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Show FoodlF()RT!hioi!igM They can ration sugar and food and useful materials but they will not cut down the liquror supply. Would that they could raise the curtain and see the evil that is wrought and the debauchery that results from the liquor traffic, A stake Sunday School officer said to a class last Sunday ' that one-third of Utah's people are on the census rolls as not belonging to any church. Sixty per cent of the two-thirds belong be-long to the dominant church and of these only 16 per cent attend at-tend their meetings and live their religion. I have only one life to live and I want to make it count for social aims that reach down to fundamentals. I do not want to waste my time by helping to bring about little enforcements enforc-ements here and there and letting the big things go. I know of few greater personal tragedies than those of well-meauin men and women who have devoted their lives to the acheive-ments acheive-ments of some ideals only to find at the end that they were dealing with surface causes and cures. Such are the peace workers who think that war cannot be eliminated by governments govern-ments formally agreeing to renounce agression. Such are the charity workers who think thapoverty can be overcome by private contributions to the needy. Such are all those who think that depressions can be avoided by tinkering with the capitalist system. America half-brother of the world. Baily. The home of freedom, and the hope of the downtrodden and oppressed among the nations of the earth Street. America is another name for opportunity, Our whole history appears like a last effort of divine Providence in behalf of the human race. Emerson. This is what I call the American idea, a government of the people, by the peopl ( for the people a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanged law of God Wodrow Wilson, an eminent American executive, statesman, states-man, scholar and student of man's advancement through the ages, commenting on the accepted versions of the Bible, declared that "every man and woman must realize that the destiny of America lies in their daily perusal of this great boo of revelations that if they would see America free and pure they will make their own spirits free and pure by this baptism of the Holy Scripture." We are not among those who believe Salt Lake is one of the wickedest of cities, but we do know that there are dens of iniquity here that would shame the devil, and it is in these dens that beer and liquor undo the work of both church and school for which millions are spent. Personally we would like war to rage with sufficient fury to wipe the liduor traffic from the face of the earth. May the good Lord speed the day In an article in the Christian Science Monitor for April 24 we read that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only one of all he presidents who has descended through both his father and his mother from Mayflower stock, and that his ancestry through seve generations is through English-Yankee stock with slight mixtures of French and Dutch. Think of a man being doubly descended from the best stock that ever came to America and then having enemies that list him in a race they wantdestryed The war will run its course and end, as the scriptures say, when the nations will be gathered at Armageddon, There the Beast and the kings of the earth and their armies will make their last stand against Him and the Israel nations, and when these appear to be completely vanquished their enemies will suddenly face fie wrath of the King of Kings returned to earth. He and the ho3t He will bring with him, together with great convulsions of nature, will finish the fight and give war its death blow, and men shall no longer kill and destroy but build the New Earth. , For ages there has been before the world the one and only plan that will save it and cure all its ills. It is the most important impor-tant truth that ever fell from the lips from men or Gods and is set forth in the most beautiful language the ears have ever heard It is the plan of a "Wanderer," a "Radical" a Dreamer known to history as Jesus of Nazareth. In the few words that he spoke lies the remedy for all human ills ills of government ills of economics, ills of finance, ills of society, in fact a remedy I for every form of inharmony from which humanity so greatly suffers. May we do our bit to keep this before the people because it is the only hope. All other plans must give way to this one. You may safely stake your all on fhis plan. It will save humanity here and now and nothing else will. The world we have known is passing out in order that there may be ushered in a New World, a New Order, such as Tennyson visioned when he said: "When all. men's good shall be each man's rule, and universal peace lie like a shaft of light upon the land." This war is on the program of the Almighty It is His war for His purposes and He will win it. They who are against it and give aid and comfort to the enemy are not only unfair to their country but they stand against the establishment estab-lishment of His Kingdom on earth. The causes of the war are the sins of men and natipns, the stubborn rebellion against the lawsof the Creator. The aims of the Great Ruler are to wipe out these sins and clear the way for something better, that the Kingdom may be established. Any sane man wants peace, but there cannot be peace in the world until this war is won. Then there will come that long-looked for Millennial reign. The struggle will not only be the end of war for all time but it will also mean the end of the Babylonic systems of ecclesiastieism and economics, as told in chapter 18 of the Book of Revelations. |
