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Show Spirit of National Interdependence Great Need of the Present .Century 1 1 t By REV. C. EVERETT WAGNER, New York (Methodist). I The next document to be Rigned by the revolutionary rebels of all nations is a declaration of interdependence. The crying need for such s declaration in this Twentieth century is just as urgent as the one in 1775 for independence of small countries like the Thirteen Colonies. There was a time when the development of individualism should be stressed but the world of 17TC is an entirely different world from that of 1028. and the demands of a worth-while civilization are also different. The inherent moral, spiritual, social, economic and political conditions under which we 'are now living demand that we shall work out in some successful suc-cessful way a scheme of living together in this old universe as a family of nations. The intelligent people of America can no longer be like ostriches, sticking their heads in the sand whenever this question of our relation-' ship to other nations is considered. To make effective this declaration of interdependence the revolutionary rebels of this age must stimulate a tremendous sympathy for the peoples of all countries. The words "stranger," "foreigner," "heathen" should be dropped from our vocabularies. |