Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-06
III. S. LEADS WORLD
| FOR PEACE MOVE
Hamilton Holt Talks on War at
Meeting of Congre-
gationaIists.

That 1t seems to be destined for
the United States as a nation to lead
| the peace movement of the world
was the conclusion drawn by Ham,
ilton Holt, editor of the New York
Independent, in an address yesterday
afternoon on 1.-THE Great War and q
| World Peace" at the fall meeting of
the Northern New Jersey Congrega-
tional Society in the Grove Street
congregational Church. East Orange.
There are three factors to be con-
sidered In seeking universal peace, =
said the speaker land they are the
wider establishment of true demoe-
raey. the organization OF the world
politically, and the promotion of the
| spirit of good will among men,
Suggesting some of the means of
] preventing future wars he declared
g.! that no ruler should have the right
| to declare war, and that arms and
ammunition should be manufactured
| by the governments instead of by
| private enterprise.
| His solution of the problem, he said,
would be by the way of universal
disarmament. The only obstacle in
| the way of such measure would be
the unwillingness of many of the ma
tons to enter the pact, and this un-
willingness he proposed to combat by
tions. These could disarm, he ex-
planned, to a point where their COM
bined strength would be sufficient to
conquer the strongest nation outside
of the league.
Sooner or later, he said, liberals in
the outsiders" would bring pressure
to bear upon their governments until
another agreed to join, whereupon
the league could then again disarm to
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strongest of the remaining nations
not agreeable to the plan 1t was
this method, he said, which was
adopted in the original thirteen col
onies of the United States when they
agreed to unite. and the principle has
been shown to be sound time and
again, he averred.
To William H. Taft he gave the
credit of having done more than any
other head of a great country to pro-
mote universal peace, while President
Wilson. he said, had preserved peace
in thoroughly effective manner.
The meeting, which opened in the
morning with a devotional service.
led by Rev. William T. Boult, of
Bound Brook, was addressed on
1.-THE Modern Sunday by Rev.
Hugh B. MacCauley, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church. of
1dLeTSOHi WHICH WAS IOliOWeu ny
addresses on Missions, Live Issue
in the Church School," by Miss J.
Gertrude Hutton, director of re-
] ligious education in the Arlington
Avenue Presbyterian Church, East
Orange, and Mrs. James F. Mason,
director of missionary instruction
in the Grove Street Congregational
Church, that city.
During the noon recess a lunch
was served to the delegates by the
WOmen's Guild of the church. The
afternoon session included, besides
Mr.. Hollis address a clever Inn
personation of a Hindu woman, in
costume, by Mrs. Abbie Smell
Burnell, of Brooklyn.
At the annual meeting of the Con-
gregational Home Missionary Society
of New Jersey yesterday officers We're
elected as follows: Rev. Samuel L.
LOOMS, of Westf1eld, president; Rev.
Ferdinand Q. Blanchard, of East Or
ange vice. president; Rev, George P.
Eastman, of Orange, secretary, and
| A. J. Hazelton. Of Glen Ridge, treas
| urer.