The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-11-27
INTERNATIONAL
BROTHERHOOD
DEAN BOWLING PREACHED VERY
STRONG SERMON ON THE sPiR-
IT or PEACE ON EARTH, IN
OBSERVATION OF PEACE DAY
OBSERVANCE UNIVERSAL.

Observing the request Of The AM
erican Peace and Arbitration league,
that some subject, bearing on. the
peace movement be presented, Sunday,
Nov. 26, in the churches throughout
the United States, Dean Bowling, at
Gethsemane cathedral, preached a
special Peace day sermon during the
service, yesterday morning.
For his text, the dean selected Isaiah
II, A. They shall beat their swords
into plowshares, and their spears into
pruninghopks; nation shall not lift UP
sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more.
Prefacing his remarks the dean said.
few people in age can understand
an ardent ideaIist. The great things
they seem to think are possible ap-
pear to be only dreams of the inn
possible. Utopian ideals are usually
thought well enough for poetry, but
little fitted for realization In hard
practice. And often IT Is only the
prophet new at his work who will
boldly assert his rare and ideaTstic
vision.
In the middle Of the eighth GEN.
tury before the christian era began,
two of the Old Testament prophets.
Isaiah and Micah, were active. Both
these men gave us the flash of a
vision Of an ideal, perhaps it was the
ideal of the age. A century before
the Prophet Joel presents the same
ideal, though not in the same clear
form of the latter time. 1t was an
ideal of the international brotherhood
There have been more than twenty
FIVE centuries since then, and now we
are driven to ask the question of our
age: How far has the Utopian dream
been realized? Will II ever be realized?
with the request Of the American
Peace and Arbitration league We can
not help hut be in hearty sympathy.
The reason for the appeal Is stated as,
the failure of the foreign relations
committee Of the United Ssates senate
to support the presidents efforts in
the cause Of peace and goodwill
among nations, by reporting against
the ratification OF the pending arbi-
tration treaties with Great Britain and
the French republic The failure to
ratify on the part Of the committee
on foreign relations has chilled the
ardent hopes which the presidents
utterances had raised among the
statesmen and peoples of the old
world, and threatens to rob our coun-
try OF her proud position of moral
leadership In international affairs
"The ideal of universal brotherhood
is a tenet of the christian church. We
are conscious of that in 81 purely in
tellectual way, and we Are fond Of
glorying in that splendid ideal. War
may be compelling of the brotherhood
idea, but where il has teen belongs
only to rare instances of modern times.
The victories of war are not the trt-
umphs of righteousness, they are the
triumphs Of brute force.
"In his Introduction to Jonathan
Dymonds essay on War, John Bright,
the distinguished English statesman
| saws. L believe it lies within the power
of the churches to do far more than
statesmen can do in matters of this
kind. / believe they might so bring
this question home to the hearts and
consciences of the christian and good
men and women Of their congrega-
lions, that a great combination of pub
lie opinion might BIS created, which
would wholly change the aspect Of the
| question
"Is he right? believe he is. The
blunt Characterization Of war by one
Of our greatest soldiers of civil war
days is as true as it is inelegant."
Continuing Dean Downing said in
closing, "the arts Of peace are more
honorable than the arts Of war. plows
are preferable to swords. ETC.. is not
a dream OF the impossible. The eye
of prophecy saw this golde mage afaI
off, and, though it has not come yet
that golden age will surely come some
day. The picture that versestchagin
great Russian artist, painted repre-
senting war Is none too CHASTITY in its
coloring. 1t portrays the triumph Of
Napoleon. 1t was wars triumph. mo-
Christ's. The sword is unsheathed not
so frequently for contest, but to de-
fend the rights of brotherhood.
''But may the glad day come sooT
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