Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1918-12-28

than ever-the mind and the heart and
the will Of the Eternal One.
And now at length, with the con-
viction that Christ will yet have his
way in this world, consider how his
star has shed new CLEAN of light
upon another. The star of the west
has caught fire. And the poet sings:
And thou, o my country, of many made
one,
Last born of the nations, still at morn
ing thy sun;
Arise to the place thou art given to
fill,
Lead in the worlds peace and good
WILL
America, our own United States, has
been called of Providence! She spells
hope, peace, good will, righteousness
to the Christmas world of now, to the
multitudes who have long since prayed
for the morning star of this new era.
Oh, what thrill to just be an Amer
lean today! Let us recall, very, very
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spokesman of the world just now. The
Germans did not surrender on the al
lies conditions. The Germans surren-
dered on the American conditions.
They explicitly stated that they ac-
copied the terms laid down in the
speeches of President Wilson from
January s to September 81.
1t is significant that America has
given to this world struggle in the
person of Woodrow Wilson the one
mind that has cleared the whole at
mosphere of the allied councils of
every semblance of greed and mere
lust for power. 1t is admirable and
magnificent that in his matchless state
papers-and his fourteen points-to
which the allied powers of Europe
have been able to add nothing Except
a minor point of later origin) he has
simply Incorporated the true spirit of
America, which is Christ's practical
program. No wonder that, the mayor
of Brest welcomed our leader as the
worlds greatest human messenger Of
justice and peace"
America is world power in the |
realm of ideals, touching the soul,
warming the heart, firing the imagina-
ton and nerving the arm everywhere
who chafe under ancient regimes of
tyranny, ignorance and injustice. This
fact made Winston Churchill say the
other day:
1.-THE entrance of the United States
into the war was the greatest mental
effort and spiritual realization of truth
which has occurred in the whole
course of secular history
All, friends, are you not thrilled by I
the thought. of our native land-this
star in the west that has caught the /
CLEAN of Bethlehem's shaft of light |
and love and hope to the world?
And now the challenge Of this star,
for you and for me?
Save one this is the red letter day of |
the world. The glory of this day is
that the name of God is writ loud as |
trumpet and apparent as the sun.
Now peal the bells more loud and
deep:
"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep!
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will TO
men y
Our valiant men have paid the
heavy toll of victory. Said an eye
witness: wherever we found them
this was always the case: Each man
lay as he had fallen, with his head to-
ward the enemy, and usually his arms
were stretched out ahead of him, as
though he had made last desperate
effort to reach his objective. They all
lay the same way, like rows of cut
corn"
Oh, men of this western star, you
have -vorthily caught the vision of
that earlier star!
In the hour of Christmas, in this
morning of world brotherhood, my
friends, let us put the white fire of
Christian love and of splendid HUMANE
ty within the star of the west and
through it into the coming League of
Nations.