Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-25

prosperity and happiness ere he was
gathered to his fathers.
One might think we could leave them
here, but no. In this world of wicked
ness we must ever watch and pray for
we lived to see the day that this beau-s
tiful land of ours was about to be divid-
ed against itself and fall and here on
the verge of ruin and disaster Abraham
Lincoln was brought forth and what
shall we say of him7 He was the Sa-
vior of his country. Can you not see
God all along the way, for just a lit
tie farther on we can see a resemblance
of Abraham Lincoln s work to that of
our Savior s, for just as his work was
finished he suffered a terrible death at
the hand Of those he rescued and saw
ed; sacrificed it would almost seem that
his country might live. Truly God is in
it all, for what have they christened
this land of ours9 It is known the world
wide as "The Glorious Land of the
Free'' and people are flocking in from
all nations to partake of its blessings,
for Liberty is its motto. Enter thou
into the perfect liberty of the Gospel
of Christ and enjoy the blessings he
has in store for you. All these men, we
are told, were men of God, and although
they could found nation and save it
they could not save themselves, or OF
themselves come out from under the
bondage of SIM and because of this they
accepted the way God had prepared for
them and were saved by "The Blood
of the Lamb, God S substitute for
sin. Truly God is in it all, turning man s
very works to his own account and prov
ing by them that he is lost. For although
these men were fighting for life and
liberty, was is terrible thing, leav-
ing death and destruction in its path,
but we are told to destroy both soul
and body. And if there must needs be
wars and rumOrs of wars, God grant
that truth and righteousness may win
and liberty and freedom be granted all
And in closing 1 would say, the Stars
and Stripes floating in the breeze is
a fitting emblem for this land of
liberty loving people and might be said
to bear double significance: The Red
representing the blood of those gallant
men which flowed so freely that their
country might live; the red and white
as we course its way, even from one
end unto the other, showing by whose
stripes we were healed; the stars, as
they were added one by one, pointing
the wise men of the East to the birth
Of another state, upholding life and lib
erty to all who seek it's shores and the
white mingling with the blue proclaim
ing ''Peace on earth, good will toward
men," The whole, as we tarry in our
onward march to gaze upon its beauty
CARRYING our memory back to the Babe
If Bethlehem, and' marking his course
from the cradle to the grave, by the
virtue of which He is risen from the
lead and proclaimed of God to be the
Savior Of the world
l would that you should especially
lote that the enemy spoken of above
las reference to no one nation. but
ather to that spirit or principle which
,nters into the minds of men and causes
hem to seek dominion over the uni
yerse. It of necessity must be subdued-
Hence President Wilson has said in
ubstance: 1t is a spirit or principle at
take that spirit or principle of Glove"
oy, peace, long suffering against
which there is no law and for the up
folding of which our nation is at war.
Nav God in his infinite mercy so guide
md direct our ship of state that it may
ver be found upholding those principles
# liberty and love to which we owe our
lational existence and for the establish
nent of which God has been working
trough his spirit, his servants and his
,eople since the foundation of the
world.
MINNIE B. FROGLEY.