it is that is responsible lor the further outpouring of the nations' blood. And what is this but the whole policy of the pacifist? What the pacifist savs, is: If your objects are righteous, and your motives as pure as you say, then declare them, and prove your innocence to the d

Why should the nations piteouslv perish together? Why should the innocent, robust youth of all the lands of Europe condemned to self-destruction? Why, indeed, but because of the lust and greed handful of faithless men; or because of the policy of secrecy and fear which such gree

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and thus, increasing fear and hatred, make more difti cult as the conflict advances the indispensable condition ot permanent peace, mutual trust and goodwill: lor there can security in fear. Yet EEAR is the one hope of many of our leading militarists, politicians, and pressmen :

group belligerents the other is exhausted, if million after million human lives must continue to be offered up until the one side or the other there are no more to offer, if resentments must kindled that can never cool and despairs engendered from which there can no recovery, ho

never before, Christ's great condemnation being proved the uttermost : All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword." All things considered, therefore, the outstanding dutv of every thoughtful and peace-loving person is to take hold of every opportunity which promise

We All Want Peace, But What Kind of Peace ? This the time to make our minds. We may have the Peace of Weariness and Exhaustion. The European nations are bleeding each other white. They are imperilling their future the unstaying sacrifice of their fine youth. They are spending th

The War-Made Mind. \ ? reigned oppressed one another, and tiioM those i'rf\v thin Indigestion destroyed the htippin peered from the eyes Cithers War convulsed the nation*-, and fire and fhi had preached i find fli• upon th. Cross, Printed the Bi.KSnir VKMP. Manchester. sod Publi

President Wilson, Cincinnati, said recently Have yo» over heard what started the present war? It was mutual suspicion, an interlacing of alliances, web «f intrigue and spying. Revive all this after the war is over you will have such another war."

unreasoned desire to get on top and then to punish, and go on punishing until the offender's back is broken. But if we are to be saved from the most wanton barbarism ever perpetrated, we must combat that spirit and crush that desire with all our strength. For not all suffering w