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together into groups that have the same or San Francisco) what a wave of human" v faith and the same customs, and speak the brotherhoed would have swept over the same dear tongue. That in the myntions, making the whole world, kin f Three years ago one of the oldest and sterious workings of Providence, is the But man, not nature, has been the aulbor feebiest of men, being "crowned in the origin of the national spirit, and the love of this tragedy, so people in Gormany of God; and exercising the of Motherland is totally undisturbed by rejoice over the sinking of tho Lusitania, Vicarship of Christ in his Country, signed any thought of whether she is big or and illuminate the streets of Berlin after with his trembling land the proclamation little, strong or weak My country is my the slaughter of little children in London. which plunged the world into this war. mother, and therefore I love her and What a moral catastrophe! Can hu- History will concern itself with the cause think her the fairest spot the sun shines manity ever recover from it? After the of his act, but the motive assigned for it upon. But when war comes, in the bitterness of the past three years is any was that a member of his family-armour of the great nations, it has reconciliation of the peoples possible. If worthy, but quite commonplace Austrian usually so so for such emotions. Faith not is a real pouce conceivable! Whon gentleman, is I have reason to know and custom, innguage and kindred count for the end come will it only be a cessation of sayInd been foully done to death. For advantage, or even the last of a little tries ever be able to take the hand of a nothing against a momentary military activities? Shall wo of the Allied soun- that crime millions have since died, milcarth. That was what happened three German again In looking to the futuro lious, have been wounded, and millions on Serbia and Germany over Belgium driy think, and feel as if ouie hundred millions. years ago, when Austria marched over of the civlised nations must we always millions have been brought down to the ing the native-born people, with their of our fellow-creatures did not exist? depths of mixers.
women and little children, from their Some of us who are not visionaries used the world. smoking homes anil scattering them over to dream of a day when humanity would step out of the darkness and put on the. of our dead joys and buried hopes on armour of light-is that to be another of the road of life?
Le sounds like hunacy. One wonder what mad game the world has been playing. Bloodshed is, indeed, the staple of history, and history is the story of how often and with what merciless brutality the children of men have stain each other. But if we could detach our selves from all thought of the impulses with which we are prosecuting this war all question of the righteousness of our
For this, too, there can be no possible
ration Misery cannot be paid for material amends will be made to her, but Belgium will regain her sovereignty, and when peace is proclaimed the Belgians will go back not to a country but to way will be (as the Prime Minister has cemetery. Every step of their homeward
THE WRONG TO RELIGION. And the think, finally, of the wrong this three years' war has done to religion. working for the Christianisation of the For two thousand years faith has been.
cause, and conceive of God walking tot finely said); a Station of the Cross to world. It has been a long and almost
in the garden but the desert of this war warn world, to make n reckoning of the] good and the bad in the doings of the past three years, what an audit it would seem to be what a lesson, such as history has never before supplied, for the people who have been saying that war has a ability and grandeur of its own, that it is productive of inere good than evil, and is a beneficial influence in the betterment of mankind!
RECKONING WARS LOSSES.
resurrection is to come (as God grant it hopeless labour in the past, with so many the scene of their Calvary, And if their way) it will be peace, not war, that will temporalities to contend against, su to
pagan impulses to overcome, bring it
If there is one thing certain about Jesus Christ, it is Then think of the injury the world has that chief among His purposes was that- sustained during the past three years of bringing war to an end, of sui stituting from the loss of population. For the for the force of arms the force of righte propagation of the race, and the happiourness. Painfully through the ages has ess and general well-being of the human religion tiled after that great ideal, family, nature wants her youngest, although again and again it has leren om strongest, bravest and most resourcefulpelled to see the Vicars of Christ girding But these are precisely what war demands themselves with the sword in spite of the for its work of bloodshed and destruction.robuke of Gethsemane. But in these later Think, first, of the injury the war has Despoiling the world of the flower of its days we were, telling ourselves that in inflicted on the ordinary conditions of manhood; it cundemus some to enforend spite of all the machinations of military civilised existence, During the 10 odd celibacy, some to life-long injury, and despotism, the Gospel of Peace was sweep- years preceding August 2nd, 1914, the many to death. Every great war has coming through the world. We held confer chief activities of Europe, in sciente, law, muted this mad crime against the world legislation, literature, art and general in- and its Creator; but surely no war before and great German theologians, like Har
ences to celebrate its victorious advance, duty, were directed towards protecting the part one has done it so delikeratonack, came to England to preach the and purifying human life, making it is, so self-consciously, so shamelessly, and doctrine of universal pacifcation. Down more clean and sweet and secure. There on so great a scale. For this, too, to the first days of August, 1914, we were has never been a great war that has not no reparation is possible fold and praying in our churches, with a fervour lowered the standard of existence, but silver cannot pay for the loss of flesh and conviction never felt before, thao necessities of modern warfare, from five stone to us for the lives of our dead that He would grant to all antions a spirit. during the past three years, by the new and blood. No accession of territory en God would give us peace in our time, that to 25 millions of human creatures have lie under their wooden crasses along the of unity and enour, that He would save een living a great part of their lives in sea in Flanders: The everlasting surf of us from violent and untimely death holes in the ground, exposed to the un proud if scorching tears that washes that and, above all, that His Kingdean might donness and disease that belong to the consecrated const will not be stayed by come on earth even as it is in Heaven. condition of the savage man.
indenmities and annexations. When
And then what then At the first inst
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A MORAL CATASTROPHE,
Think, next. of the loss the war has per comes, after all this sacrifice of life, inflicted on the world's wealth-not the she must bring more than the conquering the gospel of peace was gene the sword in her hand, or the victory will be nations, were hardening their hearts; the wealth that is represented by title-deeds ur pass-hooks or gold and silver coins in!
clergy, under holy orders from the Prince. in vain.
of Peace, were shouldering rifles and the strong rooms of banks, but the only wealth that is necessary to the well-being
going out to kill; the Harnacks of Ger- of the race, the natural wealth that comes
Then think of the wrong this war has any, with a blasphemy never known be. from the soil, at the call of the min and done to the invral gase of mankind.fore in written ut spoken words, were plough in the hands of tonn. There has our time, to never before Englishmen; and then there came thro the rain and the changing seasons and the justification, is an outrage on humanity that they might kill mote and more calling on God to strengthen their arms. Every war, whatever its necessity or
wealth; but the present war, by the very ferentes af language, conflicts of faith never been a great war that has not man's history, is a crime. In past ages years of raping, murder, slaughter,"„sripe,
this satural there has been much to cxense it. Die and every horror, known to hell. number of the nations engaged in it, has and divisions of space, not to speak of awake (after their long dream of a hearen What a shoek If. the dead were to probably come nearer than any previous atore sinister evils, have been suficient that was to right the wrongs and heat the one to starving a large part of the human. family. Not to the day of doom will the ente the atmosphere of mistrust and wounds of their lives on earth) to find. world recover from this three years losspicion in which wars have been bred there was no Heaven and no heating, vertime. The thousand sunrises since mysterions and angelic power (as in the proceeded from the Cross, was it incon- of its natural wealth. Nature works no literature and, above all, science, with its dream a delusion The law of love which Bu modern education, travel, commerce, could the shock be greater? Was our August, 1914, can never come again:
telegraph) of bringing people in me sisterit with the laws of life? Did it fail Then think of the less to the world in ment into the same place, ought to have us at the last moment? Is the Christiani- hunian labour. Every great war has in broken down the barriers that separated sation of the world farther off than ever? prise, but the necessities of modern war were members one of another." with dividual man and the other for the State? some measure paralysed industrial enter the nations by showing them that they Are there two Christianities, one for-in- far have been gone near to killing it the same joys and sorrows, the same Will God's Kingdom never come? Ex By submerging nearly all industry in the weakness in the presence of man's relentit useless and foolish to hope for a corn- Cone sole work of producing those mini-less enemy, the elements, and the same monwealth of humanity, a league of nations
dinimitable quantities, the is over all. They have not done so. War Is prace impossible, unit wie er pace ordinary progress of civilisation in has come with its insensate brutalities; long as man?.. Europe hns for the past three years been and in a day all the barbed wire fences too, is a loss that is irretrievable. It up afresh, charged with redoubled cur brought well-night to a standstill. This, of ignorance and prejudice have been set
a yet to be see if the energies of rents of hatred and malice and lust off the world can ever make up for it.
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that. That darkest hour is the hour be- Thank God, there is no runson to think fore the dawn, and out of the very blackness of the present I see hope for tho future such hope as the world ha never known before. Man's days are as a span, yet I think some of us will live to see not only peace but the end of war. Daily Chronicle.
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guis and high explosives of modern war- fare, thundering and pounding on the habitations of man, have left vast tracts of Europe more bare and barron, than the fiary desert. Large ports of Belgium, of Northern France, of Serbia, and of Galicia, lately so full of life and fruitful- ness, now look as if the rake of hell had gone over them. Where there were homes and inns and churches in which people lived and loved and worshipped from generation to generation, there is only a wilderness of empty space whereon no stone stands above another. Nothing like this has happened before in all the mad history of war. Neither earthquake nor Feruption has ever wrought such ruin. It
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Then think of the misery which scenes. like these involve. Misery is the comp follower of all wara. There has never been a great war without its train of! suffering, but the suffering of the past three years seems to have had no parallel in human story. Whole nations have been plunged into it, and the greatest suffering has been that of the small and the power- less Man that is born of woman must needs feel the ties of blood and brother- hood. Hence he gathers his chileron
Probably no member of the "Fantistics" arouses more interest at each performance than does Mr. Bert Wiles, the blonde young drummer-xylophonist. The marmer in which he presides over an imposing acries of drums, embala, horns, castanets, and other unusual effects" is an entertainment in itself. It will doubtless interest our. readers to learn that this young musician belongs to a patriotic Australian family whose record in the present war of nations in a fine one. Notwithstanding his boyish
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