152 A GREAT NATURALIST SPEAKS Showing that, biologically, man is not a carnivorous animal, Cuvier, the great naturalist, says that the natural food of man, judging from his structure, appears to consist of fruits, roots, and the succulent parts of vegetables. And this is corroborated by the Scripture (Gen. 1:28) that originally man's diet was fruit, grains, and nuts. Meat-eating shortens life by introducing toxins and poisons. Over-loading the system with protein in any form is a frequent cause of disease, but that the protein of meat brings added burdens to the eliminative organs is the testimony of Doctor Bishop, recognized authority on arteriosclerosis,-premature old age,-who says, "Vegetable protein foods are free from toxins with which flesh foods abound." Doctor Bishop insists that a diet free from animal proteins is the most essential part of his treatment for hardening of the blood vessels. "Peo Meat-eating is an active cause of tuberculosis and cancer. ple are continually eating flesh that is filled with tuberculosis and cancerous germs. Tuberculosis, cancer, and other fatal diseases are thus communicated." The American Medical Journal is authority for the statement that, in view of the diseased condition of animals, practically all meat on the market contains more or less disease. Bulkley, an authority on cancer, boldly announces that flesh foods are the most important cause of cancer, and his treatment consists "in an absolutely vegetarian diet." A flesh diet is stimulating, and creates an appetite for condiments, tobacco and strong drink. A meat diet is anything but economical. That it requires over thirty pounds of corn to produce one pound of beefsteak, has been determined by Professor Henry of the University of Wisconsin. E. A. SUTHERLAND, M.D., President, Nashville Agricultural and Normal Institute, and Medical Superintendent of the Madison Rural Sanitarium, in The Madison Survey. THE GOOD SAMARITAN CHAPTER XVII ISAIAH, THE PROPHET OF NAZARETH-AND A WORLD IN NEED. 100. Is America called to be the Good Samaritan to the World? BIBLE EVIDENCE. Isaiah 58:6, 7, 9-Is not this the fast that I have chosen? To loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; ... Luke 10:29, 30, 33, 37-But he, willing to justify himself, unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor? said And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves,.... But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he had compassion on him, Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise. Leviticus 19:34 But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself;... Acts 17:24, 26-God that made the world and all things therein,.... And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth,.... JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, "The Vision of Sir Launfal." That man's the best Cosmopolite Who loves his native country best. TENNYSON. "He loves his native counry best The world must be made safe for democracy. WOODROW WILSON, Message to Congress, April 2, 1917. America,-half-brother of the world! BAILEY, Found in Forty Thousand Quotations Prose and Poetical, Compiled by Charles N. Douglas, p. 67. 154 "LAND-LAND-AMERICA" It is ours to be either the grave in which the hopes of the world are to be entombed or the pillar of cloud that shall pilot the race to its millennial glory. Let us not forget our immortal trust. ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Observe good faith and justice among all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. WASHINGTON. None but the shipwrecked and the immigrants, these wayfarers who come to save and be saved, know the joy of that note which goes from lip to lip as it echoes and reechoes in thirty languages, yet with the one word of throbbing joy,-land-land-America. EDWARD A. STEINER, The Trail of the Immigrant. Our country is the world-our countrymen are all mankind. America is only another name for opportunity. EMERSON. We, sir, are Americans—and we stand for human liberty. The star-flowering banner must never be furled, OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. But we are true Americans at heart, and we know beyond all doubt or contradiction ours is GOD'S COUNTRY. FRANCES E. WILLARD. The stars upon it were to the pining nations like the bright morning stars of God, and the stripes upon it were beams of morning light. HENRY WARD BEECHER. To fictionists of all sorts there may be Orient and Occident; to the scholar and the practical man the world is one, and “above all nations is humanity. WM. ELLIOT GRIFFIS, "Japan in the World War," in The North American Is America Called to be the Good Samaritan to the World? "For none of us liveth to himself." And what is true of individuals is also true of nations. Whatever may have been in the past, it is certain now that no nation can longer live to itself. The recent war has demonstrated the fact that the same code of ethics which binds the man in his relation to other and weaker men, must bind the nation in its relation to other and weaker nations. Selfishness, whether in the individual, the family, the church or the state, is always mean and sinful. Might never makes right, whether backed by a pair of big fists or a Kaiser's army and navy. "I will bless thee and thou shalt be a blessing," was God's pro WILL AMERICA FORFEIT HER BIRTHRIGHT? 155 gram for the individual life in the ancient time. It is his program for the nation's life in this modern time. Europe has fallen among crowned thieves. She has been robbed, stripped of her raiment and wounded; and while the robbers are now departed they have left her bleeding and half dead. America has never been this way before, but here we are in contact with this awful catastrophe, and we cannot if we would, like the Priest and Levite of the parable, pass by or stay on the other side. We have seen the tragedy. Our hearts have been stirred with compassion, and now with our oil and wine we must bind up the wounds, supply our food for the famishing, and above all whisper the sweet Gospel of our evangelical faith to the poor stricken ones who have only a religion of form and ceremony. In short we must bring to them in place of the dead Christ of the crucifix the living Christ who abides in the hearts of His people. Yes, verily no nation ever had such a call before. America will either forfeit her birthright or prove herself the Good Samaritan to the stricken and sorrowing world. REV. JESSE W. BROOKS, Ph.D., Chairman First General Conference for the America is the hope of the world today. FRANK A. VANDERLIP, President of the National City Bank, New York City, "HOW AMERICA CAN SAVE EUROPE," VANDERLIP'S TOPIC. For five months Frank A. Vanderlip, one of America's foremost international financiers, has been studying conditions in Europe. The results of his investigations have aroused America. "I have reached," he declares, "some startling conclusions. America must understand how her own future is bound up in the fate of European civilization. Without America's help-not America's charity-the catastrophe cannot be averted." Mr. Vanderlip talked with practically every premier, finance minister, big business man, labor leader and important employer in allied Europe. He found that Europe faces economic collapse. "But this tragedy may be averted if America is wise enough for America is the last hope of Europe," he says.... The Chicago Daily News, July 29, 1919. The appeal which was issued to the public in 1875 by the promoters and organizers of the French-American Union was expressed as follows: "America is soon to celebrate the hundreth anniversary of her independence. That date marks an epoch in the history of humanity: to the New World, it recalls her work, the foundation of the great Republic; to France, one of the most honorable pages in her history.... 156 LIBERTY ENLIGHTENING THE WORLD The great event which is to be celebrated on the Fourth of July, 1876, allows us to celebrate with our American brothers the old and strong friendship which for a long time has united the two peoples. The New World is preparing to give extraordinary splendor to that festival; friends of the United States have thought that the genius of France ought to display itself in a dazzling form. A French artist has embodied that thought in a plan worthy of its object, and which is approved by all; he has come to an understanding with our friends in America and has prepared all the means for executing the plan. It is proposed to erect, as a memorial of the glorious anniversary, an exceptional monument. In the midst of the harbor of New York, upon an island which belongs to the Union of the States, in front of Long Island, where was poured out the first blood for independence, a colossal statue would rear its head, outlined upon space, framed on the horizon by the great American cities of New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn. At the threshold of that vast continent, full of a new life, where arrive all the vessels of the world, the statue will rise upon the bosom of the waves. It will represent "Liberty Enlightening the World." At night a resplendent aureole upon its brow will throw its beams far upon the vast sea. That movement will be executed in common by the two peoples, associated in this fraternal work as they were of old in founding independence. We will make a gift of the statue to our friends in America; they will unite with us in meeting the expenses of the execution and of the erection of the monument which will serve as a pedestal.... Let us each bring his mite. The smallest subscriptions will be heartily welcomed. Let the number of signers testify to the sentiments of France." The principal signers to that appeal were: Messieurs Laboulaye, De Noailles,.... De Tocqueville, O. de Lafayette, . . .... FREDERICK AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI, Sculptor, Liberty Enlightening the World, pp. 53-54. The statue was born for this place which inspired its conception. May God be pleased to bless my efforts and my work, and to crown it with the success, duration and the moral influence which it ought to have. I shall be happy to have been able to consecrate the best years of my life to being the interpreter of the noble hearts whose dream has been the realization of the monument to the FrenchAmerican Union. FREDERICK AUGUSTE BARTHOLDI, Sculptor of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World,* Liberty Enlightening the World, p. 52. Of the various races that have contributed to the development of the United States there is one whose part is as yet wholly unrecognized.... We remember-or do we not rather forget?—that when the white men came in their winged canoe across "the Sea of big Stormes" to the bleak shore of the "Dawn Land," Chief Samoset *It is the loftiest statue in the world.-The International Encyclopaedia, Vol. XIV, p. 57. |