Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-21
Copyright. 1919. BY william ]. BrEanA

the peace move
Ov ment growing? Yes.
!. !. !
-1H ON earth peace
II SS@ and good viii to-
(DN I'M n W ward men = the
III WHN n " message delivered
AH uJt ID "a at Bethlehem = Is
w audible 10 an IN
M ak Nv creasng multitude
GDYS0SI at each returning
AA ChristmaStide- TO
UQa doubt il would be
TO bring an indict-
u.ent against Christianity.
Civilization may be defined as the mar
taon,ous development of the human race
physically, mentally and morally. ana
who will declare war 10 be ciylllzlnG
agency Ii does rot develop the race
physically: it does not improve tue race
intellectually: it does not advance The
ace morally. War demands its largest
toll of the strong and the VirIle, thus
retaIiing instead of accelerdting, the
progress or the race toward physical per
lection III does not encourage Inteliec-
tual progress; on the contrary, II turns
the mind away from the things which
enlarge and expand and contracts the
sphere Of its activities. Ii does not make
the heart better: instead OF doing 50 IL
siirs the passions and enthrones hatred
where love should be supreme Ii chills
the eentler virtues, converts friends into
enemies and drives men TO seek each
other lives.
y
some have regarded war the fruitful
source of many blessings, but an exami
nation into the facts of history will con
vince the candid inquirer that the race
las been rowing upstream and that II
aas been compelled 10 subtract the Neloe-
t,v of the war current from its speed: it
would have moved more rapidly but for
the. energy il has had TO employ TO coun-
1eract this current.
Man is able to extract some good out
Of almost every evils but that is no rea-
son why evil should be preferred to
good The question i not whether man
il strong enough 10 resist influences
u, HIGH /. war tend to drag him down.
but rather whether peace has not greater
victories.
To face. death without flinchinS IS Giofl-
aus if The sacrifice j. made for right
cons cause: we cannot withhold our al
miratiau from those who yield up the
asst f6ll measure Of their lives In deiehse
of their country. their kind or truth, ana
VET ". can and should depiore the con-
PRAY FOR the corninS of the day when
mans efforts will he wholly devoted To
he pful service rather than to the WORN
ii destruction.
III war is necessary To mans advance
ment il logically follows that without
war man would degenerate How could
me worship God il He had so made Us
that We must shed blood occasionally IN
order To keep ourselves keyed up to the
proper Pitch If war 10 beneficial, then
il is a mockery to teach Thou shalt
love the Lord thy God with all tiny
neart and thy neighbor as myself.
But war is not necessary to stimulate
men to great efforts. As much inSplra-
ton can be drawn from a noble lie as
from an heroic death. Every Ia ent That
man possesses can find its full employ
rnsnt in lifting the level on which all
stand-there is glory III doing good HI
a speech which | heard delivered a few
months ago at a peace meetinS an IDEA
was advanced which has impressed me
more and more as i have reSoiVed II
i'm my mind, namely, that the doubling
Of the products OF the soil by more IN