The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-10-05
FATHER WRITES SON
A PATRIOTIC LETTER
Urges Him to Do HIs Full Duty to


His God and to Nis Country.
My Dear Son: | thank God from
the depths VI my heart that you have
feit Gods cali and hamanity's call.
aud your colmtry's call anu expect
10 80 To France 10 help beaI down
the savage foe Of civilization. send
you forth as good soldier Of Jesus
/ Christ we'll know that some good
people think IL wrong to engage in
any war hut | have never heard that
/ these people clamortd for the rsnoy
Il of the police They want well or
dered and protected communities tu
dwell ia. and they know that Grim
/ inals have 10 be restrained. You and
| / think about war what the Bible
| teaches us, In Joel SIS you md this
| Proclaim ye this among the na.
tions ScanIify war lnot prepare"
lit The Hebrew has the same woru
of seantifying the seventh day, san
tifying the frst-born, etcl Beat your
ploWshares into swords and your
pruning hooks into spears And so
! with a rejoicing heart your earthly
| father sends you forth to do the bid
ding of your heavenly Father. PiaN
your part like a noble, true, God.
fearing man The work has to De
done il Is a great work for hamani.
lty and for civilization. They are
threatened with overthrow al the
hands Of a savage. merciless, bulta,
foe. a foe that iramplss under foot
All honor. all sacred pledges, all feel
invs of humanity. all respect for
lrhIldhood and Swomanhood SO Tar
from being sorry for you 10 so to
France. YOU and | htimhly thank God
that as vet the broad Atlantic rolls
lbstNeen that foe and this country
luo 10 France heroic. bleeding. IN
cnmnlabnt Francf--and do what
you can "a rescue her and BelEium
and Armenia and ether countries
Won know that I have tried to train
Won 10 be true 60 your felloWmen ~
very relation of life. and also To bt
! rendy 10 carry more than Your nhf'
~ the load. because that means sac
rifce. and we can not follow ~
cbrtst's footsteps unless we do make
sacrioces We ought to lay down oui
Lives for the brethern DO you h"al
The aeonizinE cry Of your oreth.in
: from across the sea- Does nor l"n' "
; anguish OF the Armenians STIR "N"IS
generous emotion In YOU Ate tn'
"a be left 10 the crnelueH ol lhehsno ',pg
lsh Turks, that great assassin ha''o,' '','
! Who could moi practice thsf hhhp,.aA .l',sf,
able atrocities and d"Nhis - ~,
they were upheld by aefmah2 :. - ~,
ana not feel these Things oI
feu them and vet wer" Miil'hh ~ y
Inlay iaggnrd. and to leaN" us HN ~
~, ana noble work 20 be done "
a ,thrrp, I should mourn eAs"ealhFiN
! lhs1a,,se | tried 10 rear my boy 70 v
man ready to spring forward Z
1lsficul. dinagreebie. dangerous TASK
4. Goa calls yun 20 them. an'
il, 4 aeyoutIy thank Him that you nav
: lnosrd uie call In this matter ana ar
! yygiing 10 lay down your life. II n.f'
Ina Ia helm save the world from p'
.o,ning pray 90 ferocity and brutal
!, sea dsifed might Fight hard ~
1eor snu. and n YOU find . gfhF@
i r-a,,, win ntiii thank God 'ha'
:. l,sa sucb a ann 20 send, and shan -
nnr, IA be congratulated, whereas,
4 -, wera n Stacker In theH" tih,
+. a., are testing mems souis ! Pnn'
!, fnsl IKE hanging my head ~ ace
4 humiliation.
.,yn, remember our neighbor, Mr.
n how she was bnrnaN"
wear ago 81 The oldest Of her "
N sons promising lad Of school )"
ID snu,s az The heartbreak there an
pi Iber prolonged ~ health And yet ~
Encouraged her husband to enli'
a for the war, thoufh he II eeyona w
q .ra ai which be- could be drafted. an
,h,,,gb he leaves her and the reana'i
re ng lad and a lucrative business
er ,rder Ia do 80. And | saw her at ~
ri s-,fIr,aa station wave good hf", h'
n face smiling though II wac essy
mess what was IN her heart mar mar
ae Gns tha, we have such heroic
X .nen with enough Of tnat sort %
II viii yet save the world from -. -.
pany's cruel. brutal and lastl
he eIutrh II that army we're ever 70 isi s
~ np thess shores. ! should thank nt
ne mos, deyou,iy n could he" y"i
oil ,no,bsr's body lowered into the Efh,
az ibe,ore their pollutinE toneh CO."
y" reach her . -,
60. go forth. my boy. and may "'
hk rirhly bless You' ...s.,,,.,,..
ai. YOUR DEVOTED FATHER