Show kathleen norris says love Is with Us P even in war atu btu syndicate service AVOW 4 dejan IVAN we need so little to be happy in this world and there is so much more than that little waiting for us but it is must be based on love the love that fulfills the law by KATHLEEN NORRIS AR means that sane men W WAR and sans 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 the safety of the woman and children he loves is threatened by some attacking maniac and in the same spirit an invaded nation will first take any steps possible to drive out the intruder and then settle down to consider the terms that will keep him out there will be peace again some day we will all live to see it tor for while wars in the past have f i aled on lazily from year to year and generation to generation so that history speaks of the hundred d years war and the thirty years war war today has been stepped steppe dup up to a pace that makes it mercifully swift the most dis dismal malof of pessimists give this present conflict something between three and four years other authoritative voices speak of peace in 1943 now many of us enemy nations and allies alike will have to experience a change of heart it if Us this new peace is Is to be gods peace at last unless I 1 it t is a peace based upon those christian principles by which we have supposedly governed our individual actions in the past it wont be lasting and nd 1964 will see the task to do all over again many try to forgive individually many of us really struggle to I 1 attain the christian ideal idea we do try to forgive our personal enemies do good to them that hate us and overcome not evil with evil but overcome 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 the true light and the only hope of the world we need so little io 10 behary be happy in this world and there is so much more than that little waiting for us alit but that little must be based on the laws that were given us 2000 years ako ago in a sermon afi on 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 oman 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 fight 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 for vi victory c tory to say god of our fathers be on our sidel bebau because se they are risking their lives to win it the rest of us may pray rather for light we must inest covenant tell god will sacrifice for that same victory should ali we must promise him that in the day of peace to comete 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 that they do not crop up again we must promise that all the children of the world will seem to us as much a responsibility cis as our own individual children and that starvation and hard times and famines and unemployment will not ever exist anywhere again that at some dong green table in washington our wisest leaders will gather to decide where in the worlds great open spaces little crowded nations nation 9 may find colonial opportunities and just how much help in colonizing we can give them and we must promise that here at home no strong man with small children dependent upon him will ever again have to beg cap in hand for a job that americas great wealth and greater opportunities shall be used in peace as they are in war for the fair dietr distribution 1 abu of enough for everyone even then we will have apples and water melons and pork and wheat left overt over when we promise this and promise SL that it shall be done in thenamae the name of that son whose father refuses I 1 him nothing then meshall we shall have the right to ask victory that wa we may make it fruitful of a righteous p peace bace but only then only when the grasping pride of empires has been changed into the neighborliness that makes our individual lives so secure and unafraid abused rights the conviction has grown up among us all that we have 14 rights in far distant places rights that might once have been established by honest treaties but that have been e en betrayed and abused and finally soaked in blood there are better ways 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 ond end 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 ho walks with her hand in gods walks steadily she can love and she can serve she can find a thousand little ways of making amerl american life a safer and a better thing lor for the future anyone who likes may accuse me of an inordinate love of my own country countie and my own people I 1 admit it and I 1 say once and for all that as a great intelligent nation who for a hundred and more years has kept the peace with her own neighbors unless america ameilla has an important voice in the framing of the new peace treaty it will not bo 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 we must all nations adwella as individuals als work together toward that end gelf self interest on oil th the part of any person or faction can destroy the more generous efforts of all the rest this war more than any other is ia a challen challenge geto to the principles of democracy and christianity we must successfully meet that thal challenge leng e if we ahopelto enjoy the blessings of a permanent peace |