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JOHN TEMPLE GRAVES
DELIGHTED AUDIENCE
Lecture At The Armory Last Night
Under Auspices OF Cambridge
Lyceum A Wonderful Exposition
OF Present Day Truths. Speaker
Makes Eloquent Plea For America
To Lead The World Ia Peace.

10 Lead ine world Ia Fcstce.
Those who We're fortunate enough
&c hear Col. John Temple Graves last
night at the Armory in his lecture
"ArmageIdon" will not soon forget
the masterful presentation of the
speakers views upon the causes OF
the conditions that confront the en-
tire civilized world at this time. De-
claring that situation which the
world faced during the period of the
great World War was not one OF
chance but that to him it seemed
more like the act of Almighty COD
calling attention to and Furnishing
them for their sins. 1t has been es-
timated that ten million men lost
their lives upon the battle fields OF
the World War and ten million more
lost their lives in pestilence through
influenza and ten million more nave
lost their lives through starvation.
Ten millions through war, ten mil
lions through pestilence, ten million
through starvation rather signifi-
cant that these should all follow SO
closely together.
The nations of the world the
speaker stated have departed from
their former standards of right liv-
ing; the people Of this, country are
chasing the almighty dollar, pleas
ure, honor, all Of the things which
Almighty God abhoTs and the same
is true of all the other nations of the
world, so that God found it neces-
sary to recall to them the fact that
the sins of the fathers are visited up
on the children even unto the third
and fourth generations And here
the question arises have the peoples
of the nations been sufficiently chas-
tised to realize their sins and to
penintently seek forgiveness? Are
they ready to claim that mercy which
goes with justice?
Departing from nations the speak
er referred to the conditions that
have arisen whereby small per-
centage of the people compel large
majority to endure hardships, even
placing human life in jeopardy and
peril in order to attain their ends.
Years ago, he stated. American labor,
clean honorable, upright workmen,
approached the small number OF
people comprising the capitalistic ele-
ment and asked for fair and decent
wages and were then and there alb
ruptly refused and told that If if you
will not accept the present wages we
are willing to pay we will bring IN
foreigners who will do so. The re-
suit that hordes of uneducated peo-
pie not understanding nor sympa-
with our ideas of government
were brought here to bring American
labor to the feet of these thoroughly
selfish captains of great industry,
they came the anarchists. the Grimm
ais, the bolsheviks and every other
class of people with the result that
they brought their ideas of the open
Sunday, disregard for the law. disre-
gard for the ideal of all American
life and that leaven has spread until
today the world civilization is
threatened to it's very foundation.
In conclusion the speaker urged
upon his hearers the necessity of up
roofing the selfishness which threat
ems the world at this time and the
best way that this can be done will
be through the christian church.
What would happen If all of the
CHuICHSS were u pS ClOSSu, ailu' IL
today the greatest stabilizing inf1u-
ence throughout the entire world Is
the church, is it not the imperative
duty of every person who seeks an
improvement upon present conditions
to help in every way possible to
strengthen the arms of the church,
to drive out selfishness. to bring back
that feeling that existed before the
wild mad race for wealth and pleas
ure brought its corrupting influence
to bear upon the world?
The address was one of the most
thoughtful that has ever been deliv-
cred in Cambridge. Col. Graves. a
delightful gentleman of the old
South, made a delightful impression
upon his hearers and it seemed to be
the unanimous opinion of those who
heard his message that it was one of
most forcible messages ever deliver
ed to the people of this vicinity.