The Washington herald., 1917-07-22
"The Kaiser's Gates of He'll
Shall Not Prevail Against
World Democracy"

In the text Christ was talking to
Peter. He told him to build the
church upon the rock Christ and the
gates of He'll would not be able to
prevail against it. The church stands
for civilization and the principles of
democracy. and the gates of Hell have
not been able to overthrow 10. Our
nation is the temple representative
of things for which the Church of
Christ stands; for our nation stands
for civilization and the principles of
world wide democracy, while Ger
many, that is the Kaiser and the
PrussIan military autocratic party as
ISOLATED with him, represent the gates
of He'll.
The Kaiser has fought against civil
liZation and democracy and he is
fighting America But the German
gates of He'll will not overcome the
world civilization and democracy.
Germany is already falling. The
handwriting of the doom of the Ger
man Empire is already on the wall.
The kaiser's mad revel OF murder
and assassination Is almost at an
end.
The German armies are on the de-
fensive. The U-boat campaign Is
subsiding. The German plots and in
trigues among the nations have fail
ed. Her spy system has been un-
earthed; the Zeppelin raids are over;
the food supply is growing short;
the materials for ammunition and
war supplies are decreasing; her
armies are at the point Of mutiny
and the empire itself is on the verge
of revolution.
The Kaiser has betrayed his peo-
pie and lied and deceived his ma
tion about as long as he can. This
sort of thing cannot go on indefinitely.
There must be an end sometime and
that end is not far away.
The Kaiser's whole propaganda has
been built on Prussian brute force,
autocracy, the pernicious idea of the
divine rights of kings. lies, intrigues
and deception and such a system
sooner or later must fall. Only truth
and righteousness can stand.
The Kaiser is the son of perdition,
lost soul, the worlds would-be
murderer and assassin, and the prfn-
iples he represents are the very gates
OF He'll itself. Thank God he will
not prevail against America.
Our nation stands for liberty and
the universal rights of men; for hu-
! of worldwide democracy. President
Wilson's war message was the great
est document ever penned by mortal
man; the greatest of all State pa
pers. because it breathed the spirit
of democracy as no other document
ever has.
This nation in the providence OF
God is to be the savior of the world s
civilization. She is to champion world
wide democracy. God Almighty has
prospered us so that He might use
us at this critical time to save not
only ourselves, but the other nations
of the world against the ruthless ag-
gression of the barbarous Germans.
The world looks to our flag to lead
the nations VIGOROUSLY against the
Kaiser. This nation is the worlds
only hope. Germany cannot prevail
n gainst her. It was the hand of God
Almighty. not the hand of a man,
that planted the Stars and stripes on
the seas and the battlefields of Eu-
rope and our soldiers will keep that
flag waving until Germany is con-
duered and the world is safe for civ
ilization and democracy.
Our people here at home are going
to stand behind our soldiers and SAIL
ors until Germany Is defeated. And
we nre going to conquer Germany
right. We are going to do 1t in a way
that she can never again trouble the
world. We are going to whip her
and utterly crush and annihilate
everything that she stands for SO that
such a war will never again be pos
sible. When peace comes 1t will be
permanent universal peace and it
will be America that will make that
peace possible. The other nations
alone could not win without America s
aid.
France Is exhausted and bleeding:
Russia is uncertain and England is
staggering under the stabs of the as
sassin U-boats. When the war is won
1t will be due to America. Great
responsibility, therefore, is ours.
The Kaiser's gates of He'll shall not
prevail because our cause Is holy and
just They cannot prevail against US,
because we are in the right and the
Kaiser is in the wrong. They can
not overcome US because we have the
money and the men to carry on this
war indefinitely.
We will be rich when all other ma
tons of the world are bankrupt and
we will still have millions Of men out
Of which to make armies when the
soldiers of the other nations are slain.
We are going to build an invincible
war machine; we are going to build
great feets of ships. Both time and
the Atlantic Ocean are the friends Of