Evening star., 1918-12-01

heavenly aid granted him in the for-
tunate course and conclusion Of the
last French war. has ordered. after
a bell to be cast from captured can
non, Of the weight. Of $4,000 pounds.
which Is to be suspended in the house
OF God, now nearly completed. In ac-
cordance with this pious desire Of the
for the completion Of the cathedral
has caused 1t to be cast, under Roman
Pontiff Plus TX and the Archbishop
of Cologne, Paul Melchers, in the year
of our Lord 1874"
Lines Under Coat of Arms.
And underneath the German impe-
rial coat of arms occurs this verse,
here freely translated:
Emperor Bell am named.
The emperor's name make famed.
On holy ward I stand
For German fatherland.
pray: God grant 1t hence,
Peace, welfare and defense. >.
Was it with something of intuitive
on the part Of the designer of this
bell that the six arms that form the
crown are decorated with angels
heads above. and end where they join
the bell in lions feet? Why. a whole
sermon could be preached on this
dloHe! Inc sanity. Sdcreo out"d.o
beast. And did those lions claws but
Prussian war lord? And the bell.
France. that he would grasp entire
and sway or strike at will? Perhaps
jangling discord of the last few years.
and as 2 symbol and prophecy
caused the great bell to come from
the founders hand c sharp instead of
c. and therefore not in tune with the
other bells of the cathedral!
Again, in 1887. no less than twenty
two French guns were used to cast
the "Gloriosa." another great bell
that was raised with much ceremony
to it's place in Cologne Cathedral.
there to join the emperor bell in
dangerous derision of defeated and
Inundated France.
We hold Cologne. at least until the
acceptance of our terms of peace by
now defeated Germany Why should
we not exact the restitution of these
bells to now triumphant France?
War lust created them, and thus far
praise of their creator. Let's melt
them down and give them back to
France. recast for nobler use and
given tongues of peace; or break them
into bits and let a portion go to each
and every one of our peace carillons,
world the triumph Of a great and
glorious cause.
Nations Joys and Sorrows.
Imagine. then, these carillons COM
plete and carried high aloft within
their towers, there to speak forth
from year to year the nations joys
and sorrows; paean of thanksgiv-
ing now, again vesper service soft
and sweet, or when we pay our loving
tribute to the nations dead a solemn
dirge shall watt across the river and,
like a benediction. fall upon the
hushed and reverent throng. On every
state occasion they would serve; at
our inaugurals, give farewell thanks
greetings to the newly chosen chief:
do homage to the great of foreign
lands and ring glad welcome when
they come to us from overseas;
would celebrate the nations birth
with jubilant peal on peal; and on
day that marked the final triumph
Of humanity let there be rung from
all the capitals a grand te deum of
world brotherhood.
And SO in fancy let US dedicate these
carillons to peace. and say with Ten
nyson:
Ring out. wild bells. to the Wild SKY,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells. and let him die.
Ring ont slowly dying cause.
And ancient forms OF party strife;
Ring In the nobler modes Of life,
With sweeter manners, purer lava
Ring out false pride in place and blood.
The civic clarger and the spite:
Ring in the love Of truth and risht
Ring in the common love Of good.
Ring out the old shapes Of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust Of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old.
Ring in the thousand years Of peace.