The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1922-12-29

the Providence Of Almighty God. to obey His ~fll
to be grateful for His benefits. and humbly to I'M
pore His protection and favor"
AS everybody knows George Washington was
no liar. So that when he wrote these words be
wrote them because he believed them
In short. the United States of America con
ceived and established In exactly the spirit SET
forth In Washingtons words. The nation of his
time was Christian nation Its sense Of de
pendeHce upon God very real because of real
ization of perils past and difficulties to come II
saw the guiding and protecting hand of Providence
In the past 1t hoped for continuance of guild.
ance and protection OF Providence In overcoming
the problems and difficulties of the future. For
America then child among the nations and
Its way to maturity looked long and perous
America has to that maturity And
he Is a dullard who cannot see the hand Of Provf-
dence In our national history since the beginning
In the 1873 years since George Washington's first
Thanksgiving proclamation America has
plished much. 1t has made Its maturity rich and
powerful Today America stands the wenlthiest
and most favored nation of the gohe-so rich and
favored that pre-war prediction has come
true America has emerged victorious and
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 its destiny without zen.
tangling alliances to please the rest o. the world
America is favored that 1t must have
lest In Its conplacency 1t thanks God 1t Is not
II Is true America Is not as the Turk. who Ia
pounding on the gntes of Europe. with all the
surance of n victor who asserts that he hns wiped
out past defeat by present victory and demands
new opportunities for crimes against civilization.
II is true America is not the Boshevists In
Russia who apparently growing rather
stronger than weaker. seeming to gain strength
from the ruin they have wrought and parade their
Red Army object lesson to the nations Of
earth.
Yet America sadly needs to take heed of the
Eleventh commandment, Love one another" And
II needs Twelfth commandment, '"Thou shalt
not profiteer" For the profteer II has been said.
stakes the Eighth commandment by the throat
knocks the Tenth commandment on the head and
treads the golden rule under foot" And as for the
Ten commandments handed down from God at
Mount Sinai--it Is Increasingly evident that II In
the tnsk of the good citizen and the church and
the press to build up the moral manhood and
romnnhood that Is suffering alarming deteriora-
tian
and practice OF practical Christianity lie Ameri-
co.'s ar,v hone of emergence from the greed and
,awiessness of 1929 Ammo Dominl-
In this connection the progress OF = movement
hecun in the United States by christian Business
Men, will doubtless be watched with Interest by
the nation.
80 hed early In 1923 the 6rst convention Of tine
t,ederation Of Christian Business Mems clubs.
probobIy 100 clubs In the principal cities of the
carntrv will be represented. ITO search out and
apply the laws of God in all commercial relations
hat,veen ourselves and all men" lie the stated pur-
,ose 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 Quest" whom the
members acknowledge to be their directive head
AT a recent Conference In Kansas City. Mr.. dele
rotes we're present representing clubs insKansas
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. Me-. ard
Detroit