The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-11-07

ure today, not for any hope of gain.
ours is not a battle which is the
fruitage of preparedness. We are
not, and are not now prepared for the
war This our conflict is the child
OF no political party, of no section, of
no faction of this nation. Our en-
trance has the most nearly unani-
nous endorsement of any action our
government has eyer undertaken in
its history
I'VE are in the war because Of our
Christian idealism.; For one thing we
have read Sc often the story of the
Good Samaritan, that we were, no.
longer able to pass by bleeding Bel
GUM, as her sobs went up to The God
of mercy and of right. Had we ig-
nored her anguish we would have
forfeited our ribht to the respect and
confidence of the world. We could
get our consent no longer 10 fatten
upon the anguish of the world. wThe
Christ beneath whose sheltering arms
the weak and helpless have always
found protection is the real inspira-
ton of our determination to see that
the weak nations of the earth shall
not longer groan beneath the heel of
the oppressor.
Besides this, we believe that the
earth cannot endure, civilization can
net hope to abide, unless law and
! order shall prevail in the. relations of
nations as well as M fhe' associations
of individual men, Germany is "a
mad-dog, running samuck, and SLAYER
ing upon the highways of the world"
Sacred obligations with her ar eonly
Scraps Of paper" She has made
god of her military necessities; and
high heaven must be made to- APP
prove the murder of women and chill
drer by her submarines, and her
bombs dropped upon the cradles
where The innocents sleep, because
these things happen to suit her con-
vanience in the war. An army which
could nail the body of baby to
barn door above a calf skin and write,
Tive calves on the same door, is one
which must be crushed Into submits
sion that civilization does not perish
from the world.
but we had just as we'll bring the
matter closer home. Germany is en-
pire mad, and France today, England
next year, and America the next" is
the fools paradise. of which her war
lords have dreamed. She, will stop
at no barrier save necessity. Unless
this generation beats her to the dust
the next will meet her horrors in re-
|newed and more terrible form.
Il believe that America is worth
saving. God has taken his last stand
here for christian civilization. This
country was born out OF holy ideal
ism, it's cornerstone has ever been the
WORD OF God; our heritage is too
precious to be surrendered without
q struggle to the insane bigots who
have. determined 10 bring the world
a suppliant at their feet God did
not dig the valley of the Mississippi
for the grave of freedom, nor pour
Niagra for It's requiem And the
nation which strikes our peace low
ing land, strikes the principles which
are the hope of he world strikes
that Christ which is our country's Sc
curity and defense:
Is what Should be our part, then, in
q crisis like dis? ~
1G accommodate a missionary slo- !
gan i'll vogue o te~ years ago, there
are three lines of service open to us
alive must ether Co. Send or
Give G-. send OF give All honor
to those who have been privileged |
TO 50. We.may well envy them their |
place OF hcnor Il they fall, as some
OF them surely must, theirs will be !
d"a,E CT a ltartyT to the cause of uni |
versal freedom, ana the preservation
OF The Civilization of the world. All