New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-10-07
City Observes
"Peace Sunday
SPECIAL CHURCH SERVICES IN
ACCORDANCE WITH PRO-
CLAMATION.
REALITIES OF AMERICAN PEACE
cONTRASTED WITH HORRORS
OF WAR.

s.Peace Sunday" was specially OBJ
served in all New Ulm churches with the
exception of the Bethel Church which
was closed on account OF the pastors
absence at Sleepy Eye Quarterly meeting.
Tn all the churches the attendance was
verv large and nearly all had made con-
siderable preparation for the days OBJ
servance. In the evening a joint service
was held at the Congregational Church
at which Mr.. F. w. Johnson addressed
the assemblage.
.'The one great lesson that the Ameri-
can nation must learn from this death
dance of the nations in Europe is that
military preparation is not guarantee
of peace but an absolute guarantee OF
war;, said Mr.. F. w. Johnson, in the
course of his address at the Congre-
qational Church last Sunday night.
ssThe United States should be the first
to teach the doctrine of national life
without bloodshed and war; it should
hold up as a noble example to the
warning peoples of Europe nation
founded upon and preaching the Brother
hood of Man."
The Congregational church was
crowded with "Peace Sunday worshippers
in response to President Wilson's pro-
clamation and call to prayer on the part
of all "God-fearing citizens OF the
limited States. Besides Mr.. Johnson's
address, songs extolling the beauties of
D ,ace, and prayers for the speedy ending
of the European war, made up the
: Congregational church service. The
collection which was taken will be added
to the Red Cross fund.
Mr.. Johnson presented bitter in
dictment of our whole modern civilization
in the course of his address. "Civili-
cation is only veneer, he said. ut is
hardly skin deep; scratch it and under
meath YOU will find the brute. The brute
under the polish is responsible for this
terrible European war; we can blame
one country or another for precipitating
this conflict, but in every case our OBJ
servations will be wrong. The cause OF
the war is the lack of sense of universal
brotherhood. We do not need to go to
Europe for our proof; only few months
ago the brute in several million OF
American citizens was demanding that
we 90 down to Mexico and clean out
those dirty Mexican greasers'. Our
sense of civilization is shocked when we
hear stories Of cruelties of the war,
stories of burned cities and starving
children; but when we hear OF several
million men in the death grapple,
slaughtering each other with weapons
which are the pride of modern science,
we consider that necessity of civilized
warfare. 1t is strange commentary
upon our civilization that in the nine
teenth century after the Prince of Peace
came to preach the brotherhood of man,
fourteen million men were killed in wars"
"a community of interest binds
smaller states against war; we would
never think of arming the Individual
: citizens of New Ulm against each other,
only the nations still cling to the old idea
that might makes right, and that
national honor can ever be defended by
the size of the national fighting force
Mr.. Johnson ended his address by
10 no A,,,oriooo ro,1h1io
to unite in movement for disarmament
and peace.
'"Forty two per cent Of our national
income goes for preparation for war; it
is absolute waste. When this European
war shall have ended, how much better
off will the warning nations be? We
must cast out of our public mind this
chip on the shoulder policy. The
l,ngest unfortihed boundary in the world
is the one between this country and
Canada, and yet we have lived in peace
for over a century. Let our appeal in
the future be for trial by reason and not
trial by battle.
Rev. Holm preached a Peace Sermon
at, the Methodist Church and music
selected for the Sunday morning services
was all appropriate for the occasion.
Nearly every member was present at the
services. A prayer service in connection
with the Sunday School was one Of the
fe atures of the meeting.
At Holy Trinity Church an unusually
large attendance was present. The
services were all arranged with the
thought and hope for Peace 50 much