WAR TO RESULT
IN WORLD UNITY
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Deeper Meanings of Our Ova
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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.
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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
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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
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Moods by Mrs. Alcot.
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill.
Charlie Codman's Cruise.
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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
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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.
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