The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1918-11-29


done" OF the man OF 0allilee who said,
"inasmuch as ye have done II unto one
OF the least OF these my brethren ye
have done It unto me-. Woodrow Will
osn is the vocallzed expression of
American thought and purpose, robed
in the singing garments of an evangel
of mercy. The lion of the tribe OF
justice seekers, he is also the lamb OF
love ready to give his life for the
world.
call upon you for a deepened sense
of Thanksgiving because this war has
made manifest the presence of God in
the course of human affairs.
Rome emphasized Justice, Greece
emphasized culture, and the Hebrew
nationality emphasized ethics but to
no one of these was given the high
honor of making Divine Providence to
emerge upon human affairs. Not un-
til Jesus of Nazareth scaled the noun
tains and pressed the waters of his
native land was there a prophet able
to interpret the presence and power of
Jehovah to the hearts and hopes of
men. Amid the topping thrones and
dissolving civilizations that mark the
highways of history He stands So
preme as the Conqueror of death, the
discerner of spiritual values, with the
keys of Heaven and earth and hell in
His hands. To see Him Is beauty; to
know Him is power; to accept the in
timacies of His friendship in the midst
of this so evil world will make weari-
ness to drop from the eye lids and joy
to reign in the midst of confusion.
Spring with it's teeming wonders;
Summer with it's ripening heats; au-
tumn with its tinted glories and win
ter with it's chain of crystal power are
the doorways through which He will
enter upon all the scenes of mortal
strife santifying their sorrows, chas-
tening their pleasures, and unifying
their activities. These are the years
of the Christ. Unconsciously to us He
has planned the campaigns, presided
over the Councils and executed the
plans of every righteous offensive that
has hurled the legions of death to
whimpering defeat. But above all and
forever to be remembered and appro-
priated He is the Redeamer of the
world paying the price of redemption
in the tide that crimsoned the hill at
the foot of the cross.
This war is fraught with benefits in
Vulnerable albeit our eyes are dim
med with tears at sight OF weeds OF
mourning and our ears are dinned
with dirges for the dead. We see
through this dark cloud now lifting
the folly of materialsm. The Grass
spiritual ignorance that would lead a
man to weld muck rake on the gar
bage heaps of the worlds poisoned
and decaying wealth as the supreme
motive of being will forever be I'M
relieved and immitigable apart from
that dynamic which proceeds from a
life properly adjusted through regen-
Grafton.
am not decrying the accumula
ton of wealth. Money is the most sa
cred vehicle through which education
and spiritual culture are mediated to
us. My criticism applies only to the
inordinate love of money which is
root of all evil. 1t is the materialism
of Germany that has delivered the
blow of her mortal hurt. She has
wrapped herself in the folds of physi-
cal comfort and caused her thunders
of wrath to hurtle among the nations
in supposed security from the dan
gers attendant upon a power that pro-
ceeds from things eXtraneous. The
poorest peasant that wraps himself in
the meagre garb of misery shines like
morning star and sings like a Sc
raph before the gates of day when
compared with the tawdry ornament
and tinsel glitter of the Kaiser's
rafting sword
Never was the futility of culture
more manifest than it is today through
the revelation of recent events. Ger
many was cultured Her universities
were incarnations of the subtlest
thought since the days of Plato. With
daring that would assault the angels
her professors proceeded to Joseph's
new tomb and tore from its holy pre-
cincts the clinging memories and
buoyant hopes of the simple minded
believer who had found in Jesus of