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Show DON'T KNOCK THE PROPS FROM UNDER HIM When the great pulpit orator, Henry Ward Beecher, was having an argument with the noted agnostic, agnos-tic, Robert Ingersol, he once said to him about as follows: "If' you saw a heavily burdened man walking through the sleet and mud with a pair of crutches what would you think of a person who would wilfully knock the crutches from under him?" Mr. Ingersol replied, "I would call him a brute." Thus Beecher scored a great point for the Christian faith. Today no man on earth is more heavily burdened and worried with the problems and responsibilities of war, peace and government than is the President. Luckily for the nation and the world that he can bear it and take it with a smile. All around him are snipers, figuratively doing their utmost to knock his supporting props from under him and thus bring about a failure of both the war and the peace. Going back to Civil War history we find that exactly the same avalanche of criticism and hate as beset Lincoln's path are flooding into the path and life of the present Commander-in-chief. |
