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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XLIV, Issue 1, 4 January 1917, Page 35

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To Our Readers Owing to the holidays last week and this we are a . ; few hours late in publishing/:' Our- readers will understand the delay if the " paper reaches them later than ,_ usual. .. Didn't Need Them . -■■■. The Journal of Education tells the following story of the war, and we want to know if it isin Artemus -1; Ward's " phrase — L wrote sarcastical': —'A successful operation was performed on a sergeant in Flanders who \ had been wounded'in^the> head. The surgeon who '"- r performed the j= operation subsequently recognised his ,v '.'[ patient walking in Pall Mall and congratulated him. *on his recovery. 'l've got that :,portion* of your brain that I removed.preserved in spirits, and if yon/like I'll ■;. give it you as a curiosity." "Thank 'ee kindly, sir, but '- I've no use for it now. .. You see I'm-employed at 'the. War Office." ' : ' : ■/-:; •-- : ;WM '' - "J?S "■ s: '^ Peace and the Wise Men • j': " *»■ ,-; -/_;:: : -i- ■■,■» -i The kind of peace that is really 'needed-—above and •V beyond a mere paper peacefor the salvation of this : sin-laden, war-smitten world, is 'admirably, set forth in . the following verses by Eliza Morgan Swift in the American Outlook:.,— :*vg .J : V ; 'Peace! Will there be peace, ;- . , -■ -_■ *Or only the cease k " : *"- . ~ .'- * . -"'. "~Of the cannon's .roar ? y''-%~ ■ Will this 'sinister war v}:;-«!i? /".- Turn from a -battle of guns and of swords To a battle" of words ? : ;;u Is hate buried deep down . . "''""• With the bones of the dead ? - , ; . .. Have they fought so, and bled. To leave behind them a curse, or a crown ? •/-."•-*■ • Will Love be reborn in the dawn of the day v~ And who will come to show us the way . "; V--'i" ; - ''..:' ***** r, ; ' The Wise' Men ! Where are they ? Will they come —will they come ? From the East and the West, From the North and the South, • . From tho eagle's nest And the river's mouth, - Will they follow the Star ? Will they hear from. afar ~ The voice that bids them arise and bring _:-. Their priceless gift, their offering ? .. :. ;■'..'.* * * ' * x- ' Oh, pray ! Let us pray They will show us the way - Through the darkness of night to a nobler day, To a Christ reborn in the hearts of men, To peace on earth, good will again.'