The Challis messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1912-current, 1918-04-17
MORNONS
PLEDGE AID
TO LOAN
Keber ]. Grant, Presi-
dent of Church,
So Declares
LEADER PROUD OF
FOLLOWERS
RECORD
Ey HE5ER J.. GRANT

D6y--IO the Day.! 1Ney meant VIC
day when Germany should practically
rule the world. They have thought
they had the might, and they were
convinced that they could conquer the
world but they mistook human ma
ture. They never dreamed. for one
moment. that the little country OF
Belgium would oppose their great
and powerful army. They thought
they could walk right through Bel
GUM, and within ninety days II not
within thirty days. be in Paris. But
Belgium offered her life fer her ideals.
They never dreamed for one moment
that England. unprepared, would en-
ter the war; but these German states
men misjudged the fiber of the Eng
lishman. and England entered the
war. Although they might sink the
Lusitania and murder American citl.
,zenE, they never dreamed that Amer
i lea. with an insignificant army. would
they have found or they will ind
their mistake.
The Kaiser and the entire German
Empire will yet learn that these
prophetic words of their greatest poet
| are absolutely true-"Know this,
Cod rules the hosts of heaven, the
inhabitants of earth"
What kind Of love-. what kind OF
| charity is the German scattering to-
| day: Death, destruction, the killing
OF babies, the raping of women and
| putting men and women in bondage.
The German government has brought
about slavery today that is as hate
full as the Southern slavery Of the
negro, which this country fought the
terrible Civil War to overcome. and
would extend it over Americans II
she could. But she never will The
Lord has told us, in the Book OF
| Mormon, that this is a choice land
| choice above all other lands, and that
no king should rule here. No, not
even the Kaiser, though he claims
to rule by divine right from God. For
this is land of freedom. will read
you some Of the Kaisers words:
There is only one master in this
country; l am he, and l will not tot
crate another" The Kaiser has to
lind out that God rules and that the
people will be their own masters. II
he lives long enough he will, and
hope he does. want him to live tc
find out that the people of the world
will be the master, and that intelli
sence and the desire for right wi,
count more than might in all tbs
wide world.
There is only one law-my law
the law which myself lay down
The Kaiser is wrong. The law o
God, the law of Justice, the law O
virtue, the law of honor, is the only
law that will prevail, and that is no
the law Of the German Kaiser today
1t was on the 7th day of June
1914, that Frankfurt assembled he
school children in the opera house, t,
further their taste and understandin,
Of Germany's supreme national art
Exactly eleven months later, on Ma,
7th, 1915, German torpedo sanl
the Lusitania; and the cities of tn,
Rhine celebrated this also for thei
school children.
Il Goethe said: "The Germans are O
yesterday few centurie
must elapse before = it vii
be said OF them: IT is long since the,
were barbarians.' Out of their ow,
mouths shall they be judged"
AS chairman of the Liberty Loal
!, drive in this section, was recent,
called to San Francisco to attert
4 conference. After two days O
J meetings we were invited by tn.
Patriotic Committee of One Thou
sand to banquet. The cities tina
had gone above the maximum-ove,
the top, SO to speak--in purchasin!
Liberty Bonds were to represen
themselves by speaker on the pro
J gram, and the honor fell to me t,
represent Utah in ten minut
speech. Among other things | quite,
these inspired words of Ella Wheele
Wilcox: That no question is eve
,, settled until it is settled right.
I repeat again the words of th
German poet: Know this, God rule
the hosts of heaven, the inhabitant
, of earth" was delighted to say t.
the people in California, and tn
workers in the Liberty Loan cam
; paign, that there are no "Mormons
.. who have any doubt of the fina
\ outcome of this great world wa,
The Lord has spoken, so far as tn
D "Mormons' are concerned, TN
, Lord has said that this is a Ian
choice above all other lands, an
} that no king shall rule. here. I hav
been proud OF the wonderful recor
made by the people of Utah durin
this war. and ! rejoice to say Their
are no more patriotic or loyal cit
: zens of the United States than thos
0 in these valleys of the Rocky Moul