Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-05
FIVE THOUSAND IN
APLEA FOR PEACE
ak Island Churches Well
Filled in Response to
President Appeal.
CAUSE OF WAR A PROBLEM
Granville n. Sherwood Says Il
viii Be Puzzle for Histor-
isns % the Future.

=, tervent application TO the Prince
pace that concord be restored TO
=. contendiue nations OF the old
- 5000 people filled the Rock Is
"a ehurches yesterday. gathering in
-s.sisuce 10 the proclamation OF Presi-
49,, Wilson. that the American people
=. IN prayer Tor the esta adjustment
n ueace for all time
TIE proclamation was needed in all
- churches and special prayers were
800 that peace be speedily restored
"a reference vas made by the pastors
: ,beir sermons 10 the edict Of the
--s<ideut. In some OF the churches
s,rs and patriotic emblems were dis
sod and the prayers. whether nit
-,Iistic. prepared or imprOmptu were
event in their petition for peace.
preaching IN Trinity Episcopal
.sr-ch on the subject OF war. Rev.
Granville II. Sherwood. rector of the
rsurch. said that il Is difficult to fore
e. 10 what future historians in re-
-ssziug the worlds events OF the
Txsptieth century. will attribute the
.-sssnt war. In fact no one knows
ips, what all the contention is about
the soldiers on the battlefield do not
know. nor do the people. but the fact
,smzias that it is the most horrible
rsr in the worlds history.
War for Liberty Just.
Orber than the wars in which a
country has engaged for liberty there
never has been a war from which good
has come as a lasting result. He cited
tbe Crimean war and the former
vzneoP russian war 10 illustrate the
net that the very things that appar
sutIy had been settled by these wars
we're upset by subsequent events. The
Crimean war was fought 10 keep Rus
sia out Of the Mediterranean, which
shortly after that nation invaded and
in the Franco Prussian war Prussia
gained two provinces and eight billion
dollars in money which engendered the
hate OF the French that helped precipi-
tate the war of TO-DAY. Those wars
started from trivial events. just as the
present war has done. Back of the
whole war lies the fact that the ma
tons have been armed ready for war. F.
the soldiers have been taught to shoot. I
While the tendency Of today has been /
towards a movement to prevent men /
ION carrying arms. yet the nations of
ne world have been arming their I
troops stronger than ever before.
So long as there is armament. just .
Ing is there danger OF using it. Mr.. I
Sherwood spoke Of the present war as
one Of dynasties and kings. not one :
o. the people and he believed that the
cnly possible good that can come out I
q II is a democracy such as would .
ioin TIE United States iE a program for
Universal peace, such as would develop .
into navy 10 police the sea and the
Establishment Of International courts .
70 adjudicate such difficulties as might 4
arise He said he looked for the day 1
Then Il would be no longer a war OF .
kings against kings against peasants. I
bit Of peasants against kings which .
would result in the final writing Of the
Book Of Kings. The real thought that
dominated the discourse was that the
81 cost OF war under all conditions
o q circumstances is borne by the
Christ and Christ's poor In closing
Hr Sherwood paid an eloquent trib-
ne 70 the patience that has character
i1sa the president and his faith that
everything would work out TO the best
possible good.
War Thrust Upon Them.
Res N. Z. Shatley at the Memorial