The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1918-05-01

LORD Will PROVIDE are all rlgnt IN peace
time but when that self-same parsonage
fails to intervene in the cause Of justice,
these Biblical injunctions are placed on the
shelf and man becomes the materialist that
he is and fights the thing out, not with Bib
lical injunctions, but with shrapnel and
bullets. >..' a 49, x
d" ONE WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE.
o! We Of little faith! Eyes We have, and see not
Ears We have, and hear not. y, .sa $# S4s5 y
. Are our boys in France fighting it out merely
with shrapnel and bullets? Have they placed
faith in His eternal goodness on the shelf and put
reliance wholly on bayonet and trigger? BY no
means. To say that our young Americans are
over there simply to kill is to say that America is
barbarian. -...u...
Our soldiers are armed, encouraged and in
spired by cause that is SPIRITUAL and inspiration
moves them as they thrust or fire. Why do they
cross 5000 miles Of death-infested ocean to fight
That their brothers may enjoy the rights of free
dom, justice and pursuit Of happiness in making
homes, providing for their loved ones and wor-
shipping God as they please These rights are the
Creators cause, and they are the spiritual reward
for working or fighting for that cause.
If we have armies in France composed OF mere
head.hunters, armies who have put the Almighty
on the shelf and are without inspiration, let's
have them home and set them to killing Canadians
and Mexicans, for the acquisition of territory, OF
for other greedy purpose H..
| But it is not remarkable that lone who does
not believe can see naught save the shrapnel and
bullets. Why should one who does not believe in
God see anything? He's made stone-blind by his
own conceit, to begin with. He has set himself up
as wiser than 80 per cent of humanity, living or
dead, Christian Jew, heather and barbarian. He's
smarter even that old Darwin himself, who, in a
life time of study and research failed utterly to
find race or tribe of men, extent or gone, who
hadn't that sixth sense, the spiritual sense, in
some degree.
And why should one who does not believe con-
Germ himself in wars, newspaper editorials, life,
or himself? He has figured it out, to his own sat
isfaction, that all the sidereal law and order and
all the wonders Of nature are but an accident; that
the love of man and wife, parent and child is joke
terminated by the end Of this little Whit OF time
called life that hope and aspiration, both spiritual
and material, are but open traps for the weak
minded: that the total of human progress is not
worth while
" How could one so blinded see, beside the shrap-
mel and bullets, the souls of Americans who fight
and die for love of their brothers? How could one
so deaf hear the divine command "Love We one an
other" as the fighting or dying hero in Flanders
hears it? .'.. ..
They publish much about the tremendous, un-
heard of undertaking of America in this war. She
is to transport millions Of men, with the arms, food
and munitions across thousands of miles of sea-
1t is an enormous, grand most difficult task,
and history tells of nothing approaching it. But
the grandest, greatest thing about it is the why
Of it. 1t is for perpetual peace for human liberty
and progress, for the universal brotherhood, for
"Peace and good will among men," That's spirit
ual and Gods work, not mere shrapnel and bullets
Something's wrong with North Dakota. The
state is out of it's stride report from George H.
HOLSTER of Fargo, state director for the War
Savings committee, tells US that North Dakota
ranks 44th among the 48 states Of the union in the
per capita purchase of thrift stamps. Our invest
ment in March amounted to $22O,788.15, a per
capita of 80 cents. Nebraska, another farmer
state stood at the head Of the list, with $4,000 900
worn of thrift stckers to tbs credit per capita
investment of 1864 for the month of March, From
the beginning Of the war savings stamp campaign,
North Dakota ranks one point lower-46th among
all the states in the union, with total investment
Of but $484 ,494.07 and per capita Of 70 cents.
Nebraska, again taking the lead for the entire
period, is credited with total sales of $14OOO,0OO
and per capita of $11.O6 Let's wake up, North
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