THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16551, 15 May 1914, Page 8

THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

TO THE BDITOE. Sir, —The first lesson we have to learn in life is obedience, and the one we have to obey is God. Now, God said, "Thou shalt not kill." Are we obeying him when we practise with guns and other articles to slay our fellowmen. Let the Germans come and kill us, but I don't think they will, or let any other nation come and kill us and take our land, but we must not try to kill them, for God said, "Thou sbalt not kill," and we should obey him. We should set the example to other nations and I am sure they would follow it, for surely men do not delight in slaughtering their fellowmen. A man was once going to war and was very sad at leaving his wife and child. The little girl looked up to her father with tearful eyes, "Daddy," she said, " are you going away to kill some other little girl's daddy?" Was that not a very sad and thoughtful statement? I think as you are training for war, that you are training to kill some child's father, and if you have a' kind heart, for the child's sake you will drop your war articles to the bottom of the seas. Let us work and pray " Till dove-like peace returns to England's shore, "And war and slaughter vex the land no more." i —I am, etc., I MABEL LEWIS, j Momber of Children's Peace Society.