Show will be better world when war Is over there are people who seem to have despaired ot of the future ev grything ery thing they say is on the down grade one man says this war of inexplicable cruelties and inhuman outrages has wrecked his faith an other sees every humane movement retarded a halt a century another insists that after the war var social and industrial revolutions await us ready to take every last thing first and every first thing last still another declares the progress of the world has been set back a hundred years its it s the way you look at at it and the way you look at it depends much upon your knowledge ot of the past and your inner vision ot of what are the great realities it if this world to you is only like a ship drifting with out chart or compass upon a shore less sea at the mercy of every wind that blows and tide that runs then such an experience as this thib through which it is just now passing means only a battered hull torn cordage tattered sails almost a wreck reek and generations will be needed to make it look again even respectable but it if the world never has rolled on through all the sea of time hit or miss it if in spite ot of all that looks to the contrary there have been and compass aboard and someone at the helm who hag ha known what he was about if this be true and multi tudes audes are confident the facts war var rant the conviction that it t Is true then our ship no matter what the storm or how long the night has not I 1 lost her course let us rest assured that the moral forces of 0 the world have been and always will be the all conquering forces it Is a better world that Is to be many a hoary wrong will be found to have been trampled to its death on the frightful fields of this sad war many an ancient evil en trenched in human customs and con mentions vent lons ions social political religious will be blown to atoms ere all the human explosives flung out by the great conflict are exhausted and justice truth humanity and all thel abe virtues that keep them company will command the reverence of man kind as never before it is for this better world to be that our noblest and bravest are gladly laying dov down their lives it is oura ours to stand be bind hind them not only with out service and our money but with this ering faith that they fight a winning battle exchange |