The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-07-04
THE WAR SITUATION
CAS- SEEN BY FRANK CARWILE)


write an article for his paper and l
shall endeavor to fulfill the promise.
NV father always told me to make
very few promises but be sure to
fulfill those that I did make. l rem
ember an old gentleman, Mr.. Moses
L. Ashley, whom the Lord in His wis
dom permitted him to live SO years
if 1 remember correctly, and so Tar
as I know he never broke a promise,
and if he went to help you 90 a days
work he was 80 minutes ahead OF
any one and his word was his bond
and he had the confidence of every
one for he could be relied upon to
do what he said on all occasions. Mr.:
Henry B. Bowie, the grandfather of
Editor Greene, / am told, was a man
very much like Mr.. Ashley and was
n of the best men of his day and
generation, and lived an upright life
in the sight of his God and fellow
men. 1 do not suppose his honesty
and integrity were ever questioned
in the least. I doubt very much If
we of the present generation meas
ure up to our parents and grand
parents in honesty and integrity.
The parents of the Editor know
something of the hardships of life
for their road has not always been
clear of stumps and stones. They
have done we'll by their children and
have given them opportunities and
prepared them to fight life's battles
by educating them and in doing SO
have made many sacrifices. The Ed
tor and rnyself were boys together
and used to go to picnics and make
fried chicken move and / haven't
forgotten the art yet and / do not
suppose he has. He waged his way
to the top of his profession but I'm
still blowing "Old Beck" and de-
pend on The good Lord to send the
early and the late rain. shall al
ways have my opinions and convic-
lions and shall hit square from the
shoulder and call a spade a spade.
I believe there is a God who sits
on His throne in Heaven and deals
out justice to every n and one day
if we are true to our duties He will
give US a home in that land where
day prevails and where there is no
night, for God is the light of the
city.
/ believe in the doctrine of pre-
29-9-1O-11 and Eph. 1:5, and
what God intends to be will be. This
terrible war now being waged across
the water did not bob up all at once
but was predestined long before the
men who are fighting its battles were
born. We are not all going to die
"on flowery beds of ease, while
others fought to win the prize and
sailed through bloody seas" If a
man is born to be president he will
be and we are free agents and work
out our own destiny.
Joshua said unto the people,
''choose you this day whom you will
serve", and Elijah came to the peo-
pie at Carmel and said, how long
halt we between two opinions if the
Lord be God follow him: but if Baal
then follow him." So it is very clear
to all of US that we work out our
own salvation and that we have a
hell to shun and a heaven to gain. /
shall fight the devil and all his works
with all the energy of my soul and
shall stand for all that is pure and
upright and that which tends to the
uplifting of humanity and fight ev-
erything that degrades it. In these
troubluous times the standard of
Jehovah needs to be lifted up and
not torn down.
The war across the Atlantic is the
greatest one this world has ever
known. Some thing like twenty ma
tons are now engaged in the fearful
destruction of humanity and there
is no telling how many more will be
in the conflict before it is over for
the end seems a long way off. Bur-
ton Smith, a London Editor, said in
a speech in Atlanta a few days ago
that it would last from 5 to 20 years
and the United States needed to get
her men and money in it at once if
we expected to shorten it. About
the 1st of August, 1914, an Emperor
by the name of Kaiser Wilhelm, who
claimed that he alone had the divine
right to rule and under his rule Ger
many had been preparing for war in
every way possible for 40 years or
more. The first thing he did was to
run over and crush poor little Bel
GUM in a most brutal manner, for
he spared neither infant nor suck
ling to accomplish his bloody pur-
pose. He treated the treaties he had
made as mere scraps of paper and
set out to rule with a rod of iron. He
has destroyed Is hundred villages in
France and has slain the poor women
and children of that noble country
as we would so many mad dogs and
they are giving us the Macedonian
cry, come over and help us.
1t has come home to many of US
and is coming to many more before
very long and many of our sons will
die from disease or be slain in bat
tie and there is going to be much
weeping and shedding of many tears
before it closes, or at least I
fear there is going to be. We are
going to be Inundated as never be-
fore for as a nation we have for
gotten God and wandered far away
from what He commanded US to do,
and He is calling a halt. When the
children of Israel did as He told
them they won every time but when
they disobeyed, their enemies won
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