pagans abroad or in our own land to a better life. The sufferings of a country do not appease the wrath or win the love of the patriot, but never in the history of mankind has a country been saved from corruption unless there were some patriots that were willing to suffer for it. This book is written for those who are sharing in the great sacrifice in this world's Golgotha. Whether they recognize Jesus Christ as their leader or not, whether they are Roman Catholics or Protestants, believers or agnostics, Christians or Jews, they have taken up their cross and are following him; they are laying down their lives for their unknown kinsmen beyond the sea. It is written not only for the soldiers in the air, in the field, or on the sea, not only for the wounded in the hospitals, the maimed and handicapped returning home, and the dying slipping away to their long home through death's bright portal, but for the fathers and mothers who have caught the spirit of the All-Father and have given a son or a daughter, perhaps more than one, that the world may be saved by love's greatest sacrifice. I have some reason to believe that what I have been saying during the last four years in sermon and article has thrown some light on the path through the strange confusions of thought and perplexities of conscience which have troubled noble spirits. I hope that this little book, in which free use is made of these previous utterances, may render a like service to another and perhaps a larger circle of readers. SIXTH LETTER "THE REPUBLIC OF GOD" SEVENTH LETTER - CHRIST'S PEACE ΙΟΙ |