ITEMS OFTRUTH Old Mother Nature, in her wonderful storehouses, has provided an abundance for every soul on earth. She has even been lavish, profuse and extravagant with her abundance. abun-dance. If there is lack or poverty it is solely because man has blundered, failed to cooperate, failed to properly develop devel-op and distribute that abundance. When we contemplate the almost boundless resources we marvel that leading men everywhere cannot see the plain and Sure way to the better and more abundant life. I During the late days of World War I a British soldier lay wounded in a London hospital. Some one. said to him, "I suppose you killed your man?" He replied, "No, indeed I did not. It was like this, a German soldier lay near me on the battlefield, sorely wounded and bleeding, and I was in the same condition. I crawled to him and bound up his wounds, and he did the same for me. Neither could speak the other's language so I smiled my thanks and he smiled his. Lying side by side we suffered in silence until we were picked up by the ambulance squad. No, I didn't kill any man." If any soldier of the Allies could fraternize with one of the enemy after what has been perpetrated in Russia, China, Poland, Greece, Belgium and the. other conquered countries he could do more than any Christian saint ever heard of. The atrocities have been so terrible that the ordinary mind cannot comprehend or believe. They could not be propaganda because no human mind, not in the torture and atrocity business busi-ness could invent, such beastliness and such inhuman savagery. sav-agery. Present conditions are here so they can lift the race out and up from the sloughs of despair and despond, des-pond, out and up from the curses of the ages which have kept it down and all but blotted out its soul. How many are looking out and up toward the dawning? Not many. Too many are content to cling to the old, to look down and grovel as they go. For us, give us the light! Give us new truth! Inspire in us the upward looking and the faith! Far rather to go out to meet the dawning Truth with a crust than to sit on piles of Mammon and obstruct it. Joel: "I will gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehosaphat (Armageddon) . . . Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles; prepare war, wake up the mighty men, let all men of war draw near, let them come up. Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruning hooks into spears." Thus was world war I and II, and perhaps IH, declared. People are literally doing this, giving their scrap metal, their tin cans, even their kitchen utensils that they may be made into guns, swords, tanks and munitions. Beware how you oppose the plans of Providence. , It seems to us that it will be anything but comfortable in the day . of judgment for those who oppress the poor; those who make light of the noble efforts to alleviate their sufferings. Let them know, and there is no honest proof to dispute it, that Jesus was of the poor, with the poor and for the poor. He made His home with them, walked with them, ministered to them, blessed them, and chose them to do His work. He healed them in body and soul and said He would count them as His jewels when they came into His kingdom. Do not crucify Him again by trying to crucify His poor. Do not mock him by putting grievious burdens on the backs of the people He has so much love for. Peace is the sunshine the light and the life that sustains and saves; war is the storm cloud that deluges the earth with ruin and death; peace is the force that enriches; war is the force that impoverishes. Peace saves and dedicates to goodly life the childhood and motherhood ghters and sweethearts to the making of homes and fire-sorrowing fire-sorrowing widows and helpless orphans. Peace gives dau-of dau-of the race; war starves and crucifies them and leaves sides ; war makes them mourn and leaves them desolate. Peace gives boys and men to industry, to the professions, to religion and culture ; war takes them into its cruel ranks to kill their fellows and to destroy themselves. Peace is life and love and hope ; war is hate and wounds and death. "Blessed are the peacemakers." Not so long ago four brothers came here from Gretice where conditions were tolerable, for that country. Here they prospered, making lots of money, gathering property and liv-ng liv-ng in luxurv. Then the eldest, son decided, a few ypars ago, to take a trip to his native land, his boyhood home. Language can hardly describe the conditions he beheld. There was his aged mother, barefooted, in a tattered and patched dress, living liv-ing in a hovel on a barren hillside & subsisting on what in this country would be considered starvation. This condition tore the son's heart strings and he arranged for her care and keep A short time ago death came and took her away, and the brothers bro-thers furnished means for a decent burial. This man too came home thanking God that he is an American. How many are thankful for their America today and showing show-ing it by their words and actions?