Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1918 — THOSE WHO CANNOT GO [ARTICLE]

THOSE WHO CANNOT GO

By EDWARD A. G. HERMANN

of the Vigilantes. Are you sorry? Or are you glad? P.erhaps you would go if you could, but you must stay at home. You cannot be a hero at the battlefront, but you can live heroically wherever you are. ' It takes five men at home to keep one man in the trenches. YOU belong to one of those groups of five men. The five men at home must stand together and do the things that count most for one man at the front. For any one man to fall is to play false to the cause for which we work and they fight.

You cannot fight, but yon can work and pray; you can love and serve; you can save carefully and give sacrificially. Above all else you ought to worship in times of war. We believe our cause is righteous. Our faith is justified. Our human instincts are not lying to us. The lofty Ideals for which our brave boys are fighting are the ideals for which pure has stood for 1,900 years. When the church has been blind to the vision of the Ideals she has grown and unworthy of the great Leader. We stand with him today for the sanctity of womanhood and the protection of children ; for justice and mercy, truth and righteousness; for Industrial, political and social democracy; for international law and universal brotherhood; for the establishment of the kingdom of God on earth. These are the great ideals which carry with them freedom, peace and happiness for all the future. After all, true religion is the real conservator of civilization and the ultimate unifier of humanity. The future of democracy and civilization is bound up with Christianity.