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War ! Shadows of the oaks lie upon the snow when a 

 ghost rises from the grave. In his hands he holds a 

 little green stick. The ghost roams through houses, 

 humble huts and hamlets, speaking the word to every- 

 body and everybody understands. But the West still 

 burns: is still aflame. The ghost hurries his steps to 

 the westward. Confused and disconcerted people 

 rush by. He wanted to tell them the word, but his 

 feeble voice was drowned by the roar of thunder 

 in the fumes of smoke. After gazing long on the 

 furnace the ghost wended his way back to the slope of 

 the seven oaks. And the fire will be extinguished 

 because the green little stick is there. 



"I cannot express in any other way the message of 

 my father to humanity. The ideas of Christ that 

 were understood as my father understood them are 

 eternal ideas. They are not ideas that change with 

 time, so I cannot speak about what should be a 

 message to the people with reference particularly to 

 America. In such an effort I should be obliged to 

 restrict my ideas. That is why I do not speak about 

 peace between nations and the politics of nations 

 because the idea of Christ is wider. His teaching was 

 not peace simply. His teaching was love. All political 

 questions are changed by time and space and Christian 

 ideas as my father understood them are eternal and 

 they do not change with time. So I would say to 

 Americans or any other people, the only way to 

 understand my father's ideas is to rise to the height 

 of a moral understanding of life in the terms of eternal 

 truth, which were given as a guidance for all. 



