The White Ribbon. “For God, and Home, and Humanity." WELLINGTON, JULY 18, 1942. LOVE SUPREME! FAITH TRIUMPHANT.

White Ribbon, Volume 48, Issue 6, 18 July 1942, Page 3

The White Ribbon. “For God, and Home, and Humanity." WELLINGTON, JULY 18, 1942. LOVE SUPREME! FAITH TRIUMPHANT.

We think am! speak, sometimes too lightly—of a crucifixion. We hear every Sabbath of Jesus “crucified under Pontius Pilate/’ but familiarity ofttimes dulls our sensitiveness to its farreaching causes and results. That event, from which modern history dates (Anno Domini 1942) was the outcome of Love Supreme! Love Divine! ( iod so loved that He gave. Gave of His best and dearest. His only Son. And that Son, as He hung on Calvary’s cross, in words which have echoed, and still echo down the ages, voiced His lonc even for His murderers. Father! forgive them; they know not what they do.” From the cross he went to the tomb, and from that tomb he rose on that first Easter morn. Faith triumphant broke death’s chains and sent throughout the World the spirit of life and immortality. Now the world is passing through its crucifixion and if it meets that ordeal with the supreme love and the triumphant faith of its Lord and Master, then indeed we will rise from the tomb of a dead world to a new world wherein dwelleth righteousness. The Easter Dawn is coming nearer, when the second coming of the Christ in spirit shall descend upon our war-worn planet. In enemy lands are many who suffer. The evil must be fought, but in the words of Edith Cavell we will realise that love can conquer death and every evil thing

The lasi words of that martyr; “This 1 would say, standing as I da in view of God and eternity, ! believe patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness to anyone.”

In south-west Los Angeles 3,301) Japanese residents were to be evacuated at 6.30 am. No provision had been made to feed these people until the evening meal at the camp. The Methodist churches in that district called for volunteers to pack 3,300 lunch-boxes and one was delivered to each Japanese. One clergyman was on band before 6.30 a.m. so that a Japanese mother and four-days-old baby mmht travel in comfort in his automobile instead of the busses or trucks furnished by the army. And so they obeyed the Master’s command, “If thine enemy hunger feed him.’’ And as surely as we follow Jesus so surely will this crucifixion be followed by a glorious Easter. Let each one of our White Ribbon Army keep the faith triumphant. Let us fight the enemy without, and also the enemy within, llv faith and works may we hasten the coming of Christ’s Kingdom. We pray “The Kingdom come/* Do we expect it? Banish every defeatist thought. The Lord God omnipotent reigneth, and the final truimph of evil is unthinkable.

The hour is coming when men’s holy church shall melt away in ever-widen-ing walls, and be for all mankind; and in its place a mightier church shall come whose covenant shall be the deeds of love. Not Crado then Amo shall be the passport through its gates. Man shall not ask his brother any more. “Believest thou ?” but “Lovest thou?” and all shall answer at God’s altar, “Lord I love.” For hope may anchor, faith may guide; but love, Great love alone ,is captain of the soul.