Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-02-12
By BISHOP w. A. GAMBLER.

Hon. Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal, is not adj
dicted to the use of cant, and he is the
furthest possible removed from any
thing akin to fanaticism. When he
speaks upon a religious subject, there
! fore, what he says can not be regarded
as an utterance of ecclesiastical pro-
| fessionalism. Very many people will
| be surprised to know that he has said
anything. concerning matters religious.
| But he printed in his ably conducted
paper Christmas Message" of the ut
most significance and force. The most
evangelical minister of the gospel in
America could not have spoken more
religiously or positively. What he said
is worthy of the serious consideration
| of every man who cares for the honor
God or the welfare of mankind
| The following extract from Mr.. Wat
terson's Christmas Message" will deep
ly interest and profoundly inspire every
patriot or Christian who read it's:
surely the future looks black
enough, yet it holds hope, single
hope. One, and one power only can ar
rest the descent and save us. That is
the Christmas religion.
| Democracy is but a side issue. The
paramount issue, underlying the issue
of democracy, is the religion of Christ
and him crucified; the bedrock of civil
| ization, the source and resource of all
| that is worth having in the world that
is, that gives promise in the world to
come; not as an abstraction; not as a
| huddle of sects and factions; but as L
mighty force and principle of being
| The Word of God, delivered by the gem
! tie Nazarene upon the hillsides of Ju-
dea, sanctitied by the Cross of Cavalry,
has survived every assault 1t is now
arrayed upon land and sea to meet the
| deadliest of all assaults, Satan turned
loose for one last. final struggle.
| THE kaiser boldly threw down the
gage of battle-Infidel Germany against
| the believing world-Kultur against
| Christianity-the Gospel of Hate against
the Gospel of Love. Thus is he Satan
personifed- Myself and God,i merely
his way of proclaiming it-for/ his God
| is Beelzebub, the Angel of Destruction,
| his creed the DEVILS own, his aim and
end hell on earth. Never did crusader
| lift battle-ax in holier war against the
| Saracen than is waged by our soldiers
! of the Cross against the German. The
issues are indeed identical
"If the world is to be saved from de-
| struction--physicaI no less than spirit
ual destruction-it will be saved alone
by the Christian religion. That elimi-
mated leaves the earth to eternal war.
For fifty years Germany has been or
ganizing and laboring to Supplant it
with Kultur the genius of Infidelity.
! Her college professors have been OBJ
sessed with it, Her universities have
seethed with it. In acclaiming Myself
and God the kaiser has put the Impe-
rial seal upon it, When our armies have
run it to its lair-when they have
crushed it--naught will have been
gained unless the glorious banner of the
| Cross is hoisted-even as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the wilderness-and
the misled masses of Germany are babe
| to gather about it and beneath it as
sadly they collect the debris of their
ruin for the reconstruction of the Fa-
! therland."