The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-18
915tn WILHELM the
/, MODERN BELSHAllAR
Kew. Samuel L. DumvflIe Scores
Germany's Former
Ruler.
KULTUR is FALSE IDEA
When People Arc Treated As Profit
Producing Cattle the End Must
Surely Come to Those Who Are tho
Prof3teers.

III EFO0tGCtH.
4 Kaiser wilhelm the modern Bells
! nax1ar, or the Handwriting on the
I Wall" was the topic of patriotic
sermon delivered at. Decatur Street
Methodist church. South Richmond.
last night. The text was from Daniel
4 o; 2o-28. He said in part:
/ Before this world war began Ger
many was held up before the world as
well governed country. Her econo-
mic conditions and industrial life were
thought by many TO be examplar.
Tho great masses of people appeared
TO be contented and happy. There was
no poverty in Germany. or the
Fathsrland as her spokesman. often
paid propagandists were fond of cell
ing her.
people existed for the state was lost
sight Of, hidden in the background OF
their apparent prosperity. In fact.
time has indeed proven that the
people Of Germany were the mere
chattels. property OF the Prussian
military autocrats. They were taken
care OF and kept contented for the
same reasons that a man keeps his
horses, cattle, and hogs in good cosi-
dition. 1t was profitable. Many had
even come TO believe that because of
this contentment on the part of the
people under this ahject form of
beneficent slavery that the govern
ment of Germany was perhaps the
best.
Therefore they sought to enforce
Germany civilization, ideas, German
kuiture upon the rest OF the world.
Shis was being done forty years be-
sore this war began. Just as the
Turk would force Mohamedanism up
on the other religionists. so those
who would not submit to German
kultur were thought not to be worthy
to live. and with this idea in their
Z minds the kaiser and his potsdam
gang proceeded, either to suhjugate
or destroy the free peoples OF the
world. and sad To say, his subjects
were willing tools in his hands.
II 3 is the spirit that characterized
the arch enemy OF free peoples, those
who believe they have the right 10
decide for themselves and to work out
their own development the spirit that
led TO the violation OF solemn agree
ments, the devastatio of Belgium and
northern France, the sacrificing of
ten million lives. and wonnding ff-
teen million more in four years OF
the most expensive, bloody and awful
war of history.
Day of Reckoning Here.
The day of reckoning has come.
As surely as Belshazzar and his
courtiers, in their last drunken
blasphemous reyeiry. saw the hand of
God writing on the wall: so the Ger
man kaiser. inflated against God.
drunken with blood profanities. and
grcssest sensualism, responsible be-
fore God and man for the most bar
barous crimes of the ages. has not
only seen the hand writing on the
wall; but has read the Interpretation
OF the same
Meme. God hath numbered thy
Kingdom and finished It," Numbered
Ia the first word. The days Of the
Babylonian supremacy were number
ed. and the days of the life of King
Belshazxar were also numbered.
Their end had come, and he and his
nation must give an account of their
stewardship.
So 1t Ia with Germany. For while
she WAS conauering :. Belgium, WAS
laid waste. their brave little arnas
under the valiant King Alfred. crush
ed and bleeding. yet with courage UNI
daunted, never defeated. The French
were slowly but surely driven back.
/, England's first and only army, AT that
/ time, that contemplate little Eng
lish army" as the Huns called IL,
presented rifles and hayonets against
the awful German war machine.
That f,rst battle of the Marine,
Why did they not continue 10 ad-
1 vance? The only answer after giving
I due consideration To the undying
III
England's everlasting. hard headed
determination that they should not
pass, say without discounting any OF
our glorious allies, the only answer
10 the reason that the Hun did not
pass is God" From then on. even
until November IL at II o'clock. the
days OF Prussisn militarism were
!, numbered.
| Every nation and every life has It's
! limit God gives nations and individ :
/ usts sufficient time and opportunity
for work that He requires OF them (:
h hut there lis "A limit TO those oppor-
tuaities. Not only the unused, but
the misuscd or abused talents will be
r taken away.
The kalser's Kingdom has been
numbered and finished. swiftly,
abruptly and in righteous judgement.
Both kaiser and nation might have
been spared longer II they had acted
differently.
Z Read the sTth Psalm: Fret not
n myself because of evil-doers :
I for evii-doers shall be cut on
j / have been seen the wicked in great
power, and spreading himself like a
green tree in its native soil But one
passed by and, 10, he was not. Yea
sought him, but he could not he
found" Surely as Daniel Of old, we
can say: God hath numbered thy
Kingdom and brought 1t to an end.
Short weight.
RI. 'Tekei. Thou art weighed in
n the balances. and art found wanting :"
There is judgement awaiting us all.
our future AS nation and as in
dfviduals viii not be determined by
chance, or fate. or easy indifference
1t viii depend upon our record, This
win be revealed. examined, proved
rested, weighed in every thought,
word and deed for every moment of
ME. None can escape this trial.
.sNfhatsoever a man soweth that shall
he also reap" Is true OF nations as
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