New Britain herald., 1918-11-23

Justice is above either revenge or i the etIeminate sentimentaIity whose i obedience to Scriptural command ] would feed an enemy with what he demands instead of what he needs. Because Germany claims to be starving, 3nd frantic5,lly cries cut for food, the sOft-hcarted quote for our guidance the Scripture: "1f thine . enemy hunger feed him. Does this Scripture mean that we should give to Germany what she herself calls for, simply because her cannon fOd- der having now been exhausted, she piteOuSly cries for it?
 Putting it mildly, Germany is our patient,-perhaps better,-the worlds maniac---tne nations who suffered and died to apprehend and manacle her are the doctor. Even when a patient demands food, the doctor may still think it wise to order a fast with more bitter medicine.
 Thus far our soldiers did not quote Scripture in coping with the enemy, they took orders from Gencralissimo Foch, who prescribed what a Hun needs.
 Those who quote Scripture in jus tification of a, pallating human senti- ment which would hear an enemy before we ourselves have regained a full breath and our friends have been cared for should look more deeply into the Scriptures and they will find that Jesus not only directed that we feed an enemy, but, if we truly love as He loved we are to feed His lambs and His sheep; and friends of the cause of world freedom must be Christian enough to at 1taa Sf
 eve the first claim upon us; the ene- my, or beast of prey, should also be fed out of the abundance which God gives but only safely and wisely, not with the flesh he craves, but with the governing spirit which OVercomes the enemy-bestiality
 Jesus, our Master, himself on the cross, promised the dying thief noth- ing, nuntii the repentant, malefactOr humbly appealed to him, at the brink Of doom, for remem brance in Christ's kingdom.
 The Master himself did not feed the 'Scribes, Pharisees, and hypo- crites," because they did not follow him. Are we as wise, if we feed Ger man babies and German women ana sensual men, before perfidious Ger mans swollen with military pride, shall, by their own suffering, have learned, that such lawlessness and crime, as they are guilty of, is not condoned in the name of war?
 If Germany still proudly believes that war is war, is she repentant, and honest in her call for aid; or is her call the cry of the wounded beast at bay,-depleted in man-power, sa- tanic inventions exhausted?
 IlPr bread, when he proudly begs that his wants be given precedence over everything. while he continues to live in his old German palaces Of hellish elf-justifcation?
 To be sure, it is only wise to do what we can to extinguish a fire on our neighbours premises; if not be- cause the neighbor deserves a hand. yet, because fire, uncontrolled, might spread to our own property.
 The Allies should by all means go to Germany's rescue; but not softly, and only under the selfless Leader ship of PrincipIe,--the unCOmprOmis- ing hand of God,-whose stern jus tice lets the enemy reap what he has sown.
 If Germanys internal fire can not be put out through self reformation, then may the Allies send to her aid, the experienced firemen who have so far extinguished the once world threatening conflagra ton, and whose first duty it shall further be to con- fine the fire to Germany, the place of it's origin, while they then do their best to save all in the enenys domain that is worth saving.
 Of the two forms of selfishness ,,11 it seems difficult to say which is the worse or the more wicked, the selfish peace-breaker or the selfish peace maker.
 The Allies are pretty sure of ar resting and justly punishing the peace breaker, if their peace-victory proves as uncompromisingl wise, as was their War-victory over Germany and her dupes: but the selfish would be peace-makers are not confined to the defeated enemy's country; the sad situation seems to be, that the victorious nations are filled with self ish, or self f-deceived, false sentiment makers, who, in their zeal to out-do each other in shoWering flowers or forgiveness upon unrepentant cr1m- inals threaten to undo the noble work, done on the bloody battlet1elds by the best manhood of the world, thousands upon thousands of whom can never return to speak to us Of their dying struggles. May their ab- sence and ominous silence. rather than the still made in Germany sympathy, touch the hearts of those whose duty it will be to sit at the peace-table.
 There is little danger that Germany will be punished too severely for her innum era ble heinOus crimes. AS 1ndl- 1 Viduais we should all have hearts of such tender compassion as would not willingly pain a worm; and then, all should pray that our ollclaI