The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-09-13
 CARR ADDRESSES THE BROTHERHOOD CLASS
Unusually Interesting Programme Given by Well Known Fountain
 Heights Organization

| An unusually large meeting of the Foun- l tain Heights Brotherhood class was held
 at the Fountain Heights Methodist church
 Friday night. An address by Hinton F.. l Carr was one of the features, though the following interesting numbers were also
 on the programme:
 | Music, by orchestra; violin solo, by Miss
 Fannie May Pointer; song sclo. May
 Morning." by Miss Lucille McRae; music, l by orchestral violin solo, by Jessie Ab-
 bolt; Hoop -de-Dooden-D De-" by c. b. l Ayres; recitations, by little Miss Elmer
 Hall; music by orchestra: refreshments. l MT. Carr in his address spoke in part as | follows:
 l In our ignorance it appears to us that all is chaos over there, its reflect influ- ence is felt here. There, the great harves-
 ter death is reaping it's victims by the l hundreds of thousands, here the calcula-
 tions and plans of the pest thinkers have l been dissipated as the G'ists before a 1 clear gun, leaving confusion confounded.
 Count Tolstoy. the great Russian author
 and philosopher, in "vsion,' as some
 desire to term it. foretold the great strife that is now on in Europe. His prophecy | was that it would break out in 1913 end in 1914 and that by 1915 peace would be | restored. In his wonderful word picture he assigned as a direct cause, "commer-
 cialsm' with its subtle jealousies between
 the nations for supremacy and that out
 of the existing chaos, the monarchies of Europe would crumble into nothing, there
 would arise a man, not of royalty or militaryism, who would bring peace and establish her upon a throne of perma- nancy, the essential elements of which would be the full recognition of indi- vidual rights and brotherly love. The cynical, in accounting for this won- derful prediction, claim that Count Tol- stoy, being an analytical thinker merely reasoned to a conclusion, and that the incident of war now was coincidence, and that, therefore, 1t was the express sion of his opinion. Whereas, with those who do believe in the existence of God and His Son, our Saviour, realizing how easily every part of his ''vision" can be reconciled to the other. we believe the source to be nothing but inspiration. It is, in my opinion, the lack of faith, faith in an ever living God, that has caused the war. If the ma sses of all the countries involved. or the majority of them, had this necessary faith, they
  given by their monarchs for war and rush, even enthusiastically, forth dealing cut and receiving death.
 I believe, as firmly as do in the future, that God fully intends to bring out of this chaos two essential elements for the betterment of the world. The first es- sential is that of the esta blishment of a general faith In his existence and the
 second Is for the unification of all Chris ton churches.
 I have seen and realized for sometime past the nucleus, in this very brother hood, where it's members are composed of nearly all denominations, for an or ganization for the practical dissemina- ton of true spirit that begets faith and the ultimate unification, of the Christian churches.
 The President of the United States has manifested that he is Christian and a God fearing man. He realizes the perils that confronts civilization and has called
 upon all of us to appeal to God for aid to end the cruel war that now rages. It is the duty of this brotherhood to grasp the opportunity and ask all with whom it may come in contact to respond tc the Presidents appeal. with sincerity and fervor and faith.