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Show NATURE AND WAR Live, Let Live and Help to Live Have you ever beheld the sheer beauty of the northern country-side in autumn, when the vivid rampant colorings from the Divine palette have transformed the hardwoods from their somber summer greens into a color riot so breathtaking that it defies description; color beauty so wonderful that neither master artists nor color photographer can really capture cap-ture it? In the clear crisp October air, nature's offerings are a tonic for the soul; an inspiration toward clean thinking and better living. And to think, in the midst of such beauty, that men are at war ! Why? Largely because of the economic fact; because they have not shared among themselves. They have not shared freely, as has the Creator, for all men. As Wordsworth phrased the thought, "The world is too much with Us; Late and soon, getting get-ting and spending, we lay waste our powers Little we see in nature that is ours ..." "Getting and spending . . . ";content to "live and let live." Well, that's not enough ! We must learn to live, let live, and HELP LIVE! "He Who went about doing good" taught us that. But as yet most of us don't believe Him! And so today millions of men are at war-1 with millions more thinking of war; until the very air seems tense, with war almost universal. And it's a crime; a crime against Cod and against mankind. But the day will surely dawn ("It's a cmin' yet," wrote But the day will surely dawn ("it's a comin' yet," wrote Bobbie Burns, revered bard of Scotland) when men will thrill to peace as they now thrill to a good (for them) stroke of profitable prof-itable fortune in business; or as they now thrill to a new invention in-vention for desctruction and killing. For is the acme of civilization's civiliz-ation's trek upon the centuries to be found in the instrument panel of a bomber? Is that the end-point? With more wars, and still more wars ahead of future generations? No, it cannot be! It isn't going to be! We turn to the Book of our forefathers and there we find Divine Assurance that the true climax will be such peace as now passeth understanding under-standing when the world will be lapt in universal law; a peace at present quite beyond the ken of man when we will see in nature what is ours, and LIVE, instead of die. The true definition of that future, which is fortunately not far distant now, is the Kingdom of Cod. For the Kingdom encompasses en-compasses the desire of all nations and when it is here in full fruition it will force ill will off the face of the earth and make of this world a place where Peace on Earth, Cood Will ! Towards Men will be the rule; and the nations shall learn war no more. (Micah 4:3.) C. S. W. in "Destiny" |