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Shall I ask the brave soldier ! Who fights bY mY'side, In the cause of mankind If our creeds agree?

Shall I give uP the friend I have valued and tried If he kneel no,t before The same altar with me?

-Sir Thomas Moore.

The above reminds me of the story I enjoyed more than any of the thousands of good stories that went the rounds during World War I. It rvas about the Jewish soldier who was dying, and there being no Rabb near' a Catholic priest was called. He knelt beside the dying boy, and said to him: "Do you believe in the Father, the Son, and'the Holy Ghost?" The Hebrew boy said: "Mine Gott! I'm dyin' an' he esks me riddles !"

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And I've had occasian recently to frequently recite the famous story that all of you oldsters will recall, of the negro G.I. in World War I who met a Gerrnan soldier head-on' The German thrust with his bayonet, and the G.I. dodged' Then the G.I. swung his razor. "Never touched me !" the German yelled. "No?" said the G.I. "Well, you jes' wait til you shake you' haid."

Someone sent me " ,.; ,t.t ,n"a goes good. rt says: God, give me symPathY and sense' And help me keeP mY courage high; God give me calm and confidence, And-please-a twinkle in mY eYe."

-Sarah T. Munro.

This war proves to me something that I have long believed; namely, that it is in life rather than in death that man needs God. In the foxholes as in the stricken bomber plummeting to earth, man turns to that unseen Power he may have thought little of at any previous time in his career. Yes, it is not in death that man needs Deity (for ' when that comes, whatever is to be, will be) but rather while the heart beats high and warm that he needs the faith that Life and Love defy the scythe of death; that breasting the waves of the Dark River, they rise triumphant on the Other Shore. To many men the God idea is an absolute necessity in time of stress and strain; it is a splendid sheet anchor; a still, srnall voice that cries peace to their troubled souls.

In days like these $/e can all of us appreciate the deep wisdom of the words that the writer William Saroyan puts in the mouth of one of his female characters in his book' "The lluman Comedy." She is distinguishing between the works of the good and the bad man, and she says: 'The good man WILL SEEK TO TAKE THE PAIN OUT OF THINGS; the evil man will drive pain deeper into things"' In a world more racked with pain than ever before in its history, taking the pain out of things-all things possibleshould be the magnificent ambition of all good men' Could you think of a more perfect mark to shoot at in all our po*t*", planning-a philosophy that all GOOD men could approve-than "taking the pain out of things'" {<*{<

Many times since Hitler sent his destructive hordes out to enslave the world, word has come back concerning the rather mysterious death of some high officer in the ranks of the Boche. It used to seem strange to military minds that officers of such high degree should have been so exposed to slaughter. But gradually understanding came; the insidious report that mayhap it was NOT bullets from enemy guns that brought their death. In fact, there is every reason to believe that the fiendish fanatic who struck at the heart of the world, has been continually sending letters to Uriah. Remember Uriah, in the Bible? It seerrs that King David took a liking to Uriah's wife. And, Uriah being in the way, David wrote a letter to Joab, his general, and sent it by the hand of Uriah, and, according to the Book of Samuel, the letter read: "Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten and die." (That's the kind of a guy David was') And so Adolph, the Axman, finds, when he has some Prussian General to get rid of, that the easy way is to give him a letter, and send him up front to deliver it. Yes, we learn many things besides good, from the Bible.

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The members of the present Supreme Court of the United State no doubt resemble Brutus in that they are "all, all honorable men." But their own bad opinions of one another, expressed frequently in the past year in the public prints, would seem to indicate that their legal perspicacity falls far behind their honor. They have taken turn belaboring and belittling one another and the court, itself. I must confess that I am fully convinced that the present court is every bit as bad as its members declare. I might go even farther

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