Jan. 16.
Foreicn exchanges as well as our own columns bear witness that the world is very war weary. We have had our debauch and now, suffering from the after effects, we are all prepared to say never again."' ''Woodbine-Willie,"' the Rev. G. A. Studdert-Kennedy, has been making confession that while war was on he did all in his power to stimulate the soldiers and encourage them to continue the war to end war until the victory was won. Now, he sees that he was quite wrong and makes public confession of his change of mind. We had lately amongst us an American lecturer, Mr. Fred. Smith, who is travelling round the world in the interests of international peace and he, on several occasions, gave utterance to the sentiments of the fighting Padre. When America came into the war he went round the country to stimulate recruiting, saying "Johnnie get your gun, get it with a run', but now he has repented and confesses the error of his ways. Our correspondence columns, too, bear witness to the deep detestation with which the better sex regard the horrors of war, This, though it looks like being wise after the events, is all to the good. ''War is hell'' said General Sherman, and the epithet is not a whit too strong. War is bestial, devilish and its degradation is only equalled by its fatuity. It wastes and destroys but settles nothing. The dispute which led to war has to be taken up after the war is over and settled then, if indeed, it has not been forgotten altogether in the clash of arms.
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