dangerous cases; in fact, when we saw the train at Rethel it had stopped
on its way to Germany for an operation on a man's brain.




The Spirits of Mankind

By Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States


The conviction that great spiritual forces will assert
themselves at the end of the European war to enlighten the
judgment and steady the spirits of mankind was expressed by
President Wilson in an address of welcome delivered at the
Maryland annual conference of the Methodist Protestant Church
at Washington on April 8, 1915. The text of his address
appears below.

These are days of great perplexity, when a great cloud of trouble hangs
and broods over the greater part of the world. It seems as if great,
blind, material forces had been released which had for long been held in
leash and restraint. And yet underneath that you can see the strong
impulses of great ideals.

It would be impossible for men to go through what men are going through
on the battlefields of Europe and struggle through the present dark
night of their terrible struggle if it were not that they saw, or
thought that they saw, the broadening of light where the morning should
come up and believed that they were standing each on his side of the