Show WHAT PRICE WAR in a recent issue of progressive opinion we find the following reference to the third phase of the world war which started in 1914 for the first time in in history a single generation of americans is being primed to fight a third major war even while veterans of the recent war estill arestile ar seeking homes jobs education and a small measure of security a new campaign of hate and hysteria unrivalled by any display of emotions when the nazis were the enemy i is being whipped up in another column is something to think about as follows what shall it profit us if we go to war nothing if we go 0 o forth to put an enemy nation out of existence we will our selves be put out of existence I 1 wish I 1 could shout it from the housetops that we will not gain but lose if we go forth to destroy we might conquer and destroy russia but what would we gain if we too were destroyed in the effort and it would not solve our problems in fact we would have a hundred problems after the war where we have one today these are not idle words but the jiving truth while this is absolutely true it apparently will have to be experienced before the real peace we all hope for may be realized because it is so written in chapters of the old and the new testaments that only when the destruction is complete may we hope for a new order of living when there will 1 be no more war and when righteousness justice and truth will reign the aftermath of the second phase of the world wa war r has made many realize the utter foolishness of trying to settle differences between nations by fighting after the manner prescribed by the military forces in operation now the temporary peace so called because the actual fight fighting was brought to an end some three years ago will resolve into the final phase after which the remnants of the people left on the earth will be able to esta establish estable bli sh the new order of living although it will take a long period of time to make it effective throughout the world if it were not for the fact that there are even now planetary aspects in operation which tend toward readjustment and opportunity to promote the new order there would be little encouragement to offer those who are still suffering from the effects of recent warfare perhaps the only good thing about war or about any other form of disaster to overtake one is the fact that it makes one cognizant of divine law and forces one to take account of himself in a new way As one writer says wars comel come because men disobey every law of gods word we do not have to go to the bible to prove that to be true many people forget that while god is a god of love he is also a god of judgment and wrath one of the encouraging signs of these times in spite of the fact that another phase of war must and will beneces be necessary is that there will be a gradual desire to learn more about the spiritual values of life which is but another way of saying that many more people will turn aside from the material pathway so many are afe treading today and will seek knowledge of divine law with knowl edege will come the desire to live in accord therewith and like the leaven hid in three measures of flour so will the leaven of truth expand and in time the whole will be leavened or like the tiny seed that men plant in fertile soil so will the seeds of truth show life and grow the promises made for a better age to come are in fulfillment even now for those who have progressed in understanding that there is a just and merciful god watching overall over all |