One Hundred Years of Peace
SUNDAY, February 14, has been set apart by numerous religious bodies and other organizations as a day for the celebration of the hundred years of peace between this country and Great Britain. It is truly a cause of thanksgiving to our heavenly Father that two great nations like these, with their close relationships and their world-wide influence, should have remained in peace; and it is another cause for great thankfulness that we have a line between this country and the Canadian possessions of Great Britain that reaches clear across our continent without a single fortification upon it. Following the theories of the war lords of the time, we ought to have the whole boundary line filled with forts and bristling with guns in order to keep the two nations from fighting each other. But with these guns and forts lacking, nevertheless we have had no wars, and for this we should truly rejoice. It is sad, however, that England at this time should be so occupied with war that it is impossible for her to enter into this celebration of a hundred years of peace as heartily as had been planned.