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Show H PEACE H V HAT a marvelous word! How M it is reverberating today in ev- M y quarter, nook and corner, of the H rld. What a liealintr, soothing cf- -t it must have upon the poor war- ft ary, hungry, desolnte and bleeding H ople of Europe. Kven here, where H I have barely been scratched, and H my of us fail to appreciate to any H eat extent, that we have been at H ir. Then how it must electrify and H ss the real sufferers by the war in B e old world! How the people of H lgium, France, Italy and even (ier- L my herself must bless the balm of M at gracious and long-prayed for M Autocracy and militaiiMii lie stark B id dead upon the gory battle fields PH Krunre, Hcleium and Italy, but, ye Ppf oda, at what a price! What a fright- pH il nifhtflMra toi the world to look PPJ ack upon, as the people now freed PH oni tyranny and dspotism, as they PV uike progress toward that universal PP& rotherhood of all men, to look back PPJ pon! Future generations will shud- PH er as they contemplate the awful PPJ pectaclc. PH To have lived at this period of the PPJ orld's history and to have passed PH Urough this critical and momentious H. ontest between democracy and autoc- Bpr acy, Is a great privilege. No time PPJ i the past history of the world has, PB 0 our way of thinking, beeen frought Ppt ith so much of interest and conse- PPT uenco to the human fnmily. It is PPL II too stupendious to grasp now, and PH will only be when it has passed into k istory, and the people of the wo.-'d PH ave time to view it with cornplnc- Ppff nee and cool judgment that the fill; PK igniricance of the victory that has PB een won, und the frightfulness of PPL tc ordeal will be appreciated. PPT Many, many were the dark days in PH le past four terrible years when it k oked as if in reality the Kaiser was P '' 'ght, and that God had taken sides PH ith the lawhwfl murderers and rnv- PPJ i hers of defenseless innocence, an 1 PPJ lat the Kaiser spoke advisedly when PPJ i said, "Forward mit Gott." But it PPJ" iust be remembered that "The mills PPJ f the Gods grind slowly, but they PPL rind exceeding fine," and the fina' Lst suits restores Christianity to its PH ehful position and proves the base- PH ess of the ci&isis of its enemies. - Bjp- The unholy ambitions of Germany PH nil her autocratic dictators have Ppi :ood a menace to the safety and lib- V is of the human family, but this PV nholy power and ambition is ful'y PpV rushed and will be rendered impu- PH 'nt for all future time. And we PPf ust that her fate and punishment PH ill Ih sufficient to end for ever am- PPJ itions on the part of individuals or Ppfti ations for world power. |