The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-12-14

manded them to do, and in no other manner h
went into that little church to pray
Nor was it an unusual thing for Cen Foch t.
do. There is no day that he does not do the sam
thing if there be a church that he can reach H
never fails to spend an hour on his knees ever,
morning that he awakes from sleep; and ever,
night il is the same.
Moreover, it is not new thing with him. Hc
has done it his whole life long.
II young Evans could have followed the gen
eraI on to headquarters where reports were wait
ng him and news of victory upon victory wa,
piled high before him. he would doubtless have
seen a great gladncss on the generals face, but
ne would have seen no look of surprise there.
Men who do that which Foch does have nc
doubts. When Premier Clemenceau. the old Tiger
OF France, stood on the battle front with anxious
heart, one look at the face of Foch stiled all his
fears He returned to Paris with the vision of
sure and certain victory.
The great agnostic statesman doubted, but the
Iray Man of Christ did not doubt
The facts, then, in the case are that when the
freedom Of the world hung in the balance the
world turned to Foch as the one great genius who
could save it against the Hun; and that Foch.
VINO Is perhaps the greatest soldier the world has
produced, is, first of all, a Christian.
What is the use of listening to materialists in
he face Of these facts? Where did the man 90
yho brought home his sack of gold nuggets every
night? Where did Foch go ;yho brought home a
victory every day?
If he went TO the chemists, to the war councils.
the map makers, and to them alone, well and
good. That's what the Kaiser and Won Hnden-
burg and LudendorT did, and so the materiasts
would give US their answer
But that IS not what Foch did He went to
Sod lie went to Christ. who turned back Paul
)n the road to Damascus; to TIE Nazarene, who
raised Lazarus from the tomb; to the Wanderer
who went up the dark path to Calvary and hung
mere upon the tree between two thieves that the
SINS Of the world might be washed away.
mink Of this type of man, quiet and as hum
Die as the humblest peasant in the stricken fields
IF Flanders with the hopes and the destnies of
whole world in his hands!
Is It not our tradition that such commander
compared to whom Alexander and Constantine
md Napoleon and Caesar stand as corporas in
4liiput should be inaccessible in his ordly grand
ar from the eyes of common men?
And yet, young Evans Just an everyday Amer
can boy, spent nearly an hour with Foch in an
I'd French church. and not even one bayonet was
here to keep thenrapart
They represented the two great democracies of
~ "SiiN Oub NIlCIt III lHdl Ou CnulGn tnGN rep
esented, jointly far greater thing-the demo-
racy of Christ.
The Kaiser prated much of God, but we know
hat his "Gott' is not the God who gave us Christ
S His only begotten Son. You shall search the
tterances Of the Kaiser in vain to find one single
'tercnce of his to Christ, or one appeal that he
ade to the Son of God.
The Kaiser and that Prussia which he builded
p have thrust Christ out. Alien is He to the Hun
: lie was to them that slew Him.
OF Him was the prophecy that lie would come
be the Prince of Peace. For such a Prince the D
un could have no longing and no love. because
was foretod that through Christ there would I
me an end TO war .r
For all the armor of the armed man in the :
mult and the garments rolled in blood shall ,
en be for burning, for fuel Of fire" fl
When the trumpet sounded the clear. sweet call p
peace across a broken world the victors knelt ?
the feet of Christ, and at the head of all the y
joicing host knet Christ's gray general Ferdin- ID
id Foch. b
As he sails for home today may God guard and }
otect his ship and vouchsafe to him passage J.
his home that will be secure and serene. n,