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THE PEACE TREATY.

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paas upon the bontriving and the carrying out of the most reckless and cynical breach of the com- mon peace. They are the naseta ment of damages against a robber nation which set out deliberately. to enrich itself by conquest and spoilation." They are above ail the declaration that for the future outrages of such a nature shall never again be made with im- panity, the nation which sets out to devour Its neighbour w!}}} now have the commonwealth of will nations against it and incur the penalty appropriate to the crime. In 1914 the German States embarked upon an appre- esdented gamble. The sates were the highest, "world power or downfall They believed they had effectually loaded the dice and all their reckonings were based on a speedy win. Defeat was not within their calculations Had defeat been regarded sea possibility some limit of decency would have been set to the ex- actions and outrages which were systematically carried out in Belgium and France and on i the open

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few contrary much that will help her monarchs and ministers met if she will only lay aside ber secret conclave sad gathered up the egregious self-concept and recognise results of dynastic quarrels as suited that a new beginning is really re- their own ambitions, disposing inquired of her. "And as to disarina-Head the process of the rights and ment the hope of the future lies in franchises of the nations they the avowal that the disarmament of On one point I personally feel claimed to rule by right divine, the aggressor is a preliminary to doubtful, the wisdom of arraigning They can proceed to-day so far as disarmament all round. It was the ex-Kaiser. It may be necessary, the general judgement upholds their

always Germany which opposed if he is really personally, responsible general decisions, so far and not former proposals for Emiting arma for ordering the outrages in breach of

a step further. Instead of perishing the laws of nations. But it will be from the earth government by the ents it is therefore necessary that with her the process should very easy to turn him into a martyr people and for the people might begin. But the sincerity of the and make his memory a rallying more truly be held to pe just coming Allies will be tested by their own point for future generations of to birth in the earth in any wide Germans, and that will be a thousand general sense. For never be readiness as soon as possible to re- and pities. Confiscate his vast fore in the long history of this world dace their war-like establishments wealth by all means, but for the rest has the whole settlement of its

as far as possible, and in particular

his punishment must already be al-affairs been reviewed with even a to do away with the practice of

most greater than man.can bear professed desire that they be arrang

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ed; bereft of everything he lived for the wishes and the rights of the been instrumentally at the bottom it is difficult to see what could be masses of the people which inhabit of the whole trouble. If they should added to the wretchedness of such a its various countrics and continents refuse the time will come when state for such a spirit, and while God has made war to cease unto; they, like Germany, having insisted strict justice might require his trial the end of the earth so that in the on taking the sword will perish it. ara criminal it might be wiser to stillness we may wait upon His will For the world was made by God, leave him as he is and avoid even and work it; and if we do that we and God in love, and His face în the appearance of persecution....

shall not again need to abide the set against passion and violence and brutality in the life of mot. He

On the other hand to do that may dreadful clash of arms.

not be safe. If the ex-Emperor is He breatheth the bow and cutteth will be exalted in the earth, and going to be a centre of further the spear asunder because they are the earth in which He is exalted mtrigue and disturbance it may be

are not the chosen instruments of is one in which hatred and greed necessary to put him in close con- His lasting government among men, and rough-handed oppression shall finement. Those who have decided which is founded permanently only have been done away, and Christ

is Lord of all.. deliberation, but we are all bound on right reason and goodwill.

to try him have not done so without

to remember that no one man made

The section of the peace terms which seeds to me the most impres this frightful war, and it is far from certain that any one man, even the sive is that, which insists on the

Kaiser, could have provented it. »

To be sure your opinions or mine

disarmament of Germany by land, sea of its and air, the reaction hitherto stupendous armament to

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may be or very little consequence the smallest dimensions, the pro about these high matters. Stili

tibition of conscription, the strict even out here we are citizens, we vught to have opinions and to have limitation of material as well as of reasons for them, and as I find it is personnel Hop indeed are the

The 12 year old daughter of expected I should express mine at weapons of war perished! Militarixin the moment I do so. God has drawn is crashed in its very home and Sir Ernest Shackleton has had a a snake bite. Recently Lady near to the earth in judgment and citadel, and it will be strange in-narrow escape from death through has shown all men as plainly as con deed if the German people do not Shackleton was summoned to be that the old way of the world is begin before long to realise what Brighton, where her daughter contrary to His mind and purpose for an incubus has been taken from Cicely is being educated, to leam the future of our race The old way their shoulders. If it means humilia,that she had been bitten by an alaply must be abandoned it the tion for them at the moment they adder, The child's own story world is to:

at have but, too well-deserved it and was a simple one. While I was all, and

winners too distinctly made it a necessity walking," she said,

bush caught in in this war has fallen the respon To leave Germany well armed would snake. The poor little thing gibility of working out the new and be as insane and wicked us to let and looked so uncomfortable nobler lines so far as at present it a burglar retsin his jemmy and that I helped it down, and then is poosble to trace them. Wo of the revolver for fear of hurting his it bit me. With great presence democracy are our own rulers in the feelings. A nation with Germany's of mind, the child, sucked the

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