Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-25

OIL the wheels from inc cndr1oL OF
the enemies of truth and justice.
That dying German officer in Roye
packed the genius of q moral uni
verse into few words. Wounded
last winter through the spinal cords
unable to move the lower part of his
body, for weeks he waited for de1tas
Two aged French women cared for
the dying man. Little by little the
wings of the Angel of Death famed
away the mist before his eyes. One
day the German officer sent for the
village priest and told him that the
Won Hindenburg line was nearly
complete, that the order to retreat
had been given, that the home of
these aged women who had cared
Tor him so tenderly would be burned;
that not one church, house, barn,
vineyard or orchard would be left.
The news crushed the old priest In
his dying hour a righteous wrath
fllled the heart of the German pris-
oner These are his last words, as
i transcribed them from the lips of
that man of God, standing one day in
| Noyon: Curses upon this army!
! curses upon our Kaiser and his war
/ staff! Ten thousand curses upon nv
country! Either God is dead, or Ger.
many Is doomed" The officer hs
come to understand that soon or lato
the wheels of God will grind t-
/ nothingness those who wrong Gods
/ children. Woe unto the man who
offends one of My little ones. 1t
were better for him that a milestone
! were hanged about his neck, and
! tnat he were drowned in the depths
of the seas
Better days are coming. We may
! have to enter the wilderness, but
soon or late the pilgrim host will
enter the Promised Land and hang
out the signals of victory. Truth is
! stronger than error; q, liberty is
| stronger than despotism; God is
stronger than Satan; right makes
/ might and must prevail. In this
faith we must strive on for a peace
that will safeguard democracy, de-
fend the frontier lines, vindicate the
! rights of little lands, destroy mill
| larlsm ana autocracy. During TIE
January SHOWS, a dear friend and
noble surgeon, at the head of hos
, pltal at the front, wrote me a letter
! which stays my heart as the anchor
| the ship in time of storm. The
I ground was deep with snow, many
| wounded men had been carried in
from the field, but at midnight,
| when his work was done, the sur
I geon wrote me this letter:
/ This war is of God. Some
times Ii is peace that is hell,
The soldiers life is q life of"pov-
! erty, obedience, self-sacrifice; we
know what the civilians life is.
But for the chaStiSement of this
war, Berlin and Vienna, London
and Paris, would have descended
| info he'll within
tions. once spoke in your
Plymouth on the blessings of
| peace; IL ever again / have that
privilege, 1 shall speak on the
the blessing of war. i never
dreamed that men could be so
noble. Fof three months i have
slept on the stone; for three
months before that in tent:
for six months 1 have not been
i'll bed; but i have never been
so happy. 1 have acquired the
Nne freedom of u dog, and like
dog L wear a metal tag around
my neck so that they may know
to whom 1 belong when it hap
pens that I can no longer speak.
And never was q man engaged
In cause so noble. / have seen
Belgium; I have seen a lamb
torn by the wolf; am OH the
side OF the lamb. I know the
explanations the wolf has to Of
fef--they do not interest me.
L only wish that you were here
with me at this battle for your
own good; for right here at this
western front this war will be
decided, just where all the great
wars of history have always been
decided. 1t is decided already,
/ but Will take the enemy some
time yet to find it out
y What does this noble scholar
mean? History makes that meaning
| plain! No wine until the purple clus-
ters are crushed. No linen until the
tiax is bleeding and broken. No re-
demption without shedding of blood
\ No rich soul for mems bread until
the rocks are plowed with ice gla-
i ciers and subdued with fire pillows.
Five forms of liberty achieved by
our fathers, for which they paid over
j three thousand battle fields, blood
Il down. This war was not brought
by God, but having come, let us be-
i lieve that His Providence can over
rule it for the destruction of all war.
| When Germany is beaten to her
knees, becomes repentant, offers to
make restitution for her crimes, then
and not till then can this war stop.
Autocracy too must go. There is
no room left in the world for II
| KAISER or n sultan. The hangman'S S
moose awaits the peasant murderer,
and already the hemp is grown to
twist into the moose for a kaisers
neck.
"At all costs and hazards we
u must fight this war through TO
i successful issue. Our children
must he made to walk THROUGH
all this blood and muck. The
burden of militarism must he
i lifted from the shoulders of
! Gods poor. Any state that will
| not forever give up war must be
i shut out of the worlds clearing
houses and markets, through fl
nance and trade.
"Geolngists tell us that the harbor
of Naples, protected by islands was
once the crater of a volcano like unto
Vesuvius, but that God depressed
that smoking basin until the life-giv-
ing waters of the Mediterranean
stream in and put out that fire. Oh,
beautiful emblem of a new era, when
i God will dapress evcrv battle field
!, and every dreadnought and bring in
the 1ife-giving waters of peace. Then
will come a golden age, the parlia-
: ment of mankind, the federation OF
the world, a little international nary
policing the seas, a little interna-
tional army policing the land, a
great international court deciding
disputes between Germany and
! France; to this purpose let our sons
: dedicate themselves. To the end
that we may achieve q just and last
ing peace, between ourselves and all
. nations. Let us consecrate not onlyI
the income of our rich land but alsoI