The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-14
DAGON Is FALLEN

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Daniel. delivered at First Baptist church
giving Services Mrs. John l.. Dorsett
and the choir rendered several
ity which brought England into the
war. Without this Germany had won
an easy victory. The second political
mistake was the unrestricted submar-
inc warfare which forced America
into the war. without this the allies
could never have won, and had been
compelled to sue ror peace months
ago. The first military mistake was
in leaving an exposed flank at the
Marine in 1914. which gave Foch the
t opportunity for the counter-oioW
that saved Paris. The second was a
similar mistake in July of 1918 and
which furnished the same opportuni-
ty which was quickly seen by Petain
and utilized by Mangin. From this
view point OF faith God was over these
political and military plumbers and He
set the Marine as the bounds beyond
which the Huns should not go and
there He dug the grave OF German
kultur.
! In every emergency OF human his
tory God has raised up man to exc
cute His will and establish Hts king
dom. When polytheism was obliterat-
ing the knowledge of the true God He
called Abraham from Ur of the Chal-
dees and made him the custodian Of
/ monotheism. When immortality was
rampant and the worship Of nature
regnant He called Moses to be His
spokesman and to lay down the laws
thaA are the foundation OF religion
and OF civil government. When in a
| 1. r~slS
seemed good in his own sight, and
might was right, and the oppressor's
hand was heavy upon Israel. God rails
ed up fifteen judges from Othniel to
Samuel and by divine interposition
made that period the heroic age of
Jewish history. When idolatry was
corruptng the life and sapping the
vitality of Israel He raised up Elijah
| and Elisha to break down the affairs
of Baal. rebuke kings and reassert the
rule OF Jehovah. When the American
colonies were struggling for indepen-
/ dence and hope was faint and the
cause all but lost, when. like storm
tossed mariner. the American people
scanned the horizon to see If some re-
lief could be had God raised up
George Washington TO lead our fore
fathers in the retreat from Long Is
land, through the desperate winter
of Valley Forge. to the glorious victory
at Yorktown. When the allied cause
was imperilled ana the Germans were
coming with countless hordes and ir-
restible power against the dis-united
armies Of France, Belgium and Great
Britain, God raised up General Foch
to command all the forces. stay the
tide, break the power and hurl 1t back
whence it came. In affecting united
command Baptists have reasons to be
| thankful that the first and the fore
, most fundamentally of the ALI
, mighty was our Baptist brother, Lloyd
!. George Of England. 1t was he who
first suggested it; who earnestly urged
1t. unyieldingly stood for it and who
in a recent telegram from General
. Foch was credited with that achieve
ment.
Foch a Christian.
1t Is also pleasing to know that
, General Foch is a deyout Christian
and spends an hour each day in pri-
; vate devotions and that his two arms
| Pershing and Haig. are also Chris
uan men. General Pershing has
given expression to some of the no.
blest Christian sentiments to be found
| in the literature of war Back behind
the English lines every Sunday morn
ing, no matter how strenuous the
struggle, you could find General Haig
=, at worship In the little Presbyterian
church that represented his faith
/ They REMIND Ms of our inef1a para ete
p Christian generals-Lee and jackson
j, Indeed. in a recent editorial in the
/ New York Times on General Foch
the only two generals to whom tina,
writer compared him were our OWE
| Lee and Jackson.
, The times demand sobriety as wei
} as rejoicing ,~ IL peace hath her vic
, tories no less renown than war.
, she has her problems, too. no les.
perplexing. To the solving of these
, we must set ourselves with patience
> persistence and unseltishness. All ii
not over. Justice and order are no.
{ set up in Europe. What shall bt
| done with the kaiser- An interesting
| historic parallel can be run between
him and Napoleon Bonaparte. though
Napoleon never committed mol
| countenanced savage warfare. sucf
as the kaiser has waged Napoleon
contem ptuously called the English
Channel a wet ditch" as the kaiser
| spoke of the contemplate little army
) of Sir John French. He. like the
kaiser, overawed the continent for q
, while, but the sovereignty of the
ocean and its islands was denied hin
as 1t had been denied the kaiser. Ir
less than month he succeeded where
the combined forces OF Europe hat
failed during the Seven Years War
and in three years the kaiser almost
succeeded in overrunning Europe
. and dominating two continents
, Napoleon's ambitions were blasted ir
the Battle of Nations" His mos
, trusted officers deserted him and he
| was forced to abdicate. The kaiser
has seen the collapse OF his colossal
schemes as a chiId's block house tum.
bles to the food. Napoleon. partly
through dread and partly through
generosity to a fallen foe, was allow
, ed to retain his title AZ emperor, to
receive yearly pension of 100000
from France and remain undisturbed
as Emperor of Elba. We know how
, short time 1t was before he return
ed. overthrow the Bourbons and sci
Europe afisme again.
. Holland Is too diminutive a country
to hold the kaiser and we need not
expect him to be contented If the
allies were willing for him to live
there. Again, after Waterloo Napo-
leon. having failed in an attempt al
suicide, requested permission to live
. in America. or as a private citizen in
Great Britain. This time no false
sentiment was allowed to protect the