The Washington times., 1924-09-24
Your Foot Puzzles the Ant
ave selected tleir gunny place, where .the sandy
A Greater Power Puzzles You.

! II we realized their power
The young ants are cared for taken out and taken in
Captive creatures kept and actually MIXED BY the ants
that take from them nOurishing liquid milk
In cases parasite ants doing no work whatever
corresponding to idle rich class waited upon with
savih obedience by working that ask questions but
wait humPy their parasite lords fighting for them in
serving them in peace .
There are hateds industries idanes intelligence, and
probably emotions unknown to in that city Of insect e
Along the foot The heel strikes the ground first
killing dozen Then The sole strikes the ground
more killed The city fattsned and citizens that
have gone afar to look for dead capars back
great catastrophe that wrecked them puzzles them repre-
SCENTS power entirely above their feeble understanding
AS the feet walk the earth destruction behind them the
mind that controls the feet looking the end Of garden
path planning garden the right or the mendng Of the
fence the left looking the great shining sun that lights
the PATH and the ants below.
How could you hope to make Of the ant survivors
understand what has happened7 Nf
bigger creature by which its city crushed cannot be
blamed for killing as he walks abroad7
How could you make that ant understand the power that
destroys it in its passage?
You could not
So you cannot make understand the Power that ruins
tne little ant hill the man and his garden and this earth and
the other planets that travel with millions Of suns and
planets throughout all space
Many believing soul that has found comfort hitherto in
% belief in Supreme goodness has been shaken by and
There is familiar picture Of father in Belgium, bending
over murdered
mans side Child says: Father mother did nothing wrong
thousands Of men have their wives and their children
Killed by stray bullets.
Hundreds Of thousands Of mothers have seen their sons
come back wounded poisoned with gas blind cppedSOrrow
and suffering inflicted upon those that had done wrong
Millions take literally these two verses from the twelfth
chapter Of ST. Luke and find comfort them all their lives
Are not five sold for farthngs and not
one OF them is forgotten before Godf"
but even the very hairs of your head are all num-
Dered Fear not therefor Of value than many
gparrows"
You can imagine poor mother sitting in England her
blind son at the cottage door beside her She remembers the
words Eye Of value than many She sees
the sparows in the hedge collecting dried grass building their
nests wnile the boy at her side Is blind forever.
hard to answer the questions Of mother whose SON
went defend his country when she learns that has died
N dreadful agony doing his duty
Perhaps this picture Of the walking feet and the crushed
ants answers well any picture could the questions that
war raises
There is Supreme Power working in way that cannot
be understood by the little creatures with which it deals
There are results necessary that be obtained with
out ncting suffering those that have deserved
The Power that controls the universe must work for the
ends and purposes that affect universal cosmic existence
That Power work only through laws that change
with effects inevitably following cause just unjust
You cannot answer the question why is one monster
allowed to murder millions for his gory?"
And you cannot the simpler question why does
Che poor ignorant mother stricken with consumption sentence
the young child to death when she kisses upon the mouth
and plants the disease germs within t?' . ,.,.r+.
. Each act must have its natural consequence
Every planet and living being is ruled by laws that
do not change-there could be no order Otherwise
There satisfactory to ANY really great ques
EiOn.
Whence you came whittier you going why you suffer
while here what makes You feeble at BIRTH miserable and sick
IN old age why disease instead Of health made catching
why the wicked apparently prosper and the honest poor
Suffer-none Of these questions can be answered
Preachers Of religion will find comfort for their followers
in many ways The promise Of future blessdness and eternal
happiness for those that do their duty whnsw eyes for the
blind new bodies and wings for the mamedhat il great
consolation. ,# -
And to believe that the wicked viii suffer in fire eternay
FOR wrong done-that also brings comfort to many TX
Those deprived Of the blessed consolation Of simple
Mgous faith find comfort in the knowledge that the nation IL
above the individual the above the nation solar
system above the individual planet and that Of infinite
peace in which live with its millions Of impor
tant than our little solar family group
You cannot find consolation In any INDIVIDUAL case
But you find consolation in the reading of history in
the fact that in spite Of brutality and suffering progress has
been constant. Nt
You know that cannibasm has passed. and religious
human sacrifices and murders in the Of religion 90