Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-08-20

TO 1ulnll inc legendary meaning VI
his own name christopher -
C~hrist-over," that prompted the
great explorer to bear Christ owe
seas to the Christless East Indies.
that led him to undertake his dar-
ing quest.
Paul and the CabIegrams
If imagination and m sense
and the clear record of facts are to
do their share with this lesson
three publications need to be at
hand or in mind-the latest news
paper any standard history and a
cop of the Bible. All three dove
tail into one another like a finished
piece of cabinet work. Without the
newspaper dispatches which tell OF
the present desperate struggle be-
tween Greeks and Turks, West n
East, in the very regions covered
by the lesson story, we sha miss
the sense of continuing contention
for control of this bridgehead be-
tween Asia and Europe. Serious as
is the fighting now under way. and
complex as the Near Eastern ques-
ton has become, it is only a part
of the ceaseless issue of the East
versus the West.
T~ragically, the fighting today
ONtI Il dul u ~
in the same spirit and On the same
lines as the countless battles OF
which the history books tell us.
Sheer lust of dominion and power
are the %actuating motives. Within
four miles of Troas, where Paul had
his vision, lie the plains of Troy,
where the Homeric battle was fought
primarily over n woman.
THE face that launched a thou
sand ships"
BY Great GaIlipoli
AS 1 have repeatedly entered ana
left the Hellesponte here, my III
ings, / confess, have often been OF
the classical conflicts than of the
Pauline adventure. Why is it thar
secular history, with its sordid
sameness, grips the imagination
more kecnly that the sacred story
with it's far greater s~ignlhcanceE
For the conflicts which mark TINS
crossing point between Asia and
Europe (Troas pore the name of
Alexander the Great, being really
alexandria Troas," to distin-
guish it from Alexandria in Egypt
were really monotonous clashes OF
imperialism, such as we are Witness
ing today.
Only Paul's crossing stands out
as distinctive. He carried a mes
sage of peace and not of war. In
his hand he bore the strands of the
bonds of Christian love and good
will which ultimately will bind the
nations together. His imperialism
was that of universal brotherhood.
By giving all mankind one Master
he provided the possibility of Their
becoming truly brothers. After we
have got through with the Cyrus
way and the Alexander way and the
Caesar way and the Great Powers
way, perhaps we shall try the Paul
inc way. Until then, the Hell
lesronte will continue to echo to
the clash of arms. Then there will
be no longer a possibility of an
ether tragedy of Callipoli, more
Hon;eric than any enacted on the
neighboring plains of Troy.
A Great Imperialist's Dream
The thing that was really wrong
with the imperialism of the kaiser
and of Napoleon and of Ghengis
Khan and of the Caesars and all the
rest of the unpleasant company, was
the same thing that is wrong with
the postwar Imperialism of Europe
and Russia and Japan-it was not
too large, too Wanting, too compre-
hensive, but entirely too small.
After all, it's aims were only man
sized and s~elf-centered. Political
imperialism has ever been 100 snort
sighted and too narrow-yisloned TO
be really pracucabie. a oi
its ungenerous spirit n ilmited
obJectlVes, this sort OF lmperlaiisi,
was a menac TO mankind ana hao
to be overthrown. Alexander slsh-
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