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THE rARor.r'SASr;
WEEK mbi^G feijropgf 3HlgUgm.»Bi-'T?rr-
EDITORIALS
avoided by all belli«:eront8 in the present
war. Our only moral defense is that civ
ilians were warned to abandon the .selec
ted localities. Is that defense enoujrh ?
Pon t SHIVER,
next Winter/
n
PEACE IN OUR TIME
The United States has emerjfed trium
phant from a war foujrht simuJtaneously
across two oceans. The victim of a sneak
attack which crippled its navy to an ex
tent which at the time we could not ad
mit, this counr>’ entered the war unpre
pared ajrainst two enemies which had for
tics around M’ar pieparations. Yet we won
years built their whole economy and poli-
the war on l>oth fronts,—alon^r with tw(r
powerful allies on the one. and almo.'^t
singlehandedly on the other.
This Is truly a time for rejoicing, and
for gratitude to 'fod. In spite of our well
demonstrated military and indu.striai
might, the war might hav. l»oen lost. lt.
cost in terms of material wealth and hu
man life and well-being wa.s tremendous,
and we shall not be through paying for
a long time. But we could have been the
vanquished rather than the victors. If any
one of several things had happened it
could well have happened that way. For
the result of the European part of th*'
global war we owe at least as much t"
our allies, Britain and Ilu.ssia, as either
one of them owe.s us. Beyond that «**
owe to Providence the errors and failure.^
of our enemy, — in deciding not m in
vade Britain after the fall of Fi*ance: in
attacking Russia: in being too late in th»‘
development, of terrible new weapMi8.
The United States must now turn her
resources and onergie.s to the huge and
difficult problems of readjiMinent to
peace. We cannot go back to what w.
were before the war. .Already In interna
tional affairs we have assumed an en
tirely new attitude. The nation must like
wise bring a new and more enlightened
attitude to bear on many domestic prob
lems, some carried over from pre-war
days, others created by the war it.self.
wholesale death made EASIER
ica welcomes the terrific new
fltor - bomb for its effect in hastening
the i of the war. but there is no con
cealing the qualms of uneasiness aroused
b5' the thought.^ of what may conceivably
happen when the .secret of this terribb*
fqrce is revealed, as it must inevitably be
s^ner or later, to those who some day in
tie not too distant future may be our
efl^ies^President^ Trumatj voiced ap-
CAN SEGREGATION BE JUST?
Not so long ag() the N'egrn pivss can ietl
th(‘ story of a white woman who wa.s i-on-
victed of violating th«* jim crow law ap
plying to seating on a luis in a .'amlherti
locality. Such ca.ses are so extremely rare
that the newspapers captioned the stor'
in such a wjiy a.s to indieat** it was of th*-
"man bites dog" variety.
Oi.e of the really galling fi'ature* abiui'
the •segr.'gation laws. e\eti to thosi> who
because of lifelong familiarit.v with jim
crow practice accept it with reasonabU
calm, is tin* one-sided nature of their en
forcement. The separate-l)Ut-eiiual pari of
th(‘ statutes atid ordinanees is usually a
joking concession to appearatues. T )i «
real effe't of ih«* jim crow iaw on rail’
r»ads is to kee|) Negroes out of ct>aches
set aside for whites: tlie latter lia\e ttie
run if llie traiti, and if for convenience,
or whim, or pure de\ilisi.aess whit
person chooses to make hun.self at home
in the Negro coach, he can usual),v d
so with impunity.
Oti the inter-city bu.ses the sitmitnni i.^
wtirse. since no part ot the c-iiuey.-uu-.’
is definit»‘l\' and rtgidlv set .d-- for N-’
gn>«*s. .All Seals ate |>oteihial!\ .-••.i'.- f'"-
whites, and the .N.-gro j>a.'.-«ei,j>. r fh
uiatively lie pu.shed bucK Nfitil he em. t i'.
from th«- r«*ar-» M«1 — ’ha’ - m.i\
completidy dej-i!\'| of *lo- pii\.; :
spare on any par’icular v*li.el
.lim ('row IS hateful f.-i ’a-- 'ii-.i'
but ladated reasoi..s. hn-t. 'h •• -
highly concrete, prai’ea! i t.-1 tangiim
one that the Negro, alid ti.’\ i M,. whit'-
person, get.s the inlellol - ivn; ..•..i..'.'.In.
iisuall.v will, no diffeic ii.-. lo th. ■
condly. there- is the p>.\ i-lMih-ni.-.tl ..i.
which grows out of th.- * • th.i* •
is desljfin-f^ .liwaVS 'n pco’.'e* th. >.’l,s -
bilitie.s .ind prefc-reiK «•> of tin whi*. « It
aiiyom- is to In hiimili.ct.-d .i oeoev. '.
ic-need. It ntust alw.tv- iM the
pary.
('an -segri-galion exi.-ci without di.siri»r
inatmn? T«-chmcallv it i.- t«esil,|e. A- 'ua'-
ly it IS seldc»m found. Both practical n l
p.sychologic al limitations whic h .ir* vit-
tually iiisurniouiitabh- .'stand :ii the w nv.
•'5’he government asks its
OTtZENS TO PECONOmON THEIR
FURNACES AND (NSTAU. FUEL
SAVING CONTR(XS NOW TO KEEP
WARM NEXT WINTER ON THEIR
SMALLER SHARE OF SCARCE
HEATING FUELS.*
THE NEGRO IN
LATIN AMERICA
HAROLD PREECE
PUERTO RICO — AMERICA'S FIRST ALLY
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OJiPER WUk 'FUELNQm
ieceiid Theusht^
Bt C. L. HAU..IBURTON
the
American Mercury
i,cjra
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LIFE’S LITTLE JOKES
One of »lie things whii-li make it h.k-
.sllile for- a man to live with liitu'elf n
'Pit.il I'-fii.-eil to admit th-'
•.viinian, hecausc- il served
nev care. The babv w- a ^
ti ':u- dil> Walk, aii.i thciuah
ire woman rushed to tin- ho.s-
m .a!"i:. -i;- ;;;ve he: c-ven
•A'h.i' .. Main'.a.n:ni: tnc- col-
(»i ,m«- h.cd p: :f. .ua; plain
pakiin ilei enry. ’.hoiielv m the 1 ib-
L'. ; -hi ;;i>spiM . >avs Mi Sir.U*-i.
i- .1 plaque whic'';
sav.s th.it t .. is cledi-at-
cd :■ thr aleiv ef CJ'»d and the
Wf'; tH-'.-Ji: '■( ‘all humanity '
T' .iuther « 'CTond point is a
*1 i.rp :.'m of Pr.'te't.inti’Cm'.'
cn phac-- !•:’ the :. la*!v non-c-s-
fcr.tiai«i .if ci*nd ict 1" lac n ulect
cf -hf fundam -ntali of Ch’-;.'t:.in
•ha's.* livinc Th, pr-.. - .-upii'ton of m in-.-
.-'a--:, Ch:idian.» cxith the -m.ill vic-»‘
.. a.-^ ct cirinkini’ and smokinc, w-hi’e
I r- they --,v.-i5'.ow' thr ram, l. of ;a--
a'.; >n f.innii.>i and erc-rd and e.xploita-
t on an.} c-iue^v ...v , xposed vci .•
fV-arly Onr thinks of ihr lenK
^ . s of ttiTs dcHalinu the sin-
c-h'jrc-h fuine.ics of fishine -r. Siindnv
_ t.r . n. vc-’ rh apmared rrre-ntiv in th
- n*. than "m News and Observer,
a v.' oi Condc-mninp t’H" alroholic a.« a
.at)‘ dra'inc nner and makina inatnral at-
Th he illn tacks on th” liquor rvil. ’ ti* w-ith
of Mith- nrvrr an a**rnmt to -indei-st-cnd
■ -•* .n. th' The- nat'i-- of alcoholism, is rit> ^
'■ ‘:.an p., anoth'-r r-v.-imnli of the- n.-e--
* •- • of P’t-i*. .ct.an' morality.
the author tminLs out that though
ti.c Mc-lhoiuct Iloard of Temper
a.ICC cliaractcrizcs the use of to-
b;icco as an un-christian vice, the
l.irgc'st university of Methodism
•■p founded on the fortune of
James B. Duke-, the late tobacco
magnate." He ad.ls. "And for vear.s
•la liapti.-cLs hav,- suckled the oily
pap.s of the Ruckrfellc*r forlun.-,
iiiw-ithstanding Socony's -jn.sav--
iiv pas!
K- M-
.!if.. .md I
1.1 n
.L« p-ai
• "hv tvmpta
tna* hi.s fir-
Th.- third point deals with thr
Caihohc Church’s propensity fo:-
lucntifving herself with any kind
of poluica! regime which prom-
isi.- protection for her own vested
ir.terf-^ts. fmancialv or p-olitical.
Thc-re i.s so much right with the*
church, in spite of these rotten
f'lilts. that Its future must be as-
.urrd. .says the Rev. Mr. Smith.
H • Ls impatient with the doctrines
that “the time is not ripe” to get
rid of the inconsistences which
th church continue: to put up
w ith. He believes that the smooth
futictioning of the church as an
otganizalion is not near!” -m im
portant .IS the living up to Chris
tian ideals bv Christian p'-ople.
Hi think- that unh-ss the chureh
i; going to get hack to Christian
hmdamentals. it-s influence in the
world will decline to somewhere
near ‘he zero noini in the world
The Negro-white Puerto Ricans who live in Mayaquez have
so much home town pride that they call their city “the Queen
of the West.” And that title isn't j-jst a Chamber of Commerce
blurb for .school teachers out from Vermont to look over the
West Indies.
Mayaquez is not only “the Queen of the West” in the affec
tionate language of her people. The little city on the west Car
ibbean coast is also one of the cradles of liberty of the whole West
ern hemisphere, a place where many an exiled fighter for freedom
has found warmth and hospitality and moral support in that strug
gle of the world's peoples.
Until recently. Mayaguez was one of the headquarters of the
Dominican revolutionary Party, that group of predominantly Ne
gro patrioLs struggling heroicaly to deliver their homeland of the
Dominican Republic from the bloody tyrant. Dictator Rafael Leoni
das Trujillo who received favors from Hitler long after Pear!
Harbor.
TOLD BRITISH TO SCRAM'
Now a Puerto Rican patriot. Juan Antonio Corretjer, informi
us through an article published in a New York paper on the eve
of American Independence Day. J-jly 4. that Mayaguez did the
struggling American colonies a mighty good turn back in 1777.
They told the haughty British navy to "scram" when one of its
officers tried to capture some rebel Yankee sailors beached al
Mayaguez.
“I am not sure,” Mr. Corretjer writes, "that even professional
historians in the United States know that we Puerto Ricans were
among the first to become international allies of the American col
onists in the Revolutionary War.”
Then Mr. Corretjer tells us how men who dreamed of freedom
in Puerto Rico helped men who fought for freedom in the 13
American Colonics:
"It was a clear mid-morning on August 1. 1777. The Mayaguez
.seashore was crowded with an angry, excited folk. The i»oplc
were armed and ready to fight. Two small vessels of the tiny
U. S. Navy, the Endawock and the Henry, had taken refuge in
the harbor while fleeing from the British man-of-war Glasgow.
The British followed them into the undefended harbor and de
manded their surrender, The Puerto Rican encouraged the Ameri
cans to resist: they beached the craft on their shores: they declared
the ships beyond British jurisdiction.
"The captain of the Glasgow sent one of-his officers ashore to
protest the protection given to rebel subjects of His Brltanic
Maje.ty. The people answered that only Captain-General Dufresne
of the I.sland could make a decision, and that a courier would be
dispatched to the island’s capital. Captain-General Dufresne sub*
lequenlly approved the townspeople's conducL maintained the
American's right to enjoy our hospitality, and asked the British
to leave the harbor immediately. The British prudently sail«d
away; the Americans were saved.
HOW U.S. RETURNED FAVOR
Then Mr. Corretjer gives us the tragic sequel to that drama
of Mayaguez' He tells ijow we Americans showed our appreciation
121 years later by sending a battleship to crush the government
of the new republic established on the island and headed by the
self-sacrificing Negro statesman, Emilio Betances:
“But on another morning. May 11. 1898. another vessel of
the U. S. Navy came before a Puerto Rican city. This time it was
our capital, San Juan. A United States naval sq-jadron under
thr command of Vice-Admiral Sampson, without previous warn
ing. opened fire on our capital. It was the beginning of United
States military inter\’ention in Puerto Rico.
“To this day that violation of our nation's sovereignty persists
Like those Yankee patriots of August. 1777, we now need the cour
ageous cooperation of another people, the American people. We
gave that help, spontaneously; today a like duty Is yours.
“American imperialism must be compelled to acknowledge
the Puerto Rican sovereignty it has stolen. The people of the
United States must force upon Wa.shington the understanding that
the freedom won in 1716 must not be used to deprive another
people of theii freedom."
Mr. Corretjer confirms what I tried to emphasize. last week,
in a column entitled "Puerto Rico Faces Revolution." He confirms
my argument that the Puerto Ricans, like the Americans, want
simolv the right of every people to live under a government of
Amenca woicomea ino irmnc nev-
atomic bomb for ita effect in hastening
the end of the war. but there is no con
cealing the qualms of uneasiness aroused
by the thoughts of what may conceivably
happen when the secret of this terrible
force is revealed, as It must inevitably be
s^ner or later, to those who some day in
the not too distant future may be our
eRemies. President Truman voiced ap
prehensions which are shared by all who
uBdcrstapd the tremendous power for de-
triiction which is lodged in the hands of
afty who may know the secret of produc
ing the atomic bomb.
If man can bo frightened into giving
up war, it looks as though the new instru
ment of destruction may be the answer.
But can men and nations be scared into
behaving themselves? Only when they
know for certain that their misdeeds will
leave them worse off than than if they
had not been committed. If there is any
chance at all of coming out winner, men
will take chances.
The atomic l>omb is not necessarily the
last word in destruction. A more torrible
weapon may be evolved. The atomic bomb
or some weapon more devastating may
be used in a future sneak attack against
an unsuspecting country which feels as
secure as we did the day before Pearl
Harbor.
There are those in our country who
feel that the use of the atomib bomb
against Japan is unjustifiable, and that
the plea of shortening the war is a feeble
rationalization attempting to explain
away the death of many thousands of iu-
nocenf civilians. The slaughter was more
terrible and on a vaster scale than was
ever envisioned as a result of the u.se of
poison gas, which has generally l)ocn
Can .segregation exist without distrim-
ination? Technically il is possibU*. .Actual
ly it is seldom found. Both practicjil :inil
psychological limitations which sii'e vir
tually in.surmountable stand in the way.
LIFE’S LITTLE JOKES
One of the things which make it )>ns-
sihle for a man to livi* with himself ii;
this difficult and bewildering world is hi-
gift for inconsistency. \\'e all luive il in
varying degrees, and we are all accu.';-
tomed to .seeing it in operation. It is like
lying. After living in this world a few
years and Itecoming aci|iiainted to .some
extent with ourselves and our fellows, wi-
learn to take a certain amount iind cer-
(in the • xti-i'iiul and ubviuus as
e'.'e: aL'ainst the inner and n-al.
nnri Ci) Ciithiilicism’*: constitution
al inahihtv to n .sLst the tempta-
liun to temporal power,"
The author saj's that hLs fir.d
point, the K:ip httween chureh
piofetsion and practice, is no-
here more apparent than “in
the church's dealiiiR with — nr
fii ntio attempt-; to escape dealing
with — Tnci.-:m.’' This he illn
slrr.tes with the .story of a Mel!v
odist hospital in Wa.shinc'on. Ih*’
n.'-tion’s e.npita! of this Chri-^linn
ceiintry. which refused to .admit
thi temper.ifu! f w.is near zero
of drinking and smoking, while
nicy swallow the camel.s of sel-
fifhnoss and gri'cd and explnita-
t'on and crueltv .is exposed voiv
ck-arly. One thinks of the long
51 Ties of letters debating the .sin
fulness of fi-shing on Sunday
which appeared recently in th''
Newt and Observer.
Condemning the aleohnlic as a
sinner and making irratioral at
tacks on the liquor evil, but with
never .m attempt to iinderstnnd
the nature of .alcoholism, is cited
as another example of the nar
rowness of Profesf.int morality.
Tt.s inenasistenev is exposed when
f'uits. that its future must be as
sured, says the Rev. Mr. Smith.
H.- Ls impatient with the doctrines
that “the time is not ripe" to get
rid of the inconsistences A-hich
the church continues to put up
with. He believes that the smooth
functioning of the chureh as an
oiganization is not nearly no im
portant as the living up to Chris
tian ideal.s bv Christian p-'opie,
H« thinks that unless the chu^h-
l: going to get bac’K to Chri-tian
fundamentals. it.s influence in the
world will decline to somewhere
near the zero point in the world
of the fut jre.
Lest We Fereet.
Bt W. U GHEENB
THE CAROLINIAN
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Entered as second-cla.ss matter. April 6. 1940, at
the Post Office at Raleigh. N. C.. under the Act
of March 3. 1879.
tain typo.s of mendacity more or less philo
sophically. charging it to the frailly of
human nature.
But now and then a pai-ticular piece of
inconsistency nppear.s to be .so fl;igriu>
that it gags a little a.s we try to swallow
it. just as a whopp(*r of a lie told willt a
straight fjice sometimes floors us.
Such was the case when peo|)Ie of col
or in this country read rt'ct'ntly of the
proclamation issued by t h o Rig Three,
and signed by our own Bresidi'tit. abolish
ing all racial discrimination — in (ler-
many.
W'e leave it to the psychologists to de
termine whether the .American Negro’.-;
sense of humor is itihorn, or whetht'r it
has l)eon asiiuiri'd as necessary for hi;
survival under the conditions to which
he has been forced through centuries to
adapt himself. Whichever way lie got it.
hoeertainly found it useful when h' heard
that news.
Negro soldiers in the occupation zone
will be called on to help enforce thi' nn-ra-
ciai-discrimination order. Here's lioping
their sense of humor doesu’t fiiil them.
They’ll need every l*il of it.
“Tq this day that violation of our nation's sovereignty peraisls
Like those Yankee patriots of AugusL 1777. we now need the cour
ageous cooperation of another people, the American people. We
gave that help, spontaneously; today a like duty is yours.
“American imperialism must be compelled to acknowledge
the Puerto Rican sovereignty il has stolen. The people of the
United States must force upon Washington the understanding that
the freedom won in 1716 must not be used to deprive another
people of their freedom."
Mr. Corretjer confirms what I tried to emphasize, last week,
in a column entitled “Puerto Rico Faces Revolution." He confirms
my argument that the Puerto Ricans, like the Americans, want
simply the right of every people to live under a government of
their own choosing and their own making. He also agrees with
me that all of us should have felt our consciences burning when
wo c*‘lebratcd oyr own independence Day on July 4 and at ‘the
same time continued to deny Puerto Rico her independence.
Ho asks that we repay that debt of 1777 by writing to our
congre.ssmen asking that the Marcantonio bill for immediate inde
pendence of Puerto Rico be passed, and that we organize meetings
for the freedom of that subject colored nation out in the Carib-
And these are pretty good ways of wiping out that debt
, The war is fast
approaching it'- OFFICl/M. FND-
I.NTr The prclinun.iry ciinrtitjons
•f .■niii>iic(' naw be. n staled by
iho Minaiiiirig t)ellii;orenlj; and
Rii iiu h.i- c-'mmiUtd k(--isclf ;.l
luiig la>l Uic l.ek uf aidiii.;
ni. Kri.illv in the Iniuidatiuii of
li e .fapi.ncM’ nunaii.-i Wbcly Ih”
•lilies h.iV” demanded that iho
Ji'p.ines.’ SUHRF.NDFR UNCON-
DITlOXALl.Y This demand can-
note > iwo very important funda-
mental thing'.
Fir-t. Iho .r.ipaiie.''' will be I'c
Qiiired to submit thoi- guvernment
• th(‘ I f th'' allied high
cominuno. The emperor will be
reiaitu'd but subjected to ihe
nili'.s of the united nations no-
riip.ving forces until a peaceful
government con be r.-'siired in he
land '/ the Mikado This mnv.. is
iil't a-wis^ bec'-’U'i i' t. kes advan
tage of ’he t: iditional loyally of
the JapaiU's- people to their re-
lifii ir. per oi.ifit.i iii the emneiT
tiimseU.
Second, th- .I.Tpane.sc emperor
will be required to veiinquiFh his
hitherto as.siimeri richt of ab.sotul”
rule based upon his traditional
Hiatus as the God of his penple.
The new philo.sophv which will
underly all ru1ing.s he will be al
lowed to makt*. takes into consid
eration the welhire ' t .ill the peo
ple in hi.s empire and also the in
terests of the 'Hitside world In i
peaceful Oilcnt The supreme al
lied command will be forcing the
Japanese to .-el the example whicn
WE MUST EVENTUALLY FOI.-
LOW if peace Is to bo secure.
Unconsciously, almost, wc are
impo.sing upon the Axis nations
our philosopiiy of government
which recocnizes the right if
EVERY HUMAN BEING to ex
ercise full ciilzenshii) rights in his
own native country. Out of the
Christian religion we h.ive devel-
oprd n theory of government
which, corrected by the thirteenth,
fourteenth, and fiflo'nlh amend
ments to our national constitution;
gives the world a pattern of hu
man relations which could guar
antcc the basi.s of lasting peace.
Unfortunately, however, thirty
of iJOr forty eight states have
passed laws dealing with human
relati.ns which nullify the pro
visions of our constitution guaran
teeing the basis for peace through
righlcou.sne.ss in national unity.
German Nordic supremacy,
Japanese supreme rights to rule,
and American white supremacy
are all of the same pattern and
incvilnbly get the same resulL Wo
must also submit to some funda
mental changes in our PRAC
TICES to secure peaco
er cast down and far you have
traveled in sin. I .stand at the top
of the ladder (Christ) and through
Him you can be saved. The pros
pect of life was opened to Jacob
when he awoke. He saw God in
that place and foynd himself ly
ing at the gate of heaven.
JACOB'S VOW
"Then this stone, which I shall
set lip for a pillar, shall be God's
house; and of all that thou shall
give me I will surely give a tenth
unto thee." 'Gen. 28:22). It is gen
erally conceded that this ts the
beginning of Jacob's spiritual
life of grace idlvine). We call it
conversion. Whenever there is a
sincere acknowledgement of God,
there is also an obligation under
which we put ourselves. The
Chrletlan Church would flourish it
all Christians would live up to
their obligation to God.
The Road To Damascus By Ruth T»yior
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON By Rev. M. W. Williams
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Esau while the two struggled in
her womb, but unlike Mary. iL'i
2:!9i pondered these things in her
heart." She underto.ik to carry
out her will by fr-iud. She suc
ceeded, but pai(i a dear price. Re
becca never .‘-aw Jacob any more
Jacob hesitated, but his mother
Insisted on working her plans
G(xlV wav i.-; Ihc best way.
THF. FLIGHT OF .JACOB
Wrong never pays Esau now
finds thta he has faded fo reroiv*
the tempor.al adventsige of the
hirihiighl and h1es-;:ng. part of
which wa.s his tanlt. so he now d«»-
Icrmiiu" to kill hi- bi’Other. R**
hecra in order tn k»‘op pace al
home .iiid to pie\ent murder,
proposes to send Jac.ib away on
the preU'Xi of getting him a wife
She .iriaitges thln'^s with Isaac
who .idds his hlc8.-inKs .md a
warning Jaculi leaves, and after
(i>
i: .
h.-tcj
Bethrl he look of the stones of
the place and pul it under his
head, and lay down in that plac*
to sleep.
VISION
"And he dreamed: and, behold,
a ladder set up on earth, and th)»
top of it reached to heaven; and
heboid, the angels of God ascend
ing and decendlng cn It." (Gen
2K:12.i
While 've believe that many
dreams are the results of over
eating — idigestion, etc., we also
believe that Gi*d has given vision
ind will give vision as occasions
.'Uitji Him. This vision to Jacob is
personal and t ffectivo Jacob had
by his .acts separated his .soul from
God. He was a fugitive from jus
tice—cast down The ladder reach-
in ^Irom earth to heaven signified
,1 way of communication by a
.livine cr.'cc >Jii> 1:^0. C>>d u
itio-. l.i t-iu and me l"day llb-v*
Centuries ago a proud, ambitious
man walked along the Damascus
Road, drwn that great caravan lria>
which cut through the Middle East
like a brown ribbon, winding ovor
hills and down into valleys, thfugh
deserts land into fertile oasis, on its
way to that walled city of antiqui
ty. in whose bazaai's eould be found
men from all the far places and o#
all races.
That journey on the Damasciu
Read marked a crucial date in his
tory for all of us. for »t was on
that robber-menaced road that the
light came to Saul imrt changed
him into the Paul who gav« hli
tife for the welfare of the world.
On that road there came upon him
the light that stripped him of self-
pride and hatred, to clothe him in
the robes of humility and lev*
We. as a nation, are today plod
ding along the Road to Dnmascu*
As wo follow in Saul's footsteps, let
us also follow In Paul's. Let us pray,
top. to see the llcht at all tim**
and to follow whcic it leads — the
lih-jt of the .!pirlt of brotherhood,
the light of the .spirit of sacrifice,
the light of the spirit of devotion
to what we know to be the right.
We, as individuals, must today
more than ever, put away the trap-
nink''; of self-will -and personal am
bition. The supreme heroism will
be called from us before these com
ing months are past. Wc cannot
meet the challenge of the times if
IT iiiivrc'ts l e ve>l'‘d in ourselv'CS
,.i”u.. if wc .u-e 'vci-;|i.‘d dOvtJ.
der the burden of old prejudices,
hatreds and desires. We. too. must
.see the light on the road to Damas
cus and follow the command of that
other traveler along the ro' 1 who
said: . .
"Put on the whole armour of
God. that ye may be able to stand
against the wiles of the devil. For
we wrestle not against flesh and
blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers
of Ihc darkness of this world.
againts spiritual wickedness In high
places. Wherefore take unto you
the whole armour of God. that ye
may be able to withstand In th*
evil day. and having done all ts
stand "
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