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ar Cn LD Orit -ae The ee ee ne) ee ee fee ae eee Seer foe be Sb cade Ge Pee HM vee ye a ce te ee te ee ~ conscience as we must follow ours. . Though we would that all men might come to a con tious renunciation of war and might enter into that spirit “s taketh away the occasion.of all war,” we disclaim any pu to sabotage or obstruct the war measures of our poverr or-any officials, soldicrs, or citizens, in the performance of they regard as their patriotic duty. Gratcful as we are today for the establishment of the Fe ship of Reconciliation during the Jast war, and for its w and its work through all the years, we must in this solemn ‘confess that we have often not been willing to pay the . price of being effective “peace-makegs.” Therefore we now: 1. Deepen our own spiritual life and improve our i Iectual equipment by a more severe discipline in prayer work, ia personal tclationships, in the cultivation of hum In the great words of Jacques Maritain, we must “purif springs of history which are within ourselves” and en in “that secret labor’ of penitence, meditation, and pri “by which those of a little faith raise, first of all in th selves, the level of mankind's spiritual energy.” "2. Build and hold together our local groups and pa teams. In them the Fellowship can and will live on what betide. Deliberate efforts must be made to keep up thre personal contact or correspondence the fellowship with dated pacifists. 3. Make it possible by gifts and wurk and prayer to - tinue the work of our national and regional offices and beld workers, - te | Lv | |