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WAR TO RESULT IN WORLD UNITY I I Deeper Meanings of Our Ova * tisns to Allies' Missions. - r VIGTQrtY TO CRUSH GERMANY By Rev. Dr. NEWELL [>WI(jHT HILLIS. Pastor of Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, N. V. "The Deeper Men ii I n cm of the Ovation Given to U e p re tentative* of Itclxluiu and Italy, France and 10 ugland an <1 the Inevitable World Unit y." hiid the ?uhje<?t of another of the KcrlcM of NcrmoriM hy the Kev. Dr. Ilillls, pastor of Plymouth church, 11 r o o k I yn. IIo arv i>g. nkwki.l chose as his text. uwiuiit ii 11.1.1s. "<?od has made of one blood all nations of men."? Acts xvll, 20. It Is u fact to be observed that nine teen centuries ago Jestis struck the note of world unity a* the secret of Ills kingdom. Jesus looked upon his world as divinely governed; a world of nnity, order and movement, and there fore not a runaway orb. From the unity and the fatherhood of <i<?d flow ed certain logical inferences ? first, that the earth is the Father's house; that the live races are five brothers, using and enjoying the noble mansion; that all the lesources of the Father are pledged to the comfort, the happi ness and the final victory of his chil dren; that soon or latu a golden age will come on earth and an era of vic tory and Joy in the realm Just out of sight. Because there is a Divine Archi tect there is going to be a jierfect tem ple. Because thei4> is a Divine Artist there is going to ho the blossoming of use into beauty. Because there is a Divine Dramatist the things that are dark and hidden in (lie first act will become light and clear In the last. In dividuals, clti(*H, states and raws are all under Divine guidance; the whole world is marching, keeping step to un heard music, following invisible sig nals, hut Journeying upward and for ward toward perfect righteousness, unity and love. After many centuries at last science and industry begin to strike the note of unity In the realm of knowledge, law and industry. Geology emphasizes the unity of the strata and the layers of rock that in our continent advance from vegetable life to low animal, and finally to the era of man, are layers that are reproduced in the same order in Asia, and Africa and Australia. Astronomy teaches unity. If the earth goes round the sun for Isaac Newton In England the astronomer in Tokyo and in Calcutta will perceive the same law of gravity. Physiology insists upon the uuity of the five races. The Difference One of Development. The difference In urt or science or re ligion is it difference in the stage of d<f-lopment. The Hottentot daubs ?ocUer and red paint ujton his cheek, but put the savage in the art school of l'aris and he conies to discern the same universal laws. The savage has his stone altar, his clay idol, but with edu cation he cries out as did the cannibal Africanus to David Livingstone, "1 felt him in my heart, I saw him in the sky, but I did not know what to call him or what to say in my prayer." In Greenland the Eskimo* have a dwarf maple, found in the protected crev ices on the southern side of the moun tain, and the maple is about one foot high. Carry that same dwarf ma. pie into our sunny realm and it unfolds into a forest whose trunk gives th? sugar sap and in whose boughs birds will build their nests. Conscience is dwarfed and starved among the sav ajres of Africa and the south sea is lands, hut when the true apostle comes, like the Roman centurion, the soul makes the Instant reply. Soon or late, therefore, there is to be a world unity? oue Lord, one Father, one law of love, one Golden Kule, one hope of a life Im mortal?where the incompletlons ljere win be completed. . Invention and Scienc* Working Toward Unity. The time was when nil forces worked toward national isolation, racial liatc an<l separation. Mountains became barriers between peoples. Rivera sep arated races; oceans isolated capitals; frontier lines bristled with forts. Pa triotism meant "love tne people on this side of the river, hate the people on that side." Now conies a century when invention, science, trade and tinance break down the barriers and draw peo ples together into unity. The steam ship has all but filled up the Atlantic ocean; wireless telegraphy turns the whole world into a vast whispering gallery; ships are become carriers of the ideas that leaven separated nations God broke the planet up into five conti nents and five climates and broke up the soul of man into five races. So complex is man's l>ody and so rich Ids mind that for the support of the body we need the corn, the wheat, the cot ton of our country, but we are also deiiendent upon sugar from Cuba, cof fee from Hra7.il, tea from China, olives from Italy. As each continent has its own prain and gifts, so each race has Its own faculty and endowment. Tbe Americans iiuv? uu inventive skill, the tSEgH?h a colonizing gif t. the French art and beauty, the German Industrial efficiency, the Indian mysticism and Imagination, the Chinese reverence, the Japanese Incredible j<o.vera of Imi tation. Itrlng all the continents to gether vnd you hare a planet: bring all the races together and you have a complete civilization. Unity of Suffering and Haroiam. The sacrament of suffering la draw ing races together. Upon the battle fields of France are the French and English, the American and the Belgian, tlie ('unadlan and Australian, the Kua siau and the Fast Indian. What a Gethsema ne of agony! What a fur nace of (differing ! But It is the fur nace that consume* the dross and melt* Into uidty a new and higher substance ? steel tit for the blade of the right hand of the angel Michael. It la this victory over suffering that has en nobled men. Heroism explains the sig nal ovation given to the marshal of France. All Ihe world loves a lover, but all the world loves the hero of the Murne. Wonderful the reception given to Dewey on his return to New York! Wonderful the ovation tendered to Koa suth, coming to this country sixty years ago! Very wonderful the grand i? rade In Washington III 18415, when Gen eral Grant reviewed his army after the surrender of Le?i Hut more wonderful still the ovation tendered Jofl're and Vivian! at the unveiling of the statue of Lafayette! Think of nn ovation tendered by cheering multitudes tilling the streets, sidewalks, rising story by story In the great buildings, with multi tudes that crowded the roofs, and these seen i cm extended l<> eight miles! Unity of the Multitude. It is l>elleved that of iteople were crowded within New York uiid Brooklyn ? 8,<KM),(KN) of folk with but one voice, 8,000,000 of patriot* with hut one mind and one heart, and that mind thinking of the heroism of France in the hour when she saved democ racy at the battle of the Murne, while with simple eloquence J off re exclaimed to the black hosts of an Invading army: "Here stay thy proud waves! Thus far, and no farther!" In ull lands and in every story the path of duty is the way to Klory. To every nohle hoy of every race and country there comes a moment when tho angel whispers, "Thou must!" and the youth replica, "1 can!" And in that spirit Jofl're told his hoys to hold tho lines or die. It is very simple, hut it is also divine, ami the deep things in every American heart answer to the deep things of God exhibited hy the French hoys at the front. Beholding their heroism and self sacrifice in defending liberty, in dependence and self government, con science whis|H?rs that this is our opjtor tunity and also our obligation, and tho common duty has drawn France and America together Into a unity of self sacrifice, and the sacrament of sufTer ing has made the two countries one forevermore. The new treaty is writ ten in letters of blood. England and the United State* Drawn Closer. The common devotion of England and the United States to the sanctity of their treaties with Belgium and the common recognition of the obligation of the strong and rich nations to safe guard the little peoples has Itecome a powerful Influence uniting England and America. The ovation to tho French mission was an ovation given to a soldier and was of the heart; the ovation given to Mr. Balfour and his English associates was tendered to a scholar-etatesman, and the tribute was from the Intellect and the conscience. England has had many statesmen from the days of Pitt, Peel and Gladstone to Lloyd George and Salisbury? orators and scholars and empire builders? but In terms of intellect, in terms of a great logic engine, in terms of power to think in the language, not of Eng land alone, but of the globe, and not of time, but of eternity and the uni verse, Mr. Balfour's massive mind and books make some of England's most popular orator-statesmen seem like children. Whether you read his ad dresses or listened to his words so carefully enunciated and with sen tences extempore, and yet carved with the perfection of the cameo, you lis tened or read with an ever Increasing sense of admiration. Balfour's Broadmindedness. What dignity tn liis address! What elevation of thought! With what de tachment from the personal, the ra tional or the racial lie weighs in his addresses the Interests of all human ity and all civilization! This man Is considering the interests of the whole human family as well as those of England and hor allies. He does not talk about trivial matters, placing the responsibility upon Servia because one of her crazy sons killed an Austrian duke, nor upon llmsia because she lined tip with the Servian and the Slav, nor upon France because she had a treaty with Russia , nor upon England because of her pledged word to stand with ltelgium If her frontier was in vaded; there was no shouting about the greatness of England and the Unit ed States, no pride of wealth, no last ing of army or navy; It was rather a noble patrician gentleman welshing the interests of the children of God In the llpht of eternal truth and eternal justice. And over against the Interests of civilization he placed a nation that for years prepared for a calculated and remorseless use of steel, tiery cas, dy namite shells, for killing other peoples whose Industrial prosi>erity stood In the way of her cruel ambition. Germany'* Own Statements. It was not a case of simple, adven turous ambition to rule the world, but it was an organisation of all science and all invention for the sole purpose of making war so horrible and atro cious that all little lands would pros trate themselves while the German war machine ground them Into the mire Dr. Fritz Phillppi In a sermon deliv ered In the cathedral of Iterlin sum martzed the conflict lietweeu Germany and the free peoplM thua: "Germany's divine mission i* to crucify humanity. German warriors shed the blood of other nations as a sacred duty. It is therefore the dvty of German soldiers to strike blows of merciless violence Our hearts are full of tliankfuluess when our etiglnos of war in the air strike diiwi the sons of Katan and when our wonderful submarine sends thousands of the unelect to the bottom of tho sea. We must tight the wicked by all possible means. Their suffer ings must please us. Their cries of an guish must fall upon deaf German ean<! No quarter for the English and the French and the itussian." Revival of th? Tribal God Idea. Professor He! n hold SlefTerd of tbe University of Iterlin, in his sermon in the cathedral of Iterlin. which ho sent out to his friends In Sweden, Denmurk and Switzerland, druwg the Issue be tween German barbarism and the worlds civilization: "When we kill our enemies, when We Inflict untold buffering on t hem, when we burn their homes and overrun their territories, we are performing n hi!>or of love." Here you have the tribal god idea, which the n*t of the world, save |?olygumous Turkey and certain Asiatic and Af rican iieoples, left U'hlnd 100 to 2,000 years ago. What an absence ulso of Imagination is shown! The simple fact Is that except in rare Individuals the German jieople as a race have no Im agination. There Is no German school of art there never has Iteen. The mas ters are Italian, French, Dutch, Span ish and English. Many of the great German masters of music are Hebrew, with German names. It is the He brew's blood that sings In Heine and other German poets. New World Ideals Are Unifying the Races. The now ideals for the world after the war is over are intluenclng and drawing men together. Already great men are planning for the rebuilding of Europe. Just as the men of Chicago and San Francisco drew their plans for a more beautiful city before the ashes were cold after the great tires so the patriots and statesmen are dreaming their dreams of a new social order. They have highly resolved that this horror shall never be repeated. Never again shall Germany be allowed to maintain a standing army and forge cannon preparatory to pursuing war as a national industry that she can make pay a thousand per cent The free peo ples of the earth, represented by over twenty republics, now control nine tenths of the land and 1,100,000,000 of people. The motto of the free peoples is "Liberty, independence, self govern ment." They hold war to be nn out rage against civilization and the enemy of the home, the store, the factor}', the Held and the bank. War hates art: war hates the temples of beauty, of love and religion; war is as cruel as death and as remorseless as the grave. War also is an outrage upon humanity. In Germany's hymn of hate there are the poison of the rattlesnake, the snarl of the hyena, the cruelty of the savage. Future International Unity. Already the free peoples are prepar ing plans to compel jieace. At last all the self governing nations stand to gether. They propose to have an inter national navy policing the seas; an in ternational army policing the land; an international supreme court that in terms of international law shall decide upon disputes between Germany and Belgium. No more standing armies; never again shall Germany's army and Germany's dreadnaughts compel other nations to boar huge taxes to protect themselves against Germany. Kaisers and emperors and sultans and Von Hlndeuburgs must go. The world has no room for such men. God never made a man who had a right to arro gate to himself what the kaiser claims ? the risjht to tell editors what they shall publish, reformers what they shall think, orators what they shall say. From this time on any attempt on the I?rt of Germany or Austria to build up a standing army and prepare for war Is going to be taken as a declara tion of war in advance, and the whole force of the 1,100,000,000 of free and self governing people will unite to put down the beginnings of a standing army. All our statesmen are planning for nonmilitary coercion. If Germany again attempts militarism the free i>eo ples will shut her ships out of all har bors, close all clearing houses to her drafts, prohibit the buying of her goods or selling her goods to others and, like Cain, send her out as an outlaw into the desert. Better Day* to Come. Hut better days are coming. Soon our boys will Ik- at the front, while all defend the liberties that all have en joyed. It may be that we will leave a million of our best sons en the hill sides of France and with red ruin feed the roots of the tree of liberty. With out shedding of blood there is no re mission of sins. We buy at great price freedom of our children's children, but soon or late the battle will be over atvd the victory won and the last strong hold of militarism and autocracy lev eled to the earth. You cannot stay the summer riiling in tfc? chariots of the south wind. When the tide comes in It Is irresistible. Trompets and banners cannot avail against infinite God lead ing the hosts of his children toward the heights. The duty of the hour is self sarritlce. a whole hearted support of the government, utter loyalty, a sur render of t lie will, a grim determination that we will stay the hand of barba rism, safeguard democracy, strengthen our alliances with the free and self governing peoples and do all that in us lien to achieve and cherish a just and honorable peace between ourselves and all other nations and so hand on a civi lization that is free to the peoples of the earth. The Selma Melon, Tomato and Better Baby Fair For 1917 Monday, July the 23rd, Opening Day for this Year And to be known as "Housekeeper s" Day Addresses on how to meet the high cost of living and the art of canning and preserving will be delivered on this day by Mr. S. G. Kubinow, of the Agricultural Extension Service, of Raleigh; and Miss Ks telle Smith, Home Demonstration Agent of Wayne County. July the 24th, "WYATT" Day or Patriotic Day Address "On the Duty of the Hour" Hy HON. JAMES H. POU. This address on the duty of the hour for all should be heard by everybody. Henry L. YVyatt obeyed the call of duty and was killed. Worth Bagley did the same and was killed. There arc* Wyatts and Bagleys in Johnston County to-day ready to obey the call of duty. We want everybody to hear this address. In order to do this, every exhibitor must have his exhibit placed on or before July 2.'{rd, opening day. The Old Veterans' dinner will not be served on this occasion, but will be served later. The proceedings will be of so much interest and importance to all, we will not ask the ladies to assist in the dinner, for we want them to attend. Every U. D. C. Chapter in the county will be expected in the parade on this day. Each Chapter in a body led by the home Chapter; we want every Confederate Veteran in the county in the parade, and if there are any of the first company formed in Johnston County in 1861 who marched in Smithfield in the Spring of that year with the Red Shirt on, we especially ask them to be here dressed as they were then. We want every Span ish-American Veteran in Johnston County to be here also. We want every sehool in the county represented in Floats or Wagons in the parade. We want every manufacturing industry in John ston County represented. We want every town in the county to be represented. We want The Selma Merchants Association and Chamber of Commerce to offer two premiums for first and second best floats, representing the business of the town from which they come (Selma not to com pete for these prizes, but to have a Float). We want every white man, woman and child in John ston County in this patriotic parade; the first held in the State. Remember the opening date ? July 23rd ? "Wyatt" Parade and Patriotic Day, July 24th, 1917. Watch for premium lists and other information to follow. The people are asked to bring their dinner with them. A big tank of Ice Water will be convenient to everybody. JOHN A. MITCHENER, Chairman, I. T. RAINES, R. L. RAY, Executive Committee for the Fair. Books at Bargain Prices ? ? ? ? WBffF WM* 'II 7i"TBllM~"T11r HHniWlflii illMfl ilf 1 VI ' 111 1 1 W> Wll. 1 1 " i ii'?'i'll i^imifii in We have a few books, slightly Shelf worn, which we are offering at prices that should be attractive. Any book in the following list for 15 Cents, or 4 for 50 Cents The Boy Scouts with the Motion Picture Players. The Boy Scouts of the Flying Squad ron. The Boy Scouts with the Geological Survey. A Fool for Love. Wallingford, by Chester. Trolley Folly, by Phillips. The Motormaniacs, by Osborne. Chimes from a Jester's Bell. The Princess Elopes. Four in Family. The Fifth String, by Sousa. Eccentric Mr. Clark. Four Years of Fighting. Flower Fables, by Alcott. Camping Out, by Stephens. Pretty Polly Pemberton. A Modern Cinderella, by Alcott. Bertha's Christmas Vision. Wood's Natural History. The Water Babies, by Kingslsv. Greek Heroes, by Kingsley. Coming Back with the Spitball. Poor Boys' Chances, by John Hab berton. The Young Editor. Frank's Campaign, by Alger. Folly in Fairyland, by Carolyn Wells. Hospital Sketches by Alcott. Adventures in Frozen Seas. Left on Labrador. Merle's Crusade by Carey. The Boy Geologists. .. .by Houston. Story of John G. Paton. Jimsy the Christmas Kid. Little Dick's Son. The Story of Livingstone. The Children of the Valley. The War Lords. Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles. A Book of Golden Deeds. Andy Grant's Pluck by Alger. Another Year With Dennis and Ned Toodles. Moods by Mrs. Alcot. Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill. Charlie Codman's Cruise. See Kings and Naval Heroes. Friends Though Divided Henty. The Lion of St. Mark Henty. Through the Fray Henty. Endurance Test; or How Clear Grit Won the Day. Under Canvas; or The Hunt for th? Cartaret Ghost. Elsie Dinsmore. (3 copies). The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle. Her Senator, by Gunter. Under Two Flags, by Onida. The Camp on the Big Sunflower. The Rivals of the Trail. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island. Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp. Caught in a Forest Fire. Chums of the Campfire. The Chouans, by Balzac. Hans Brinker; or the Silver Skate*. Mr. Potter of Texas, by Gunter. The Schonberg-Cotta Family. Larry Dexter in Belgium. Larry Dexter and the Stolen Boy. Tales From Shakespeare. The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Dora Thorne, by Braeme. The First Violin. These Books Are Great Bargains THE HERALD BOOK STORE Smithfield, N. C.
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