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Show ( : r"-- l Ns- - x C. N. LUND Editor Kntared u Second Ctett Mtter it the Port Office it Salt Lake City. UtU, under the Act or March 3. 187S Devoted to Brotherhood Through Spiritual Uplilt, Cooperation And Municipal Ownership ot Basic Utilities VolVlI, No. 13. 217JDavid Keith Bldq. Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, April 23, 1943. Subscription $1.50 to $5.00 a Yea Appearing quite happy, and with a definitely well-fe- d look, these Jap prisoners while away the time aboard the ship which is transporting them out of the South Pacific war zone for the duration. Chinese checkers amuse the pair on the mattress on the deck, while at the right the lad with the bandaged toes grins broadly for the cameraman. Putting on the Heat in a Cold Country r - , jj T , - - - ? jjr-- n I ' : : i. . ." ' V. S. infantrymen unhesitatingly leap (top) into the icy waters of a mountain stream during maneuvers in Alaska. Below: A machine gun crew takes up position on a wind-swe- elevation. Scram-bling through snowbanks and wading through icy streams soon makes tough soldiers of these boys from offices, shops and farms. They become Just as tough as the country. j PHILOSOPHY OF MRS. BUYER, STUDENT, POET ANO TEACHER THE WORD OF PEACE Only the Christ can speak the word of peace, And only into pure hearts can it fall, Hearts that are lifted challices of love, ' Centered upon the Perfect One of all; Only the Christ can still the troubled sea That our own fears have ruffled in the night, And when we turn to Him in yielding trust He gives us peace according to our light! When will peace come again into the world? When everyone is truly purified, When each has let his egotistic-sel- f Be lifted on the cross, be crucified, When into His hands each one will commend His life then peace will come and war will end! DISCOVERY The greatest adventure in the world is the discovery of God. The way is simple, the joy is sublime. The God of all the centuries is so close we cannot see Him. . . . We cannot see Him because He is covered with seven veils: the veil of superstition that has misted His face; the veil of dogma that has shattered His oneness; the veil of pride, hung by those who called themselves "The Chosen"; the veil of doubt that has blurred His reality; the veil of reason that has made Him a question mark; the veil of ridi-cule that has distorted His nature; and ' finally the veil of self. This seventh veil hid Him completely. Take away this last and outer veil the human self and life will take on a i brighter hue, ridicule will drop away, reason will lose its texture of import- - ance, doubt will become so thin it can be seen through, pride will easily be ; waved aside, dogma will fade and su- - i perstition will vanish. ' Unveil your God! Lift from Him the : veil of human self and the divine will shine through. The greatest discovery in the world , . - .is the discovery of God. - The'way is " simple, the joy is sublime. Claire Stewart Boyer M PeronaL The good faithful wife who has been so helpful in the office was taken very ill Sunday eve-ning and was taken to the hos- - pital where her condition to- - day is fair. Ralph E. Tschappat of Den-ver was keeping store for the boys at Hill's Field and hap-pened to see this paper at a library. He liked it so well that he rushed right down and subscribed. He has ideas very much in harmony with our own and is quite a student and thinker. He has been trans-fere- d to Denver. Good Friend Emil Gammeler writes from Phoenix, Ariz., as follows: 'Just reached 77 to-day and feel generous and have a desire to show my apprecia-tion of your thought-prov- o ing paper. While 50 per cent don't think and 25 per bent do not care, you are among the 25 per cent who oarry the load. With the enclosed carry me al-ong. Yours for victory " His title to fame came from being the San Juan county member of the 1933 35 legislature. DeVere Thomson was home from the service last week visi ting his wife and baby. Our sincere sympathy goes out to Neighbor J. H. 'Midgley whose good and faithful wife passed away last week. Friend John N. Ericksen who came to earth about the same time and to the same town. was in Saturday and informed us that the report that he was dead was greatly exagerated Fie expects, however, , to . live, until he does die. Hissalvation is sure for he never said an un-kind word or did an unkind tiling to his wife and children Fiiends Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Linsthoten have just been en-joying a visit with some of their children in Los Angeles. Mrs. Rhoda Jensen and dau-t- er Miss ha"e spent the week in Salt Lake visiting her parents', Mr. and Mrs. George W. Larsen (:.. .. . Harold C. Larsen of 2876 So 9 East, and wife, have one of their fine sons in Ihe service and another in the mission field. They have done about as well in rearing their children as it ispossible to do. He is a member of the bishopric in the HUoiestward and sheswiththe .stake Y. L.M.I. A. They have kept themselves in a position to employ their sons and have been comrades to them which is a Godsend to a fnmily. IS THERE NOTHING WRONG? A. Sermon Editorial Do we folk, looking at the world, say "Why things are going wonderful, there is nothing wrong with the way people are living!" Listen to a real sermon : Is there nothing wrong when we have 225,000 more drinking places now than be had before prohibition,? At that time we had 177,779 saloons. Now we have over five hundred thousand! Is there nothing wrong when we have nearly twice as many girls employed as bar maids and entertainers as we have attending college? Is there nothing wrong when drunkenness has increased from 55 to over 1100? Is there nothing wrong when 62 of our youth between the ages of 15 and 24 are drinkers? Is there nothing wrong when we see so much drinking among women? Out of every 7 persons at the bar drinking, 4 are women, Is there nothing wrong when you must go hungry, al-most, in a city unless you eat where beer is sold? Is there nothing wrong when we spent last year $25.14 for every person in the United States for drink? Is there nothing wrong when for every $2.00 we spent for education, We spent $3.00 for drink. Yet, with all the money received from liquor for taxes, we were still four hundred million dollars poorer EVER Y MONTH ? Is there nothing wrong when if all the liquor high quart bottles made last year were set end to end, they would go around the world 17 times at the equator? Is there nothing wrong when our supposedly better women, with nicotine breath, mock at temperance and drink? Is there nothing wrong when there is a murder commit-ted every 40 minutes and a robbery every 10 minutes in the United States? Is there nothing wrong when the cost of crime has reached fifteen billion dollars a year? Is there nothing wrong when the churches and Sunday schools are losing their influences in most communities, when few parents attend Sunday school and church? Is there nothing wrong when many churches are going bankrupt, they have no midweek prayer meeting and no Sunday night service? Only 8 of our people attend church Sunday morning, and 2 on Sunday night. . . . Is there nothing wrong when hundreds of churches did not have a convert last year? Is there nothing wrong when the line of separation" between the church member and the worldly people has been almost erased? Is there nothing wrong when the Family Altar has been discarded? Is there nothing wrong when the only Bible in many homes today is a deck of cards? Is there nothing wrong when agnostics and infidels are destroying the faith oj our youth in many of our colleges? Is there nothing wrong when preachers have to soft-ped- al their sermons to be popular in many churches? Is there nothing wrong when some of our churches are nearly empty on Sunday nights and movie houses are full? Is there nothing wrong when morals in the home, in public schools, in colleges, are reeling under the influence of evil? Is there nothing wrong when girls 11 to 15 are organized in prostitution? Is there nothing wrong when church members give Cock-tail parties in their homes? Is there nothing wrong when Christian homes are being wrecked by divorce, and do not have time for even a few minutes of prayer a day? Is there nothing wrong when many folk are friendly to your face and stick a knife in your back? What we need in America is a revival of old time religion of Jesus that will show us ourselves just as we are. But can we expect to win this war when these conditions exist? You know it is the truth, you see it every day. We shall have no real victory in this war unless the nation repents sufficiently for God to give the victory. Sound and Fury for the Enemy , SPRING AND LILAC TIME ' C N. LUND. i Glad spring again, and lilacs by the door! i And perfumed memories of life's dewy morn, i That turn my wistful, wondering mind once j! more To flowers and gardens-ho- me where I was born. Thus ever with the spring and lilac time t My heart is there and visions come again j Of fresh, sweet days and lovely blossom time In that first bit of heaven wHere life began. The World's News Seen Through The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily Newspaper Published by THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING SOCIETY One, Norway Street, Boston, Massachusetts is Truthful Constructive Unbiased Free from Sensational-ism Editorials Are Timely and Instructive and Its Daily Features, Together with the Weekly Magazine Section, Make the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. Price $12.00 Yearly, or $1.00 a Month. ' Saturday Issue, including Magazine Section, $2.60 a Year. Introductory Offer, 6 Saturday Issues 29 Cents. Obtainable at; CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 702 Mdntyre Bldg, Salt Lake City, Utah " " ,,t frr'i?-rm' M ' A h f - $ (f . . , h r - the AiiriOAOS nne the cniiicorjE or or ehse gO1 JM P IF YOU WANT O.K. SHOE REPAIRING 1 You must go to the O. K. SHOE SHOP J 414 So. State Stret h t Shoes Repaired Jobs at Moderate Fr.ces Alfred iSorciten, Progressive &i 75 East 2nd. South Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing 40 Years In Salt Lake " ,.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxj.j.xxj.xxxxj.j... Some of the Causes, to which, to Save our Nation, We Musi Give Attention Why have the years belween the two wars been the most destructive in human history more destructive of the souls of men than all the wars? It is because the people gave themselves so completely to Mammon at its worst and at its best. Their chiefest error was, according to the poet-see- r, Alfred Noyes, complete indifference to the trends of society political, in-dustrial, commercial and educational, and giving their attention to money-gettin- They neglected the better things of life shattering or sneering them cut of their lives until there came the intellectual, moral and spiritual collapse. They swindled and exploited aud got gain to the limitt and ran like mad to all the pleasures of the world: They embraced the pagan idea that might and rnoney make the only success and are the only good. So far did materialism go that American, English and French industri-alists sold arms, planes and munitions to Germany and Japan to be used ag-ainst the United Nations murderers for profit. Christ was ruled out, praise with lips but mooked with deeds, Literature was atheistic, low, ob-scene; vulgar and coarse. Mencken blatantly said: "Rabelais is nearer to Go than Jesus?' And Shaw said: "No man who regards Christ as an ideal is worth working with." Bertrand Russell lectured in American Uni versilies on free love and trial marriages, deriding most of the ideals of Chris-tianity. And most of the churches have put themselves in a condition that they con do little to remedy the situation. Too often their fine church-es become tombs for the pure, simple gospel of the Man of Galilee, We believe in the scriptures where they sny that peace has been taken from the earth, and that is because of the mo-ral and spiritual lapses of mankind. Whole na ions of people practically all nations, have lost tliespirit that makes for peace and that spirit cannot be restored until they come to the faith and works that make for (rood will and peace. Peace and free-dom are two of the sweetest and most dynamic words in the language. |