The Sentinel=record. (Hot Springs, Ark.) 1900-current, 1914-08-09
THIS WAR GREATEST
Crime OF Ages
RABBI A. 3. RHINE DISCUSSES
THE FAR REACHING EFFECT
OF NATIONS AT WAR.
Means A Set Back to All Civilization
and Raises Doubt as TO the Sin
cerity of Mankind in Declarations
for Peace.

DIR. A. b. Rhine, of this city, who is
deep student OF practical affairs
aad VINO keeps in close touch with
the history OF the times, in an inter
view Yesterday expressed a doubt of
the sincerity OF the peach compacts
the civilized nations have made and
remade in recent years, and INCIDENT
ally characterizes the present war OF
nations as the greatest crime of the
ages.
DR. Rhine says:
European civilization has hitherto
been considered as the highest eX-
pressioa of human achievement. Eu-
rope has made such tremendous
strides in the nineteenth century that
the twentieth century was looked for
ward to with hope and with pride, in
which the promises of the past were
to eliminate. The civilized world has
so lulled itself in a sense of security,
that the wholesale massacre of human
beings, called war. was impossible in
this age of enlightenment, that a
peace palace was erected, and ma
tions came together to discuss uni
yersal peace.
1T seemed for a while that the
be fulfilled in our day; the dream that
nations would beat their swords into
pillow shares, and their spears into
pruning hooks that nations would no
longer lift up swords against nations.
and learn war no more.
such was the hope and the dream
OF the twentieth century dreamers.
And now what a fearful dis.usion-
ment. The great European nations,
the buiwarks of civilization, have re-
lapsed into savagery once more. Is
ciyi ization, after all, only skin deep?
is man, despite his culture, only
savage, after all, with only thin
veneer of refinement? What a hor-
rihle spectacle Europe presents today.
The great nations, with their millions
of armed men, at each others threats;
Belgium, the land of Waterloo again
the battlefield of nations, flowing
with blood, filled with the bodies of
the dead and the dying, and the air
ringing with the means and the cries
of the wounded; the youth and the
manhood led to the slaughter, homes
broken up; women bereft of their
loved ones: lands filled with widows
- Itsr.l a.
merce ruined; manufacture interrupt
ed; communications broken; in
word, all the efforts and the toll of
years for peace and prosperity annr
ailated within the twinkling of an
eye-and this is called glory
The present international war is
the greatest crime of the ages. Who
ever is responsible for it will have to
give an account of his doings on the
fearful day of reckoning before the
judgment seat of God and of history.
This war, started on such palpab'e
preteXt, and that has assumed such
large proportions, involving so many
nations in ruin, is absolutely uniusti
AnNANf AAH aNl Autn6 very HdAIbUA
pirate Of Justice, and call upon God to
Aelp their cause.-the cause of hypo-
crisy and bloodshed. What mockery
on civilization; what travesty on
religion.
But let US hope that even this
calamity will not prove altogether
useless; the darkness grows thicker
before the dawn; the cause of peace
vii find its most eloquent advocate
in the fearful lessons of this war; the
nations OF Europe, chastened by the
ruin and desolatioa that this war has
wrought in their midst, will finally
realize that the morality which ap-
plies to an individual must apply to
nations as well. They will come to
see that nation armed is a nation
yersed on war; and that the only
guarantee of peace is disarmament.
And out Of this darkness of war,
havoc, ruin and despair, there may
yet dawn a perfect day of universal
peace, justice and brotherhood"