Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1919-10-31
"A True Demccracy-What Is IT."

"A True Democracy-What Is IT."
4 Excerpt from Sermon Delivered
at the Methodist Church, October
&c. 1919. by the pastor. Rev j. A.
Hoffman.
Our goal is democracy for the
world. Some people take a whole
mouth full when they speak this
word, and they use capital letters
when they write it, as II they meant
to say that this word Is panacea
for all the worlds ills. With much
gusto they tell us that the mean
ing of democracy is government OF
the people, by the people, for the
people. But the kind of people to
whom we have reference makes a
very decisive difference in the
meaning of the term. Democracy Is
not certain type of government.
In the mind of President Wilson.
democracy means righteousness.
! This has to do, not with statutory
laws, however noble they may be, but
with manhood. Democracy is there
fore. certain type of manhood,
frame of mind. an attitude
This leads Us to the question.
| How shall this frame of mind be
| acquired? Permit me to state first
/ I'M 10 al II, "a
! This spirit was not born at Yer
sailles, as so many loud-mouthed
/ prophets tell us, but in Bethlehem,
Judea. The conference at Yer
sailes can enact laws and put them
down on paper, but an INSCRIPTIONS
Hun can turn those laws into scraps
as We have already observed dur
ing five years of cruel warfare.
The League of Nations will take
care of that" you say. Yes, I've
heard arguments like that before
Perhaps we have forgotten that,
just prior to the late war, men de-
clared that we had become so
thoroughly civilized, and public
eminent was so strongly set
against war, that there could be no
more wars. 1t was contended that
the labring element and the social
lists would so on nation wide
strike in case the nation declared
war. But war had scarcely been
declared when the labor party and
the socialists unanimously, or al
most unanimously, voted to support
their respective governments.
The teachings of Jesus of MAJ
areth are the only foundation for
civilization that will prevent war.
Any so-called democracy that bows
Jesus out of its government is not
/ a true democracy. The world has
taken an OBJ ject-lesson from the
atheistic democracy of France ano
Russia. French democracy was q
menace so long as atheists We're IN
, control of the government, as the
Reign of Terror so plainly shows
Even Robespierre, himself anything
but a saint, had to bring Jesu.
Christ back to the French Revolu
tion after the Convention hat
bowed him out. Jesus Christ wa:
needed to bind up the gapins
wounds of the French people. Ant
Jesus Christ is needed today to bint
: up the worlds gaping wounds. lie
nine and Trotzky bowed Jesus on
. of Russia, and the Russian Bear
was shot in the heart. The Frencl
Revolution was weakling besid
the horrible scenes that are taking
place in Russia The rulers of tn
soviet government are infidel Jews
. who repudiate Jesus and his teach
ings What else could they hay
but revolution? Henry Morgenthau
. late ambassador of Turkey. himseI
a Jew, once said to friend:
Jesus has exercised more In
fluence on human history than an
; other personality. We shall neve
y get out of war except by followin
y his teachings.