The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-02-07

| the walls or the palace 'OI the HUNS
All-highest king, playing like forked
lightnings amidst the battle lusts of
his reborn Babylon?
Now that we know the stupendous
scheme ON which Germany planned
| this war, and, knowing also how
thoroly prepared she was to carry
| her plans to successful conclusion,
and knowing also how i'll prepared
the rest of the world was to with
! stand the onslaught, how shall we
explain Germany'S utter defeat?
1t was the hand of God that de-
feated Germany. There is no other
explanation that can ever hope to
satisfy the mind of any scne man.
With her allies armed to the teeth,
and trained down to the last minute,
Prussia would have crushed the
world had only man opposed her.
Say what you will, you cannot
escape this conclusion when all the
facts are before you. The power of
man in all the rest of tho world stood
futile to bar the path of Prussia and
the Central Powers when they set
forth, four years ago, to lay the
whole world at their feet.
But, there is g greater power than
man. And that's all that could or
did save the world. The hand OF
| God reached down from the high
heavens and barred the Prussian's
path. And it has sent him now
reeling, bloody and broken, back to
the waters of the Rhine.
Is it not all very plain and easy
to see? Go back upon the fiery path
way of the past four years and you
will have no trouble to find an an
swer to every. doubt.
You will come upon that hour
when the nations of the heroic and
forever immortal Entente were at
their last gasp. And then America
stepped in.
America had voted to stay out of
the war. Her people, with one voice
and one mind, had determined to
keep hands off. 1t was in no way a
quarrel of ours.
And yet, what happened? Day by
day we saw ourselves being drawn
in. Incident after incident occurred
fnh
egged on by what can be explained
only as fatality, acting against her
own reason and every element OF
common sense, flung one insult and
injury after another in our very faces
till we simply had to fight.
What was that but the hand OF
4 God directing and ordering the af-
fairs of men?
For, from the very moment that
America declared war against Ger
many, the unholy cause for which
Germany contended was irretrievably
and forever lost.
Yet, Germany did not fear us. Her
allies did not fear us. They knew
we had no army. And they knew
we had no ships to carry an army tc
Europe, though we would raise an
army up. And those were the facts
But, in less than one year we had
both the army and the ships. In less
than a year the brood of the bald
eagle had broken Germany across its
knees.
/ Wherefore, shall we ask the engi-
neers and the map makers and the
. chemists to explain to us how was
done this thing that the greatest
J engineers and map makers and chem
lists in the world said could not be
done?
They cannot give the answer. We
must instead look up to the mystery
of the stars and try to see the hand
, of God reaching down thru theil
majesty and infinite traceries.
In this wonderful hour-the most
wonderful that the world has evel
known, save one-eEen the most
elemental intelligence must bow
humbly down in acknowledgment oi
the Lord God of the Ages.
When we think of Armenia, safe
after more than a thousand years
: from the incessant butchery of the
= filthy and unspeakable Turks; when
we think of Poland freed at last from
the nameless and indescribable tor
ture of Prussia and the awful curse
: that Bismark put upon her; wheT
we think of one enslaved people after
another shaking now the shackle!
from their limbs and standing once
more radiant and glad in the loving
and all-embracing sun, we behold
the miracles not less than any tolt
in holy writ.
Therefore, the inevitable con
; clusion must be that God is still IL
his heavens. His hand is still upor
us.
And this being plainly the case
it is for the people of the world tt
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