The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-12-24
And the earth is turning into eter.

And the earth is turning into eter-
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Do you hear the rumbling Of tie
voices; do you hear the stamping Of
feet on the soil, do you hear the yells
for mercy, do you hear the cries Of
mothers trying to protect their chill
dren? g.,
They are the masses marching on
and on ana on to reach the goal.
And the earth is turning into eter-
nifty.
And there is the Cross. No more Dc
we hear the pounding Of engines; NJ
more do we hear the hammering Of
tools; no more do we hear the crying
and begging voices. Quietness all over,
for here is humanity to perfection.
Here is the personification of love and
peace and this is the goal Of life.
This is the end of the rocky path
we are travelling day in day out; Ne
more nerve straining problems to
solve, because here lives the Master
of the Universe; here is the throne Of
world love and peace.
Listen still; now evening is around
us. I hear the tolling of the church
bells and I see an old woman walking
through a lane of trees, thanked with
rose-bushes.
She enters cemetery and stands
still before the simple and lonely
grave of her husband and friend. She
stands still like the Cross and family
do we hear the whispering, trembling
voice: "Oh Daddy, l shall be with you
soon now; my days can be counted.
Do you hear me? Can you understand
how have been aching for years and
years to see your face once more :"
And quietly she leaves again.
He fell on the battlefield. He died
for his country.
The battlefield. The hell on earth.
The military experts claim that the
future is in the mines. That is the
shortest and most efficient way to
clean up humanity, Gods Masterpiece.
With one mine, either on the ocean or
on land, they can kill wholesale, taking
from 200 to 1000 men away from their
legitimate homes.
Has it ever happened in your life
that when sitting alone and thinking
over the past, you may remember
some trivial thing that makes you feel
as if you wished that moment to come
back once more to you?
So it happened to an officer in the
Russo-Japanese war, who having been
wounded on the glorious battlefield,
lay in pool of his own blood for hours
and hours before he was taken care of.
In his imagination he saw the living
room in his house and saw his wife
and children sit around the table and
he saw his teacup with the little crack
in it and the tears were rolling over
his cheeks and he prayed: "My God
have mercy on me and let me be with
them once more"
A mothers only son, all she had,
was called to arms. From the battle
field he wrote her almost every day a
few words. T..
In the evening with trembling hands
she would start reading the papers to
see if his name appeared among the
dead. One evening she read his name.
She was stunned and her distress was
so great that no human heart can ex-
press it. She whispered for hours and
hours, during the long, dreary night:
"Henry, my boy, my boy, my boy"
But on account of slow mail service,
the letters of the living Henry still
came after the announcement in the
papers, informing her of his good
health.
And she frightened up again, think
ing the announcement might have
been a mistake.
She started thinking again of the
living Henry, her boy. And then one
day the letters ceased coming. And
in her agony she cried: "My God, my
God, my God, he's dead; he's dead;
he's dead. Oh why, my God, did you
take him from me; he was all l had in
the world, and now he's dead" i
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they shall be called the children Of
God. W. E.. . -.
Ye have heard it hath been said "An
eye for an eye and tooth for tooth,
but say unto you that We resist not
evil" e.
They that take up the sword shall
by the sword perish. !.
Thou shalt not steal. 1
These are the words spoken by the
Son of God and these are the words
that will crush war and destruction.
And if we obey these words and if