Arizona republican., 1918-04-08

as quickly as possible. The preacher has the largest opportunity to help at this point of any class of people. Preaching the Gospel to all peoples, includes body. mind and soul; material, educational, social, the sufferings, the tragedys, the morals. faith, hope, des- pair, temptations, failures, ideals, the baby. the home, the government and everything is at stake in this war.
 A brutal beast is about to devour civilization. A cruel madman is loose on the earth. All that six thousand years has gained for humanity has been set on fire. We entered this war just in time, 10 save something. Some call It democracy. some call it civili- zation, some may call 1t something else. u means everything worth while. Will the minister who stands for that which is worth while do not only his part but do all he can? I think he will. How can he do any less?
 Again, we are learning now that Germany had won the war when we entered. that the allies were at the point Of exhaustion, and even England ana France were seriously considering the proposition of giving up. This would have meant that Germany would l have been master of the world, and this would have meant the ultimate l crushing out of Christianity and all that Christianity implies. Our nation entered just in time We will be saved. Germany will be conquered Can the minister do. any less than all he can? The government is drafting all fit men between the ages of 21 and 31. Some are exempted for various reasons. The minister is exempted because the gov ernment felt that he could serve better at home than in the trenches. But will he unless he arouses his church and community, by voice, influence and ex- ample to white heat enthusiasm? If ne does not do this then the govern ment should draft him into the trench es' Again, two men are primarily re- sponsible for this awful war: Nietzche and Treitschke both of these great
 thinkers taught philosophy more
 poisonous to Christianity than all ot the Infldelity of nineteen hundred years. One of the fundamental teach, niss or Nletzsche is the necessity ot
 plotting Christianity from the face O
 the earth. The church will suffer iron
 thls teaching for hundred years |, come, put It IS this same teachings tha
 inspired this war. the German atrocity
 How can the minister do any less tba,
 take the strongest possible attitud,
 against this philosophy? To do this h.
 must stand and speak for the mos
 allies. '' '--
 For ten years, Germany was ready
 for what she called "The Great Day
 The day when Germany would begi,
 to lay waste, burn, pillage, murder. rot
 torture and annihilate everything O,
 the lace of the earth that she could no , control or possess. That shot in Jul .. 1914 was no more the real cause of tn
 war than the spots on the sun. bu Germany has been waiting for an ex
 cuse and the oldest son of the kaise , mas said that if one way had not bee
 !ound some other would, as a pretex for making war.
 It has cost the world eighty billion f or dollars, twenty-one million lives. , IS costing England seventy cents a da , ana trance fifty cents a day. the Unit I ca States twenty-eight cents a day fo : every man, woman and child, and th
 end it not yet.
 I The thing that brought this conditio I on the earth must be destroyed. even 2 1t means the annihilation of the Ger s | man race.
 1 Again it is the duty of the minister | to preach, talk, and write that the
 may help shape the thinking of all on f people. Dr. Perry told us that the wa r would not be won by ships, or food. q n Liberty bonds nor by airships or sub . marines, or men, nor would be won o
 the eastern front or on the wester !. front. but would be won in Americ and it would be won whenever Amer ica was aroused to the proper bite [ or determination. No influence can ac 0 complish this as effectively as the min t isters.
 Again, it is estimated that 75 pc