In His Name, be He glorified!

My Dear, Loyal Brothers!

Beware! Do not argue among yourselves; spying ears will take advantage of it. Right or wrong, those who argue in our situation are wrong. Even if they are right to one degree, by disputing they may cause us untold harm. I shall repeat a story I once told my irritable brothers in Eskişehir Prison.

During the Great War, I was being held prisoner together with ninety officers in a long dormitory in northern Russia. They held me in high regard although I did not deserve it, so my admonishments to them disallowed any noise or trouble. But then, due to the constraints and irritations, they became irascible, which gave rise to violent rows. So I told three or four of them that whenever they heard a noisy dispute, to go and help those in the wrong. They did this, and the damaging rows ceased. They asked me why I had taken such unjust precautions, and I told them: “A person who is in the right, is fair; he will sacrifice his insignificant right for the general peace, which is of much higher worth. People in the wrong are mostly egotistical; they will sacrifice nothing, so the din increases.”