78 SKETCHES OF GREAT TRUTHS

and shows that the need of brotherhood is felt
in the hearts of all however difficult they may
•find it to express what is there. Every struggle
makes the next one a little easier. Various
brotherhoods are established, with varying and
special aims, but all under the chief heading of
bringing people or peoples together in closer
relationship. Broadly speaking, all the struggles
in the world at the present moment have this
ideal at the back of them, and in front of
them.

The War was a climax, but it was a struggle
for freedom, and there can be no brotherhood
unless there is freedom, there can be no brother-
hood with any part of the nation enslaved, no
universal brotherhood so long as any part of the
world is enslaved. A glance at each nation
reveals this struggle for freedom, the preliminary
step to brotherhood. And after the War the
struggle for peace—a prolonged struggle—in
many ways a more difficult struggle, for in war
there is excitement while in a struggle after
peace a cool head and a determined aim are
necessary, a calculating mind, and an unshake-
able will. The League of Nations must be cited
as one of the biggest efforts after brotherhood
that the world has ever known, all the nations
that formed it having caught the gleam of