South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-11-26
Civilization and
WheatF oundHand
In Hand on Earth

mana III HdUO Is the opinion OF Kew
a. v. Babbs OF the Stull Memorial
church. In his Thanksgiving day
sermon, delivered yesterday morn
ing. Rev. Mr.. Babbs pointed out
that only in lands where wheat is
raised has civilization flourished
The minister urged that America
has much 10 be thankful for this
year. and pointed out 10 the abund-
ant wheat crop as one OF the many
blessings for which thanks should
be returned 10 the Divine Ruler.
Enter into the gates with
Thanksgiving. and into his courts
with praises be thankful unto Him
and bless His name.-Ps. 1904.
For Great Harvcsts.
I'VE have ne.er needed our great
crops more than we are needing
them now. The whole world is cry
ing out for brad and from our
broad praises, and from all the
farming lands of the nation is flow
ing the steady stream of things that
will relieve this hunger and prevent
the advance of gaunt famine.
High civilization has never gone
| with any lands except the wheat
countries. There is something about
wheat that gets into a mans brain,
that puts the kind Of fibre there
/ that makes him progress faster.
I China has been for ages a rice eat
/ ing nation. and so has Japan, and
/ both we're thereby retarded; and
now that Japan has come into con-
hn
tions. she is getting TO be a wheat
eater and a wheat raiser herself.
Test my statement that civiliza-
/ tions and wheat have always gone
| together:
When Paul was shipwrecked at
Malta. il was not cargo of lumber
they had on board. but a cargo OF
wheat.
When Jacob and his sons went
down into Egypt they bought
corn" but that is old English for
wheat Palestine, when its wheat
crop failed, sent down into Egypt
for its bread supply. Here were
( two seats of civilization.
"BabyIonia and Assyria were
great wheat producing countries and
/ both Of them highly civilized.
There is a reason for this. The
I wheat lands OF the world lie in
great bodies. not little patches; so
that a great population may gather
in and around them. Just as soon
as a tribe quits wandering. and set
/ ties on the wheat lands, il begins
TO have time enough TO gather
knowledge.
America, with her great har-
vests. has leisure for her learning
and lights the lamp of civilization
as the other nations have done.
And in the raising OF her har-
vests, she also at this time divides
her surplus with the rest of the
world and feeds the mouths of age
and youth and childhook alike.
4 Flag Uncovered.
United states has never lowered
her Flag TO any other power and
please God she never will. When
the Flag of our country goes down
everything it stands for shall go
with it, That Flag is a Flag of IL
stripes, red and white. with white
stripes for clean citizenship and red
stripes FIR sacrifice. and "a blue field
with "A galaxy of stars there 10 re-
mind us that this Flag is in an al
lance with heaven. When was that
alliance made? Ii was in the cabin
: of the Mayfiower. and on Plymouth
Rock. and in the little church at
Plymouth. And this Flag Of ours Is
on the other side OF the sea just
now that the spirit OF Plymouth and
Plymouth Rocl, may spread. so
( there may be other Plymouths and
other plymouth Rocks and other In
dependence halls and other declara-
/ tons of independence. While we
regret that the war in Europe has
/ been necessary, let Us not forget
when our Flag marches across Eu-
rope that it is the Flag of Washing
ton and Lafayette. and Benjamin
/ Franklin and Israel Putnam and
Daniel Webster. ana Sumner and
Abraham Lincoln. IL always means
the same thing wherever it appears
and 10 whom il appears It AWAY :
| means the same thing. IL has never
appeared on the soil of Europe un-
ti now: and when the United states
Flag meets the flag of Austria and
/ Germany il meets the flags of autoc-
racv and the divine right of kings.
independence hall is yet 10 be built
/ in Germany. IL is bound 10 be built
] there and I'm the city Of Berlin there
/ is vet 10 be an independence bell.
| Perhaps that bell now swinging
| i'm some church in Berlin. ready 20
/ be runS when the day or real lib
ertv comes The shadow OF the
American Flag is now falling across
the boundaries OF Germany; and the
ground that that shadow falls upon
will never be the same again. In
that soil tyranny will never grow
and blossom again. Tyranny cannot
grow in the shadow OF the Amer
lean Flag. In that shadow the scep-
ter OF william II. shall wither: and
10 ought TO. IN that shadow his
throne shall totter; and ii ought.
The man who commands his soldiers
20 be as frightful as Attila, and who
gives TO each soldier the motto:
Stay. eternity will not ask Your
reasons is too bloodthirsty a mon
ster TO set upon the throne that he
has already forfeited; therefore let
the shadow OF the American Flag