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Show Take The Right View THE military arrangements for the coronation corona-tion of King George and Queen Mary will cost $400,000. Speaking in Sheffield the other night, Mr. Keir Hardie, M. P., referring to this, said: "Civilization is to be excluded; barbarism bar-barism is to be put on show. There is no room for Christ in the coronation procession. The god of war is to ieign supreme there." The Honorable Keir Hardie should take a less gloomy view of the matter. The Christ was crucified cruci-fied by Roman soldiers, but they acted under a mandate of the civil law, which for the hour was subordinated to the cry of a furiously super-stitious super-stitious crowd, led by a coterie of religious grafters. Think of it! The Savior had healed the sick, opened the eyes of the blind, stilled the rage of 'the storm and hushed the wrath of the angered sea, and finally with a cry pierced the "dull cold ear of death" and caused the dead to live again. But He also had overturned the tables of the money-changers and had driven from the temple the grafters who had turned the sacred edifice Into a den for thieves. That was never forgiven Him, for, as in England Eng-land and the United States today, so it was in Jerusalem nineteen hundred years ago, t"e gold combines ruled, and when they wanted to carrv a point they set the machinery In motion to lash the mob into a rage, sent out their blatherskites blather-skites to prey upon dull intellects that made up the crowd; predicted to them that ruin would come to them unless they asserted their crushed manhood and struck for the right? and thus could carry through any unholy measure that they pleased or dispose of any public enemy. It was in that way that a weak judge was carried off his feet; in that way that tho execution execu-tion of the Savior of the world was compassed. But the army that did the work was, on that day, subject to the civil power, even as tho armies of Great Britain and tho United States, and hence the danger docs not lie in the military H arm, but through the corruption, the weakness , and the unwisdom of tho civil power which con- t- trols the army. H At the coronation the military will act in this M capacity entirely and it will not have any bad M influence. The splendor of the showing will H intensify the loyalty of every Englishman. H arouse anew his patriotism toward the old sod, M his pride in native land and exalt him as a citl- J zen, which is altogether good, for, after all, the H king as well as the army in England is subject H to the civil power which has its source In tho H people. M One of the missions of the Messiah was to H open the gates of freedom to man. England was , H the first nation to enter that gate and to grasp H the full meaning of what freedom means in an H enlightened sense, to-wit: freedom under the re- ) H straint of righteous laws; tne freedom of en- H lightened man to do any legitimate thing and to HH be protected in what he did and in what was jH legitimately his. H And where that is the rule, there tho rich H and the poor stand on one level under the law; H there all opportunities are open to all alike; H there homes appear, and schools, and hospitals, H and libraries, and churches, and there Christ is , H sure to have a place in every procession. IfH In the days of the savage splendor of old l Rome, the triumphal processions saw prisoners H walking in chains behind the conquerer's car. H In the coronation procession in London there will 11 be nought of that; it will represent the civil H power of a great nation and the division of the H army present will but represent one of the in- H struments which that free people hold to enforce H their power. H |
