Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1917 — War’s Convictions. [ARTICLE]

War’s Convictions.

What has happened is that out of the blackest, most Infernal experience through which, as far as we know, the race has ever passed there has seemed to come literally to millions of men a redeeming conviction, a healing and transfiguring assurance, that brotherhood is not a delusion; that life has a meaning; that resolution and courage and discipline and simple faith in fellowmen and loyalty to ideals are now, as they have always been, with: in that meaning; that these things are, as they will be forever, within man’s heritage, to be displayed In war until the better way is found. —E. T. Devine.