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some more o. less-cruel, lustful,

some more OF less-cruel, lustful,
revengeful, malicious, selfish and I'M
loving.
What a induce people to deceive
themselves into accepting that insipid
untruth masking as a theriputico- re-
ligion which proclaims that there is
no Sin, Suffering and Death?
The gospel or good news of Christ
is that for this Shining, Suffering and
Dying world there is an adequate
Helper, Savior and Lord.
All the world needs, not a new re-
ligion, but a more forcible preaching
of the Christian religion in it's truth,
cleanness, power and holiness.
2. In the second place this awful
war suggests that the way the nations
have been trying to keep the peace
of the world, is a most obvious, de-
plorable and expensive failure.
Larger and still larger armies;
more and yet more destructive wea-
pons; growing and ever growing ma
vies in all countries; each seeking to
out do any other, have not only un-
reasonably burdened the toiling null
titudes and robbed their children of
necessary food and clothing; but have
made it certain that this world-mas-
sacre should come.
The lying or deceived prophets have
said "The way to preserve peace is
to prepare for war" and now the
world is rudely awakening to the SIM
pie truth that the way to get war is
to prepare for it as the nations have
been doing
All nations should simultaneously
disarm and do as the Hebrew prophet
foretold $500 years ago, convert their
weapons of war into the instruments
or tools of peaceful agriculture; and
then the world would hasten to be-
come full of plenty, and there would
be no one to disturb the peace.
Justice, truth, education, freedom,
cooperation, righteousness, godliness,
and love are all the protection the
disarmed nations would need; and an
international court of appeals should
be established where people honestly
differ because of the blindness of self
interest could go, and to this court
all questions of international charact-
er should be finally submitted.
Then each nation and community
would need only a few armed police
for protection against the insane, the
d~egenerates, and the abnormal all of
which classes would decrease in num-
bers in such a happy world of pros
perity as would result.
8. In the third place all the world
needs to be taught patriotism of a
christian kind instead of the kind
which has too often been taught.
1t was a misguided Servian who
fancied that he was patriotic who as
sasinated the Austrian Archduke and
his wife, thus plunging his own and
other nations into uninn1aginable woe.
Patriotism towards ones W coun-
try does not necessitate an uninter-
ested and unappreciative attitude to-
ward the country of ones neighbor.
Patriotism toward our fellow men
in own land does not require US
to harbor i'll will toward our fellow
men in another land, any more than
love for u classmates of our own
school requires n to be malicious to-
wards the graduates of another school.
Our love for our country should al
ways be less than our longing that
our country might be right.
All men need the large and inter-
national mind and heart, so as to be
Interested in ali the nations of men
whom God has made to dwell upon the
face of the earth; thus a man will see
that first of all he belongs to the hui
man family and afterwards that hs
belongs to some one branch of that
family; and first of all that he is a
citizen of the whole world, and after