The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-23

terday Russia struck off the shackles of ten thousand years
 And just because ideals are so born, when born they must be so preserved. And just as they are the results of the struggles and sacrifices of all, so they must be made the possession of all else the commonest principles of justice are defeated" And so the hireling who stands aside in the struggle cannot say with truth that "his' liberty is safe, for liberty is one and indivisble and no man can of right enjoy it and escape the re- sponsibility of giving it and insuring it to all Our liberty then is not ours alone. It is but 8 part of the realization of that divine ideal, age-long, developing and God-given. When the whole is marred by the triumph of tyranny and wrong in Europe then our part is no longer perfect. If we are indeed good shepherds, then our responsibility does not end when our own sheep are safe. We with all liberty-loving peoples are joined together in a God-ordained league for the preservation of the liberties of the world. For other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also l must bring, and they shall hear my voice."
 Now, the wolf does not belong to the League of Shepherds. The wolf is an in
 
 his welfare up against the god of many. It is so as we have seen in political life. Every sinner that you see, the thief, the liar, the adulterer the tyrant the mur- derer, seeks his own happiness; his own pleasure first regardless of the suffering and pain that the search may bring to others I want to say with all the strength that in me lies, that individual ism (so often spoken of as a sort of r.x.t,, sr, l. in every walk of human life. The cap- tain of industry breaking men on his wheel; the labor leader trading his in- fluence for political preferment; the tiger seeking his prey through the Indian for est; the wolf tearing the sheep asunder; the nation striking with all its wondrous strength at the heart of the liberties Of the world; these are individualists who set their own welfare above that of their brethren.
 SIN OF GERMANY
 This, in brief, my friends, and in all possible charity, is the sin of Germany today. She is an individualist. This it Is that makes her a waif for the Shepherds to destroy. The liberties that we are guarding are not ours, ano yet we seek to save them fol mankind. The liberties that Germany threatens are not hers, and yet she seeks to destroy them. Germany has admit tedly regarded her own success as a thing apart from the welfare of her sis ter nations. She openly justified the ravishing of Belgium on the ground that it was for herself military necessity She has openly taught in her schools for years that the German state is supreme, and she has instilled into the hearts of her people in the realm of politics that same falsehood that the Jesuits have made infamous in the realm of religion; the doctrine that "the end justifes the means" The song she has taught her little children; the song she sang through the lips of ,000 confident warriors re- veals the fundamental weakness and wrong of Germany's position; "Deutsch- land uber alles," which Is being inter- preted Germany over all.' That song which has become Deutschland's national anthem, is all the indictment that Ger many needs: Germany above the nations above their liberty; above human justice; above pity and tenderness and mercy; Germany above these things which the Good Shepherd died to give us! Germany over all?
 ONE FAR-FLUNG LIE
 ''Ah, they may sing it from 100000 O0C threats; sing it until the nation echoes from end to end and the very heavens
 
 flung lie. Because there are yet some things above Germany. The outraged liberties of the world are above Germany. Humanity is above Germany. God is above Germany. With these rulers of a misguided people must deal. To them they must answer. and the day of reckon ing is drawing nigh.
 Is drawing nigh because the wolf is in the fold of the world; Gods sheep; God s people; Gods gifts of liberty and happi- ness are being torn asunder; the hirelngs, thank God, have fled, or dare not show their face, but the Shepherds whose own these sheep are, who love the sheep, and who are ready to lay down their lives for the sheep with swords in place of shepherds staffs; the shepherds are com ing,
 Today, America is rising to greatness of which In prosperity and peace she nev- CT dreamed. We are giving ourselves for the good of men, and after all is said and done, in the book of life such giving is all that really endures. We could sit in peace Ghat would be no peace), and heap our war profits to the skies, and extend our nation and enrich it bey md the visions of avarice, and yet in the sight of God and men be but hirelings! Of America, I believe that the greatest thing the future will remember will be that scorning the hirelings safety, we went in to save the flock. The sheep are ours because they, and we, are God's!"
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