ps: "O my God, let
Thy will be done and not mine. O my God, Thou knowest that I never
wished war, but that I have fought because it was Thy will; I offered my
life so that peace might prevail. O my God, I pray for all my dear
ones, ... father, mother, brothers, sisters. Give a hundredfold to
those nurses for all they have done for me. I pray for them one and
all."

Here, in the midst of carnage and confusion, horror and death, was
perfect peace, the triumph of immortality.

What then shall we say of the new teachers and masters, the cynical
lords of materialism and misrule, who tell us that they are going to
banish this outworn superstition and all others like it from the mind of
man? They are going to make a new world in which men shall walk by
sight, and not by faith; a world in which universal happiness shall be
produced by the forcible division of material goods, and brotherhood
promoted by the simple expedient of killing those whom they dislike; a
world in which there shall be neither nation, God, nor Church, nor
anywhere a thought of any life but this which ends in the grave. It is a
mad dream of wild and reckless men. But it threatens evil to all the
world. Do you remember what happened when the French Revolution took
that course, abolished the Sabbath, defiled the Churches, broke down the
altars, and enthroned a harlot as the Goddess of Reason? The Reign of
Terror followed. Something like that has happened, recently, in many
parts of Europe. And if these new tyrants of ignorance, unbelief, and
unmorality have their way, the madness and the darkness will spread
until the black cloud charged with death covers the face of the earth
for a season with shame and anguish and destruction. A sane world, an
orderly world, a peaceful world, can never be founded on materialism.
That foundation is a quicksand in which all that is dearest to man goes
down in death.

Religion is essential to true peace in the soul and to peace on earth
through righteousness. Immortality is essential to true religion.
Thanks be to God who hath given us Jesus Christ, who was dead and is
alive again and liveth forevermore, to touch and ennoble, to inspire and
console, to pacify and uplift our earthly existence with the power of an
endless life.

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