If you find an hour and reach the engine house in your neighborhood before 8 o'clock, you will find in time to celebrate the holiday of the children, there must be, in the closets, the clothes you have discarded or that up children have outgrown, but which never flees well. The pack them all together and to leave them at the receiving station will require only a few minutes of your time, but you will be shielding some of God's poor trout winter's cruel days. But you must not delay after 2 o'clock, when the collection will begin. Here is a Ninth Opportunity, good friends, for really helpful Christmas giving.

Seminary peace notes is getting to be popular among the nations. Everybody's doing it.

Germany will not surrender any part of our belief that the allies should declare terms of peace, in exact and unmistakable words, we yet believe Germany will improve substantially on the diplomatic message sent on Tuesday to President Wilson. It seems very evident that Germany now is as determined to have peace as she was determined two years and five months ago, to have war, and she will make concessions to attain her wish.

Of course, Germany knew, because it had been declared in advance, that the allies would.  Never consent to enter a blind peace conference. She must also understand that President Wilson will not be willing to run the allies to modify their stand. Hunger grips Germany and peace is a necessity. Despite her military triumphs, she will show herself willing to pay for it. 