The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1918-06-28

on the altar Of their country, and
never faltered amid the sorrows Of
that fearful four years of Civil war,
then there will be no word or thought
of peace with an unbeaten Germany on
the part of any honest-hearted man or
any woman loving womanhood more
tina nlife.
What is life that we should count
it Of more value than honor and duty?
Shall we save life that we may lose
it and honor, too, or shall we give life
freely that we may gain a larger,
sweeter, broader, holier life for our
selves and all the generations to
come?
The Son of God might have saved
His life, but he chose to die that mil
lions might be saved.
dreds of other missionaries have glad
ly endured hardships unto death that
others might live.
Would Mary have called her Son
from the cross? Would the mother
of all the heroes who have died like
Judson and Livingston for other, have
called them from the sacrifice and
saved their lives at the expense of
others?
To ask this question answers it.
Our loved ones are Offering their
lives that others may live; that wo-
manhood may be saved; that children
may be kept from the power of the
unhung brutes; that civilization and
liberty may not perish from the earth.
Would we call them back from such
superb heroism, such Christlike sac
| riice made, that others may be saved ?
The question answers itself-a
| thousand times, No.
The service flag is the noblest en-
blem " given to the breezes, as the
Stars and Stripes is the noblest flag
which has ever foated over a free ma
ton. And yet that is almost too much
to say of our flag as we stand with un-
covered heads before the flags OF
heroic, sublimely heroic, Belgium and
Britain and France and Italy and Ser.
bia. Their flags float over nations
who preferred death to dishonor, ovel
nations whose men and women have
matched and surpassed in wonderful
heroism and sublime sacrifice all thai
tabled stories tell us of Greece anC
other nations of olden days.
God bless the flags of these allies
Of ours, as they float ove heroic mer
and women who have made human his
tory through un-numbered centurie:
to come the glorious because
they have lived and suffered and die(
for God and humanity!
Germany, the embodiment of al
that is false and vile in humanity
Germany, whose people have reverte,
to the type of their %progenitors of old
who in their wild carousals dranl
from the skulls of their wal victims
Germany, which definitely planned TO
half a century, taught it in it's schools
preached it in its homes, and thu
nodded it's people Of all classes to be
gin a war for world domination, ha
but followed out it's own. long-pro
claimed plans of f%rightfulness in OF
der to deter other nations from risk
ing its vengeance.
False to Gods greatest gift to mar
except that of His wi Son, woman
hood and babyhood, wifehood an
motherhood, false to all human libert
for all time to come is even a though
of peace with an unwhipped Germany
Then put away from the inner-mos
thought of every soul any suggestio
of peace, any desire for peace exceI
that peace which can come only owe
the unconditional surrender of Gel
many and her allies, over the dea
bodies Of their leaders and over all tn
~vileness that has made Germany
stencil for all time to come in the nos
trils of God and man.
Germany will seek peace wheneve
it's rulers think that the awakene
fury of an outraged world endange1
their power and their individual live
But until Germany has within il
own confines seen and felt the powt
of the armies of civilization, unit
down the streets of Berlin and Vienr
the allied forces have marched mi
lions strong, until every male of tt
whole Hohenzollern and Hapsbul
families and their accursed milita1
leaders have been hung or shot befo1
the eyes of the assembled people
Berlin and Vienna, he who in Anne
lea talks peace will be false to {
civilization. -.