The twice-a-week Twin Falls times. (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1916-1918, 1917-12-06

INSTRUMENTATION Alps In that wedge
driven into the hearts of the Balkan
states In that bloody wedge beyond
Bagdad. skirting the Suez canal,
stretching almost to the gates of Jer-
usalem Back of these unbroken lines.
in reserve camps are thousands OF men
getting ready for their first battle
or men resting from their twentieth or
more struggle. Then away back in the
city park or country retreat more mil
lions are being trained to be passed
up to the reserves. then into the
trenches. then into the jaws of death.
These men are looking at things
straight. They have put away veneer,
sham. and hypocricy. They are look
/ ing more steadily at the fact of life
! and death than any of us. They have
studied the mathematics of the war
how quickly they reach back hand to
the hand of kindness extended to them.
How eagerly they receive Bible or
Testament What response to prac-
tical ministry of helpfulness.
There is a picture in one of the
great art galleries, THE Last Days Of
| Napoleon" There is the statue OF
the great Napoleon, sitting back in his
invalid chair, with but few days 20
live feeble. broken not now the mas
ter of Europe-but alone, brow-beat-
en- in his cow shed at Longwood-his
hand on an outspread map of Europe,
yet so helpless-as he looks on 1t ALL
presently those mobile lips moves?
Napoleon saw it at last. He saw it
all so plainly. He saw life. He saw
truth. He saw and said, THAT the
ages and the rule do not belong to
Force" He compared himself to Alex
ander and Caesar. He like them had
built his Empire on Force. Where
was it all? Bits, atoms. Jesus Christ,
he said. had founded his Empire on
Love-and at that moment thousands
would die for the name of Jesus.
Napoleon saw it all Saw it plain
ly His Empire built upon Force
ground to bits, to atoms. History re-
peats itself 1t might be well for the
Kaiser to gaze upon this statute and
listen to Napoleon reciting his Obser-
vations to Bertrand, as he sits there
in marble in the mystic silence of his
great room.
The ages still belong not to Force,
but to the people, and to Love.
| close with saying one more word
about Napoleon-it is the lesson for
this hour of suspense, and the hours
of anguish yet to come. 1t is the
symposium gathered by a great pa
per of France, as to who was the
greatest Frenchman of the nineteenth
century TO this question million
and half persons responded Who
was the man? The man who got the
most votes was far ahead of the sec
ond man, and the third far behind the
second, the fourth a mere stranger.
The man out of sight in the lead was
not Napoleon-it was Pasteur-the
physician and chemist, who served the
sicknesses of humanity. Then next
Gambetta-the tribune of the people
then Victor Hugo-the prophet of the
people; and a bad fourth Napoleon.
1t will be so again. Millions will
extend their votes of thanks to the
agencies of the Red Cross, and the
ministry of the Young Mems Christian
Association-wh placed themselves
at the nations disposal to go forth to
do Gods will-not their own, cost
what it may. How much, Oh, how
much we may read in those words
cost what it may !"-before parents
and sons meet again.