New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-19
THRONGS FILL CHURCHES
At PEACE DAY SERVICES
Diplomacy Based on "Savagery
of War; DeCried from a
Hundred PuIpltS.
"JINGOlSM" A MENACE
DR.. Butler PTesides Over Big
Meeting at Which Norman
Angel Delivers Prin-
cipal ADDRESS.

War-the great Illusion" a. Norman
Angel, addressing peace meeting at
the Broadway Tabernacle last night
called it-met its Waterloo in a hundred
churches of the city Yesterday At :he
instigation of the Church Peace League
ana the Peace Commission of the Federal
Council Of the Churches of Christ in
America the day was set aside as Peace
Sunday all over the country. and New
York did her full share toward com
memorating the anniversary Of the calling
of the first conference at The Hague.
The service at the Broadway Tabernacle
was under the auspices Of The New York
Peace Society. and was presided over by
President Nicholas Murray Butler OF Co
lumba University. Or Butler introduced
Norman Angel. who off the lecture stage
is Robert Norman Angel Lane. journal
isl and writer on peace subjects. as one
who had done great things for peace
From the rostrum Mr.. Angel looked
out uTon "A well filled auditorium. hung
with silken flags Of every nation on the
globe. interspersed with flags of the
Church and OF The peace movement. All
the peace banners bore a rainbow, under
whose arch appeared the dove of peace
or the words Pax" or "PaiN.'
War" said AIR Angel 'is an illusion
as foolish a. was the oldtime prosecution
Of witchcraft People who want it can
give YOU score ~ specious arguments
in It's favor. just a. the Judges who CON
demned the witches used 10 lu the old
DAYS But the war arguments can be
proven as futile as those which uoistered
up witchcraft
zone of them is the fallacy known as
the necessity FOR territorial expansion
over in England they think that the hun
CRY Germans must soon attack Great
Britain for the wheat OF Canada and
Australia But Germany can buy that
wheat now just as well as not. She could
not get it any more cheaply II she owned
the colonies.
"The coming Of peace means merely the
shaking loose of these old illusions. some
Of my colleagues are too apt 90 bank on
the short cuts 20 peace. ! think. ! be
lieve IN arbitration but don't believ"
arbitration will work SO long as the ideas
OF strategic diplomacy are permitted 10
exist.
wherein does the civilization OF New
York differ from that Of Somaliland'
Merely In the IDEAS Of the people who In
habit the two places. But our ideas OF
diplomacy don't differ very greatly from
those Of the inhabitants ~ that country
hold that the sayagerv ~ war will con-
unue until our ideas OF diplomatic strata
gem change
After the massacre NJ - Bartholomew
4 famous Catholic prclate told a Huguenot
that so long as human nature remained as
ii was men would continue 20 night for
the thing which concerned them most
their religion. Yet war has been abolished
IN that department Of lie to-day. The
force which DID this is improved public
opinlon. and the same force will IN time
induce political groups to give up war as
means Of settling their differences"
At the Bedford Presbyterian church
BROOKLYN. large congregation listened
Yesterday morning 10 the Rcv. Dr. :. I'd
ward Young prominent member of the
Federation Of Churches. on the same SUBJ
iect Dr. Young found hopeful signs Of
peace in the 100 arbitration treaties IN
force among the nations of the earth. ~
the postal. copyright and telegraph
unions. In the international scientific and
law associations and In the refusal OF
workmen 10 bear the burdens 81 war.