more cruel
act than that which occurred a few
days ago. Spencer H. Logan of Chi
Cago tells the story of a soldier ly-
ing in a hospital who was made the
victim of German barbarity. He
saws this man had got within the
German lines and had been taken
> prisoner. He had not been hurt or
| wounded in any way but when the
I Germans captured him they fell
upon him with the butts of theiI
guns, smashed his legs so that both
had to be amputated, cut off his
p right hand at the wrist and as
final blow struck him on the heaC
so that when the stretcher-bearerE
e found him after the French had re
q taken that territory he was nothing
s but a wrecked piece of humanity
his brains almost upon the grounC
upon which he lay and with scarce
T ly a spark of life left in him. Toda!
he IS aliye and the doctors say h
will recover, but God only know
9 what snch a recovery may mean t
. him.
It is said that Germany has so ia
: wrun9> about one billion six hundre'
IS million dollars from Belgium il
cash, quite exclusi1e of what sh
has gained by occupation of tn
,; country and systematic exploitation
u of it's resources and people, and
still looting Belgium industry aIi
Il deporting Belgians to work for he
u beyond the Rhine.
le Love and hate will both be larg
IS factors in the intercourse of nation
at after the end of the great struggle
IS What is now convulsing the Worl
IL REQUIRES no Solomon to determin
who will be respectively blessed c
"a cursed, for the nations themselve
have settled all that by their COZ
r. duct or attitude toward the struggl