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interested in easy life, good time, flare for style, wine women and
song, than in either rebuilding their nation and their economy, or
in finding God and His ways. We went thru some of the great
battle-scenes of both World War I and World War II. We went into
trenches and fox-holes of Belleau Wood of World War I, and saw the
large American military cemetery there. We were then on United
States soil again, for France has ceded that ground to the United
States. We went thru the Maginot Line---or what little is left of
it. We went thru the Nazi Siegfried Line for many miles, but
allied forces had blasted nearly all the pill-boxes and
fortifications out of any possible usage. We visited the large
American military cemetery near Luxembourg. Five thousand neat
white crosses in orderly rows stood as a stark, solemn message of
the folly and uselessness of war. There were OUR boys---perhaps
sons of some of you co-workers---their lives snuffed out in war
that can never bring any peace or anything good---just awaiting the
RESURRECTION day. At the head of all these solemn white crosses
was that of General Patton---an ordinary cross like all the others.
We saw the ruins remaining from the bombing of small towns and
great cities. Oh, what useless hellishness is WAR. Co-Workers,
OUR job is to proclaim the GOOD NEWS of the WORLD TOMORROW---a
whole world at last lying in PEACE, with prosperity and happiness
for all! The WAR was fought in vain---those billions spent in
vain---but God's tithe and your offerings placed in GOD'S work are
laying the foundation for WORLD PEACE. The work God is using us in
doing is the advance-movement, the preparation, of the great
movement of GOD that will CHANGE THE WORLD, and bring happiness and
LOVE to all!
You have no idea, now, how great GOOD every dollar placed in
this work is actually doing. WITH every dollar, GOD PLACES HIS
POWER, HIS SPIRIT, HIS ACCOMPLISHMENT! This work is the only work
that is NOT in vain!
In Germany our eyes were opened! I've told you the Germans
are coming back far faster than after World War I. But now I'VE
SEEN IT! The Germans are a vigorous, HARD-WORKING people, with
just one common goal---to restore Germany to world power---to put
Germany back where once again she can set out to conquer the world!
German cities the size of Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Dallas, St.
Louis or Seattle---from half destroyed to 90% destroyed by bombs,
now almost completely re-built. No longer looking like old-world
cities---but ULTRA-modern brand new cities with large new 6 to 10-
story office and store buildings, giant new factories, mile after
mile of brand new 3,4, and 5-story apartment buildings. No city in
America is so modern, so NEW. These Germans have done it all in 9
short years!
Today, German industrial output is 77% greater than their
pre-war peak, before Hitler started the war! Think of that---
almost DOUBLE! We toured through the Ruhr---the "Pittsburgh" of
Germany, their great industrial district---on a Sunday, and saw
their vast smoke-stacks belching forth billows of black smoke on
Sunday afternoon. We went all around the former great Krupp
munitions works at Essen---still lying a desolate rusted, weed-
infested mass of ruins, TOTALLY destroyed by allied bombs. They
have not been allowed to rebuild their munitions works. But their