Thomas Henry Hall Caine

“ But has our hope of a better world been fulfilled? What do we see? europe is in chaos. One of its Empires, the one that began the war, has been almost wiped off the map. Another is at this moment struggling with anarchy. A third has been swept by famine and disease. Our own beloved country may have laid down its arms, but it is now fighting a deadlier enemy than Germany—poverty and want. A million and a quarter of our people are unemployed and living on the charity of the State. Nearly four millions are badly housed or not housed at all. ”

“ The gospel of the war as I see it is that war has failed as a judge of human conduct; that the conscience of humanity repudiates it; that there is no safety under the soldier's sword; that the supreme interest of mankind in this hour of the world's peril is pence ”

“ Long before that time the earth of Europe had been trembling under the tread of a mighty host. Between the greater nations there had been an age-long race in the making of armaments. Every resource of science had horn employed towards the sole end of destroying life. "The right of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done." ”

“ Unable to go to that long cemetery of wooden crosses which stretches from the Alps to the Sea, we have gathered, all over the country, about the the symbols of the burial places of our dead, for prayer and consolation. In doing that we have done well. Somewhere and somehow, in the mysterious ways of Providence, our sacrifices will have their reward. If we thought otherwise our faith in God would fail. ”

“ If we were living in the days of the Hebrew kings and prophets we should say that the Almighty, must be angry with as for following after strange gods after He has given us the victory. We use different language now, but will it wrong the truth to say that God is punishing the whole world for the sin of the war? ”

“ Is it not possible—I ask, is it not possible—that victors and vanquished alike most share responsibility for the atmosphere that created the war, and for the inhuman powers which made it so sudden, so prolonged, and so terrible? ”

“ He gave us the earth for our possession, that by our labour we might live on the fruits of it, but during the four years of the war we of the warring nations withdrew millions of men from the cultivation of the soil, leaving vast areas awaste, with the sun to shine and the rain to rain on them in vain. ”

“ Above all He had provided for the continuance of the human family, but we sent twenty millions of the young and the strong and the flower of the human family to be destroyed in battle, leaving only the old and the weak to carry on the race. ”