The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-23
In the Religious
World
ONE DAY FOR WORLD PEACE

ONE DA4 OI
The sunday SclfooI I0-
son for May %, is ''Micahs PICTURE
Universal Peace, Micah 4:1S.
IF a husband and wife continually
talk about how to keep from auaiIe1
ing there will almost certainty 49,
up between them a ueep oan-
worse than all Quarrellng. we %"
not have peace by prearrangenienl
All the councils and conferences on
earth cannot create Worldwide peace.
AS the angels sang, peace on earth
comes among men Of good Will
Happily we are far enough along III
the real peace movement to be READY
10 face this rather disconcertlhS
truth. Nobody with any foresight or
capacity for sound thinking desires d
forced or artificial peace. Ihere Is d
searchine noem 1.-THE Peace of
Dives which reveals a bought peace
a peace Of money-fear, a peace OF oa-
tan. There often has been ms lgho-
BILE peace; it exists in Europe touay'
Only fear keeps certain powers from
lying at the threats OF other powers,
Europe is an armed camp today,
and the truce hat prevails Is mercy
a delay of hostilities, in dread OF Dig
guns. Greece is a p~resent-day specl-
fic instance Of a nation at peace pe-
cause it is in terror. The lgnople con-
| dition of that land Of ancient heroes
| is worse than war and courageous eX-
tinctiOn.
The Great Peace Proposals.
Now the attention Of civilization
has been arrested by a huge GIT rom
a retired captain Of Industrial war
to the cause Of Industrial peace. Fol
lowing hard on the heels of this, the
President of the United States pro-
poses to Great Britain a peace pact
that shall be minus all Ifs" n
'buts''-a genuine arbitration treaty
that will not fall to pieces at the first
stupidity. This proposal is reVolu-
tionary; it doubtless will not be writ
ten down by the historians as one OF
the great events of the century. 1t
does more to promote the cause OF
universal disarmament than any other
single event of our time. For it the
two great Anglo-Saxon pations mean
to stand together for Peace the rest
Of the world is compelled to pause In
it's mad preparation for needless war.
Incidentally. the action of President
Taft is a long step toward that life
and death confederation of the Eng
disappearing peoples, for the sake of
the whole world, which is an newt
able consequence Of forces now at
work.
None the less, the greater effect Of
this radical peace proposal which
both nations have received with favor,
is not political. but sentimental. The
influence which it must have on
world thoughts is it's most important
result. All reading peoples attention
has been arrested by it; the minds of
men everywhere Ia been turned to
the feasibility of universal peace The
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force has been peremptOrily chal-
lenged. War has been called upon to
make answer why it SHOULD be per-
mitted longer. to ravage the earth. The
unreaSonablenesS of. armed conflict,
in order to settle an issue which is
not in the slightest degree settled
thereby, is becoming manifest; for if
Britain fights Germany over the Ques-
ton Of the control. of the Persian
Gulf, the rights Of the case are in no
way made clear; what is proved, and
the only thing that is proved, is that
one nation is mere powerful in arms
than the other. The merits of the
slavery question We're not settled by
the Civil War: that heroic conflict
only demonstrated that the North was
strong enough to impose it's will upon
the South. Once let the great mass
Of mankind realize this, and the alb
surdity Of war will appear as clearly
as the absurdity Of the position of the
small boy, worsted in an argument
who cries, "Well, 1 can lick you any
way"
Everything in Its Place.
Like character. peace comes by in
direction. Nobody acquires a noble
character by consciously makine
character his goal: he pursues high
thoughts, unselfish aims and right re-
lations with God-and 10. character
comes, unasked, as a b~y-product. So
ia the quest Tor peace men must seek
first of all the welfare of ali men-
KIND, a sense of absolute and univer-
sal Justice, a consciousness of world
orotherhooo. a deep religious passion
Tor n fulfllment Of Jehovah's ideals
for the race.
me Of putting peace as a