Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-08
By DIR LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN


I have been asked by the religious
editor of the Evening Star to con.
tribute an article relating to the pres.
ent war in Europe and the peace
movement which through 1t has re.
ceived a terrific blow. have con.
scented because have felt that per.
haps some assurance and comfort may
be given to those lovers of peace and
of Christianity who are SO greatly dis
couraged by the present situation.
For several years the peace move
ment has been growing, and those who
love peace have been greatly en-
Outraged, having vision of not far
distant day when men shall beat their
swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks and nation
shall not war against nation. The
struggle which has just broken out in
Europe has been a great blow, in
many minds, to the peace movement
Some have felt that a great world
peace was near at hand and now
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There Are the Clergy.
One hears very frequently bitter
questions asked:
Where is the Church? Where are
the priest and the clergyman? Where
are the peace advocate and the Peace
Society," They almost rail at re-
hgion and at ecclesiastical machinery.
We have all felt deeply oppressed
and OriaUad a. hon ~ II a L.
den our boosted Christian develop
ment, as 1t were, received an irrepar-
able shock. The results of high and
strenuous endeavor seem about to be
devastated and constructive forces of
society hurled back into chaos a hun
dred years by this procession of war
lords, this sudden mobilization of
armies and this advancing of hosts of
hate.
It is for every thoughtful and
peace-loving member of our great
American nation, which herself has
passed through the fire of war, to
consider carefully some of the great
factors Connected with this momen-
tous turn of the ages.
There can be no real peace where
righteousness does not exist. Right
eousness and peace are necessarily
connected. This is a truth frequent
ly set forth in the scriptures, Psalm
lxxxv.. 10, Mercy and truth are met
together. Righteousness and peace
have kissed each other" Where
righteousness does not exist in the
home can there be any settled peace
In the family2 Are not discord and
strife existing in multitudes of fami-
lies the results of unrighteousness?
A wrong somewhere on someone's
part as a member Of the family
causes disorder.
The same principle exists in society
and in the state. Why so much con-
fusion in the social and industrial
world? Is 1t not because of upright
eousness? II the doctrine that might
makes right is enforced then the
smaller man and the smaller interests
are oppressed by the larger. and there
is bitterness, hatred, rebellion. Dis
order enters, peace is banished.
Peace Depended on Arms.
This same principle is true of the
State, of governments, of nations.
What has been the dominating prin-
ciple of national life during the past
centuries? 1t has been that might
makes right. 1t is the ruling prin-
ciple in Europe today. There has
been comparative peace on the con-
tinent since the Franco-PruSSlan
War, until the present time; but how
has it been obtained and MAIN
tanned? Only by the balancing OF
ornaments. Militarism set against
militarism in equipoise. The doctrine
of these nations has been get" not
"give." Mighty has been the en-
throned.
All have bowed before military
mower. Has any one nation loved the
other nations? Has any one people
desired blessings upon the other
peoples? Each one has been for him
self. The military balance has kept
each one from aggressive action
toward the others. Could the people
help this condition? Hardly The
training and development of the