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Show PEACE TREATY AND THE LEAGUE Of NATIONS Editor Standard: Retribution, though long delayed, is sure and inexorable The German people, for two thousand years, have' been cruel, gTeedy and oppressive. op-pressive. They have repeatedly and perslsteptly Invaded Spain. France, Italy," Greece and Rome, leaving desolation deso-lation and death in their course. They 'hare been proud elf-eentered and cold blooded. They have gradualh - a larged their borders by unrighteous ; aggression, plunder and robbery. They have grown in wealth, military genius and power. They have attained to the pinnacle Of scientific knowledge and teohnical kultur. They have become enormously inflated in-flated with self-importance and nation- al egotism They have made a titanic effort to rebuild the tower Of Babel, that thej ! might climb into Hn- sun ! They surveyed the world and the kingdoms thereof and vowed before their unhallowt-ij altars that the ."earth and tbe fullness thereof" should be theirs. At the dizzy hright of worldly glory, led on by tcientized diabolism, and instigated by the moat selfish motives, jwlih the aid of the most barbarous ! methods known to savage tribes, the i Huns hurled themselrea against the ramparts of Christian civilization. How they were lgnominously thrown back, even in the brilliant moment of their j seeming success, la well known to men and angels. Behold, how the mighty are fallen, how the proud have been brought low. The mills of the gods grind slowly but I they grind exceedingly small. Aro the peace terms for Germany 'too severe? They are not When an individual commits the same kind of crimes Germany has committed, com-mitted, he ruffors either death or life imprisonment. Considering the (enormity of the deeds done by the i German people, the peace terms aro 'wonderful! v hUIttSn and merciful. However, How-ever, the terms are such as to be a I warning to all unborn generations. It lis a fundamental principle of human j Jurisprudence that when one repudiates repudi-ates his debt to society, and coldly and maliciously violates the laws of the social order, he shall be punished, not for his own sake alone, but for tho jsako of society. If the world should stand ten thousand years, Germany's j crime and Germany's penaltv will ever stand In monitive sllhou9ttc. above the 'horizon of time as a compelling warn-ln warn-ln to the world I Will 1 he league of nations prevent !war' It may not, but it is a move-mi move-mi Qt in the rlKbt direction. It .shows ;thnt tho world's ideals are gTowinj; j better It demonstrates the ever-in-cri.;isinR influence of Christianity in I the life of the nations It is the most spectacular and real expression of the 'possibility of the brotherhood of man I the world has ever seen. When that. Aupust body representing the cream of the world's best thoughts and finest fin-est manhood assembled in the Palace of Mirrors and set their seal to that : unique document, they crystalized the I honor and the very soul of civilization civiliza-tion Thev voiced the fixed conviction land pledged the honor of the finest tvpe of Christian thought ever realized ! on earth. If the noblest and most unselfish purpose of the world's best peoples to prevent war has any significance iwhatever. then the league of nations must inevitably prove a powerful bul-wurk bul-wurk against the recurrence of world slaughter. While this league may not absolutely abso-lutely prevent another world conflict, Christianity can accomplish that end. Let men everywhere not only accept the teachings of Jesus Christ as the "Golden Rule of natious and indi viduale, but let the peoples of the earth receive, by faith, the son of God as Savior and Lord; in other words, let men be born again, and filled with the spirit of God. and then war will become impossible. Oh, what a challenge comes to the churches of Jesus Christ to hasten their mission of evangelizing tho world, that the nations may never again be submerged in a sea of blood RAY PALMER, Pastor, First Baptist Church |
