Evening star., 1914-10-05
Three Ways to Hasten Peace
Discussed by Rev. DR.. Smith
at St. Thomas P. e. Church

Rev. DR.. C. Ernest Smith, preaching
yesterday at ST. Thomas Episcopal
Church, declared that treaties, interna-
tional courts and Hague conferences can
never result in permanent world peace
but that the only sure way of bringing
about the adjustment of wars is the ac-
ceptance of the teachings of Christ and
the living of His precepts by the rulers
and the peoples of the world. In his ser
mon DIR. Smith said, in part:
There are two kinds of peace-inward
peace which does not in the least de-
pend upon condition or environment, and
which soldiers can have and do have
with shells bursting round and comrades
falling In hundreds by their side: and
outward peace-peace among neighbors.
| IT is this peace for which we pray to-
day-peace among the eight nations of
the world now at war.
| For this the world is longing today
with a mighty longing Its one word is
| that of the great soldier, twice Presi-
dent, uttered shortly before his death
and now craven on his tomb beside the
Hudson: Let us have peace
How Peace Will Not Come.
May show you three ways by which
We can hasten the coming of peace? But
first let me show you how it will not
come:
| Il. 1t will not come by treaties. They
are ropes of sand at the best. Treat ties
are actually blamed, and with justice as
the case of the present world wide war.
| -. 1t will not come through interna-
| tional courts at The Hague or anywhere
else. Servia offered to lay her case be-
! fore The Hague tribunal and abide by it,
But Austria would have none of it. And
If you want any other proof read Rep
resentative Manns warlike speech of
three days ago. where he tells you that
under certain circumstances we would
| go to war in a minute And the pity
of it-oh. the pity of 1.-THE is right.
3. 1t will not come by the action Of
men who have spent all their days
gathering dollars under conditions their
fellow-men disapprove and who in their
latter days turn philanthropists and
lovers of peace. Figs don't grow on
thistles-not even Scotch thistles.
| But peace will come:
II. BY recognizing Gods sovereignty.
More than its excellent English, more
than it's call to a nation to prayer. the
all honor because it is based on the
| simple, fundamental principle that
neither kaiser nor king has this mat
ter in hand. but the Lord God only.
| ~. BY humblinS ourselves as nations.
| IF Abraham Lincoln was profoundly
convinced that the scourge of civil war
fell because of national shortcomings
what of this world war? There would
|
eight nations had obeyed the teachings
of Christ in the Sermon on the Mount
IDisobedience to those principles even-
tually led to this cataclysm.
Christ the Prince Of Peace.
"3. We must be loyal to Christ as
Prince of Peace. He is at the head of
a mighty army wherein there is nc
medical corps or Red Cross. for it is an
army of peace. He is the supreme pom
tiff of the world today-the supreme
bridge maker, for that is what pontif1
means. The building of bridges is
characteristic of peace just as destroy
ing them is the work of war. BY
bridges we are brought closer together
Let US all be builders Of the bridges by
can come together again to dwell in
peace and unity"