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Show SEARCH THE HEART OF THE MOTHERS FOR SUFFERING We Try to Answer Their Question A mother is quoted by an exchange as saying: "How we have worked and loved and dreamed; for that boy of ours, and now he is dead overseas ! For what has that clean, fine young life, with all its possibilities, been sacrificed?" May we try to answer to this heart-cry of one out of the thousands of bereft mothers. The people are bound to these youthful martyrs by ties that never can be severed. Their shed blood fertilizes the soil for new freedom, for new justice, new brotherhood and a new earth life; and that blood will run in the veins of the future until these ideals are attained. The world knows not the objectives of this war. Men will neither believe nor listen. But we tell them solemnly and truthfully that this war is a literal forerunner for the coming of Christ, which will follow the real ending of the war. It is a preparer of the way. In no other way will humanity let the path be cleared for universal peace and good will, and the reign of the Prince of peace. So we say unto the mothers : Your boy, in giving his life, has become a martyr for the cause and truth of Jesus, and has helped to prepare the way for vastly better things for humanity, and when anyone dies in such a cause they become enshrined in the great universal hpart and will join the noble army of martyrs who have gone 'before ; and they will not be forgotten in that day when the great Judge makes up His jewels! Somewhere out there our boy is dead, He sleeps in a lonely grave ; I The birds sing there above his head, And the lilies wave by his lowly bed And weep for a soldier brave. Holy the ground where our soldier sleeps Who died at his country's call ; On with the heroes his spirit sweeps, Over his memory a loved one weeps, He has given America ALL! C. N. L. |