The White Ribbon: FOR GOD AND HOME AND HUMANITY Friday, December 15, 1899. And there Shall be Peace.

White Ribbon, Volume 5, Issue 54, 1 December 1899, Page 7

The White Ribbon: FOR GOD AND HOME AND HUMANITY Friday, December 15, 1899. And there Shall be Peace.

As the time draws nearer in wh ch we celebrate the coming of Him wh) was called the Prince of Peace, it is a ■melancholy thought that the twc great nations of the Anglo-Saxon race should be engaged in war. The spectacle of war presents so much that is harrow ing, debasing and cruel, that it is hard to realise that “ Civilisation does get forrader, even on a powder cart.’ After hoping so much from the recent [Peace Conference, the disappointment [is keen that no other way of settling the present dispute could be found [save the savage and murderous warfare that to-day is in full force. We can only hope now that its veiy virulence will bring it to a speedy :onclusion. Let us do all we can to discourage the vain, arrogant, and blatant war spirit, to urge the substitution of arbitration for Mausers and Lyddite, to remember that Beer and Fillipino are our brother men, and be willing and anxious that right rather than might should prevail. Then may we hope to see the t good time of which Lewis Morris sayj. : There shall coin», from out this noise >f *trife and groaning, A broader and ft juster brotherhood, A deep equality f aim, po tpouing All se'fish seeking to the general go>d. There shall com' 1 a time when each shall t»» another Be as Christ w -uld hare him, brotLr unto brother. Tn* re shall come a timo who i brot ierhoo • grows stronger T 1 an the mrrow bounds which now distract the world; hen the cannons roar and trum|€‘s bl is no long* r, And the ironclad rusts and I at tie t a 8 «re furled; W hen the bars of creed and speech a id race which sever, Shall be fused in one humanity for ev<r.