riage. But such imaginations are without foun- 

 dation. We may take our place among the best today and 

 have a record for uprightness in every detail, then comes 

 a temptation, a desire for something to gratify us, and we 

 yield. Then the community that knows us is shocked, but 

 age, reputation, etc., is not responsible for it. Life is a 

 thing of mind and spirit. They are real. They are the 

 things that will buy the world at last as its foundation is not 

 built on sand. If we would all be princes of peace, there 

 would be no war among men or nations. Strikes are gener- 

 ally made for to obtain better conditions, but rioting is 

 usually caused by men lacking education and others loose 

 their heads through excitement. If nations as a whole had 

 more true religion then there would be no wars amongst 

 them. Nations are not at war because they hate each other, 

 but jealousy, greed and revenge is the cause of war, to 

 check prosperity of its enemy, and that is just why the Eu- 

 ropean war is going on today, and it is among individuals 

 like it is among nations,, even among horseshoers, where 

 selfishness and revenge prevails, it causes ill feeling and 

 makes conditions unfavorable. You know those abu- 

 sive remarks you made about your neighbor as a black mail- 

 ing scheme. You know you lied, and you know a lie travels 

 like a fast express, while the truth goes by slow freight and 

 is generally ditched at the first stop, 'and as a reward, what 

 satisfaction or pleasure have you out of it? 



And you, that letter you wrote for to get revenge, try- 

 ing to disturb the peace between parents and their children, 

 and you too lied, and what good did it do you? You have 

 only made for yourself a low record that will always be re- 

 membered by at least those concerned. How can you an- 

 swer for such cunning? Just notice the affection of ani- 

 mals, how exciting it is when you take calf away from a 

 mother cow. Of course the animal's memory is not so last- 

 ing as parent's to their children, but your lies will be dis- 

 covered and when convictiion comes you that do those 



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