The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1921-12-31
RELIGION THE GREAT REMEDY
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We are given many remedies to save
the world from its present condition
leading it 20 spiritual and material
ruin Whole peoples seem to care for
nothing but material prosperity
dollar. They seemingly forget, or
rather care not, that this is the way
that many nations-all that have end
ed in destruction
These thoughts call to mind the
words of that extraordinary man, that
far-sighted statesman, whose recent
death has caused sadness in more
than one nation Henry Watterson
In his great editorial of December 70,
1917, reviewing the events of fifty
years of his papers existence, he sug-
gests that one remedy TO cure our
world ills, the only one that he could
think sufficient. 1t is worth reading
daily as we worship our God. Mr..
Watterson says:
Surely the future looks black
enough, yet it holds a hope, a single
hope. One. and one power only, can
arrest the descent and save us. That
is the Christian religion.
Democracy is but side issue The
paramount issue, underlying the issue
of democracy, is the religion of. Christ,
and Him erucified; the bedrock of
civilization; the source and resource
of all that is worth having in the
world that is, that gives promise in
the world to come; not as an abstrac-
ton; not as a hudGle of sects and fac
tions, but as mighty force and prin-
ciple of being. The world of God, de-
livered by the gentle Nazarene upon
the hillsides of ,Judea, sanctified by the
Cross of Calvary, has survived every
assault. 1t is now arrayed upon land
and sea to meet the deadliest of all
assaults. Satan turned loose for one
last final struggle.
"The Kaiser boldly threw. down the
gage of battle-infidel Germany
against the believing world fKultur
Iagainst Christianity-the gospel OF
hate against the gospel of love. Thus
is Satan personifed- Myself and
God, merely his way of proclaimine
it-for his God is Beelzebub, the
angel of destruction, his creed the
| devils own, his aim and end a hell OF
earth. Never did crusader lift battle.
AK in holier war against the Saracer
than is waged by our soldiers of the
cross against the German The issue:
are indeed Identical.
If the world is to be saved from
acknowledgement no less thar
spiritual destruction-it will be saved
alone by the Christian religion. That
eliminated leaves the earth to eterna
war For fifty years Germany has
been organizing and laboring to sup
plant it with fKultur, the genius Of
infiidelity. Her college professor.
have been obsessed with it. Her uni
Iversities have seethed with it. In &C
claiming Myself and Cod the kaiser
4 Aid0 put IAC oOoA -
When our armies shave run it to it
lair-when they have crushed it,
naught will have been gained unless
the glorious banner of the cross i
!, hoisted- as Moses lifted up TIN
serpent in the wilderness-an tn
misled Germans are babe to gathe
ahol1t If and beneath il as sadly the
coollect the debris of their ruin TO
the reconstruction of the fatherland.
LET every American soldier swea
this day1this Christmas morn-tha
he VIA link him and his with tn
' Christ chi1d-the light of love-tha
suffered under Pontius Plate, wa
crucifed, dead and buried, that de
seconded into hell, that the third da
: arose from the dead and assembled int
heaven and stitch on the right han
of God the Father Almighty"