Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 3, Issue 128, 26 June 1942, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

If, instead of indemnities, facts, quotas and tariffs imposed during the last quarter of a century, there had been operating principles between nations, such as are set forth in the Atlantic Charter, would this war have been averted? Who can say? But one thing is sure. In spite of all postwar planning, in spite of the principles of the Atlantic Charter, no good will come of it unless there is the will on the part of the individual to put

So many faiths, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind; While just the art of being kind Is all this old world needs. There is nothing like adversity for bringing out human kindness and sympathy; for it is in times of adversity that. the need is most apparent. When prosperity is the common lot and most folk are getting along comfortably the need for care of others is not apparent and there is a danger of selfishness creeping into our lives and directing our thoughts to our own good and not to the good of others. But when hard times come along and hunger and want make themselves ; felt, then kindness awakes from its slumber and sets about the task of caring for the unfortunate ones. When the human body is apparently healthy, doctors have a lean time, but when sickness or disease make their appearance, then the doctor is called upon to use his skill and knowledge to restore the body to a state of health. What is overlooked is the fact that regular examination by the doctor during the time of apparent health would have detected the disease in its early stages, and, by treatment, have prevented the attack and kept the body in health. And when we see the kindness and care bestowed upon individuals and between countries and nations during times of affliction and suffering, is it unreasonable to suppose that in the general expression of that spirit of kindness and care during the time of ease and apparent prosperity, we would have detected the symptoms of strife and unrest, and by judicious treatment, have prevented the calamities that have fallen upon us.

those principles into, operation in all phases of his life—private, public, national and international. Short of this, it will be but sowing the seeds for a greater and more' terrible struggle than even the present one. And how is this change of heart to be wroght? Listen! “Be ye KIND to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.” Evil has to be punished, but let us beware, lest in. the carrying out of that punishment, we are not guilty of a greater- evil. “If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.” Are we big enough individually or nationally to let the love of God into our hearts so that we may “bear one another’s burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ?”