INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD.

After a terrible blackness of over four years, the light of dawn is once more breaking upon a world obscured by the gloom of death and suffering. The great cause for which so many have sacrificed their lives has at last been achieved. Fate has decreed that justice shall not perish. Men may now breath the full essence of life undisturbed by threatening clouds of destruction. A world of international brotherhood, in place of a world of international strife, is now in the making. With the realization of this hope, with the ominous danger of war removed once for all, men may once more strive and hope and achieve whatever makes up a life of happiness and helpfulness. It is the removal of a great scourge, and the millions of Americans who responded in joyous celebration this week, abandoning themselves to the spirit of jollity in an unrestrained manner, gave ample indication of the most powerful factor in the winning of the war--namely, the undying hope which has always been uppermost in the hearts of the American people, and the firm knowledge that our cause, being just, could not fail.

Out of this turmoil and confusion comes a brighter day; a day when barriers of mountains and rivers and oceans will not divide the feelings and the interests of the inhabitants of the nations of the world. We will have a family of nations, as closely linked as they have been divided up to now. We will have common aims and common aspirations. We will forget the bitterness in our hearts at the tragedies of the past; and in our striving for a brighter future, there will be one principle which will unite the hearts and souls of men and women in all quarters of the globe--the principle of international brotherhood.