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Show Local View on the Signing of Peace Treatv I Commenting on the signing of peace, Rev. Godfrey Matthews sas "After suffering for forty years a 1 misdirected scheme of education whi h tended to make them purely a military mili-tary nation having vast designs of empire, em-pire, and now fully persuaded by force I of circumstances that their designs I were wrong and their aims impure it lis to be hoped the German people will set themselves the sublime task of pursuing a course of life that will I enable their gifts to have free and right play in a world of comrades. I ' Any fool with tho means at hand can blow the greatest structure to pieces, but it takes wisdom, patience and all the virtues to bring about the cul-minaticn cul-minaticn of constructive enterprises. It. is never too late to mend and Germany Ger-many has the best chance in the world of ridding her mind of the in-j in-j tent to put her hand against every man. Every' man's hand has been against her because that which she sought to do was indescribably evil and altogether wicked. She may now 1 have pvery man with her if she uses , the opportunity of peace to become a peaceJoving and a peace-bearing na- tion." |