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Show Parson Simpkin Inscribes Message for Salt Lake's' Churchless Sunday To the people of this city deterred by the quarantine order from attending aor-vlce aor-vlce today the llev. Peter A. tiimpkln writes this message: By THE REV. PETER A. SIMPKIN. ON this ever memorahlo Sunday, ns tha eager victors of liberty and humanity turn their tired but hlning; countenances toward Berlin and the official, historic humiliation humilia-tion of military arroKance and ambition the citizenry of our commonwealth should be In a mood for doep thought and thorough thor-ough concentration. That scourge th.it dims today the altar llphts and closes the doors of God's houso offers to us a slnarular opportunity. In ! the midst of the home peace, where the ' dear ones .satlier, the compulsory apartness apart-ness should he a thins of blessedness. Out of the quiet should rise to bless ev- ; ery home in the city some truths nliM for comfort and consecration. A great gratitude should be ours for even the hope that peace Is nsaln to descend upon the, world. Ijot us pray that it come rltrhtly. No quick bargain may bring it, and the allies must look sharply that the , liars and murderers who have arrogantly arrogant-ly walked the hoards of history in these last four years work no duplicity and secure se-cure no vantage of the blood and tears of humanity. HOUSE OF JUNKER REGIME HAS STRUCK. Whether now the "Hohenzollern and khis Junkers surrender unconditionally or have to bo bludgeoned into submission, the hour is here. God be thanked for the sacrifice and the courage that Frank, Belgian, Briton, grblan, Arab, Italian, Russian and Greek have given to make it possible. Surely It will be a day when In the quiet brood inp we shall measure our substance and our love for America over again and go to the mart tomorrow tomor-row to make a sacrificial offering to be loaned to America. So many whose boys lie on the sea floor and In the bloody soil of Kurope would be glad for the chance to trade the last dollar In the world for the em Ling face and brave heart that will come no more. It should he a joy to us to get Into the gamo and play It to the end. Few have known what sacrifice means, and only those who have seijt their dear ones into the furnace and through days and nights of agony ha e eranned the black lists of loss, or the smaller company that In utter love for the great cause have effaced the dreams of gain and sacrifice and laid their all of substance on their country's altar, can face un- nhatrnvl tli blazliiff countenance of a demoL-rni-y irluinphant today. TOUCHED BY VISIOX OF WOULD LIBERTY. Feryone phould ri to ansTvor tiia.t dream of Ktorioun sacrlflco that so main of the allied lads have revealed. An American soldier, passing west In a Krench hospital, wrote homo, throuRh th finRerfl of a Kod Cros nnrne, hts little cheerful farewell, cloning with this wor.J "Count not my life lo.st, hut ratlu-r aa a Liberty bond invested for humanity." Surely aueh vision will touch us tori to-ri a v. Let beware, too, lest wo be undone by the, desire for peace. It took us 3i)0 , years to learn tho lesson that there are i some thinps worse than war. S'e have ! ventured and for a blazing Ideal of Immunity Im-munity nave sacrificed, of our best to prove us worthy our heritage. Hal four wisely said in London, on Friday last, 1 of the Hun, "Rrute he whs. brute he still i ; is.'' In face of the continued vandalism : and cruelty and madnesH of the Huu. as 1 revealed In the last few days on land and I sea, beware of too easy and too early a ' j peace. "Wtlhelm Is tryinff to save a part ; of the most monumental and damnable looting of all history. He knows he Is defeated and ran see the end for him art I his ilk. "When the devil was sick, the I devil a monk would bo." No monkhood ! for him, saitli free humanity. NATION'S THANKS FOR WILSON'S LEADERSHIP. Po today, not in anper, but with a set purpose that the sacrifices of these years shall not be In vain, lot us hold our hearts to the level of hlsh courage and sacrifice sacri-fice and stand solid ly behind the splendid splen-did leader, Wilson, whom God has given to us and humanity. The morale of sanity and courage Is the need of today for us flit. So, sitting In the home peace and letting let-ting the heart be glad, brave and loving, lov-ing, let us each find a new consecration to the dreams and tiie destiny of that human brotherhood which is avouched In God's revealing and man's convictions. Let us not forget God today. The altar of every American home should know a prayer of gratitude for that we are ami do. The last barrier of feudalism Is. broken. As the great lines of defence have been torn by the allies out of the ; rent Hlndenburg artery, out of the sev- i ered vein across Bulgaria, there is flow- ing from the Hohenzollern heart the last blood of autocracy, and the way Is opened into a new morning forthe world. God shifts the scenes, and through the lurid smoke that hangs over the earth there break the beams of the new day that is coming and that can arrive only in fullness as our service and sacrifice are given In fullness by a g'.ad humanity. Fraise God today and write your praise . In ready deeds to complete the task so splendidly carried toward the goaL j |