New Britain herald., 1918-01-28

ation. A careful study of these diff
 ferences will show that they were
 founded upon the unbalancing of
 these principles which are laid down
 in these two commandm ents. Lndi-
 vidual quarrels as well as national
 quarrels will usually be found to rest
 upon the over emphasis of one and
 the minimizing of another of these
 qualities of love until the check and
 balance has been destroyed War is
 based as I said last Sunday, upon fear,
 greed, selfish ambition, and these will
 all be found to come from an unbal-
 ancing of the Christian principles of
 love- which in turn throw out Of bal-
 ance all true relations of life.
 Let us be specific. Take the first
 cOmmandm cnt-love for God. This
 commandment has within it two ex-
 tremes. To love God means to show
 reverence, worship, humility and
 trust, but it means more than this. If
 this meaning only is emphasized one
 becomes unnaturally dependent and
 weak. Love for God also means to be
 Gods representative on earth. To do
 His will and cory out His work here.
 Just as an am mbassador of a country
 loves and trusts and has reverence for
 his country but also feels that he is
 the direct representative of his coun-
 try to the country to which he has
 gone, so are we am mbassadors of God
 on earth. Certain powers are dele
 gated to any credited am mbassador,
 which he IS held accountable for. If
 he fails to use these powers, he is un-
 true to his trust, while if true he not
 only shouts for his country and pro- claims his loyalty, but stands un- finchingly for it's rights and honor This is splendidly illustrated ln the experiences of MT. Gerard in his ca- pacitv as representative of this coun- trv in Germany, during the early days
 of our war.
 But if this side of love for God
 is over-done, we get disasterous re-
 suits. The Prussian military caste,
 with the kaiser as head, have so over-
 emphazied this phase of the com
 mandment that the whole balance has
 been destroyed The kaiser has so
 often proclaimed himself as the vicar of God on earth it has become
 ridiculous. Me and God is a favorlte
 with the emphasi laid more and more
 with "M. E." Professor Oswald
 a. German Nobel prize man, sayps ln
 all seriousness, God the Father is re- served for the Emperor's use alone
 It was once used in connection with the German staff, but it will be mo- tlced that it has not appeared since A German dramatic critic expressed the thought of all of them when ne said We execute God Almighty $ Will, God calls us to murderous battles even if worlds thereby fall to ruin 'Now this belief or obsession has of l necessity laid emphasis upon the l development of the physical, for, since 1 the check of those finer, spiritual | forces-reverence humility, etc. are gone, the brute forces therefore come l into prominence. One of the wisest explanations of the present crisis is contributed by Bergson, the French philosopher. He says in effect, that the chief work of science has been to enlarge mans body. Telescopes and microscopes have increased the power of our eyes; telephones have stretched our hearing to some three thousand miles; .telegraphs have made our voices sound around the earth; loco- motives and steamship lines, better ] than seven league boots of ancient 1 fable have multiplied the speed and ! power of our feet; the big guns have
 elongated the blows of our fists from l two beet to 25 miles. Man never had 1 q ] The age of the giants was nothing com | pared with this. But mans soul l there the failure lies We have not
 grown spirits great enough to handle l our greatened bodies. The splendid new powers which science furnishes 1 are still in the hands of the old sins 1 greed, selfish motive, cruelty. This 1 has been especially true of Germany. l Inorder to back this obsession and l carry out this fool notion of re- l presenting Gods absolute will on ] earth, the Kaiser and his Prussian l party have amassed a physical force, l such as the world has never knoWn, 1 but in so doing they have neglected l the other side of the commandment
 reverence, humility and mercy. They l have built a, powerful machine with l out a soul and as Bergson intimates, 1 they have caused the rest of the world l to do the same thing, to a certain ] extent. in order that they might ! exist This, of course, if it persists, l will be runous. Some things we can do without, but one thing will be 1 fonnd indispensab ble through this war.
 we must have a new power of moral l vitality or the world cannot stand.
 .'In the history of biology We have l the example of nature endeavoring to ] fill this earth with huge physical l beings. and as result there was l produced what is known as the din- 1 osorous, a being 25 to 30 feet long 1 which reached the massive physical 1 weight of ten tons. but which devel- l oped only about half pint of brains
 so that the brain power was not suf- 1 fcient to handle the physical power The animal got to the place where it did not even know enough to turn and ] use it's defensive weapons which were upon it's tail. Of course it was grad l uallv destroyed by animals of less 1 physical size and strength but With l more brain power The same thing