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Excerpt from The Next Step
An Address Delivered at the Springtime Conference, Los Gatos, California, April 13, 1915.
It is the fashion nowadays to pray for Europe. With the earnest new belief that war is wrong, we rise and beseech God to bring reason to a world gone mad. We pray for our brothers at arms as for sinners who are lost and must be saved. We recognize the present con?ict as the great crime of the ages and we feel that those who today support it can be looked upon only as criminals before God. We cry upon them to cease in God's name.
And who are we thus fervently to counsel with our Maker? We are those who yesterday made boast of ancestors because one time they won a war. We are they whose hearts beat high to read the passionate defiance of the Revolution orators. We have boasted of our brave dead, calling them heroes; we have sung of them and told their stories to our children, glorious narratives of loyalty and sacrifice we have been proud to call our own. But yesterday it was, we stood with bared heads to join in the strains of the Star Spangled Banner and in our hearts there was some thing oi a real thrill of patriotism. For a moment we too could be capable of great sacrifice for our country - and we felt uplifted by the experience, we felt that we had touched something greater and finer than the selfishness of our everyday lives.
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