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reuse liring, and do not know why. The Bible
answers, "So l'ar shall thou come, ami) 110
farther/' "Thus saith the Lord uoneerniug
this wicked king: He shall not come into this
city. By the way that he came, by the same
way shall he return, lie shall not comc into
this city, saith the Lord, for I will defend tins
city to save it" ('J King*, 1 '54 ) . And (?er
many lost.
V.
By the spring of 11)17, the (Jerman seientisls
had solved the problem of growing food and
grain, and perfected it as never in the history
of the world. They announced that (iorinany
would have the potato crop of all time; that
they had put into each potato liill that which
would kill every enemy of the potato, under
ground or above ground. And how the pota
toes grew! When those uncounted acres were
in blossom, lo! a blight, hitherto unknown,
swept over the potato lields of lierinaiiy, and
in a day they were scorched, scabbed and shriv
eled up, as though swept bv tire. Hungry Ger
many learned the bitter truth, uttered by Na
poleon. "An army travels on its belly, and will
not travel when that belly is empty." A mu
tiny broke loose in the army then, that caused
1 lit* abdication of the Kaiser. Ludendorf, in his
history of the war. says that it was the failure
of the potato crop in 1!)17 that lost Germany
the war. That same spring, we raised a bumper
crop of potatoes and wheat and everything;
we had plenty for ourselves and the Allies.
"Verily lie giveth seed-time and harvest."
"He sendcth the early and latter rains." and
also the blight. One of the plagues of Kgypt
spread death to the growing crops. Germany
lost, because God is the God of seed-time and
harvest.
VI.
Germany conceded that she was worsted in
the air the last few monihs of the war. Th"
Germans said that the accursed cloudy de
feated them. Xearl\ every time when they
had a bevy of the enemy's ships in a pocket,
ready to take them, on.1 of those accursed
clouds would be hanging handy, and would
envelop them as thick as a blanket, and the
devil himself couldn't find them, and they
would escape at their leisure. It was those
clouds that did it. "My clouds shall curse
them in that day, saith the Lord." Many of
our boys who were in the air service report
the same thing. "A cloud came upon (hem to
hid" them." "The Lord hath covered him with
a cloud." "The clouds are His." "They are
the dust of His feet." "He maketli the clouds
His chariot." One hundred and sixty-two times
Cod speaks in the Bible of His doing with th?
clouds. "Behold the sea, the earth ami the
sky. they are Mine, saith the Lord."
VII.
'"Tlmsc wliom 1 lie gods would destroy, they
first make mad." In those early days of the
war, (iermany eould easily have eut through
to the channel ports, and had England at her
nierey. But blinded and maddened, like a
Mind and mad hull, the fJermans struck for
Paris. Thev never reached Paris and they
never reached the Channel ports, in later en
deavors to do which they paid the price of
nearly two million men. fJcrmany kn-w that
she must have the ports of the Knirlish Chan
nel to win the war. Six weeks after she hcgan
the war she might have possessed every foot
of the Channel, hut mad and blinded she
plunged Paris-ward, for the Kaiser must have
his Christmas dinner in Paris. (Iermany was
mad. "And. saitli the. Lord, Whence eoineth
this mail man?" Maddened ami blinded. she
struck for Paris. and lliat gave F.u^laml time
to get between I lie Channel ami the enemy, ami
there she stood, for lour long years, with
her hack to the wall, ami C 't iminy lost. (Jer
iiiany ha<l the shortest history ol' any great
nation or empire that ever had being, forty
eight years from her cradle to her grave.
The Armistice eaiue 21 1 the eleventh hour of
the 11th day of the eleventh month, l!?ls. The
11th Vi'rse of the 11th chapter of t he lltli hook
of the Bible is at least more than suggest ive:
" Forasinneh as this is done of life, o king,
and thou hast not kept my eovemints r.nd my
statutes, which I have commanded thee. 1 will
surely rend thy kingdom from thee, and 1 will
gp'e it to thy servant." If ever that was done
to any nation and any ruler, it was done t<i
tiermany and the Kaiser.
THE BRIGHT SPOT IN EUROPE.
Kev. dames I. (Jood, D. 1).
The greatest opportunity that l'rotestanl ism
has had in all her history is now in Bohemia.
The secessions out of the Catholic Church
in the last three c'liluries (like the old Cath
olic Church) have been as little rivulets, com
pared with the flood that is now sweeping over
Bohemia. Two millions have left the Catholic
Church in the last three years. The little Pro
>1 lis. \\. <\ WIXSIlOltOKitf,
Sn | ? ri 1 1 1 ?- ?> < It-n t of I lie Woiiiiin's Auxiliary, Leader
of woman's Work, I'lniiner and Inspirer ol <?reat
Things, Known and Loved Throughout all the
('luirrh, Kvrr faithful to the Master ami Loyal to
llis t'ausc ami kingdom.
lestanl ('hureh lias received nearly one hun
thousand in llie last two years. To de
scribe the causes of it would take too Ion*;.
Sullice it lo say tlial many of lite !?oh -iciaiis
hi" tired of liome and want to ir?'t hack to
John lluss, whom liome burned and d ? 1 a r- -d
a heretic.
We visited Bohemia la>5 ye-tr (l!)l!l) and
sludied llie movement. We then Went lo sev
??nil plaees where I his movemenl had spon
taneously hroken out. .\1 one place in Prague,
the Bethlehem congregation of one thousand
adherents had within a year become seven lliou
sjind : and al another plaec (Pilsen) two small
congregations < ? f about one thousand together,
had in one year heeome seven thousand, with
eight thousand more new members in tiie vi
cinity, making 15,UUU in all. We could only
lift uiir hands 111 wonder and thankfulness ai
this Pentecostal deluge that was rolling over
liohcmia.
We have just returned from another trip
to lioheinia this summer The Evan
gelical Movement is .still continuing. P?y this
lime, there is need oi* eight church build
ings lor the new congregations. 80111 e old
congregations, loo, have become so large that
their buildings have become too small, and
tli *y also need more pastors.
As illustrations of this great movement, take
the following: One Sunday al'ternoou early
liist July, we went to one oi' the suburbs of
Prague ^Liben). A year before, when we were
in Prague, there was only a small Sunday
School there. This summer we found a con
grcgation of about 1,.~>UU adherents. The week
following our visit, they laid the corner-stone
for their new, large church-building.
A few weeks later in .July last, we went to
Jirandys, a town north of Prague. A year
ago there was not a Protestant in the place.
It was a very Catholic town, ltiglit across the
river from it was another town, which was a
Catholic center, for it had a large church,
which was a great pilgrimage center for the
Catholics of Northern Pohcinin. Any hope for
Protestantism there was so small, that the
late superintendent of the Bohemia Protestant
Church, liev. Mr. Dusek, used to say it would
require a miracle to produc ? a Protestant in
llrandys. Put what has happened.' The miracle
lias occurred. A year ago there was not a
Protestant there and now there are C>0() in
the town and 200 more in the vicinity. We
preached to about -It'O in the public-school
building, lint they have outgrown this and
greatly need a building for t hems -Ives. They
are too poor to bear the expense and we will
have to help them. The Catholics are doing
their mightiest to win them back by having
trreat er and more frequent processions. Shall
we not do something to help them remain
faithful 1<? the new light they have found in
( 'hrist 1
Another illust rat ion occurred last summer.
We had the great pleasure of having as our
companion. b'ev. Svlv 'ster Peach. I). I)., pastor
of the Presbyterian Church at Princeton, N.
?I. lie went one Sahhath last July to a little
town near Pilscn in liohemia. lie found that
there was a great Ciitholie festival there on
that day. This did not mean that it was a
religious festival, for all around the open
square in the center of the town were booths,
having various artielcs for sale. On one side
of the squar ? was the Catholic Church. Al
though the w hole town had been entirely Calli
olie. tlx re was hardly a Catholic in it for wor
ship that Sunday morning. At the cud of the
square the Protestants had erected a pulpit,
and tli're. ( all hough the Catholic Church had
nobody), they had about a thousand hearers
and, after the service, forty Catholics gave
in their names as Protestants.
Dear Friends, the Protestant Church can
have .*>00,000. yes. perhaps a million, of n"W
members in liohemia. if our churches help those
congregations financially to get pastors and
church buildings. There is need of .?{*1 00.000
for buddings alone. This is the great oppor
tunity. Will the rich and liberal Southern
Presbyterian Church aid them? What will be
your response on your "Day of Prayer for
Hurope," the last Sunday of October?
Philadelphia, Pa.