Show kathleen norris says there Is a power stronger Si ronger than armies bell syndicate service I 1 NJ VR r r t 95 oo 00 I 1 I 1 a Z N 7 I 1 z t 01 vt e pamela says this is our war as much as En glands c ng lands grandma asks what is america coming to when ue u e hate haie to ask another notion nation for permission to feed starling european children and tom departing for college says democracy exists only in russia by KATHLEEN N ORRIS NORRIS THE HE only persons who are T happy today are those who believe in the infinite power and goodness of god and who ask him with the faith of children to bring good and peace and brotherhood out of the sad mad tangle into which men have gotten the world this mean that only clarg clergymen amen rabbis monks and nuns can claim today that inner sense of security and coref confidence idenie we call faith one have to renounce the things ot of the world or join an order to find god he is as we are taught as children everywhere he and the infinite peace and rest of his goodness are close beside us all the time we have only to turn to them and receive them but the worry and pressure of the times are so great that many wom women en today dont dare stop to pray they get themselves into absolute frenzies of fear hate and resentment as they take in news reports and argue breathlessly with anyone and ev everyone who will listen the talk that goes on at family dinner tables today is enough to disrupt even the most devoted groups father opines kopines gloomily that democracy is dead and the country headed for ruin mother wishes that european nations had some sense and had seen this cataclysm coming then we would not have gotten into such a fix pamela is sure that if mother and dad just came down to headquarters with her every morning know that this is our war as much as it i s En glands grandmother says she know what americas coming to when she has to ask some other nation humbly for permission to feed starving european children and tom departing with his books for college observes that democracy exist in any country in the world except in russia gee professor brown is swell when he tells them about russia makes praying difficult under these circumstances how hard it is to turn to prayer the inevitable weary hopeless feeling is if god is all power and all good why was this allowed to happen well it allowed to happen it is no accident this seething horror of murder and hate in europe it is as much the logical fruit of what has been going on there for a thousand years as the raging forest fire is the result ot of careless campers scattered cigarettes abandoned fires for a thousand years nations that should have been good neighbors and friends nations whose sons and daughters have interchanged ter changed colleges enjoyed the same sports and books and operas influenced each others pattern ot of clothes and manners have been planning wars rather than cultivating peace and after every war the winning nations have imposed conditions as cruel as they dared upon the losing nations taxes have been quadrupled territory has been seized customs rates and tariff costs cleverly adjusted to work the absolute ruin ol of the once liked and admired neighbor and armies of occupation have moved in to maintain food blockades and destroy the self respect and the comfort of the conquered people for a thousand years 1 with no THE WAY TO PEACE we me all icart peace says kathleen norris but we are willing to work for it only after we get ahat we want arid and to get what we want we employ means that lead inevitably to war hate and injustice or having gained a temporary peace we use our power to promote the agencies of tear we lve trample on the rights of the conquered we set up prohibitive tariffs to ruin r uin nations we tee once called our friends there is a better way to a lasting and constructive peace good results never come from the wrong kind of thoughts and deeds we need not withdraw from the world we need not ednd spend alt all our time in in prayer hut but we tee must says kathleen norris recognize the fact that we can find the only real way to peace through religion I 1 peace treaty ever maintained and each war more terrible than the last and unless the hearts of men are changed they will go on forever no sign of change how are they to be changed there is no sign now of a change the enemy is always to be defeated the victorious peoples must be allowed to dictate the terms of surrender and then well all turn good and holy again and there will be gods peace upon the earth then indeed we will love our enemy forgive them that hate us and despitefully use us render not evil for evil but overcome evil with good all this we are prepared to do only we dont mean to begin until some nations are smashed to talk this way is sheer blasphemy and it is folly to expect help from on high while we indulge in it but gods ways and gods peace are as near us as ever and if any worried and harassed woman wants to prove it she can do so easily by lifting her thoughts quickly to infinite goodness and understanding this need not mean kneeling down or withdrawing oie oneself self from the thousand duties of household and kitchen but it does mean dismissing all distressing and fearful thoughts with the old wonderful prayer 1 I believe 0 lord help thou mine unbelief I 1 believe in the possibility of world peace and world friendship I 1 believe that the billions wasted on war could be spent to build so generously and universally for profit and security that poverty and idleness and ignorance and injustice and slums and disease and crime could be lessened and lessened steadily until they vanished from the world hate can be overwhelmed I 1 believe that hate could crumble could be overwhelmed could awaken to find that it has never been hate it had only been the ignorance that masks love I 1 believe that all peoples have innate good within themselves just as all men and women have and that if we could once stop this mad race for armaments this panic of fear this international selfishness and greed there ther e would be more than enough mo money ney food service sunshine and jo joy Y in the world for us all believe this and when you lift your heart in in prayer say that you believe it when agitating thoughts come to you whether you are in the market or making your beds or shelling peas for supper confide them to gods keeping give that time to thought of gods power |