The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1918-05-03
MORMONS
PLEDGE AID
TO LOAN
Heber ]. Grant, Presi-
dent Of Church,
So Declares
LEADER PROUD OF
FOLLOWERS
RECORD
BY HEsER j. GRANT


Or sea, they have drunk ITO the
Day-To the Day They meant the
day when Germany should practically
rule the world. They have thought
they had the might, and they were
convinced that they could conquer the
world but they mistook human ma.
ture. They never dreamed, for one
moment, that the little country OF
Belgium would oppose their great
and powerful army. They thought
they could walk right through Bel
GUM, and within ninety days IL not
within thirty days, be in Paris. But
Belgium offered her life for her ideals.
They never dreamed for one moment
that England, unprepared would en-.
ter the war: but these German states
men misjudged the fiber of the Eng.
lishman, and England entered the
war. Although they might sink the
l.usitania and murder American citl,
zens, they never dreamed that Amer
lea. with an insignificant array, would
enter the war. In all these things
they have found or they will find
their mistake.
The Kaiser and the entire German
Empire will yet learn that these
prophetic words of their greatest poet
are absolutely true-"Know this,
God rules the hosts OF heaven the
inhabitants of earth"
What kind of love, what kind OF
charity is the German scattering to-
day? Death, destruction, the killing
Df babies, the raping of women and
putting men and women in bondage.
The German government has brought
bout a slavery today that is as hate.
rul as the Southern slavery of the
negro, which this country fought the
terrible Civil War to overcome, and
would extend It over Americans il
she could. But abe never will The
Lord has told us, in the Book OF
| Mormon, that this is choice land
| rhoice above all other lands, and that
no king should rule here. No. not
even the Kaiser, though he claims
TO rule by divine right from God For
| this is land of freedom I will read
you some of the Kaiser's words:
There is only one master in this
country; | am he, and | will not toll.
crate another" The Kaiser has to
find out that God rules and that the
people will be their own masters. II
he lives long enough he will, and
hope he does. | want him to live to
find out that the people OF the world
| will be the master and that intelli.
gence and the desire for right will
count more than might in all the
wide world.
There is only one law-my law:
the law wE.4h I myself lay down"
| The Kaiser is wrong The law OF
| God, the law of Justice, the law of
| virtue, the law of honor. is the only
law that will prevail, and that is not
| the law OF the German Kaiser today.
| It WAS on the 18th day OF June.
! 1914, that Frankfurt assembled her
| school children in the opera house. to
! further their taste and understandings
| of Germany's supreme national art.
| Exactly eleven months later, on MAY
It'll, 1915, n German torpedo sank
the Iusitania: and the cities of the
\ Rhine celebrated this also for their
school children.
Goethe said: The Germans are OF
| yesterday few centuries
must elapse before it will
be said Of them: 1t is long since they
were barbarians| Out of their own
| mouths shall they be judged
AS chairman of the Liberty Loan
drive in this section, I was recently
/ f1 al.
conference. After two days or
meetings We we're invited by the
| Patriotic Committee OF One Thou
sand to a banquet The cities that
| had gone above the maximun--oYer
! the top. so TO speak--in purchasing
! Liberty Bonds were to represent
| themselves by speaker on the pro
gram, and the honor fell to me to
| represent Utah In a ten minute
| speech. Among other things quoted
| these inspired words OF ella Wheeler
| Wilcox: That no question lie ever
settled until it is settled right
/ repeat again the words OF the
| German poet: Know this, God rules
the hosts OF heaven. the inhabitants
OF earth" | was delighted to say to
the people in California, and the
workers in the Liberty Loan cam
| paign. that there are NO "Mormons"
who have any doubt Of the final
outcome OF this great world war.
The Lord has spoken so far as the
''Aiormons' are concerned. The
Lord has said that this is land
choice above all other lands, and
that no king shall rule here. have
been proud OF the wonderful record
made by the people OF Utah during
This war. and rejoice to say there
are no more patriotic or loyal citi-
4ens OF the United States than those
in these valleys of the Rocky Noun
tains.