With profit now we may recall the old narrative,--"And he smote thrice, and stayed.
And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten" the enemy till thou hadst destroyed his evil will.

The work must be completed thoroughly; but that task once accomplished, to continue war, whether open or veiled, either to satisfy national hatred and the mere wish for vengeance, or, still more, in the desire of gain, would be to become--to use George Herbert's words--"parcel devils in damnation" with those who have driven or beguiled Germany to crime against humanity and to her own undoing.

It is but too easy for heroic effort and firm determination to defend the right, to be corrupted either by a spirit of insolence or greed.

Even as we sow the seeds for a fruitful harvest of good, the arch-enemy may be sowing the tares.

On the other hand, to cease from work and from struggle, either through fear or slackness or weariness, or even from that pacific temperament which shrinks from contest of any kind, may have results almost equally fatal.