Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-11-24
REMAINING THE WORLD.
NicV Ernest n. Bullock. st. John
Episcopal ChurCh.l


Not slothful in business: fervent in
spirit SERVING the Lord.-Rom. 12:l2.
Even while the great war was rag
ing, wise men in Europe and very
few in the United States were anxious
ly studying the problem of reconstruc-
ton and reimbursement when peace
should come. All hands, heads, hearts
and lives have been fiXedly conferred
on winning the war, The ways of
peace will seem almost abnormal We
little realize how government, indus
try, business, social and domestic life
have changed from the old ways To
get Them all back on peace basis
without far-reaching disturbance of
human relations Is going to be Il
more difficult problem even than
winning the war. Then we were in
completest unity; now every interest
and ambition will be looking out for
itself frs"
All questions will be tremendously
important: business and industry viii
doubtless be chief, Before the war
America was the greatest producer
and the poorest salesman in the world.
She sold chiefly to those who con-
trolled the markets She herself con-
trolled few, and delivered to none by
her own transportation. Peace finds
her the one nation with unimpaired
force, with enormously increased
wealth, with a great. new merchant
transport of her own. The entire
world turns at once to her for every
need. And she can supply it, The
question is--can we and will we read
oil
return the men of the army to indus
try turn the vast war industries into
peace industries, reshape the whole
process of trade, engage our gigantic
resources wisely to meet tbe5 even
more colossal opportunities OF world
trade and supply, or shall we sink
back into a hopeless confusion of
self-seeking interests, ideas clashing,
schemes and strikes and violent de-
mands shouldering efficiency off the
map, politics and socialism rampant
-America again the great producer
and slothful salesman
Business as usual? Never, again.
A new spirit has awakened the world
over, to be felt here as well as in Eu-
rope, a seething, fervent spirit, fun of
concentration but of wide vision, in
tensely practical but with an appetite
for idealism, eXalting liberty and
comprehendipg discipline. That spirit
is here. 1t can be distorted with per-
ilous ease ;Shrunken by selfishness,
despoiled by egotism of class, or in
terest, or individual. To keep it clean
as the patriotism Of wartime, striV-
ing after its ideal, sacrificing and 10y
al, turned once for all and kept un-
varying in the channels of honesty,
justice at home to each other and
abroad to our neighbor, righteousness
such as we fought for and won, that
is our great work Of reconstruction
and readjustment.
There is plenty of spirit There isl
ferVency enough. Keep it clean. Let
it be of true service. Profiteering was
wrong IN wartime, unpatriaotic, UNI
falr, unrighteous, q crime and a dis
grace. War was won by the opposite
virtues, right, unselfish loyalty. JUS
tlce and righteousness, That is a law
OF life, proved certainly, Peace can
not change it, make what was wrong
then in morals, business and govern.
ment, right now. The right spirit
won the war, and infallibly only thei
right spirit can ever win. These vir- |
tues, call them what you will, / call |
them serving the Lord. That is the |
word for this country for the future, |
| know. The victory that oyercometh |
the world is our faith. This must be |
our motto, l believe mot slothful in |