The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-15
SURELY COMING.
DR.. Brady Prophesies
Disarmament of
the World.
PEACE COME RENEE.
The Divine Believes Great
Things VIII Come
of 1t.

Dr. James Boyd Brady, of Grace
church, electrified the large congrega-
ton which filled his church last even
ing, by his eloquent address upon the
peace conference. which is to be held
at The Hague.
DR.. Brady says that the disarma-
ment of the world is not coming to-day
or tomorrow or next year, but it is COM
ing, as it is an evolution of humanity.
Said DR.. Brady in part last evening"
We are approaching the last days,
spoken of by the prophet. THE noun
tain of the Lords house is being estab-
lished on the tops of the mountains,
and is being exalted above the hills,
and all nations are beginning gradual
ly to flow unto. it,"
The Lord is judging among the ma
lions and rebuking many people. Great
events are Transporting before our eyes.
He who has sight can see them. They
are the fulfllment of the most illus
trious predictions. We are in a time
when the advanced thinkers advocate
the beating of swords into plough
The peace conference at The Hague,
the governmental capital Of Holland,
indicates that the time is near, when
this disarmament shall take place and
nations shall not lift up swords against
nations.
The talk of men who say the peace
conference will result in nothing is
tiresome twaddle. 1t is born of ignor-
ance and errancy. 1t is the Sc
quence of the long night of shadows
and slaughters through which the
world has come, but this world is not
to be an everlasting self-assassin.
Folloy is not forever to sway its
bloody bIudgeon over the race. The
human family at least is beginning to
learn something worth knowing, The
most important proposition that has
been made to this world since the days
of Jesus Christ is now made by the
young car of Russia.
The most important conference that
has taken place on this planet since
the conference of Christ with his disci-
To say it can eventuate in nothing, is
to say that human beings are cruel,
impracticable humbugs, who can not
discern what is for their own best in
terests. The man who talks down the
peace conference is the enemy of his
race.
The political and government world
is beginning to learn from the man OF
Galilee. The people are kindln6 their
torches at the love flames that shine
from the sermon on the mount. The
least adolescent of the nations are be-
ginning to discern that war is hell, and
that hell should have no place in this
earth. They are beginning to perceive
not only the immediate horrors of the
war, but the full stroke of evil it
brings and the good it banishes
War is robber 1t robs children of
fathers, and wives of husbands, and
sweethearts of hopes, and country of
patriots. War is a plundering. 1t plum
ders the palaces of the rich, the homes
of the middle classes, and the cottages
of the poor. War is tyrant, it tyrannizes
over villages, towns, cities and cOun-
tries, and wrenches the fair crowns of
liberty from the foreheads of the free.
War is a merciless slaughter, a
butcher who knows no mercy, an assaS~
sin who thinks not of tenderness, an
avenger who gloats over the rivers of
blood and hosts of the slain.
Then think of the cost at which all
this cruelty is carried on, cost of the
best and brightest sons of the nations,
cost of partings, pleadings, and tears;
cost of heart warnings and soul wall
ings, and inconsolable sorrows; the cost
of millions, billions and trillions of pre-
cious treasure coaxed out of the earth
by the multitudes of brows, and tolls
of almost innumerable hands; cost of
the valuable treasures of time and
thought, and feeling, and care, and
love, and life.
All. my fellow citizens, war is the
most expensive, cruel and murderous
monstrosity now on earth. And now
that a big conference of picked men,
representing the best intelligence of the
most advanced nations is about to con-
vene. with the view of making this
merciless monster an outlaw, shall not
our affections gather around them.
Should not our prayers go up for them,
will not we hope and believe, that the
God of peace will so illuminate their
minds and guide their deliberations and
decisions that the ravages of this mon
ster will not only be curtailed, but ut
terly abolished?
All success, then. to the peace con-
ference, let delegates be divinely guild
ed and let them proclaim the truce of
God Let them announce a practicable
plan by which the fabrication of arms
for purposes of mutual murder shall
cease. Let them devise a method by
which mankind shall settle misunder-
standings and difficulties.
If citizens can do this in country,
the countries can do it-in world. The
world is ripe for such a universal sys-
tenn of fraternal arbitration. Science
is placing the people of the whole earth
in close proximity. Everybody Is rapid
ly becoming our neighbor. As they be-
come our neighbors, let us become their
friends.
And to this end let the worlds parlia-
ment be established. Let the worlds
nations become reunited states of the
earth, and be fifty represented in that
parliament Let the seat of the fed
eral government not be in London nor
Paris. nor Berlin, nor Washington but
in heaven. Let the inflow of Gods love
encircle the nation like sea that caress-
es the shore it covers. Then will uni
versal man emerge from the sins, sor-
rows and slaughters that have defaced
with bloody scars human history.