The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-24

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 WHATEVER IS. IS RIGHT"
 And Dr faoa that all "m-- work together for -,na To them hat Ioss rb, Lord" Romans >.-s
 Iae longer one ...e- the deeper ragoMe- tb. conviction that under -.r 4Hh aten-z sl life taere l- a 100, of right E,ap age has had turmoil and tr.b4.at.ou a- well as every If.. and there is rooted deep Ia Iii, human breast n. longing for better things as well as the convection that things will b. better some day Nations and Individuals have fought To the death for ther convictions. and. Htaou-h defeat and more deep despair has over taken them. yet there remained the indeIbIe impression that the battle Was not in vain. There has never been victory that deserved the name where rhere was not struggle ana hardship. pain and peril tatiauo and faintings Men are not carried 10 the coveted heights of famc and favor on Pullman cars and lmou- sInc- but must tread the path -,rran with thorns whose every prick demands is drop of blood. In the Jewish sacrifice the life Wa. found in the blood therefore there must be a shedding of blood which represented the life of the victim. There k no remission in the sins of he world without the shedding If ho.d Fdh sorrow has itS pui- pose. though the sorrowing one may never have guessed what that pur- pose would be. or by what route it might come Many lives have been irreparabIy ruined became some per son in purpcsed love has relieved that life from struggle and pain and fatigue The little boy who helped the cicada from jts final moult unintentionaIIy destroyed the possibility of the insects mount.ue into the air on wings because m so doing he had relieved the little creature from the struggle neccs- sary to send the flow of life into it's wings. and as a result it never flew. which was its only means of finding subsistence in its world Nothing was left but death
 There are some things that We know in life We know that the -uu will rise. that the seasons will occur; that change and decay lie aII around us that sufferine and death comes to every man; these things We know because they are so common that to dispute them is tc proclaim the departing of reason even so to those who think, comes the conviction that in this world of wrong there lies a root of right and n the sorrows there liner put" poses for good "Whatever is is right"
 \ casual glance over the history of the world will create a profound conviction in the minds of thinking men and women that there are a great many sinful acts of men and of nations. and that somewhere, somehow. they will be punished. The hour may be long delayed but sooner or later will come the judge to pronounce the final sentence. that the jury of years has rendered in verdict guilty, and that the stern arm of law will reach out for the sinner, to proclaim that truth, though crushed to earth, cannot always re main crushed Truth alone lives in the midst of every war of the world men Lave asked, "WEy are so many brave men and innocent women and children permitted to suffer and die in all the cruel ways that military genius can create?' We cannot tell why the nations of ,"acc permit such evils as the lio our interests to rob men of brains and brawn; of jobs and joys; why wives and mothers must suffer the with rum, and bent on rapine and murder; why little children shall be born into the world deprived from birth of every possibility of advance nent or normal development i" body, mind CT soul, but must bc a pain to the parents, curse 70 SO ciety, and charge to the state. We cannot tell why, to be sure, for we do not know all the past and none of the future, but yet every soul whose thoughts find moments of solemn occupation comes 10 the conclusion, though it is long de layed and with difficulty obtained, that such woeful wrongs will be some day somewhere, punished. ITO grow means often to suffer" and who can deny it? True the soul is ofttimes aided by the hearts un- rest and victories and triumphs are