The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1919-10-06
YOUR WORLD CITIZENSHIP

treaty is largely based on this argu
ment. The fight will continue to he
made to the end in the United States
senate on that as a chief reason for
refusing to ratify the treaty with
Germany.
And yet intercommunication inter
dependence of nations, the tendency
to world citizenship makes us our
brothers. keeper Those who heard
Dr. Truett talking here last week
about world citizenship must know
something of the meaning. The mis-
sionlry spirit he impressed with
great strength, and that missionary
spirit would carry American free
principles with free religion wherever
it took out missionaries.
We have Industrial missionaries
just as true and just as vital. Amer
ican business is reaching every cor
ner of the earth, not with a view of
dominating it, but with view Of
finding more trade and interchange
of business among men. That is a
custom as old as mankind. 1t will re-
main custom and the best indus
trial missionary will win as well as
will the best religious missionary.
Christianity has message unlike
any other religion on earth. Ameri-
can institutions offer an Industrial
just as certain and sure.
According as we are good missionar.
les, to that extent will American re-
ligious principles and American indus
trial customs prevail in the recon
millions of people belonging to the
races OF broken and Wal-tOrn Europe
Ere calling for the lasting elements
Of our free religion and free institu-
tons. They are as vitality concerned
about industrial liberties as they are
about our free government and our
religions liberties.
Slowly but surely these advantages
will become common property and
as the liberated peoples rise to es-
tablsh their own governments, their
own religions and industries cut out
md built after our thoughts and our
customs, we will enter world citiz-
enship in common with them That
Kind of world program is ahead Of
Is whether we want it or not. The
lay of free institutions has arrived
The liberties of nations from this
lay Ure establish in the world.
my are established in the world.
What monarchial forms are left will
and the reconstruction with
'eligious and civil liberties like ours
will forge into definite shape.
American opportunity to establish
world independence is not going tot
)e lost. Those who cry foreign en-
do not know that world
is now a necessity. They
orget that Il free people in Germany
s "a thousand times a safer people in |
world given to democratic princi-
lies than one left to go to war at the
,iddng of an emperor They do not
'eckon that a free peoples govern
nent according to American princi- |
)les would bring fallen Russia out
rom under the red flag and lay open
-ast areas to the spread of the gospel
If freedom. Our enemies call them
lreams, but our national idea is tot
larry free government to all the ends
If the earth.
And wherever free people live, there
he men will have aims and aspira-
ions common with ours. Their great
n purpose will be ours. Their adj
and intelligence will in al
marked degree follow our own. Their
thought, their religion will naturally
'ollow There is not a people who
know American institutions in Eu-
rope but that its best citizens would
adopt our civil and religious customs.
What we are, they will he as best
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