Show kathleen norris says love Is with Us even in war dell bell syndicate service zak 1 ac n r 40 w J Z 4 f V we ive need so little to bs be happy in this worlds world arid ami there is so much more titan than that little waiting for us its big lint it must bo be based on love the love that fulfills the tha law by KATHLEEN N ORRIS NORRIS AR means that sane W WAR men and sano sane nations adopt in a crisis measures that they know are fundamentally false and wrong A sober god fearing householder will snatch up a gun when tho the safety of the woman and children he loves is threatened by some attacking maniac and in tho same spirit an invaded nation will first take any stops steps possible to drive out the intruder and then settle down to consider the terms that will keep him out there will bo be peace again somo some day wo will all live to see gee it t for while wars la in the past have straggled on lazily from year to year and genara generation tion to generation so that his tory speaks of the hundred years war and the thirty years war war today has been stepped up to a pace that makes it mercifully swift the most dismal of pessimists give alvo this present conflict something be tween three and fourbears tour four years other authoritative voices speak of peace in 1043 now many of us enemy nations and allies alike will have to experience a change of heart if this new peace la Is to be gods peace at last unless it is a pence peace based upon those christian principles by which we have supposedly governed our individual actions in the post past it wont be lasting and 1004 1904 w will 11 seo see the task to ic do all over again many blany try to forgive individually many of us really struggle to attain the christian ideal we do try to forgive our personal enemies do good to them that hate us and overcome not evil with evil but overcome over como evil with good those men and women who achieve anything even remotely approaching pro aching the law of christ win to an inner peace that is tho the true light and the only hope of the world we need so little to be happy in this world and there is so much more than that little waiting tor for us illi but that little must be based on the laws that were given us 2000 years ago in a sermon on an a mount it must be based on love love that casts out fear that fulfills the law strange in these days of universal hates to be talking of love yet love is with us even in war time and every woman who spreads about herself a nucleus of loving and sharing helps to bring about that day when all these little centers of forgiveness and love shall join to make a new world the very boys who go forth to light are actuated by loyalty which is a form of love and duty and obedience they are the only ones among us who have a right to pray tor for victory to say god of our fathers be on our sidel because they are risking their alve t to win it the rest of us ratty may pray rather tor for light we must covenant tell god what we will sacrifice for or that same victory victorr should help all we must promise him that in the day of peace to come we will not forget that great national injustices and oppressions oppress ions create these war conditions and that we will study them and try to see bee that they do not crop up up again wo we must promise that all the children p f the world will seem to us ais as much a responsibility as our own individual chil children childred drea and that starvation and hard bard times and famines and unemployment will not ever exist anywhere again that at some long green table in washington our wisest leaders will gather to decide where in the worlds great open spaces little crowded nations may find colonial opportunities and just how much help in colonizing we can give them the i and we must promise that hero here at homo no strong man with small children dependent upon him will ever ever again have to beg cap in hand for a job that americas great wealth and greater op opportunities shall be used in pence peace as they are in war for the fair distribution of enough for everyone even then we will have apples and water melons and pork and wheat left overl over when we wa promise this and promise that it shall bo be done in the name of that son whose father refuses him nothing then wo we shall have the right to ask victory that we may make it fruitful of a righteous pence peace but only then only when the grasping pride of empires has been changed In into the neighborliness that makes our individual lives so secure and unafraid onafra ald abused rights the conviction has grown up among us all that we have rights in far distant places rights that might once have been established by honest treaties but that have been betrayed and abused and finally soaked in blood there are better ways ot of dealing with our neighbors than these and we must find them it is my profound belief that those ways will be found meanwhile every one of us may still have the supreme adventure that means finding god and finding with him that inner peace that means that nothing can frighten us nothing can harm us the woman who wilks walks with her hand in gods walks steadily she can love and she can serve she can find a thousand little ways of making american lift lifo a safer and a better thing far the future anyone who likes may accuse me of an inordinate love of my own country and my own people I 1 admit it arid and I 1 say once and tor for all that as a great intelligent nation who tor for a hundred and more years has kept the perce with her own neighbors unless Amerl cc cr tins has an important voice in the framing of the new peace treaty it will not be a good one and in it will be the seeds of the next great war the peace that follows this war can be a permanent peace but wo we must all nations as well as individuals work together toward that end self interest on the part of any person or faction can destroy the more generous efforts of all the rest this war more than any other is a challenge to the principles of democracy and christianity we must successfully meet that challenge it if we hope to enjoy the blessings blessing ot of a permanent manent peace |