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HOW PEACE WILL COME.

HOW PEACE WILL COME.
contributor to the Westminster
Review discusses the timely question,
how win international peace be estab-
lished On this subject various opin-
Ions have been advanced Some see
In Socialism the power that VIII oblit-
crate boundaries between nations aud
unite all In a great brotherhood. 9TH
ers hope that the churches will effect
this union of mankind IN hrotherly
love. The writer IN the London pub.
lication just mentioned believes that
selhshness will ultimately bring about
unity and peace.
Hc takes the view that religion has
been tried and found wanting. If The
preachers, he maintains. had set peace
and goodwill on earth above everything
else. peace and goodwill would have
reigned on earth for many century
religion, he says, has had the oppor-
tunity for these long centuries. and II
has failed. Self-nteresi, this philos-
opher claims must now be depended
on AZ the most potent factor In the de-
Velopment OF society toward the Mil
lennlal ideal As quoted III the Ltera
ry Digest he says;
This Is factor which has in
my opinion not been sufficiently taken
into consideration by the friends Of
progress, and IN conjunction herewith
! would further point out that self.in-
terest viii make Itself felt not only
In not wanting 10 fight the nelghboi
with whom the country is doing good
trade. but, as time goes on. more and
more firms viii establish branches IN
other countries, and these will be prin-
cipaily such undertakings as have great
influence IN the commercial and po-
litical world OF their own country. They
VIII say: Why shall We slay our fellow
men AT the bidding OF others--our
felow men with whom We have no
personal quarrel? Why shall we do It?
Besides. we only stand TO lose by II.
Thus self-interest viii speak. and self
interest. regret to say, II, after all.
the most potent factor with the great
mass OF humanity"
This Is hard doctrine Is It truee
Is II true that self-lnterest IL the most
potent factor with the majority OF hui
mans2 Is that Interest stronger than
the sacrificing love OF mother, or IA
Their? Stronger than the impulse that
prompts millions to come 10 the res.
cue of sufferers from famine, earth
quakes, war and other visitations? IL
self-interest Is such n potent factor,
why have not wars ceased long ago,
and peace been established? Self-m-
terest must have been AS strong thous-
ands of years ago as II Is today The
fact Is that self-lnterest Is rather a
disintegrating force than a uniting one
and that not until IL be conquered by
the love that does not seek It's own
interest In the first place, viii mankind
have peace. II must be admitted that
the religion OF the world has not been
potent enough to melt the swords and
remould them into implements Of peace,
but under It's influence the ramparts
OF war have nevertheless been slowly
undermined and prepared for great
fall It's votaries have sown the seeds
OF peace that will, In due time, grow
and rlpen. Its teachings are by no
means lost, though apparently east
upon the waters"
The time viii undoubtedly come
when the friends Of peace, OF the deeper
strata OF all nations will unite IN
vast international society under the
leadership OF men and women who viii
devote their lives. their talents and for
tunes TO- that cause, A movement will
be started similar to those inaugural
ed by friends Of temperance, or sui
frage. The hosts OF peace will go out
on the streets and highways with their
message, az do now the soldiers OF the
salvation Army. They will build halls
and form groups pledged to the cause
OF human brotherhood When the time
comes for that movement to start, uni
versal peace will be the result. At
present the peace agitation Is very
much confined to the upper strata of
society. When II becomes popular,
IL viii be a success. and 1t will be
one Of the most beautiful fruits of tho
religion of Jesus.