The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1918-06-07
A SERMON FROM OVER THERE

In conjunction with letter received
by a member of his family Frank M.
Dallam, jr., now serving in France,
and in training for active service in
the artillery, strikes philosophical
vein and INDUCES in combined
essay and sermon on the war from the
view point of soldier in the ranks
that makes interesting reading even
!. II considerably drawn out. The book
he refers 10. The Greatest Thing in
the World" was an essay on love as
the dominant power for good among
mankind. the foundation stone upon
which to build lasting peace among
all peoples and all nations, written
by divine Of great fame, and was
given to him by his mother when he
was a young boy:
q little essay entitled THE Greatest
Thing in the World" and never before
have been, so well able to appreciate
time a pessimist might prove to his sat
isfaction that while love may be the high
est ideal in the world hate rules by force
OF might and power. for hate is certainly
driving the world mad with agony and
woe and mistry today. But this hate,
that appears to rule and arouse the worst
passions of man, will cure itself by its
own excesses, just as the bloody reign
Sl %ros6f terror Of the French
expenditure Of the base passions of man
The reaction that must follow this fear
ful rage of death and destruction will
certainly usher in the noblest era in his
tory. / do not mean to predict a millen-
lum, or anything quite approaching the
perfect state on earth, but ! do firmly
believe that world chastened by sac
Iifee such as this war. entails by self
denial and self-abnegation, is bound to
measure all things in life with new and
ilner standard of value. The joining of
nations in this titanic struggle must give
ALL all ope peoples a clearer understanding, a
deeper appreciation of the virtues and
worth of their fellows. We will all be
less provincial, less narrow, and for less
seLsn Sa In our intercourse and dealings.
commercial bearers will break under the
pressure of necessity and the force OF
this greater enlightment, and political
suspicion and jealousy will be buried un-
fi der the more generous emotions o: OBJ
iigation and comradship that are being
buI,t up and cemented every day on the
field Of battle
No longer will 1.-The minds of Americans
revert revert to Lexington and Bunker Hill at
the mention of England. No longer will
an Englishman think of Poitiers or Wat
erioo at the. mention of France, or
rrenchmen think of those old battles, OF
make M involuntary devotion to the saint
eu Maid of Orleans when England Is
named nan, In their hearing But all three
Will think of the Marne, of Cambria, OF
.h .he Somme of Picardy, and above all
the yet unnamed field where the final vic.
tory. tory is won. The same bond will bind
anese peoples with Italy, and Portugal
and Belgium, and mayhap with a new
ana ana invigorated Russia. And although
nate n divides these peoples from the Ger.
mans mans and incites the two in this grca
struggle OF death, the very force. of the
heroic efforts of offense and defense is
oertaIn oe am to bring appreciation of the fibe'
a Hrd pom to the understanding OF each
t',d hnd time will bring all together on {
t,Iigher and better plane when the cruel
iIio3dy and inhuman influence of the
yunker element is wiped out of the Contra
roWers.as it will be when final victor,
rests with the allies.
nanto' Love not that silly, simpering. sent
mental thing that persuades callow kids
u, 10 write spring poetry. but the great
,,ianl uianllty.God's greatest, and least exer
Used gift to man-such love will sprint
from the soil now drenched and en-
rlehed s with the blood that is being spill
viii lead all nations, all peoples to ;
hisner state of civilization, in which, TO
time at east, all nations will live II
more generous association and strive II
skndlier spirit Old prejudices even nov
nave disappeared. or are rapidly vanish
mg, and the obstacles to candid. honor
aDie ana friendly intercourse are fadin
away with those prejudices. For gen
Grafton and possibly many generations
Justice and righteousness may and prob
aply VIII guide and direct and regulat
tne relationship of nations. Common as
plratlons will Danish secret understand
,ngs that so inevitably lead to misunder
Standing and distrust, and mutual respec
VIII VIII ripen into stronger bonds of goo
MIL All of this is predicted on the con
'iction that the allies will win this wa
win 1T with the force of arms throug
d military victory that will force the ev
genius OF the Central Powers to humbl
us pride and acknowledge that 1t ha
ouiit its hateful edifice of military powee
on the quicksands of falsehood in def
ance OF Gods villa victory that wi
make clear to the German peoples tn
M IMatai error of the system. and break tn
speii that has bound them to its holio'
anu hypocritical pretensions. In tina
way only can the German people be re
seemed from the preverse influence tina
mas neld and trained and perverted ther
ana thus made capable of receiving froI
anu giving to the balance OF the worl
Ihat which alone will make peace pos