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for you may succeed in doing a lasting good while they have only tried to combat an obvious evil of a really temporary nature. It is easier to fight a national enemy than to cure a national habit. It will require as much self sacrifice & probably cost as much physically as a military campaign. It is no use decrying an evil & not trying to set it right.

Is not somewhere in Great Souls in Prayer that we find "It is no use saying thy Kingdom come on Earth" unless we do our best to bring it about.

Have you heard that young Roderick Finlayson of the 88th

BC Archives, MS-0055 Box 15 File 2 / CREASE FAMILY / Letters from Arthur Douglas Crease to his brother, Lindley Crease, 1917.