| Show I Kathleen Norris Says I Dont Don't Be Afraid to Ask Favors of God Bell Syndicate tc Fc Features tures ill p l Y i 4 I Iii L ii O OZ Z 4 ei J 2 1 Q J I IJ In n wartime u-artime lie we stop our cars and ancl smilingly invite the uniformed lads lade to jump into them By KATHLEEN NORRIS r I HE longer I live the more T THE I firmly do I believe in the J- J nearness of God and the power of prayer The rule that was given us by an obscure carpenter carpenter carpenter car car- penter who never wrote a line or had an influential friend and who died the death of a common criminal is still the only true rule by which we humans may live ive in security and peace When anyone says to me that he would like to have seen a miracle I think of THIS miracle that we hold no name in all our history worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with that of Christ Poor and unknown unknown un- un known cnown yet his words still ring about th the world and his law so utterly opposed to all natural human law is s the one thing that can save us yet When this war is over and the monstrous evil that darkens the world worlds is s suppressed let us hope that those in n power will remember that unless the law of Christ influences their councils there will be no peace and that hat before today's babies are out of high ligh school the whole horror will begin begin begin be be- gin all over again No matter how they hey dress their treaties in hi magnificent magnificent magnificent cent phrases no matter how many willing villing and unwilling signatories they obtain for them unless forgiveness and brotherhood become the universal universal sal law there will be no peace The secret lies there in the Sermon on the Mount and it lies nowhere else When peace comes lets let's try to feed our workers as well as they are being being being be be- ing fed in war Lets Let's not forget and slip back into the selfish old ways Lets Let's not ever tolerate poverty and idleness slums and squalor again Lets Let's el's els hold fast in peace to the generosity generosity gen gen- generosity the intelligence the self sac and operation co-operation that we exhibit exhibit ex- ex hibit libit so eagerly in war Constant International Visits We shall have to keep up an immense immense immense im im- im- im mense army for a long long time Even a peace-loving peace woman like myself myself myself my my- self who has suffered a great deal for or her championship of the nonintervention nonintervention non- non intervention cause can see that We VIe shall have to have million half-a-million men ready to take to the air why not have lave them visit foreign countries to bring friendship and help steadily as a regular thing so that the flag that hat these countries have come to know mow through war shall become to them hem a symbol of everything that thatis is s forgiving and helpful In war there is a demand for limitless limitless limit- limit less ess labor to rush the work of defense defense de- de ense and destruction We pay forit for forit fort it t gladly readily and what we buy buys is s blown to bits and sunk into the oceans by the hundreds of millions Why cant can't we keep up this magnificent magnificent magnificent mag mag- plentitude of employment in n peace times paying for roads I schools bridges libraries until there theres is s no hamlet in all America where I learning earning and usefulness cannot be found by the humblest comer In wartime we women knit thousands thou thou- sands sands millions millions of warm garments we gather little coats and boots we ship them to the far corners of the he earth to comfort cold little creatures creatures crea- crea tures ures who in wartime only seem so akin to our own Why cant can't we keep that hat up in days of peace There is no tiny iny shivering Chinese child buttoning buttoning button- button ing ng a generous wool-lined wool coat about her who cannot be told that America has sent her that because America believes in a shining God who said that all men are brothers In wartime we wc take to food restrictions restrictions restrictions re re- joyfully and the markets are filled with philosophic women who are quite ready to face any privatIon privation privation if it is demanded by the Uthe boys In wartime we stop our cars and smilingly invite the uni- uni PEACE I 1 LEAVE LEAVE- 1 If f you jOU haven't done so lately take tahe out your family Bible and turn to St. St John 1427 Read those stirring words Peace I 1 leave with you Read on a little little lit lit- littie tle tie For the Prince of this world cometh Even in the hour o of f His llis own sorrow Christ prepared prepared prepared pre pre- pared His disciples for the fact of His revelation just as we must now prepare to mal make e the most mosto o of f the peace for which we are so fiercely fighting And we must prepare for peace peace not in a militant militant militant mili mili- tant spirit of spiteful revenge but with the calm knowledge owl edge that with the help o of f God we can make our world a little more like his Kingdom formed lads to jump into them Clubs are formed for them so that their evenings shall be safe sandwiches are piled up by the thousand cards and games are collected They must be protected from dangerous amusements amusements amuse amuse- amusements ments they must be filled with good beef and coffee warmly clad there must be music and girls with whom to dance But in peace times more shame to us hungry and idle and shabby lads roam the streets at night and fall into all the mischief that idleness and poverty and cold and h hunger nger and shabbiness age And we punish them for it Love Is Power Behind Good It is hard to see the light of Gods God's law through our stupidity and the darkness of our vision But it lives liveson on it inspires us in ill every bandage that we roll every cookie that we bake every sweater we knit Love is the power behind them all and it is to that love that we must trust When a sense of helplessness and hopelessness overwhelms you then remember that stronger than all the leaders put together is the miraculous lous force of prayer Remember that no woman roman her leer heart sick with nV CUI anay Y VV L nit un au sons ner brain bewildered and tired by the problems that loom vaster and vaster above us us-no us no woman ever interrupted interrupt interrupt- ed her dishwashing or her ironing to kneel down and say the old prayer that begins Our Father without arising from her knees stronger in courage and refreshed in spirit Every prayer that goes to God is a spark of light in the dark It finds some bitter need somewhere on the cold mountains of China Chinn inthe in the crowded huts of India it eases some suffering it softens some blow Send your gift of prayer if you like to today's most heartbroken mother send it if you like to the boy who is lying half-conscious half in some base hospital and have his nurses wonder why he is suddenly better why he has fallen faBen at last into a healing sleep Fantastic to think that we can send prayer abroad to spread peace and blessing among those whom we never will know and whose thanks never will reach us Well VeIl there are many fantastic delusions in this world such as ns that money brings happiness or that a beautiful girl is always a happy girl We Ve fool ourselves about half the things we know or think we know But not about prayer Peace and infinite good are as plentiful as ns theair the theair theair air we breathe as close as the air we breathe In every spare moment enter into the empire of Gods God's pe peace spread this union of prayer all over the world and perhaps when the war is won and the days of readjustment come we will find it stronger than we have ever dreamed we will find ourselves worthy to formulate the plan that shall bring us a little nearer nearer nearer near near- er to the Kingdom |
