The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-27

vision worse tndn d'l No.
reling. We cannot have peace py P,d
arrangement. All the coullciI' i
conferences on earth cannon ,er
world-Uride peace. AS the angels sang,
peace on earth comes among men OF
good will" .,o,,or in
Happily we are far enough alohs a. a.,
the real peace movement 10 pe tt
to face this rather disconcertlns u - 49,,
Nobody with any foresight OF cdPoSie
for sonnd thinking desires forced VI
artificial peace. There is searcil ints
poem. "rhe Peace of Dives Whlc Il
reveals a bought peace, peace VI
money-fear, a peace Oh Satan. -. n
often has been this ignoble pedce, =.
exists in Europe today CiIIy a.
keeps certain powers lLoIlI a;EnIone
the Threats of other powers d tbe
is an armed camp today anu - ~
truce that prevails is merely d u1, rS
of hostilities, in dread OF ple 10
Greece is a present-day speClllc c.. -.
stance of a nation at peace St.Sao
1t is in terror The ignople CON- I-le,sa
of that land of ancient heroes Is worse
than war and courageous extinction.
The Great Peace Proposals.
NJouz the attention of civilization mas
been arrested by a huge gift from re-
tired cantain of Industrial war 10 tue
cause of Industrial peace. FolloWlnI
hard on the heels of this, the fres l,ILent
OF the United States proposes TO Gre e.
Britain a peace pact that sh1lI 70
minus all 'ifs" and butts zen h'i ne
Arbitration treaty that Will not IaIl "
I,ieces aft the first display OF bad man
ners: a diplomatic stupidity. rms pr,
nosal Is revolutionary; 1t douDtIess VIZ
not be written down by the nlstof IfiIlS
as one of the great events u lIlo -
tury. 1t does more TO pronhose -
ca,isa ne universal disarmament imam
T'oy. ~ fine two great Anglo-Saxon ma
tions mean to stand together for peace
che rest of the world is compelled 70
1oause in its mad preparation LOT neeu
loss war Incidentally, the action OF
president Taft is long step lo"dIu 4
that life and death confederatloh oA
the English speaking peoples, lot Ile
.aIra of the whole world, when IS an
jnevftebIe consequence of forces now
at work. oeeoo+ %
None the less, the greater erect OF
this radical peace proposal when Doll ~
nations have received with 1aNor' 10
not DoIittcal. but sentimental. The IN
fDa1ca which it must have on world
Thought is its most important result
All reading peoples attention has been
arrested by it; the minds OF men
everywhere have been turned 10 tne
feasibility of universal peace. Inc
Iideous and ages-old domination OF
IenPed War has been called upon 10
make answer why it should be per
1nitted longer to raVage the eartn Inc
YInreasonableness of armed CONNECT III
order to settle an issue which is not
in the slightest degree settled there-
by, is becoming manifest; tor IL Brl-
tain fights Germany over the question
of the control of the Persian Gulf, the
rights IN the case are in no way made
clear. what is proved. and the only
thing that is proved, is that one ma
fion is more powerful in arms than the
other The merits of the slavery ques-
tion we're not settled by the Civil war:
mat heroic conflict only demonstrated
that the North was strong enough to
impose its will upon the South. once
let the great mass of mankind realize
this, and the absurdity Of war will APP
pear as clearly as the absurdity of the
position of the small boy worsted in
an argument who cries, well, L can
lick you anyway"
Everything in Its Place.
Like character. peace comes by in
direction. Nobody acquires a noble
character by consciously making char
acter his goal: he pursues high
thoughts, unselflsh aims and right re-
lations with God - and 10, character
comes, unasked, as a by-product. So
IN the quest for peace men must seek
a sense of absolute and universal just
tice, a consciousness of world brother
fuIflment OF Jehovah's ideals for the
race.
The blunder of putting peace as
cause. instead of an effect is one with
the common mistake of religious
teachers in stressing the secondary viz
tues. Thus We are confronted by the
fact that a deal of religious teaching
aims at the production OF a breed of
men and women with only the passive
virtues. Such can never be world
conquerCrs. The Bible talks a great
deal more about strength and conquest
than it does about peace. What Prof
william James called the moral
equivalent of war; is the days great
desideratum. The active prosecution
of the highest form of patriotism or
INTERCHANGEABLE is real interna-
natfonalism-is the best form of peace
propaganda. Let boys and girls. men
and women, get grasp of the truth
that Christian nations have a world
mission and they will not fail of incor-
ruptible, upfiagging devotion to the
causes of reform at home, or the ex-
tension of the peacable gospel abroad.
The reason that patriotism of Micah,
and the other Old Testament pro-
phets is so sublime is that it has reli-
gion for its root.
To the Temple With Soldier.
Still facing actual conditions, we
turn from Micah's beautiful rhapsody
concerning the holy city. and find the
real Jerusalem center Of bitter strife
and ignoble enmities. Jerusalem. -
sthe city of peace is still as through
out her long and romantic history, the
prey of warlike passions. If an Amer
ican or a Briton wants to visit the site
of the temple today he must take with
him an armed kavass or guard, from
his consulate and the latter will be ac
cornpanied by a soldier. Jerusalem is
far from fulfilling its lame at the
present time.
How do we reconcile this with pro-
phecy. First, the end Is not yet A ne
cuIiar and persisting Providence has
engirt this ancient stronghold, above
all other cities. Gods purposes are NOT
yet all fulfilled. In the second place
out of Jerusalem have streamed those
influences which have become articn-
late in The Hague Tribunal, the peace
societies and all the great forces thai
work for this Christian consummation,