The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Religion
The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
Mr. Kennelworth said, "That is very fine, Robert, but you must work
for the joy that is yet to come and your great love for Marie will
strengthen your heart and brace you to attain all your aims. Love is
the great power behind the universe and it is the greatest of all
powers. Emotions are the motive power behind every great achievement,
and without emotion nothing will ever be accomplished. There are three
great emotions--Love, Fear and Hate, which actuate every deed, good or
bad, and without them, man would accomplish nothing. The great emotion
which is going to help you accomplish all your plans and realize your
greatest hopes and ambitions, is Love. A man makes money and saves it
because he fears the future. Great nations go to war and fight because
they are urged by the emotion of Hate. They are also fighting thru the
emotion of fear, but if love was the emotion behind all, there would be
no war, no sorrows--no troubles and no jealousies."
Robert then showed a poem on "Love" which he had written to Marie and
one, "The Garden of Love," which he had written at the time he and
Marie had their first break in 1926. Mr. Kennelworth read these poems
and was very much impressed with Robert's ability as a writer. He said,
"Robert, this proves to me that Love brings out the best in a man and
that when he finds a good woman his success is assured."
Robert talked of how he had read the Bible where it said that there
eventually would be one God and one united people and that Love would
rule the world. How, since a little boy, his Mother had talked against
war and prayed for the day when wars would cease and man would follow
the command given by Jesus Christ: "Love thy neighbor as thyself." He
hoped and felt sure that the day would come but that the Bible made it
plain as he understood it, that there would yet be a great war fought
in the air, when deadly chemicals would be used and the greater portion
of the people on earth would be killed. Then would come peace, when God
would rule the world and Love would be the motive behind every act.
Then nations would no longer become jealous of each other and go to
war. Robert said, "I have made a great study of wars in the past and
how conditions changed; how at one time Spain was the mistress of the
seas and later Rome was the controlling nation; then England ruled the
waves and London was the banking center of the world. Then came the
great war in 1914 which changed everything. England lost control of the
seas. She lost her power as the great banking nation of the world. The
gold supply of the world flowed rapidly to the United States and in the
dark days of 1917, when England and France, after being deserted by
Russia, were fighting with their backs to the wall, the United States,
the land of love and liberty, came to the rescue, helped to defeat the
Germans and saved England and France. At that time they were seemingly
very grateful, but after the war conditions changed. The United States
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account