The Washington times., 1919-09-14

3 Unsentimsntal regardless of justice injustice is
Powerful Nature in her work on this earth
All the more reason why men should study and under
stand her
IS She Crushes with disease and poverty the just and
bis family, and spares the usursr
The nations Of the world overwhelmed with the
horror Of war; millions had been killed. hundreds Of millions
Impoverished, millions crippled race thus afflicted
might according the old ideas have hoped be spared
further acon But men in numbering each other, starv
ing each other had violated Natures laws and Nature sent
from China to Spain and from Spain all the world
what call the Spanish influenza, disease than
var, that killed ten millions where war had killed only
half as many
Men, long they fail to study Nature and obey her
laws suffer- like the the track that ahead
M the engine because the track offers the moothest running
surface She is killed because she does not know the law
that governs the running of engines that Of staying the
track and following the rails The child Of three would
oW enough get Of the track and watch the train go by
The ignorant probably dies thinking how hard is that
the locomotive should choose follow her very path that
she chose IN running away
For tens of thousands of years human beings have
ered supphcatiOns Nature instead Of studying and
troling Nature When lightning flashed and struck men
made idols to represent the lightning and offered sacrifices
10 the lightning hoping that disaster would stay away
Later made lightning for themselves and used to
light their houses and Franklin invented the lightning rod
When earthquakes occurred special prayers
TO keep away earthquakes and occasionally they selected
less at random wicked persons Of different
religions behef-and sacrificed them hoping to appease the
eaTthquake's power
Later they established the sesmometer which records
and measures the earhs movements detecting the slight
emblngs that could not feel and warning Of real
earthquakes come Men watch the seismometer in civil
Lied countries now which is better than having Pagan
priests offering sacrifice to idols.
Now when civilized feel the earth shake they know
that the crust Of the earth adjusting itself to the shifting
and contracting of the earths red hot interior gradually
cooling off, and in consequence sinking down heavng up
the earth's hard crust upon which we live.
The earthquake represents gradual earth movement
that has lasted millions Of years not an angry outburs on
the part of temperamental god killing lot Of nnO
cent people to punish a few guilty.
England, the island of today peninsula,
connected by solid ground with the Continent Of Europe
Spain is connected And the earliest that know
&bOut in England living there before the Ish the
Marshal Foch that crossed from the European Continent
20 England dry land.
Does diminish faith in Divine justice and wisdom to
suggest that Natures laws work revocably that lightning
bolts are not especially aimed or earthquakes and
epidsmics of disease especially planned?
No. it does not. If feeble starting his United
States Government had brains enough to establish Cons
triton fundamental law that all must obey 1t is not too
much to that the Supreme Power governing this
universe would establish and maintain fundamental law
constitution Of the universe that all must obey.
It is perhaps well for ignorant savages and for the
dense of ignorance that calls itself civilized to believe
that every calamity, every death of innocent child
destruction Of city sudden ending of useful life,
especially planned
But for civilized beings that think it is better deal
insegently with Nature laws Mans life is made more
Qned worth while by the knowledge that he is here to
own and control this planet to study and obey the laws
that govern him It would be humiatng the human race
live on here indefinitely waiting for earthquakes to shake
md lightning to strike at the whm Of power playing
with miserable human beings and not obeyng its own
Avs
There is glory in Harvesting Niagara, producing
artificial lightning to factories and street cars than in
Indians did falling down and begging the lightning not
6 strike You. What difference between the ancient fair
saying n you viii do say and pay me- will protect
ou from the lightning and the Divine wrath and the mod
n electrician Tesla saying, "Pay and will show you