WAR ON A PERFECT DAY.
This is God's own season, when ho showers the earth most freely with his splendid gifts, till some spots we find which might well be just little glimpses of Paradise" itself. Lying at rest in some beautiful shady spot, surrounded by blossom-ladon apple trees, couched upon a riotous knee-deep tangle of sweet-smelling grasses aid buttercups, and soothed by the songs of happy birds flitting from limb to limb, it is r»Sy to imagine that God, having relented of turning His people out of Eden, is allowing them as ,it were, just theiie short annual visits to His garden. ' -•;'■ And man sees fit to destroy these heavenly gifts and tears and rends the grateful shade which God gave ns to prtvent the glorious sunshine from becoming a burden instead of a blessing.'', v Man .blasts and . destroys all human habitations 'within, view, reducing to pathetio rubbish 'heaps alike the noble church (God's, house) and humble, wellbeloved cottage, .-.■ y.(. Man turns the smiling cornfields into ugly shell-pocked wastes. And why? •'.' . Because these • places may contain his fellowmen, made in' God's likeness. \ '$% Oh. God ii this be "noble war" spare us "'ignoble strife," ; : •;■'/ ,'■■■:.- f, •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16925, 10 August 1918, Page 1 (Supplement)
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