Los Angeles herald., 1907-05-27
PROPHECY
TO Be FULFILLED
RESULTS MAY COME FROM
THE HAGUE
William Horace Day breaches Meno-
rial Sermon to G. A. r. Post and
Woman's Relief Corps
on Peace

AT the First Congregational church
| William Horace Day preached a Mem
orial Sunday sermon on American
Patriotism and the Worlds Peace
The Stanton Post of the Grand Army
and the relief corps attended the
| service in body. The little children
of the kindergarten church led the
professional with little flags draped in
black. The boys brigade in uniform
in command of Leslie G.. Bryant, and
the Baraca Fife and Drum corps, re-
ceived the veterans outside the church
and escorted them to their seats. The
church was beautifully decorated with
| flags under the direction of Mrs. Char
lotte r. Wood. The choir rendered Kip
ling's ''Recessional" and Fred Gunster
sang a tenor solo.
The text was from the second chapter
of Isaiah, Neither shall they learn war
any more" DR.. Day said in part:
THE prophets promise of peace $50
years before Christ has been the worlds
ideal ever since. A time when a
tribunal based upon Jehovahs law
shall settle international disputes in
stead of the appeal to war has never
ceased to inspire. Three hundred years
later Joel reversed the message. The
law had been given to Moses expanded
and applied through nearly a thousand
years codified by Ezra, but the power
and prestige of the nation were too
feeble to command the worlds atten-
ton. Joel called such an age to Hal
low war, beat plowshares into swords
and pruninghooks into spears. \ To fight
that Israel might again beN strong
enough to commend her law to the
nations. Today we are coming to see
that American patriotism while serving
the nation in war was no less making
possible the worlds peace.
Patriotism and Worlds Peace
81. American valor in the service of
the nation.
1.-THE first service of our valor was
for the liberation of the nation. Of
the wars in which we have engaged
four have been wars of liberation. The
Revolution was for the liberation of
the land. The war of 1912 won the
liberation of the sea. The Civil war
gained the liberation of the enslaved
at home and the Spanish war liberated
the oppressed in Cuba. The greatest
of all, that which did most for the ma
tion, was the Civil war. 1t was the
supreme test OF American valor. 1t
cast the life of common soldier and
great leader. We honor our illus
trious dead because of their sacri-
flee and because that sacrifice was vi
carious They followed in the way of
the cross and reverently we may say
they gave their bodies to be broken
and their blood to be shed that the ma
ton might be saved. Great as is the
service of American valor in the SER
vice of the nation it rendered even
greater in the cause of the worlds peace.
'2. American valor in the Service of
the worlds peace.
"The United-States is the only great
nation in human history whose whole
national life mas been devoted to peace,
not to war. Our business has been to
produce, not to destroy. The sneer of
the European aristocrats that we are
a nation of shop keepers is founded on
a fact, and that fact should be the
glory of the nations life. Peace is our
business. The ancient peace ideal of
Israeps prophet has been often at
tempted.
William Penn in 1893 proposed a
European diet as a substitute for war.
Alexander 1 of Russia worked for a
holy alliance, Napolean III and others
worked for the same end. but each
proved abortive and war remained the
method of settling the nations dis
putes. In the fullness Of time you of
the Grand Army had done your gil
gantic task, soldier and sailor had per-
ished and the chastisement of the
worlds peace haG fallen upon you and
your comrades. The Spanish war had
served to arouse Europe to what had
happened; when God put it into the
heart of Nicholas of Russia to attempt
what had so often failed, there was a
factor to be accounted, the nation of
peace had come to her own.
Americas Right
"The Paris Temps, while jeering at
The Hague conference as a way to uni
versal peace, saw the great fact that
The United States entered for the first
tine as a world power And Mr.. Stead
wrote The right of America to lead
in this great cause is nowhere more
fully recognized than by the nations
of the Old World Without belittling
the splendid work of other men and
nations r am pressing the point that
without the contribution which Amer
lean valor made possible these others
could not have gained the goal.
"An astute writer said But for the
American delegation the atmosphere
of diplomatic suspicion at The Hague
would scarcely have been dispelled.
Again at a time of deadlock when the
German emperor stood like a wall
across the path it was an American
who must needs go to Berlin to help
clear the way. There is about to as
semble a second Hague conference at
which Isaiah's ideal may very possibly
be realized.
ITO prepare opinion for its work and
make advance possible great peace
and arbitration congress has just beer
held in New York. Instead of the way
of subterfuge and diplomacy for max
ing headway the American way has
been tried, that of progress through
publicity. We belittle mere talk anc
men said the New York meeting would
accomplish nothing. Those session:
had hardly begun before the world be-
gan to express amazement at the re-
suits. If the second Hague conference
succeeds it will be because American
valor served the world peace when i
served the nation"
VARIETIES OF THE LIAR
According to a list prepared by th'
Albany Argus some months ago, the presi
1a,t 10, coIIad Herbert w, Bowen q dis