post to the Honorable Myron C. Taylor. These first months of the mission have occasioned Us great satisfaction and, in spite of the dark forebodings of the hour. We express Our hope in a future which shall see the reestablishment of a general and enduring peace. Although the horrors of the war increase and Our sorrow deepens with every passing day, We are rebuilding Our prayers and Our endeavors to find a practi- cable way to such a peace as will bear within it the promise of permanency, and free men from the heavy incubus of insecurity and of perpetual alarms. In our unceasing search for that peace which will be no longer, as so often in the past, a parenthesis of exhaustion between two phases of conflict, but rather, by the grace of God, a golden era of Christian concord dedicated to the spiritual and material improvement of humanity, We feel a distinct sense of comfort in the thought that We shall not be without the powerful support of the President of the United States. It is therefore with heartfelt good will that We again assure Your Excell- ency of Our prayers for your continued |