We can't tell if even one person will. be converted to Quakerism. Things like that don't happen in a hurry. When our work is finished it doesn't mean that our influence dies with it. We have not come out to show the world how wonderful we are. No, the thing that seems most important is the fact that while the world is waging a war in the name of Christ, we can bind up the wounds of war in the name of Christ.
Religion means very little until it is translated into positive action.
This is the message of good deeds, the message that men can come into contact with one another in spite of war and in spite of difference of race. May we believe that here there is hope of laying a foundation for peace among nations, of building. We all know that we have not advanced far along that way. And yet, when we now regard the great willingness to help those who have suffered, a generosity which was unknown before the war, and which is often greatest among those whose means are smallest, is there not still a hope that there is something in man's soul on which one can build, so that we shall succeed some day, if we are only given a chance to speak with people in all countries. For this reason they are today worthy of receiving Nobel's Peace Prize.