Ruined cities will rise again—homes will be rebuilt, and man, as years go by, will seek to forget the fearful nightmare of four years of awful war. He will till his ravaged fields, amid the acres of graves that surround them. Happy children, in the coming days, will play amid the flowers that grow where brave men lie, and these sweet flowers will hide the battle scars. It must be ours today to help to reconstruct human lives in a divine way. Eternity is peopled with the dead who have been torn from us, but for the living we must care with greater longing than ever, or else the lesson of four fateful years will be lost indeed. We must not cease to send the Word of God to those who need it. There is a danger of God and His beloved Son being forgotten as the imminence of danger passes. We must seek to fan thee fading fires of anxiety of soul into the flame of earnest desire. We must ask the question, “Where are the nine?” and seek to find those who have not yet returned to praise their God.
We must try to follow the soldiers and sailors to their homes, and help to bless the wives and children. There is a great work for God’s people to do now. The world needs Christ and the Book that speaks of Him.