The Ely miner., 1943-06-24

truths and some untruthS. And we
KNOW that His doctrine works be-
cause whenever we have the cour-
age to apply it, harmony and peace,
fellowship and love follow it. Diff
ficult as it is to visualize world
in which enemies are forgiven, pos
sessions are shared, the hungry and
naked are solaced, world in which
evil is not overcome by evil, but
overcome by goddard as it is to
envision, yet all of us know that
those are the conditions of His King
dom on earth, and that it is for
every one of us to work toward that
Kingdom. There is no disputing
THAT.
But having gone so far, heart
broken mothers, go little farther,
and see what else he told US. That
those who love Him-and this means
all the splendid boys who are Of
fering their lives today for new
world of safety and freedom-"sha1
not taste death forever" They are
living, out of your sight. The wisest
among us hasn't the vision that they
have now. ''This night thou shalt
be with me in Paradise" was said to
a poor, wretched stranger, GRIM
inal. Are we to believe these words
of dying Saviour? Or are you 60
ing to pick out certain words to be-
ieve and others not to believe?
BLESSED are they that mourn for
they shall be comforted." That was
said for you. The Voice that was
divine as well as human said that,
the one voice in all the world that
speaks the truth. So hold fast to
that, for that comfort will be beyond
all your imaginings of bliss.
Get in the habit of stepping into
church every day; kneel for a few
minutes, asking only the favor that
you may be Of use and help to other
boys. Get into work with our serv-
icemen, canteen, Red Cross, or in
one of the recreation projects that
exist everywhere for our no-less-
heroic and necessary factory and
munitions workers. Get tired: get
your mind off your own grief in
exhausting yourself for the needs of
others. And in other boys, just as
young, eager, heroic, honesick as
your boy was, you will find him again.
Give up your own sorrow, fears,
your own hopes and will, surrender
them all to the unfailing guidance
OF God, and you will be rewarded in
a way that will make you feel that
you never were truly living before.
Fighters Think of Home.
Here is part of letter from a boy
who went through the battles of
Midway and Coral sea. It was a
great comfort to another boys moth
er, and, even though your boy may
not have had time to write you, per
haps his feelings would have been
something the same, perhaps he
knew, In the last minute, that the
home people were thinking of him
and praying for him.
The writer is 29 years old, has
been in the navy for II months. and
is still out In the South Seas.
Dear Mrs. Blank: I thought YOU
would like to know that Jim never
was In better spirits than he was
that last morning.
We had breakfast together and
he was just his same usual self. at
ease and happy. When the crash
came he was laughing.
Loads of the men went overheard.
and the last saw of him he was
throwing them ife-preservers, and
yelling and talking all the time. All
OF us that were living were picked
up out Of the water during the next
two hours, but nobody saw him
again, and think the suction of the
ship sinking few minutes later car
ried him under. One of the fellows
who was going under called out:
There are lots more like us COM
ng! and III bet Jim felt that way,
too; we all did. >"
We ourselves didn't matter as we
did the best we could.