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Show 2K0RM0NS "j PLEDGE AID TO LOAN Heber J. Grant, Presi- dent of Church, So Declares LEADER PROUD OF FOLLOWERS' RECORD . f : - I By HEBER J. GRANT For forty dd years, when the' Germans hare been meeting on land or , they have drunk "To the -eqpay To the Day!" They meant the day when Germany should practically nils the world. They have thought they had the might, and they were convinced that they eould conquer the world but they mistook human nature. na-ture. They never dreamed, for one moment, that the little country of Belgium would oppose their great and powerful army. They thought they could walk right through Bel-glum, Bel-glum, and within ninety days If not within thirty days, be in Paris.' But . Belgium offered her life for her ideals, key never dreamed for one moment T that England, unprepared, would enter en-ter the, war; but these German states- men misjudged the fiber of the Englishman, Eng-lishman, and England entered the "war. Although they might sink the Lusitania -and murder American citU sens, they never dreamed that America, Amer-ica, with an Insignificant army, would enter the wr.v In -all these - thing they have found or they will, find their mistake. 1 r The Kaiser and the entire German Empire will yet learn . that these prophetic words of their greatest poet are absolutely true "Know KiIs, God rules the hosts of heaven, the Inhabitants of earth." 1 ', What kind ef love," what kind of charity Is the German scattering today? to-day? Death, destruction., the killing of babies, the raping of women and putting men and women In bondage. Thi German government has brought I about a slavery today that is as hate-I hate-I till as the Southern slavery of, the I -,. negro, which this country fought the IJr-terrtble Civil War to overcome, and would extend It over Americans If she could. But she never will." The Lord has told us, In the Book of Mormon, that this Is a choice land-choice land-choice above all other lands, and that no king should rule here. No, not even the Kaiser, though he claims to rule by divine right from Ood. For , this is a (and of freedom I will read ft you some of the Kaiser's words: r", "There Is only one master In this . country; I am he. and I will not tolerate tol-erate another." The Kaiser has to find out thst Cod rules and that the people will be their own masters. .If .lie lives long enough he will, and I hope he does. I want him to live to find out that the people of the world will be the master, and that Intelligence Intelli-gence and the desire for right will count more than might In all the Twlde world. "There Is only one law my law , the law which I myself lay down.' The Kaiser Is wrong. - The law of Cod, the law of Justice, the law of .virtue, the law of honor. Is the only law that will prevail, and that Is not the law of the Qerman Kaiser today. It was on the 7th day of June, ,1114, that Frankfurt assembled her school children in the opera house, to further their taste and understanding of Germany's supreme national srt. ;Exactly eleven months later, on May i7t.h, 191 fi, a German torpedo sank the Lusitania; and the cities of the Rhine celebrated this also for their school children. Goethe said: "The Germans are of yesterday a few centuries must elapse before It will be said of them: 'It Is long since they were barbarians.' Out of their own mouths shall they be Judged." As chsfrman of the Liberty Losn drive in this section, I was recently called to San Francisco to attend a conference. After two days of I meetings we were Invited by the L Patriotic Committee of One Thou- sand to a banquet. The cities that had gone above the maximum over ;the top, so to speak in purchasing Liberty Bonds were to represent themselves by a speaker on the program, pro-gram, and the honor fell to me to represent Utah In a tea minute speech. Among other things I quoted these Inspired words of Ella Wheeler t .Wilcox: That no question Is ever settled until It Is settled right I repeat train the words of the German poet: "Know this. God rules " the hosts of heaven, the Inhabitants of earth.1' I was delighted to say to the people In California, and the workers In the Liberty Loan cam- psiv;n. that there are no "Mormons" who have any doubt of the final outcome of this great world war. The Iivd has spoken, so far as the "Mormons" are concerned. The Lord has sjilrt that this Is a land olioli-e ahove all other lands, snd thut no king shall rule here. I have Ix'on proud of the wonderful record mniln hy the people of Utah during tills war. and I rcjolre to say there i no more patriotic or loyal citizens citi-zens of tli e I'niti.'d State than those in th?e valleys of the Reeky Mountains. |