The Holly chieftain., 1919-04-24
DECLARATION OF
RIGHT ONLY HOPE
Continued from Page 1O)

ter bOnnets of brilliant hues, for
this custom has been practiced for
some fifteen centuries at the glad
Easter times, when the poor and
the rich mingled together the one
as well off rs the other; for this is
spiritual feast, and not a materi.
al one.
My friends, we are told the age of
miracles is past. In literal sense
this perhaps is true, yet the fact re-
mains. every time a child is born,
miracle is performed; living,
breathing soul is ushered into the
world, possessing that mysterious
element we call life What is life?
Ask the most learned physician or
scientist. You will find they cannot
tell. They do not know. 'Fis a
mystery known to the Diety alone.
Take the embryo mind, and you
can make of it what you will, a
savage, pagan, Christian, a
Protestant or a Catholic: | say
this to remind you OF the heavy re-
spOnsibility of parents-beware
you guide that mind Alright. The
cradle is the starting place. Life is
the winning of the race, we reach
the goal. He held us in the hob
low of his hand, and gave us free
will to choose the path of good or
i'll, and when that fateful day ar
rives, the wish on earth to linger
still is vain, when 'tis Gods sover-
eign will that we shall die
Now | shall tell you what re-
gard as the most beautiful story /
ever read
In Inv, y. n RI n
death, for what crime | do not
knOw-perhaps rebeilion-Was visit
cd in his prison tell by the woman
who had promised TO be his bride.
They understood it would he their
last interview. She asked the ques-
tion, Shall we meet again?" His
reply, Il have asked that dreadful
question of the hills that look eter-
nal, of the clear streams that flow
forever, of the stars, amid whose
fields of grandeur mans raised
spirit has walked in glory. All
were dumb, but when | look into
thy living eyes, there is something
that tells me we cannot wholly
perish. We shall meet again, Gle
manthe" Futurity was cleared by
the living eye, whose windows OF
the soul through which we look
out on world of beauty, if not of
love-
Now, my friends, I shall point out
if I can, the deadly danger that be
falls a people or a nation that turns
away from God. We have a recent
notable example of the dire cala1n-
;ity that has Overtaken proud, def
ant, self contained, God defying
Germany. That great people in
their vain egotism, in their material
prosperity, following a misguided
leadership, discarded the teachings
of Him who trod the wine press
alone, and sought a substitute in
a thing called "Kultur." What is
Kultur? It is the ancient semi
religious, semi-barbaric mythology
of northern Europe, that substi-
tutes Might for Right"
Today all save the irresponsible
and unthinking, know vast peril
even now is undermining that slow
growth of the ages, that we call
civilization. Today, east of the
river Rhine there is no stable civil
government. That vast area in
habited by some five hundred mil
lion people, know not what day
or even an hour may bring forth.
Thinking men with their feet
planted on the ground, are looking
into the future, as into an impene-
trable darkness"
We have seen men in high places,
university presidents, college pro-
fessors, theologians, statesmen,
plotting crimes of nature so re-
voting. that only devils might be
supposed to hoarsely whisper in
the darkest receses of hell; not only
plotting their commission, but en-
bracing them as q virtue 1t is q
strange paradox of human nature,
that what we loathed yesterday,
we, by system of elimination and
addition, may cOndOne today, and
embrace tomorrow.
This changed state of mind may
be brought about in sundry ways.
Visit day after day picture gal
lery in which is hung the noblest
paintings of the grand old masters,
but intersperce few of lewd or
licentious character, like Septem-
ber Morn or Oscar Wild's SalOme.
Today you pass them by as some
thing dirty and unclean. tomorrow
you will do the same, but with
steps less swift and sure. Beware,
tomorrow or the next day you will
pause to view them. Then there is
the opera stage on which you see
and hear plays of coarse and sug-
gestive nature-and this also ap-
plies to the moving picture show
and while vicious literature has
been the product of every age since
printing came in vogue, it has been