The Caledonian-record. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1920-current, 1922-10-09
GOOD SAMARITAN
TYPIFIES WORLDS
HOPE OF SAFETY
Congressman COckran'e e
Eloquent Address at
Grace Church

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will perish" declared Hon. W.
Bourke Cochran Of New York be-
fore a large audience at Grace
Methodist church Sunday evening.
"This world is in sore travail and
there are many causes for alarm,
but the spirit of service as exem-
plified in the story of the Good
Samaritan will prevail Mutual
confidence and good will dispel
hatred and distrust if we put our
trust in God"
Rev George w. Hylton, the pas
tor, had ready the story of the
Good Samatarian as a part of the
Introductory program of the even
ing's service, and taking that as a
sort of a text, Congressman Cock
ran delivered n most eloquent,
vigorous and enlightening address
on the present day problems. His
subject was Europe in Travail. He
said in substance and in part:
Europe is in travail most sore,
and ruin and desolation is staring
the whole world in the face. Civ
ilization is doomed to destruction,
and the entire human race to eX-
termination, if this spirit of uni
verSal distrust and hate prevails.
1t is most common place to say
that these times are the most eX-
traordinary in the history of the
world, but it is a fact that we do
not grasp or realize the full signi-
ficance of. Thinking is largely a
matter of recollection. War was
not in terms of soldiers and of
armies, but of nations ana the
world. The ravages of war can
not be realized.
The grave danger in Europe and
the world today, if we try to in
terpret it in terms of past exper-
iencc, is the red-handed revolu-
tion everywhere apparent. The
world must choose between demo-
cracy and chaos. | wish that de
mocracy was secure. In 1910, the
parliamentary war in England was
to obtain the power of the people
tc tax themselves instead of hav-
ing it done by kings. Our own
revolutionary war was over the
same question. The amounts in
volved were negligible, but the
principle was far reaching and i'm
portant. The French Revolution
was not an uprising against prop
erty, but to take its control out of
the hands of despotic kings and
put it in the hands of the people.
The present dangerous contention
is to destroy property altogether,
and this scheme is already sue
cessful in over half of Europe and
the idea hangs like dark cloud
! oyer the whole human family.
Russia, once considered a nation
rising in prosperity and world
prominence, is now blighted by
this menace. If a quick relief is
not obtained, it is liable to infect
the whole world like 4 dreadful
pestilence. This is the sober, in
evitable conclusion if present
world wide tendencies are allowed
to continue.
One hundred years of peace
produced a period of enormous
development and prosperity. After
the battle of Waterloo, London
was a city of only about 100000;
Paris, 100000; New York only
25,000; Berlin was a small village
and Chicago did not exist. Today
on the banks of the Hudson there
is a community of over six mil
lions of people, and the peculiar
feature of the situation is chat the
most Of these do not produce the
means of their own subsistence.
They depend largely for food, raw
materials and means for existence
upon the rural communities and
areas outside. When anything
happens to interrupt this supply,
the whole scheme is thrown out of
DluHl, anu u IOuOlC anu Suli Ci ms
results. The war did this to an
alarming extent, three-fifthS of the
capital of the world was destroy
ed. Ten millions were killed, twice
that number are left sick and
wounded. In order for material
prosperity to return to the country
the shearing of sheep, the direct
ing of the plow and the welding
OF the pick in the mines must be
! resumed with redoubled vigor
/ This is the only remedy, Congress
sional acts, speeches, resolutions
avail nothing to repair the injury.
1t can only be FASTENED by increas-
ing the amount of production.
! Take the weapons of destruction
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