Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1927-03-03
Bible Principles Only
Hope For World Peace
William T. Ellis Says in Brilliant
Address at Winston-Sa
Last Week

principles OF peace and liberty en-
unciated and scattered throughout
the world by Woodrow Wilson, the
great Southern president, who fought
and died for the cause of peace on
EARTH" declared Dr. William T. Ell
lis of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, au-
thor of the International Sunday
School lesson, who delivered an ad-
dress in the West End Methodist
church, Winston-Salem, last Wednes-
day night. The subject of DR.. Ellis
address was Adventures and Explo-
rations in Bible Lands" The
Journal gives the following synopsis
of the address:
"Powers are now behaving in the
Near East as badly as the German
Kaiser ever did. Imperialism is try
eing today to subdue the people of
the Bible lands; today the great
powers of the earth are trying to get
hold of the Bible land. 1t is my de-
liberate judgment that the United
States of America wields a greater
power over the people of Bible lands
than any emperor in all ages ever
did who ruled over them. The great
ideals of the Bible have been spread
over the world by man of your own
south, one of your own statesmen;
American war aims as set up by Will
son have set Bible lands afire, that
spirit of friendliness, that spirit of
brotherliness. They cannot under
stand liberty coming from anywhere
but America through her great presi-
dent.
81 witnessed that great revolution
in Egypt that swept over all organic
ed force when tremendous bodies Of
men and women went up and down
the streets shouting the great hosan-
mas heaping praises upon the head
of Woodrow Wilson, for they misun-
derstood telegram sent to General
Allenby, thinking it message from
Wilson to set them free. Believing
peace and liberty had come from
Americas great war president these
hordes of people broke every re-
straint and shout and screamed, cry
ing aloud their praises for America
for deliverance. They are today set
ting their standards to the war aims
of America enunciated by Wilson.
They say America is the greatest
power on the globe and they cannot
understand why this country does not
assume its rightful place and make
Europe behave.
Impending world war that soon
NAV break out and sweep its devas-
tating fire across Bible lands looks
to America to prevent it. Today the
world looks to America to accept its
God-given place of leadership for
some statesman to rise in this land
and affirm the old Bible principles
and turn back the dogs of war that
are about to be turned loose. Oh, if
America just had stepped up and told
Italy to keep hands off when that
country fired upon the Greeks; if
America only had stepped in when
France fired on Macedonia and told
that country that we could not stand
for that; if America only had stepped
in and told Great Britain recently
that we are brothers and we must not
violate the peace of the world, then
America would have assumed her
place in the sum-"
For an hour Dr. Ellis told graph
ically and most Interestingly of his
ten months tour of the Bible lands
and declared with much force and
emphasis that the Bible is not hit
and-miss Book, but that every page
of history, every incident cited in the
Bible is proven by actual living ex-
amples; instead of being vague and
incoherent, is linked up perfectly
from one end Of Bible land to the
other The Bible came out Of a
great imperial city 1000 years be-
fore Abraham.
The Bible is right in all of its time
and chronology, all of its dates and all
of its incidents. He declared there
had never teen a secular corrobora-
tion of Luke's story of the census OF
Augustus that brought Joseph and
Mary down to Bethlehem for the
birth of the Babe. But he had visited
the very tombs and temples of Au-
gustus, who ruled the world when
Jesus was born as the first emperor
of Rome. At the end of his life Au-
gustus wrote his political autobiog-
rcphy and engraved it on the walls
of the temple: there today can be