Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-10-16
A RELIGIOUS WORLD
OR A RUINED WORLD
eve Cannot Make the World Safe by Physical
Force A1one-For the Moment We Must Use
Force to Make War on War, But That Is Only a
Temporary Expedient."
By Bishop w. A. Gambler.

arms That is the heaven of Young
Germany"
There is a proclamation of paganism
as bald and undisguised as the veriest
heather might have framed and pro-
claimed; and with it the German leaders,
both civil and military, agree with one
accord.
The land of Luther has relapsed into
barbarism, and now pursues a pro-
gramme of frightfulness as savage as
any ever followed by the Huns and the
Vandals. Painted savages never went
on the war path more fiercely, and the
crimes perpetrated against women and
children with the scalping knife by
American Indians were never worse than
the cruelties inflicted by the German SOL
diery upon the women and children or
Belgium. No massacre by the Red Men
of North America has ever exceeded IN
enormous cruelty the assassination of
the victims slain when the Lusitania
was sunk. These outrages have been
wrought more scientifically, but not less
barbariously than the bloody deeds Of
Comanche warriors.
The horror OF it all is that a nation,
with great educational institutions and
all the instrumentalities of civilization,
has reverted to barbarism in the most
enlightened age of the world.
II DenOOVS5 us 10 lay 10 nSdTI the
lesson of the case; for by nature we are
no better than they. II We adopt the
same methods we shall arrive at the
same end. Intellectual culture without
religion can not safeguard civilization.
| There is nothing in what is called CIV
ilization to preserve itself. 1t contains
in itself the seeds of it's own destruc-
ton without the saving salt of Christi
anity. This fact must be faced square
ly; for there is no disputing that 1T is
fact.
The United States. with enormous
wealth, will revert to barbarism if God
is fcrsaken by our people and the re-
Iigion of Christ ceases to influence
their lives. Our riches and power will
but hasten our doom.
Moreover nations can not live to them
selves. Each helps or hurts in a great
er or less degree all the rest.
We have not concerned ourselves much
about the ruinous rationalism prevalent
in German universities. Not a few
American students and educators have
affected it's whims and have sought to
promote it's power in our own institu-
lions. We are now paying the cost or
such monstrous folly. Heavy burdens
of taxation are laid upon us to make
the world safe against the menace of
German kultur. Many thousands of our
sons must be Sacr1Ilced TOT the same
cause. Allowing a sister nation to re-
lapse into barbarism before our eyes,
without putting forth any effort to save
it, has proved to be a most costly sin
of omission.
II we allow China and Japan to ac-
qure the arts of war more rapidly than
they acquire Christianity, we shall have
to pay before many years have elapsed
an even greater bill of damages for
our criminal negligence.
We can not make the world safe by
physical force alone For the moment
we must use physical force to make
war on war; but that is only a Temporal
ry expedient. The increasing cost of
war makes it an impracticable means for
securing permanently the safety Of the
human race. The world must be safe
| guarded by the majesty of the moral
law and the moral law can not be en-
| throned in the conscience of mankind
without faith in and subsection to the
divine Law-giver. We must have relig-
ious world or a ruined warld.