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Show Some Things Worth Thinking' About If You Know Truth You Live, if Not You Die Read and Ponder ' Every dollar of the fifty billion spent for relief and defence during the past eight years, could have been paid without appropriating cent from Federal or. State treasuries if the money spent for alcoholic beverages and paid out to meet the cost of liquor-bred crime, accidents, disease and premature '. death in the United States during the same period, had been ; contributed directly by the people to Uncle Sam for these purposes. This is the conclusion of the American Business Men's Research foundation, announcing a survey of costs in the first 101 months of the re-legalized liquor business, from beer's legal comeback at the beginning of April, 1933 to August Au-gust 31, 1941. It appears that if liquor consumption was done away with, there would be no need for the Red Cross Drive or heavy taxes. . It is as true as any prophetic statement can be that Britain Brit-ain is (he "company of nations," and the United States is "the great people," referred to in scripture as the Israel people or .nations whieh shall unitedly fight down paganism and Its evils until all Babylonic systems are destroyed. The present head of the nation is the one chosen and destined to lead in the erisis, even though all hell rage against him, And when he is destroyed, de-stroyed, as likely he will be, there will be shame on the faces and sorrow and regret in the hearts of those who never have given him a single breath of good will. When leaders rush into the arms of a pacifism that is really another form of sudversiveness, they are, if Bible and Doctrine and Covenants statements are to be relied upon, working against the purposes of the Lord. God has very plainly said that peace has been taken from the earth and that there will be no peace until He sends His Son to command and establish peace. Men passed up and betrayed their oppor tunity after the first World war, and now, ni their confusion and division'they are powerless to makepeace. While it is many times' worse in some respects, in Europe that is no excuse for the following conditions in this country: A murder is committed every forty minutes, a robbery every ten minutes. a larceny every forty four seconds.Eighty-two per cent of the crimes are committed by boys and girls under 21 years of age, many of whom have been taught by their elders that Christian standards sire no longer worthy of respect. Ter. mites have undermined ajl the spiritual standards and there is something like another confusion of tongues. The voiceless millions appear to be hopeless and look in vain for someone to stem the tide of unbelief and sin. Money has been sought instead in-stead of soula. Out of eighty-five per cent of all Christian students entering the large universities, only fifty-five per cent even believe in God upon graduation, j The Woman's Christian Temperance Union states that the daily liquor bill of the U. S. A. is $9,000,000 or a total of $3,285,000,000 a year. Ech day's yes, each day's- drink bill would feed one million Chinese refugee children for nine months; or 600,000 Eoglish Children for six months; or feed mo st of Europe'sfamine-threatened peoples. Peace with honor is always to be desired. But take up j your Bible and read, "men shall cry peace, but there is no peace." And read further in the good book that it is sometimes some-times neccessary to wage war that evil may be destroyed, as was the case several times in Old Testament days. Pacifism ! today is by no means in accordance with the prophet Daniel's statement that wars are determined until the consumation until the present order comes to an end. If those who are loudest in erying peace will search the scriptures they will find that in taking the stand they do they are but trying to close the mouths of the prophets and set at naught the very word of the Lord, who has decreed that wars shall go. on. un till the consumation decreed by Him has made an end of the old order preparatory to the great work He is about to institute. He has also decreed that the Prince of Peace shall personally come and takacommand in the final conflict until an end is made of so barbarous a thing as war. Up and up go the prices giving the war as an excuse. The i main cause of many of these higher prices is greed. The pro- ; fiteers, seeing an opportunity to further fleece rth.e public I i they do not scruple to do so to the limit. What will be the end of it all. It looks pretty bad throughout the country aDd the world ; but xlo not despair, good people. Always believe that the hope is. as Edwin Markham said, in the aftermath. If what is passing out of existence cannot be saved people should prepare pre-pare to "rebuild in beauty on the burnt out coals." All the past has been bnt the cradle, the infancy of humanity. The fine flovering of truth and joy, appiness, abundance and security se-curity is already treadirp on the heels of the debacle that is l ' s wrecking the things that mnn ha"e built up. So "Lift up ! yur eyes. desponding freemen: fling to the winds your doubts t and fears;" He who created you and the earth is standing in i the si. adow keeping watch, and at the right moment He will cause all things to work together for the everlasting good of humanity. |
