South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-04-01
MUST PAY COST
Of WAR SAYS
DR.. GUHSAULUS
Chicago MiniSter Declares
America Must Bear Cross
1t Can Have Easter
Morning.


Declaring the day 20 be the great
est anniversary OF Easter the world
has ever seen. DR. Frank Gunsaulus
Of Chicago, last night addressed an
audience of considerably more than
thousand people at the high
school. in connection with the war
chest campaign which started yes
terday.
Tha. the people of America must
pay the cost Of the war. in lives. in
tears. and in money sacrifices was
the theme Of Or. GunsauIus's talk.
'Only when We pay the cost will we
be rightly entitled to victory" ne
declared. America is not now ready
for peace. any more than she was
prepared for wal. only "a short time
ago. We must go to the cross. must
have our suffering, before we can
have the brightness OF the Easter
morn
shows Americas Foe.
Describing what America is fight
Ing. Or Gunsdulus pointed out i'm
stances carried i'm late cable dis
patches from Europe Think OF the
depravity Of the mind that can plan
a gun capable OF hurting its missile
Of death more than 90 miles. and
then. on Easter morning, when all
the innocent people are gathered in
the churches, wOrshipping their
Lord cantrain that gun on those
places OF worship and deliberately
Kin and wound the innocent adOrers
OF christ who were kneeling before
his altar That is what America Is
facing-that IS what YOU will be
fighting when YOU help I'm the war
chest" he declared.
Brute Force Useless
Germany should have known bet
.er than 20 suppose she could ever
nope 20 overcome America by brute
force America was first am ideal
and has since grown. ever holding
% It's original purpose. TO be a gov
arnment Of. hy. and for the people.
Mere brute force can never down
this nation Even back = the first
DAYS OF our history whe our faith
ers stood for what they be ieved was
right the thin line Of soldiers was
able 20 defeat the hosts of George
III-who. by the way, was a Ger
man lie was the hrst German
monarch 70 be overthrown 10y the
Stars and Stripes. but he won't be
the last one" asserted Or. Gunsau-
Ius.
"Internatioualism- esta blish-
ing ~ courts 10 settle disputes be.
.ween nations. and the working to-
gether Of all the peoples of the earth
FOR their common benefit has never
been the German policy said the
speaker. Back i'm May 1914, a
group OF men representing the ma
lions OF the world met i'm New York
10 talk over national policies i'm re-
gard 20 crime law and order. When
10 was finished. and the various par
lis were ready 90 sail for their
homes. / talked 90 one of the Ger
man representatives lie TOLD me
that Germany's plan was not for in
ternationalism. hut for nationahsm
that is the Germanizins of the
entire world Germany considers
the nation FIRST. lasa and all the time.
Must Make Choice.
1T Is that foe with which we have
10 deal. 10 is for the purpose of de-
reatng that foe that YOU are asked
TO contribute 10 the war chest 10
IS foe that wants a world dominion.
And it is up 10 YOU whether IL shall
he Frederick the Great OF George
Washington. whether IL shall be
Bismarck or Abraham Lincoln"
Or. c. A. Lppincott acted as chair
man. briefly telling or the plan and
purpose Of the war chest The choir
II the First Presbyterian church
rendered two musical numbers pre-
.cdine pr. Gunsaulus's talk.