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Rh a spiritual foresight of the nations' drama presented itself and awakened a wiser want, even to know how to pray other than the daily prayer of my church, — “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”

I cited, as our present need, faith in God's disposal of events. Faith full-fledged, soaring to the Horeb height, brings blessings infinite, and the spirit of this orison is the fruit of rightness, — “on earth peace, good will toward men.” On this basis the brotherhood of all peoples is established; namely, one God, one Mind, and “Love thy neighbor as thyself,” the basis on which and by which the infinite God, good, the Father-Mother Love, is ours and we are His in divine Science.

“Official announcement of peace between Russia and Japan seems to offer an appropriate occasion for the expression of congratulations and views by representative persons. Will you do us the kindness to wire a sentiment on some phase of the subject, on the ending of the war, the effect on the two parties to the treaty of Portsmouth, the influence which President Roosevelt has exerted for peace, or the advancement of the cause of arbitration.”

War will end when nations are ripe for progress. The treaty of Portsmouth is not an executive power, although