The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-17
'UIE DOOR Of THEIR SOULS"
! PROVING ITSELF APPROPRIATE

The deity who marches with the Ger
man hosts they believe, not without
reason, to be something quite different
from the real God. To call this deity
Christ, as the Germans are so found
Of doing. IL a blasphemy.
TO whom, asks one poet. shall the
mother pray who sees her little child
torn away from her side and murdered
in the dooryard? To the God OF the
Germans? No. she prays TO the true
God, the God who looks down with
loathing at the blasphemies OF thes
Teuton, who, through the rain Of
bombs from the sky that kills the weak
and defenseless. cries out:
You Emperor.
TO hell, to hell! he gone.
/ curse you aft and fore.
doom. boom! Very bad! Badaboom.
boom. boomD
I curse you aft and fore,
You shabby dog. you Hun.
l curse your cruel race
Who flaunt my gonAlon.
To murder and deface
My angels, one by one
In that long and beautiful poem.
"The Witness" the gifted Jean AicArd
struggles manfully with the problem
of God and the war. and his conciu-
sions reveal as in a burst OF light from
on high the real spirit apd the glory
OF France. He pictures the onrush
of the invader. Belgium PROSTATE In
the dust, streams that were sweet and
pure now bitter with blood. babes torn
asunder, virgins polluted, old men
Nkot NH a
kultur could do. and in the face OF these
horrors men stood paralyzed with
doubts OF their God. Why was the
Father mute in the face Of these bias
phemies? Small wonder that many
denied the existence OF the Savior.
Small wonder that many saw France
lost through her belief in the Christ;
lost because she had succumbed to HIS
weak and womanish teachings, and
was powerless now to prevent the hor-
rid triumph of might. Accepting the
Gospel Of love, said these doubters.
France has prepared herself not for
life, but for a martyrs death, even as
did the Nazarene.
For France Is the Rock OF Ages.
Against her barred breast, alive with
the spirit Of sacrifice. the Teuton horde
will break to no avail. Humanity and
not hate shall possess the world. The
war can have no other issue. mo
more war" Thus sing the poets OF
France Peace on earth as In heaven.
Bitter the martyrdom. but sweet the
reward. For the tomorrow shall bring
an international blood bought human
ity.
America Should es Proud
Of Her Alliance.
We OF America should be happy
nation today. for at least we are stand
ing beside France on the frontier OF
civilization. Again from these war
songs we get q true Whit OF the Teu-
ton soul a nd again we must realize that
there can be no more peace, no more
happiness in the world. until that odor
ID completely effaced. One thing more
we should learn. There is one way
and only one way to cleanse their
minds. to purify their souls. We have
been far too prone in this country to
feel that soft words. a gentle state
ment OF our own lofty aims, nigh, do
the trick Never! That great mill
|tary machine which they have built
tnTOuRH many years anu winch 20
their hearts delight, must be smashed
into bits. The submarines, the Zeppe-
Inns, must go to the scrap heap. Thor
must receive a death blow from which
| he can never recover. Then. and then
only, may we stretch out hand and
cry Brother with some hope OF be-
ling heard France knows this. Eng
land knows 1t. Serbia and Belgium
know it. Isn't 1t about time we knew
it?
So let's get on with the war.