The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-01-25
Did You Know These Things About Fighters?

xIA1M EBsTER once said: my heart has always assured and reassured
IM w me that Christianity must be a divine reality" Webster was a
UEZTxN a man 10 whom the American people nave always looked upon
MW9WAEM1N with much respect for his knowledge and opinion. A certain
N0NSaN large book lies in a handy place in this office and it is consulted
s9 The a ot of book is to be found in almost every school
and place of business in this land. We ire wont, in other words, to look
upon Webster as al authority in many practical things; and it may surprise
some readers to see the above state ascribed to him Nevertheless, tomorrow
being sunday n a inn When tn average man, II h thnks o such matters
att ALL is apt to turn his attention to things religious, it a do no harm to
consider some other remarks Of like nature, ascrbed to men in whom the
being relgiously inclined.
cannon to claim their attention exclusively to the subject of fighting, have
unearthed other matters which may, at first thought, appear strange to the
man who las never thought of the fighting man as anything but a killer
1t is a fact which anyone nay easily prove for himself that the boys who
have really faced death and destruction in most terrible forms have come
to think very seriously of other things than killing their felow-man. OBJ
serving this change in those boys whom re knew before they went to the
front it will ct be sc surprising to read that General Foch' to whom an
the allies entrusted their fortunes at a time when things looked darkest for
the opponents of autocracy, declared in no uncertain manner, I'VE shall be
saved by prayer!"
We had become accustomed. to or shame be it said, to look upon Foch
as a great fghter-as the greatest fighter And yet here stands the man
tbirstnass Thst was sr sraront .ar ~n any Nv po NON uo new thai th he
greatest human fighter, or the most gigantic material army, could not prevail
against divine intelligence. which is always o the side of rght-or on the
side which is nearest right No doubt the Germans prayed as much and as
earnestly as the allies; but the latter were nearer right and their trust in
the Supreme Ruler ava1ed
There W as General Kitchener, who met his fate before the torpedo from
a submarine. He a known IS a cold, hard nan a fighter a discpinarian
and a powerful wfelder of material arms. Perhaps few people eve thought
OF him as a reIsous man. or as n would wei think of W. oh a thing
a $ prayer; and yet We learn that he, in 1914, when the Jews came of the
German repulse at the Marine. said: Some must have been praying"
AT that time 1T appeared that h us of the allies "a all u lost
Even sturdy England had given u p hope. The fact a censored from news
- ws nnossih for tme HIM To he tonn A. h"rtber violence hat his
belief "a firm at the time mentioned, we are now informed that Lord Rob-
ers, another great soldier and N who had proven himself a a fighter of
the most determined type, reverently remarked at that same time: only God
Almighty could have done thsi"
These re things OF which W e may well coghate for a little time on
Sunday. They tend toward ultimate right thinking. They are healthy. Con-
temptation of the more bestial aspect of mortal mn as a fighter ca never
advance US far in good things Probably it is unfortunate for. b. generation
that evil is given almost exclusive attention in what W e are given to calling
news" According to modern acceptance oft the word. it would seen that
nothing is new but bad ley
Who that has studied the life of Napoleon, for instance. but has read of
his admiration for the beautiful expression of the One Hundred and Twenty
first Psalm? And yet how many have considered the great generals remark
of his W conviction, formed from observation: Ever since the reign of
Christianity began the Hottest intenects have had a practical faith in Cod?
We are told " his historians that Napoleon, when III trend of affairs seemed
to be against him, would 90 ut alone in the night and repeat the words of
the pslam mentioned above:
l will lift up my eyes to the hills from when cometh my help;
My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.