Then, as is most fair and logical, the poet tells us how we are to build again after peace comes. We must needs know that. The newspapers are full of a certain popular move--and success to it--to rebuild the destroyed cities of France and Belgium. But the rebuilding that the poet speaks of in "The Winnowing" is a deeper thing. It is a spiritual rebuilding without which there is no permanent peace in the world and no permanent safety for the material world. "How shall we start, Lord, to build life again, Fairer and sweeter, and freed from its pain? 'Build ye in Me and your building shall be Builded for Time and Eternity.'" All's Well. There is the answer to the world's cry in short, sharp, succinct lines; compact as a biblical phrase; and as meaningful. Hearken it, ye world! Only in Him can the new spiritual world be built for "Time and Eternity." And only to those who so believe and hold shall the world belong henceforth. At least so says our poet: "To whom shall the world henceforth belong And who shall go up and possess it?" which question he himself answers in the same verse: "To the Men of Good Fame Who everything claim-- This world and the next--in their Master's great name-- "To these shall the world henceforth belong, And they shall go up and possess it; Overmuch, overlong, has the world suffered wrong, We are here by God's help to redress it." The Fiery Cross. And finally in this fight for peace he does not forget prayer, and in "The Prayer Immortal," which is introduced, as are so many of Oxenham's poems, by a phrase from the Bible, "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done," he admonishes those who seek peace: "So--to your knees--And, with your heart and soul, pray God That wars may cease, And earth, by His good will, Through these rough ways, find peace!" The Fiery Cross. THE CROSS AND ITS VOICE The voice of the cross of Calvary is being heard this day of war as it has never been heard before. The world is resonant with its message. Every soldier, every nation, every home, every mother and father and child and wife who has suffered because of this war, shall henceforth understand the Christ and his cross the better. All through this writer's interpretations of the war we find the cross to the fore. To him the cross symbolizes the war. This war is the cross in a deep and abiding sense. In "Through the Valley" he says: "And there of His radiant company, Full many a one I see, Who has won through the Valley of Shadows To the larger liberty. Even there in the grace of the heavenly place, It is joy to meet mine own, And to know that not one but has valiantly won, By the way of the Cross, his crown." The Vision Splendid. Thank God for that hope! Thank God for that word!