Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Church the Hope of the Future
Every day brings home to us more directly and more poignantly the terrible price which our nation with our allies is paying for the maintenance of freedom and right. The question presses harder on us whether there can be any return great enough to compensate for so great a loss. There is but one thing that can reconcile us to the sacri fices which have been made. It is that the suffering should be the birth-pangs of a new and better world. If things are to go on in much the same way as before, if with energies exhausted and resources depleted and infinitely poorer by the loss of its bravest and best the world is to resume unchanged its former course, then of all tragedies that which we are now witnessing is the greatest. Never was blood so freely shed. The agony is greater than we thought we should ever live to see and feel. But the saddest thing of all would be that the suffering should be in vain. How could we bear the thought of the countless graves in Flanders and in France, and on many far-off shores, or of the brave lives which the sea has engulfed, if from this sacrifice there is to come no commensurate fruit '2 Those who have fallen gave their lives for the sake of freedom and of right between man and man. We who still live owe it to them to see that the price has not been paid for nought. Not by our own choice, but by the fact that our lives and possessions are still ours only because other men have died, we are dedicated to the task of making the world worthy of so measureless a sacrifice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
