The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1918-01-03

many and Austria will retain their
lands in their integrity. And there
shall come to them a greater reedom
than they ever dreamed of. But tor
centuries they will lag behind in the
race OF life. They will have TO face
a cold. cold world. Trust is easier
displaced thar replaced. In spite of
peace declarations the world will be
slow to forget. Having "sown the
wind they will reap the whirlwind."
Men and Nations are slow to learn
that the laws of the moral and spirit
ual world are as memorable as the
laws OF the natural world. Belgium
is ravaged. Serbia is plundered, Ru-
mania and Montenegro are played.
Northern France is i'm ruins, and great
big Russia Is in chaos because of this
monster military machine that Ger
many has beer building up for almost
half a century. The laws Of eternal
righteousness are SO unaltarably ar
ranged that Germany will have 70 pay
the penalty. ~Retribution may be slow
but Il Is certain. "the mills Of the gods
grind slow but sure"
Before July 1914 the christian world
outside of Germany had come tc be-
lieve hat war on any scale was next
to impossible. Our own Secretary of
State. Mr.. Bryan. was industtiously
seeking TO bring about a league of
| Nations that would prevent war.
| Some OF our greatest thinkers a
| come to believe that the Hague tri-
btilai would settle all international
| difficulties. In the last two weeks
l. have read Bishop Mcconnell, VI the
| Methodist Episcopal church, in his
! book entitled "The Increase OF Faith.
In IL Is this passage. "A great many
changes have come over the thinking
| of the world I'm the last half century.
A war that should be frankly and
| openly materialistic would hardly be
IOttIdttu tOtdy n -
ment is OF course q force I'm every
war, hut to put the appeal down
| squarely on a business basis would
condemn 1t hopelessly. Today the
| cost In human terms is being urged
| more and more. Important as might
be the disturbance of capital through
a war or number Of wars, the disturb
| ance to the happiness Of III plain
people who have to do the fighting.
/ and the suffering Is more important
still. In this connection let us be
thankful for those international
movements which stand against war.
Let us rejoice that human sinews in
sist more and more upon being con-
suited. IL there is TO be war let the
men who are to do the dying be con-
suited, before the war breaks out.
Ths telling factor against waT 10 IL
inhumanities. The essential inhu-
manity OF men killing each other by
Wholesale is becoming more and more
apparent"
The Editor of one of our religious
papers said a week ago that the
wal had made such a change In his
thinking that he would not publish
today the editorials that appeared a
year ago" The good Bishop | pre-
sumo would say the same thing about
the sentences | have just quoted from
his book. no doubt President Wilson
! ii not Tue foremost is one OF the fore
most statesmen of today, but he has
reversed himself since the val began!
II was only two years before the wal
that Bishop Mcconnell wrote his book
none OF the things he mentions as
preventitives OF war have prevented
il. The trouble with all our reason.
ing before the war was that we only
had knowledge OF that part OF the
world that thought alike. We had M
knowledge of the German Autocrac,
and the people whom II had SO care
fully taught its philosophy OF cruel
ty. This Is the rock or which nj
pacifcism is wrecked. The peace o
the world cannot be mGintained unit
there are enough nations in love will
peace, to compel peace.
The Northwestern Christian Advo
} cate had a timely editorial last week
1t gave quotations from a book jus
: published by a man born In Syria
and who interprets the Masters ut
terances from the view point of Pales
J tine. He gives us the oriental atmos
phere. He says 1t is amazing to m
now "when l recall the days OF m,
youth in Syria TO think how sligh
! were the causes which brought sbou
a fight among individuals and clans
quarrel between two children o
different clans. or even of " house
OF the same clan; a scrap arising be