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Show THE WAY OF PEACE. In the way of peace there are many obstacles. Most of them can be re- ' moved if there still remain in the "' minds and' hearts of civilized men the principles of brotherly love. England , has signified that she will not listen to offers of peace until Germany has been decisively defeated. France wishes to heed no peace overtures until she is certain that she has either won or lost Alsace and Lorraine. The emperor of Enssia has promised that he Trill revive re-vive the kiupdom of Poland, and he does not desire peace until he can make good his promise by occupying German end Russian Poland. In England and France it is felt that democracy is fighting against autocracy au-tocracy and that if democratic ideals are to endure and democratic government gov-ernment is to escape annihilation, the military ideals of Austria and Germany must be destroyed forever. Here is a mingling of selfish and unselfish un-selfish ambitions. In France there is a desire for revenge and a determination to recover "the lost provinces," but thero is also the nobler desire cf maintaining main-taining a government cf the people, by the people and for the people. England Eng-land has committed herself to the sanctity of international obligations, " but she also has resolved to destroy the German fleet as a condition precedent to permanent peace and safety. In view of the creator perils that are looming ahead the. nations should purify themselves of selfish ambition. It is conceivable that the civilized nations na-tions may destroy civilization by a long war. They mar so weaken themselves them-selves that Europe will again be ripe for invasion by Asiatic barbarians at i a no distant day. All the invasions which iuunilated European civilisation after the decline of Rome came out of Asia, and the scars of these invasions still are seen in the Balkans, in European Eu-ropean Turkey, throughout Asia Minor and all along the northern coast of Africa. The exhortation of one civilized nation na-tion to another should be, "I charge tbee throw away ambition." Let all the uations seek peace from pure and unselfish motives. If they fail in this duty they may gain a little territory ' or a little power for a short time and mav ultimately lose ail the benefits of ivilization which they have obtained -through hundreds of rears of struggle. |