Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-12-28

the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His Will
to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to Inn
plore His protection and favor"
AS everybody knows George Washington was
no liar. So that when he wrote these words ne
wrote them because he believed them.
In short, the United States of America was con-
ceved and established in exactly the spirit set
forth in Washingtons words The nation of his
time was a Christian nation. It's sense OF de-
pendence upon God was very real because of real
fzation of perils past and difficulties to come. 1t
saw the guiding and protecting hand of Providence
in the past 1t hoped for a continuance OF guld-
ance and protection of Providence in overcoming
the problems and difficulties of the future. For
America was then child among the nations and
its way to maturity looked long and perilous.
America has now come to that maturity. And
he is a dullard who cannot see the hand of Provi-
dence In our national history since the beginning.
In the 1873 years since George Washington's first
Thanksgiving proclamation America has accom-
plished much It has made its maturity rich and
powerful Today America stands the weafthiest
and most favored nation of the globe-so rich and
so favored that pre-war prediction has come
true: America has emerged victorious and I'M
harmed from the Great War and without friend
among the nations Of earth. America Is too
wealthy, too powerful, too resourceful, too well
able to move on toward it's destiny without "en-
tangling alliances to please the rest of the world.
America is so favored that 1t must have care
lest in it's complacency it thanks God it is not
as other nations are.
# is true America is not as the Turk, who is
pounding on the gates Of Europe, with all the as
surance of a victor who asserts that he has wiped
ont past defeat by present victory and demands
new opportunities for crimes against civilization.
Il is true America is not as the Bolshevists In
Russia who apparently are growing rather
stronger than weaker seeming to gain strength
from the ruin they have wrought and parade their
Red Army as an object lesson to the nations OF
earth.
Yet America sadly needs to take heed of the
Eleventh commandment Love one another" And
# needs Twelfth commandment, "Thou shalt
not nrofteer" For the profteer it has been said,
stakes the Eighth commandment by the throat,
knocks the Tenth commandment on the head and
+roode tho golden rule under foot" And as for the
Ton commandments handed down from God at
Mount Sinai-it is increasingly evident that 1t is
tba task of the good citizen and the church and
the press to build up the moral MANHOOD ana
womanhood that is suffering alarming deterlora-
ton.
,Tbere are many who believe that in acceptance
and practice of practical Christianity lie Ameri-
cas- only hope of emergence from the greed and
lawlessness Of 1928 Ammo Domini.
In this connection the progress of movement
begun in the United States by christian Business
Men" will doubtless be watched with interest BY
the nation
In some American city-probably Detroit-win
he held early in 1923 the first convention of the
Federation of Christian Business Mems clubs
Probably 100 clubs in the principal cities OF the
country will be represented. "To search out and
amply the laws of God in all commercial relations
between ourselves and all men" is the stated pur-
nose of the federation. All members agree to make
the golden rule fundamental in their commercial
dealings The clubs reserve at all meetings chair
for Jesus Christ, "the unseen Guest" whom the
members acknowledge to be their Corrective head"
At a recent conference in Kansas City, Mo-, dele.
gates were present representing clubs in Kansas
CITY, New York, Philadelphia Lincoln, Neb. Tulsa,
Okla. ST. LOUIS Wheeling, w Va, Chicago,
Rochester, N. Y, Cincinnati, Columbus, o., St.
Paul. Mimi, Jacksonville, Fla, Columbia, Mo, and
Detroit.