King's Business - 1915-03

THE KING’S BU S IN ESS Voi 6 MARCH, 1915 No. 3 0 = Timely Selections from an Old but Inspired Poem S AH, JEHOVAH, Thou God to Whom vengeance belongeth, ^ Thou God to whom vengeance belongeth, shine forth, f Lift up thy self thou Judge of the earth: j Render to the proud their desert. S Jehovah, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph ? They prate; they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves. They slay the wicked and the sojourner, And murder the fatherless. And they say, Jehovah will not see, Are They Noble Heroes, or Cowardly Assassins? NE of the most saddening and appalling things about the present war is the Way in. which cultured men, men of sufficient educa­ tion had scientific intelligence to invent and manage aeroplanes and Zeppelins, allow themselves for the sake of gaining a little worthless applause to direct their engines of destruction in the night above the homes of sleeping women and children and non-combatants and drop bombs upon them and maim and kill them. Nothing of real value from a military point of view is gained for the country that they represent by this procedure. Almost all of those killed are women, children, cripples and civilians, almost no soldiers have been killed. Nothing in all the history of civilized warfare is so outrageous and contemptible as this.- This is not honorable warfare, it is cowardly murder. And yet these men go home to their own lands, and instead of being imprisoned and executed, they are re­ ceived with acclamations by men in the highest authority and even by the women of their own land. Is there any bottom to the depths of degradation and blindness to which war will not drag men and women? When one reads of these things, he rejoices to know God reigns and that He is a God that takes account of all the actions of men and that no eminence of position, and no support of the mightiest monarchs, can shield the man who engages in Neither will the God of Jacob consider. Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise ? He that planted the ear, shall He not hear? He that formed the eye, shall He not see? He that chastiseth the nations, shall not He correct, Even He that teacheth man knowledge? Jehovah knoweth the thoughts of men, that they are vanity.

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