The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-10-18
cHRIST'S GRAY GENERAL
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1t was Foch. And now, Evans of
San Bernardino counts the experience
as the greatest in his life.
During that three-quarters of an
hour that the generalissimo of all
the Allied armies was on his knees in
humble application in that quiet
church, 10000 guns were roaring at
his word on a hundred hills that
rocked with death.
Millions of armed men crouched in
trenches OF rushed across blood
drenched terraines at his command,
generals and field marshals, artillery,
cavalry, engineers, tanks, fought and
wrought across the map of Europe
absolutely as he commanded them to
do, and in no other manner, as he |
went into that little church to pray.
Nor was it an unusual thing for |
Gen. Foch to do. There is no day |
that he does not do the same thing il |
there be a church that he can reach. |
He never fails to spend an hour on
his knees every morning that he |
awakes from sleep; and every night |
it is the same.
Moreover, it is not new thing
| with him. He has done it his whole
! life long.
If young Evans could have follow
ed the general on to headquarters.
where reports were waiting him and
news of victory upon victory was
piled high before him, he would
doubtless have seen great gladness
on the generals face, but he would
have seen no look of surprise there.
Men who do that which Foch does
have no doubts. When Premier
Clemenceau, the old Tiger of France
stood on the battle front with anxious
heart, one look at the face of Foch
stilled all his fears. He returned to
Paris with the vision Of sure and GER
tain victory.
The great agnostic statesman
doubted, but the Gray Man of Christ
did not doubt
The facts, then, in the case are that
when the freedom of the world
hung in the balance the world
turned to Foch as the one
great genius who could save
it against the Hun; and that Foch:
who is perhaps the greatest soldier
the world has produced, is first of
all, Christian.
, What is the use of listening to ma
terialists in the face of these facts?
Where did the man go who brought
; home his sack of gold nuggets every
night? Where does Foch go who
brings home victory every day?
If he goes to the chemists, to the
war councils, to the map makers, and
to them alone, we'll and good. That's
5 what the Kaiser and Won Hindenburg
and Ludendorff do, and so the ma
terialists would give us their answer
n But that is not what Foch does.
: He goes to God. He goes to Christ.
: who turned back Paul on the road to
Damascus; to the Nazarene, who
: raised Lazarus from the tomb; to the
i Wanderer, who went up the dark path
d to Calvary and hung there upon the
: tree between two thieves that the
S sins of the world might be washed
: away.
: Think of this type of man, quiet
5, and as humble as the humblest peas
), ant in the stricken field of Flanders
G with the hopes and the destinies OF
whole world in his hands!
S Is it not our tradition that such q
: commander, compared to whom Alex
e ander and Constantine and Napoleon
r and Caesar stand as corporals il
5, Lilliput, should be inaccessible in his
l. lordly grandeur from the eyes Of
k common men?
s And yet, young Evans of San Ber
II nardino, just an everyday American
} boy from under the shadow of ole
S, San Gorgonio, spent nearly an houl
S with Foch in an old French church
If and not even one bayonet was there
II to keep them apart
They represented the two great
democracies of the world, but there
in that old church they represented
f jointly, far greater thing-the dem
!, ocracy of Christ.
IS The war is not yet ended, but Focl
# has already won it.
Q The Kaiser pirates much of God
h but we know that his "Gott" is MOI
q the God who gave US Christ as His
o only begotten Son. You shall search
10 the utterances of the Kaiser in vair
IS to find one single reference of his to
I Christ, or one appeal that he has
n made to the Son of God.
~ The Kaiser, and that Prussia which
f. he has builded up, have thrust Chris
% out. Alien is He to the Hun as H
g was. to them that slew Him.
n Of Him was the prophecy that H
V would come to be the Prince O.
! Peace. For such Prince the Hun
-" could have no longing and no love
because it was foretold that through
Christ there would come an end t.
war.
: For all the armor of the arme,
man in the tumult, and the garment
rolled in blood, shall even be TO
l. burning, for fuel of fire"
g When, some day soon-pray God j
IS may be soon-the trumpets shall
IS sound the clear, sweet call of peac