Clarendon College - Wester Yearbook (Clarendon, TX)

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Europe. leflaterial prosperity may advance when one side or the other falls, but we are not gainers, and the future is full of foreboding. We are forced to ask ourselves, can we survive if European civilization is destroyed? It is true that all Europe is our Fatherland, not any one nation of it. Each one has contributed to our commonwealth, and we have drawn our life from every land. Germany dwells in the gentle Rhine, our Ireland sees the sunny shores: while France pursues some course divineg Norway speaks thru our mountain pinesg Italy waits by the western orine, and broad based under all is planted England's oak-hearted sons, men as rich in fortitude as ever went world-ward from an island wall. We cannot rejoice whole hearted in any victory, for it means a blow to some country to which we owe a debt of gratitude for help in time past, religious reforms, political laws, institutions, counsel and guidance that has enabled this new nation to rival the old. No, it is not a vain imagination that leads us to connect ourselves with the whole world. We are links in the great chain that begins with the origin of our race and runs onward thru successive generations, binding together the past and the present and at last terminating with all things at the throne of God. We cannot adopt a policy of secluding ourselves from the suffering world, tho some find many plausible and soothing arguments in its favor. There is nothing Christian or divine in it. Could there be a more flagrant breach of neutrality than the declaration of an embargo? It would be abject national selfishness, it would be saving ourselves at the expense of the world. It would be closing ourselves up within the boundaries of pros- perity, and saying to the rest of the world, suffer to your hearts content. We'll bear no burden, share no pang of your suffering. Qur comfort is our only concern and you shall have none of it to ease your sore distressf, ls this the spirit of America? Are we so steeped in selfishness and pride? When American liberty first raised its voice, where in its youth it was first nutured and sustained, it should still live full of its original spirit. For this to remain true we must :maintain our ideal. The people of every nation know something of our ideal. Its rays have illuminated the shores of every land, and it has been a shining light to all the world. Cut of this American spirit comes the spirit that shall shape and advance the world's des- tinies. The patient brooding spirit of mankind inspired by our faith and hope in divine order will yet bring into control the power of brotherhood now obscured in the bitterness of the present war. We are standing upon the verge of a terrible adventure. Five times this land and its people have gone down into the shadowy valley of war and has trod in suffering its bitter ways. Once more we find our feet upon that pitiless path. We have been patient until patience seems to have lost all show of virtue, and it is during this period that we must show to the world what we are. l know that if we do enter this struggle that it shall be for no other reason than the overwhelming hatred of the ruthless and merciless spirit of those we are called upon to fight. But as a nation that furnished to the world its first spectacle of sovereign states obeying a national supreme court, we must lead in proposing disarmament and in inter- national supreme court. Thus the solution ofthe real problem of world peace is in our hands. The world breathlessly waits for America to move. We must be the first to tear clown from its world old position of supremacy the hideous idol of war, beneath the outward glitter of whose tawdry trappings lurk death and disaster. We must be the first to lead the nations to that simple and chaste temple where in transparent purity, rugged beauty, and resplendent glory, world peace sits enthroned! 65

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