houses, each costing $2,000. We pray for love but prepare for hate. We preach

peace but equip for war.

 

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth

bestowed on camp and court Given to redeem this world from error, There would be

no need of arsenal and fort.

 

War only defers a question. No issue will ever really be settled until it is

settled rightly. Like rival "gun gangs" in a back alley, the nations of the

world, through the bloody ages, have fought over their differences. Denver

cannot fight Chicago and Iowa cannot fight Ohio. Why should Germany be permitted

to fight France, or Bulgaria fight Turkey?

 

When mankind rises above creeds, colors and countries, when we are citizens, not

of a nation, but of the world, the armies and navies of the earth will

constitute an international police force to preserve the peace and the dove will

take the eagle's place.

 

Our differences will be settled by an international court with the power to

enforce its mandates. In times of peace prepare for peace. The wages of war are

the wages of sin, and the "wages of sin is death."

 

--_Editorial by D.C., Leslie's Weekly; used by permission._

 

CHAPTER IX