Ellsworth Community College - Web Yearbook (Iowa Falls, IA)

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Q WEE, gf et .Q 2 ez ,J -NNN-2 ,N - ? 13 -f l M' X lllmum 5... 1 It M is kaadpgad .,ulr1u11lNLv W ,, ' rf , , 4 f lin '-v- 4 i .. i .- ,ll love of fellowmen has been deemed an impracticable theory. Nations have never had the courage to accept the gift of the cross-brotherly love. By calling it impracticable they have called God a liar and sealed their own doom. Hitherto so-called practical policies have actuated the interests of nations. They have ad- mitted,God in their policies in so far as this would not interfere with their selfish ambitions. That means, they have not admitted Him at all.. Yet they have called themselves.Christian. Oh such inconsistency! For nineteen centuries nations have been challenged to accept the law of love. But they have been unwilling to pay the price. After every war they have reassumed the old policies of selfishness. After this war the nations will again be called upon to choose between love and hate, between life and death. Then the supreme test for democracy will come-the last battle.. Democracy will be safe from autocracy. Militarism will be crushed. Large armies will be un- necessary. But already there are forces operating to burden this the land of the free and the home of the brave with huge military establishments. Oh such folly! Do armies keep nations from War? No, certainly not. That which is superior to armies-the honor of other nations-alone can secure' them peace. What else is there to prevent any number of nations from overwhelming another nation but honor? No army is so great, no navy so strong as to defy the whole world. Fellow-Countrymen, may God forbid that this country become a huge military camp. If the world is to enjoy permanent peace and catastrophies like this war shall have no sequel then there must be a supreme court of interna- tional good Will to govern nations. There are two ways of settlement after this war. One is to exact indemnities from the vanquished as has been the custom in times past. The other is to for- give and to forget, the way of the great emancipator, Abraham Lincoln, Love toward all, malice toward none. The lives of the men who gallantly fought and died in this war are far too precious to admit of any petty bickering over bound- ary lines. They were freely given for a far nobler purpose, for the freedom of the world, for that which money or territory cannot, shall not buy. By the man- ner of settlement we shall secure either a lasting hate or a last peace. Unless there be mutual forgiveness, the sacrifices of these men will be desecrated. They will have died in vain. The last battle then is not on the battlefield, nor on the stormy sea, but in the hearts of men, between love and hate. Men must conquer themselves, their own selfishness. Courts are incapable, laws ineffective, treaties of no avail. The supreme court of man is his will. No power save love can conquer the will. Fellow-countrymen While we are waging the last battle for freedom, we are not merely paying a debt to France, but we are also paying a debt to our forefathers. Our fathers left the continent in search of the precious, priceless pearl of freedom. By the grace of God they found it. Ours is the task to take it back to the continent that its people too might be free. We must not selfishly hoard our freedom, for any special benefits adhering thereto but share it with all mankind. Not until then can we indeed be free. Freely we have received, freely let us give. Oh my country, you have ever been the laboratory for experiments in the interest of freedom. I implore you to launch forth upon a policy of disarma- ment. Put your trust in God. If there be no God then you cannot perish too soon. But if there be a God then He will sustain you. Win the last battle for freedomg between love and hate. Nations will follow your example. Then the time will soon be at hand when nations will say to nation: what is mine shall be thine, thy people shall be my people. and thy God shall be my God. Somewhere in France, on Every-Man's-Land, where the world is being woven into one, where Black and White, French and English, anadian and American have gallantly fought and died, there is an invisible imperishable monument for the commemoration of the World's emancipation from war's oppressive heel. There: The blood of many millions mingled freely in the mire, That freedom's sacred monument might rise the higher, higher, So high that all the world might see and stand aghast, Then kneel in gratitude that freedom's come at last.

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