IV. TATESMANSHIP current in an ages and in most countries has been based on the lopsided view of human nature involved in the horrible doctrine that man is " born in sin and shapers in iniquity." Its keynote is " Thou shalt not," and has reached its apotheosis in the German word

There are still a few peoples who have not let themselves be inveigled, egged on, or compelled to take part in the slaughter of humanity. . . . One can understand how tiresome it must seem. The state of war is the normal state, and .those who are in it are the Great Powers of Eu

C) ctober 25, I 9 8, TRUST IN GERMANY OR CHRIST ? EVER have I been so impressed with the profound wisdom of Jesus as in these awful days of tension in which, humanly speaking, the world lies at the mercy of a blinded, self-interested and war-poisoned domination. The thorns have

Mother, I see far away in the land across the Rhine, a , s w oman with a little boy in her arms—a woman as fair divine as thou—a mother. Upon her and her son smiles as upon thee and thine. That little boy is son' s brother! Fair smiling face and innocent eyes; too, is not only a

44 October 11, 1918'

HIS is the story of a conscientious objector of France. I write it here as a memorial. Memorial to him, it may serve also for many nameless others. Paul Savigny, a young school teacher, of Ni, e Montdidier, France, believed in peace at any ' " War is witout reason or excuse—hide