The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21

There. on the field of carnage and death, stand
forth the highest instincts of the soul;
There fnd ye courage. strength, nobility, IN
grudging service;
There find ye infinite tenderness and compass
sion. the generosity of worthy fo"men;
There find the surest instances of friendship
and humanity;
There neither hes nor lying thoughts nor base
suspicious;
There honored truth believed
There miracles of faith made manifest;
There souls cooperation, pain subdued for
others sake and for the cause;
There nothing held bach, the last gift freely
given;
There spirits power supremely shown, rising
to greater and greater sacrifices;
There marves, too, of bodily strength. endur
ance, health, the body supremacy shown;
is supreme);
There life stripped of its fundamentals. seem
at last, in the cold and hunger and wet,
in the pain. in the presence and hour of
death.
All simple, wise, heroic, natural, true.
There near appearing. the dream that stood
far off in times of peace;
Love without bond. love comprising the enemy
and friend alike;
Unselfish love, a flash of the ideal;
Love of humanity-the Brotherhood Of Man!
AS ong as war brings out these virtues
in the average man and peace does not,
then wars must continue until man of
his own free will exercises the highest
dictates of the soul. The physical SUI
fering of war makes no appeal to the
poet because it is ultimately salved by
death, and death is fact for which man
makes preparation all his life; but there
is the spiritual suffering of peace which
is far worse, and for which there is no
ultimate reward. Net only spiritual
suffering but physical suffering which
must be lifted from the shoulders of
mankind. And Mr.. Colcord penetrating
ly strikes:
Peace is the cry of the world. o let me be!
Peace is the cry of the body. U hurt me mott
Permit me to eat my fill. sleep, be warm and
contented;
| wish everyone in the world were as happy as
am;
And l think if everyone had lived as we'll as l
have. and worked as hard. he might be
just as happy;
So let us have peace, and all will turn out well.
What ask you, Soul? Ask you these things?
CTell me first If there are any wrongs to be
righted;
Tell me if justice is everywhere accomplished;
Tell me if all men, rich and poor alike, are
paid according to their just deserts;
Tell me If governments are performing works
of brotherhood and love;
Tell me if parliaments voting righteous
ness;
Tell me if citizens are intelligently supporting
the righteousness;
Tell me if democracy is free and universal;
Tell me if greed. and seltishness. and insincer-
ity, have vanished from the world;
For am pledged beyond transgression to fight
the fight of truth, in every time and
place;
And until look upon the face of truth en-
throned, may not rest or falter)
He regards war as crusade against
these iniquities of civilization, and that
it is "divine truth now and then secretly
and unaccountably impels men to fight
each other" For he believes that if sit
could possibly be brought about that this
were to be the last war of all time, Goo
would now be finally overthrow" This
conviction enables him to stand out
against the "minions and ministers OF
the worlds half-truth," and declare.
Europe has been betray ed!-Civilization hat
been set back century,
(As if men from some other planet had stucl
finger in your pieD
l think it is only Europe's business that hal
been "betrayed"-the soul of Europe hat
been affirmed with deathless affirmation
| think it is only the falsehood of civilization
that has been "set back a century,:
The truth of civilization had advanced another
imperceptible degree"