The Springdale news., 1918-11-15

first would have failed of its purpose,
and this was impossible
Victor Hugo declared that Yelling
ton did not win Waterloo, for the
reason that it was impossible far
the destiny of the World that Ma
poleon should win, and that Waterloo
was only miracle, in which God gave
the victory
So far as the influence of that
first great event may have been eff
fective in molding the minds and
guiding the actions of men and wo-
men under which they have become
sturdy, resolute, intrepid, and just,
and Jealous for the right and invinc-
ible In its defense, so far could the
great novelist and historian truth
fully say that God gave the victory at
Waterloo. And the same declaration
can as correctly be made against the
Hohenzollerns and their allies today.
because the spirit of Christ, working
on the education of men during the
centuries has shown itself again in
this good day.
1t was simply impossible for Ger
many to win against the spirit of the
people who had been educated and
trained under the influences whose
aggregate results have found lodge
ment in the minds and hearts of the
people of the Christian Nations of
the world. as more strongly evidenced
IN this year of 1918, than ever before.
Today, more than ever, we find
charity and liberation among all the
nations and the men of all faiths and
ereeds who have just concluded the
great fight for the privilege of be-
ing called MEN. In the spirit of
fraternity and tolerance our men from
all quarters of the world have ming
led and fought and died like heroes
Tor the same cause, fer you and for
me, on the toughest battle fields ev-
er known to human beings and we
must join in the fight with the sur
vlvors for the protection of the ma
terial and spiritual privileges to be
enjoyed by posterty in the ages to
come. and today, the 18th of Novem-
Der, we may begin that work by con-
trlbutmg to a common fund for war
relief work to be expended by the rep
resentatives of a greater diversity of
beliefs than have ever joined hands
for the relief of suffering and the
protection of the morals of the flu
ture citizenship.
This great investment-an in
vestment in futures-the future cit
izenship of the world 1t may sound
paradoxieai to say that every man
invests in this enterprise whether he
wills to do So or not-whether he puts
his money and his heart into it or
keeps his money in his pocket and his
heart In cold storage, but the truth is,
If he furnishes money and such en-
couragement as he may be able, he
invests in good citizenship which will
return to bless all the children of the
earth while by boarding and hugging
to himself his corroding dollars and
shutting himself up in his dry hull of
selfishness and narrowness which sees
no one but me and my wife, my son
John and his wife, we four and no
more and seeing no further across
the world than to his own back fence,
he invests in citizenship which may
return as corrupting influence to
curse the world rather than to bless it.
Therefore there is no room for ar
gument-the proposition is still par
adoxical-either give and save, or
save and lose-we can only save by
giving. and can only lese by boarding.
By paying dollar the world may
gain millions. By saving a dollar the
world may lose Millions, and no mans
belief, theory, prejudice or creed
should be permitted to turn his hand
against the worlds as the Hun has
turned his, nor stand in the way of
a noble and necessary work which he
is unable to do himself
Willard Berry.