The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-01

pers have taught us since the outbreak
OF the Mexican trouble that his yellow
patriotism has even crept into the pulpit
We have not forgotten these things. We
both recognize and deplore them. But
we are here to-day to declare that in
spite of them the peace idea is growing,
the victories of peace are multiplying,
and, if we read the signs of the times
correctly, the day is not far distant when
the nations of the earth shall learn war
no more, but shall take seriously the
words OF the greatest of all teachers,
They that take the sword shall perish
by the sword
$50 rapid and widespread has been
the growth of the peace idea, so great
and important mas the subject become
that we shall have time only TO touch
upon some of the most recent CONVEX
sions to this great movement.
eve believe that large majority of
the rulers of the earth have been won
to the cause of peace and are to-day
among its most earnest advocates. 1t
would be we'll for all those who think
of kings and enperors and presidents as
war lords. to remember that the most
notable advance in the direction of uni
versal arbitration was taken in the year
1899 under rescript of the car calling
for conference of the powers to ar
rive at scheme of disarmament. This
call led to The Hague convention; The
Hague convention esta blished the perma =.
nent court of arbitration at The Hague
and the impulse communicated from the
cars initiative resulted further in the
adoption by several European states of
general treaties of arbitration with their
European neighbors. High on the roll
of those who have struggled for world
peace we find the name of ex- President
William Howard Taft. and one of the
chiefest glories of our great nation to-
day is that she has placed in the pres
ident's chair a man who hates war with
a bitter hatred Our honored and beloved
president Woodrow Wilson
1--WE see another encouraging sign in
the changed attitude of the distinctly
Christian forces of the world. Witness
for instance the conference Of the Evan
gelical churches of Switzerland; listen
to the appeal that that conference made
to the Christian churches of Europe: Tn
the name of the God of justice and love,
our Heavenly Father, and of our Lord
Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace call
ing the churches to a deeper sense of
their duty and their rightful leadership
in opposing the present portentous mill
tarism and ornaments of the nations.
Our battleships had no sooner turned
their prows toward Mexican waters than
30 of the great Christian denominations
through their representatives sent a tele-
gram to President Wilson expressing
their hatred of war and their hope for
a peaceful solution of the difficult and
vexing problem. All, it should not be
necessary for us to say that the church
of the Prince of Peace has been converted
to that for which she should have al |
WAYS stood. But when we think OF the |
that man has endured and the |
blood that has been shed in the name of |
religion, and compare these things with |
the earnest appeals that she is now max |
ing for world peace we are forced to |
admit that a great change has come over
The church The day has arrived when /
the church cannot be silent without |
the world and without Gov
ring with opprobrium the name of Him |
IT whose birth the angels sang. Glory |
10 God in the highest and on earth, |
peace, good will to men,
"In times past, rich men were very
argely the instigators and perpetrators
If war, and this may be true to some
,xtent to-day; but times are certainly
hanging in this respect. Whatever our
opinions are regarding Andrew Carnegie
md his wealth we are forced to admit
MS sincerity in the stand that he is
aking against legslized murder. Some
me has said that the old astrologers
ought forever to turn various sub