Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1917-12-20

lenge of the Present Crisis says "a
Christianity that is not international
has never known it's Master" In be-
ing true to our national ideals we are
true to the broadcast international
brotherhood. That is why we are in
the war. Our patriotism and love of
country extends to include the high
est welfare of every nation. Would
you be loyal to the best interests of
Germany? Then be loyal to your own
land! The ideals Of our republic are
the only ideals that can ever help Ger
many.
We must be loyal to vital truth.
This is the final plumbline that runs
through the entire structure of loyal
ty, from the family on through to the
family of nations: loyalty to the
truth of God, loyalty plus vision and
understanding. Ida Lewis. taking up
the work of lighthouse keeper, after
her brave husband had lost his life
trying to save other lives, is a fitting
example of loyalty. For fifty years
she remained true to her lonely post,
saving in that time, with her own
strong hands, the lives of IS people.
The Imprint of Character.
Yes, we are all in it. When the Am
erican troops marched through Lon
don they revealed many ethnic dis
! tinctions. Scotch, Jewish, Scandina-
I Wan, Italian, German, etc, but on
every face there was something
more: it was the imprint of charac-
ter that stamped them as Americans,
| soldiers of the United States! Their
| sires came from everywhere but the
soldier boys, looking neither to the
right nor to the left. We're marching
under but one flag, the Stars and
| Stripes!
The children are in it. They are in
il all over. They are selling Red
Cross seals, they are buying thrift
stamps and Liberty Loan bonds. They
are planning already for the back
I yard and vacant lot gardens of next
year. They are willing TO do without
sweets at Christmas time. The mil
lions OF our school children are loyal
in a great way. And the army of
school teachers is a loyal army. They
are the patriotic instructors Of the
coming generation and they are doing
their work wonderfully well.
The women are in If. Their pray
ers. their kitchen economies. their
Red Cross sewing and knitting, their
denial of new clothes, their courage
and cheeTfulness ~concealing heavy
hearts,-the American women are
coming up to meet their broken heart
ed sisters of France and England
and Italy and Belgium. We shall
have a new type of American woman
hood after this war is over. / pray
that ii may not close before cur.
T1u3en shall have understood the cost
of it all and shall not hold lightly the
benz fits they enjoy under the banner
OF she Stars and Stripes. And Is
Bishop strntz reminded the women
OF Chicago the other day, let them
not put on deep mourning when the
iaddie is brought back home, anoint-
ed for the burial. Let them rather,
with tear.glorified cheeks, rejoice that
I God has deemed them worthy of the
great sacrifice that The nations might
be free.
Epoch of Opportunity.
The men are in it. Farmers, labor
unions, bankers, all. The training
camps and bairIefieidg bring jew and
Gentle, Protestant and Catholic,
Yankee and Yirginian into a new com
radegbip. q new brotherhood. The
man who goes out IN the spring SOW
ing the seed for a harvest that shall
feed Europe is enlisted as truly as is
his son who shoulders a u and
marches off to the Genes of battle.
America is loyal. and the people with
q divided allegiance are very few.
The children are in 1t, the women
are In it, the me are In it,-GOD is
IN TT The race Us struggling up.
ward toward the light Mr. Foadieiz
points out that this is an epoch Of
opportunity for Christianity. He re,
sers to the statement OF Bergson. the
great philosopher, that with all our
bodily and material development. our
6ouls, our spiritual natures, have mol
aegelopad accordingly Something
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