Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 113, 13 March 1942, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

' scheme. Hitler’s “New Order” envisages a world with the German nation paramount and all others virtual slaves to them. Japan’s “Co-prosper-ity Sphere” embraces a large area where she holds sway and others do her bidding. The democratic nations propose a world system whereby all people shall have the opportunity to share in the good things of the world, subject to safeguards against aggression. Remembering past ages, we may be pardoned for wondering if some of these schemes are not like good resolutions made by a person who has landed in trouble. ‘When the devil was ill, the devil a saint would be, . When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he.’ But in all seriousness, and allowing full measure of sincerity, in the democratic schemes, one must ask: ‘On what foundation is the new world order to stand?’ for without a solid foundation the building must fall. Never do we hear of that reverence, that fear of God, which is the beginning of wisdom, ‘Fear God and keep His commandmants, for that is the whole duty of man,’. Do this and the new order will build itself on the solid rpck. And as God presents the Christ to the world He says: ‘This is My beloved Son . . . Hear ye Him.’ Not the teaching of Christ, but His spirit in the hearts of men, alone can build a better world, and that must start with the individual my heart, in your heart, now let us begin.

“Love thyself last. Look near; behold thy duty To those who walk beside .thee down life’s road; Make glad their days by little acts of beauty, ' • And help them bear the burden of earth’s load. ■ Love thyself last. Look for and find the stranger Who staggers ’neath his sin and his despair; Go lend a hand and lead him out of danger, To heights where he may see the world is fair. Love thyself last. The world shall' be made better By thee, if this brief motto forms thy creed Go follow it in spirit and in letter; This is the Christ-religion which’ men need.” To-day one hears and reads much of plans and ideas for a new world system. From one side comes the “New Oder” * and “Co-Prosperity Spheres,” from the other “New Deal” and new social systems to be incorporated in “Post-War Reconstruction.” Each of these has as its object the building: of a better world order . according to the ideas of the nation sponsoring that particular