Evening journal., 1921-10-25

day her name and her power are
mere memory among mon.
shall Minerva be first?
THE goddess of wisdom! Greece
had her Plato and Pericles and Phid-
las. her Socrates and sappho and
Sophocles, her Homer and Hesiod
and Herodotus. her Aristotle and
Aeschylus and Aristides. They gave
her philosophy and oratory and lit
erature. Greece worshipped the god
dess OF wisdom and became the foun-
tain of learning. But Greece fell,
and with all her learning and phil
osophy and oratory and literature
sank into a state OF lethargy and her
language became a dead language.
"Shall Venus BE First?
'The goddess OF pleasure! Baby
lon had her Darius and Nebuchad-
nezzar and Belshazzar. Babylon
was great. It was thought to be
beyond approach. so much so that
the king -defed other nations to it's
attack Babylon was not only sur
rounded by one wall. but by two
walls. and space between where
herds OF cattle might feed. and pro-
visions within to last for twenty
years. But one night when Bel
shazzar and a thousand OF his lords
were in a drunken revel, when they
had brought the golden cups that
had been dedicated to sacred use
and desecrated them, the handwrit-
ing appeared upon the wall. and
when interpreted It was found that
the kingdom was to fall and be di-
vided. Babylon did fall with all its
Notifications and power, and the
| king and his thousand lords were
taken and slain. They were wor-
shipping the goddess Of pleasure.
shall the Goddess Of Liberty Be
First?
I'VE call America a republic. and
as Americans we are proud OF our
republican institutions. But repub-
lies have fallen when they have gone
after other gods. France became a re-
public, strong in power OF learning,
rich in art, a picture OF beauty. But
France denied the eternal God. She
took a woman OF the streets, decked
her out in lnery, and set her on
a throne in Gods temple called the
Notre Dame, In Paris, and falling
down before the harlot saluted her as
the goddess OF Liberty. France
proclaimed that there Is no God;
that death is an eternal sleep. she
abrogated the Sabbath day and tried
to annihilate Il by changing to the
tenth day and making It a day Of
unlicensed evil She dragged the
Bible through the streets OF her
greatest city in disrepute. Soon
her wild orgy OF unbridled liberty
was followed by anarchy and blood
shed. and through the same streets
where the Bible had been fiouted,
flowed the blood OF one OF the
greatest revolutions recorded on the
pages OF history.
shall Christ BE First7
"That nation only can prosper
that chooses the eternal God as re-
vealed in Jesus Christ. As the
ipsalmist says. Blessed Is the ma
Ition whose God the Lord is A
prominent American who was vis-
lifting in Argentina. was asked by
1.-The President OF that South Ameri-
can Republic. why has South Amer
lea gotten on 80 poorly and North
. America so well?' The visitor re.
lpned. I think the reason is found
in the fact that the Spaniards came
to South America seeking gold
while the Pilgrim Fathers came e
] North America seeking God
Here is the secret OF our great.
ness. Our fathers in founding oui
nation. placed Christ first. and oui
Supreme Court. interpreting the his.
tory and the spirit OF America. has
ruled that we are a Christian ma
ton Lord Bryce. who has lived
long in this country and who is one
of the most competent authorities
lspeaking OF our Constitution, said
IT is the greatest single contribu-
ton made to government as an ap-
piled science We are proud OF
our educational advantages, We
boast OF our mineral and produc-
tive resources, and realize that We
are able to support many hundreds
OF millions Of people instead OF the
one hundred millions we now have
We are considered the wealthies
. nation on the globe and the mos
: powerful but we would never hav'
reached this zenith OF greatnes
i, without the Bible as the rule OF ou
: fife and God in Christ as the oh
= ject OF our worship.
III ever there was a time whei
America needed to be faithful L
. lher antecedents and keep Christ A
the foremost place II is to-day
! Roger W. Babson. the world
A greatest commercial-industri
o statesman. in his book entitled. 'Th
i Fundamentals OF Prosperity. issue
n a remarkable call TO America to Civ
l. heed to her soul-life. America
A now the cynosure OF the Who'll
world. What she does or fails I
v do will affect for good or in tn
a future OF humanity To-day W
.s are being swept by the backwas
Of the Great War. The garment
- Of glory have been trailed in IN
Is dust. The hideous result is see
IS on every hand. There is a Graz
T. seeking after artificial anu sement
o there is love OF display that rur
8 to the utmost eccentricity; there
b a wave OF criminality; there is a
lunscrupulous prohteering, a cynic'
disregard OF suffering, a mad desii
4 Ito get rich quickly no matter b
- what means. and there is a relucl
- Iance 10 any kind Of genuine worl
= The circle Of immortality is praS
d |ticaliy complete. and all grade
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