Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1911-01-10

BISHOP wARREN A. GAMBLER.
the police. Likewise, the world must
sinews OF war in the form OF loans.
without which aid no nation can 30
Il war: but tho bankers will do tais
only in those cases where peace is
more profitak 1han war to them. Ii
is conceivable that situation might
arse in which they would think war
r,;'rr profitable to them than peace.
aIni u that case they would quickly
finance the beligerent forces for bst-
maintain its ornaments until mankind
Becomes more virtuous.
Petrarch said, Five great enemies
of peace inhabit the earth. viz: Avar-
ice, ambition, envy, anger and pride.
md when those enemies are ban.shed
we shall infallibly enjoy perpetual
peace" While these passions are ram
pant in nations and inspire the poli-
cies of cabinets. armies and navfes
must be maintained. or else submis-
sive virtue must prepare to turn the
world over to domineering vice. mat
would be peace. but it would be rot
ten and rotting peace-the peacerul
qualification of all righteousness IN
its grave In one corner of the world
commerce and statecraft are just now
enforcing such puru>-nt peace, the
unspeakable Turk is allowed TO WORK
his wicked will in Armenia with not
an arm in cfristendom raised to stay
his bloody hand. There is not in the
exchequers of all the nations of the
world money enough to compensate man.
kind for the damage which would Oe
wrought If such cancerous conditions
would be permitted to spread through
out the earth. A general war in t:u-
rope were better than permitting the
atrocities of the Turk to continue IN
Armenia The immeasurab'e crimes
which the Christian nations allcw
there absolutely corrupt tie conscience
and sensibly lower the moral stand
ards OF christendom. The cost and
crueIties Of war great as they are.
ran not be compared to tine corrup-
ton and cruelties OF a peace which
moves men to go ON in Insensibiity
and Indifference to the wretched
wrongs inflicted upon tn" helpless
Armenians Any war were better than
such a peace.
And the case of Armenia is but a SAM
pie of the conditions which might arise
in every part of the world, II all the ma
lions adopted the policy Of ''peace-at-
lany-cost' Lawless peace would be as in
tolerable as fawfess war Hence the true
prophets. who In all the ages have fore
told and yearned for the age of universal
peace have shown the necessity of en-
throning law In the earth as an indis-
pensabTe prerequisite for the introduc-
ton of such a pacific period. SO the
prophet Micah saw in advance of the
reign OF peace all the nations saying one
to another Come, and let US go up TO the
mountain OF the Lord, and to the house
OF the God of Jacob and He wiz teach us
His ways, and we will walk in His paths:
for the law shall go forth OF Zion, and
the word OF the Lord from Jerusalem
Twenty-Five hundred years after Micah.
Tennyson looking to the same golden age
sang,
There the common sense Of most shall
hold a fretful realm in awe,
And the kindly earth shall slumber, lapt
in universal law"
In like manner speak all who have pre-
/ dicted. and sung the glories Of such an.
era of universal peace Law must go
before peace and prepare the way for its
feet But what law? Nothing less than
the law of Christ. BY no lower standard
will ChristeEdom agree for its contentious
to be arbitrated. nor would even the
heather nations be content to have their
interests determined by any other law.
There is not, nor can there be. a higher
standard Of righteousness: Chrlst's law II
final Since he walked in the earth no
new virtue has been conceived nor new
vice exposed. BY His standard mankind
must hcnceforth live ard labour. Nc
peace can be permanent which does not
rest on His DEGREES. Claiming was en-
tirely right when he said, "Nya- will new
err yield but to the principles of uni
versal justice and love, ana these have
no sure root but in the religion of Jesus
Christ. Christ. not commercialism must
give the world peace. IL such blessing l.
ever to be enjoyed by mankind.
On the summit OF the Andes. on the
boundary line between Chile and Argea-
tina, has been set up a colossal statue o.
the Christ which looking down upon the
two countries stretching away on either
side of the mountains. stands as sub
lime symbol of international brotherhood
and perpetual pledge of peace. IN
scribed on one side of the granite pedestal
on which II stands are these words.
"Sooner snail these mountains crumb.e
to dust than shat Argeutines and chiieans
will break the peace which at the feet OF
Christ. the Redeemer. they nave pledged
to maintain. That majestic statue
breaches the true doctrine OF peace to all.
nations. At the feet Of Christ. the Ra-
deemer. the world must lay down its arms
and learn war no more. He is the UNI
pire of the nations and the Prince of
Peace
..Down the dark future through long gem
erations.
The echoing sounds grow fainter and
then cease,
And like bell with solemn. sweet vibra-
ton, ~