THE following message appeared as a large advertisement in the London “Daily Mail” of 18th July. It must have cost several pounds. We sincerely thank the party or parties who inserted it:—
“Victory—The surest way of winning the War is by realising that God must be first in the individual lives of each person and in the corporate life of the nation, and by carrying this realisation into practice—God’s honour, God’s will first—then God can give the victory, and who shall stay His hand?
Please read carefully:—O that thou hadst hearkened unto my commandments! for then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea (Isa. xlviii. 18). Beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God . . . and . . . say in thine heart, my power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth. But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee the power to get wealth . . . If thou do forget the Lord thy God . . . ye shall surely perish (Deut. viii. 11, 17, 19). Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it (Deut. xi. 8). For if ye diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to cleave unto Him, then will the Lord drive out all those nations before you, and ye shall possess greater nations than yourselves. Then shall no man be able to stand before you; for the Lord your God will lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye tread upon, as He hath said unto you (Deut. xi. 22, 23, 25).
Take with you words, and turn unto the Lord (Hosea xiv. 2). Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out (John vi. 27).”
Captain Fryatt.
A violent deed, the news of which must fill the soul of every right-minded person with loathing, and nerve the most dispassionate to burning indignation, has been added to the ugly list of black transactions in which the Prussian war-lord glories. A brave sea captain, fallen into the enemy’s hands, has been done to death for doing his duty with baffling skill and for having his brave conduct therein recognised officially by our Admiralty, and publicly commended in the House of Commons. By the observance of a formal inquiry by court-martial into his conduct, his, and our, vengeful enemies have mocked that justice they professed to regard; but, as justice and judgment are the establishment of the throne of Him who is the Almighty, such proud conduct shall not pass by Him unheeded. Of nations as of individual men shall it be known that the wicked man and the lover of violence doth the soul of Jehovah hate.