New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-01
Bishop Speaks Against Pagan Germany

freedom Of the world but for the Christianity
of the world; the God Of the New Testament
or the God of Battles is the choice. Christ or
Odin."
"WAR-AND PEACE"
Then strangely the Bishop asks himself the
question: "But can a fierce and bloody war
ever conduce to the spreading of the Gospel
of Peace in the world?"
And he answers himself: "Yes, but what if
this is a war for peace? What if the ideas
which have made peace up to now impossible
are finally and forever killed? What if the
gospel that war is glorious for its own sake
is shown to be sham? What if war is
stripped of its glamour and seen in its native
hideousness for all time? What if the
churches that believe in the Incarnation of
the Son of God are drawn together in way
in which they have never been before and
fused into united missionary Church?
"Wil all this have no effect upon the mis-
sions Of the world?
1T is probably impossible to measure the
harm that may be done to the tribes of Cen
trail Africa, until they understand it, by the
spectacle of six Christian nations engaged in
a deadly conflict after two thousand years of
Christianity. But one thing we have to admit
is that it is not a struggle between two Chris
tian principles.
FRANCE AND THE CHURCH.
"But what if France shall permanently be
stirred to see what she was casting away in
her Church? What if the English and French
churches should learn great truths from one
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be touched with that missionary zeal which it
only needs to make it one of the greatest
churches in the world? What if the great
German people shall gain through pain and
suffering a new faith in an Incarnate Christ?
Then indeed the ferceness of it will turn to
Gods praise, and Gods Kingdom be enlarged
even through the sickening and desoating sor-
rows of the war;
"Bishop" | can answer. 81 have heard
democrats say. What if democratic control Of
foreign policies will follow, and socialists,
what if the abolition Of class-rule, and repub-
licans. what if the abolition of feudasm and
monarchy and nationasts, what if the aboli-
ton of great empires? How can we drink
the cup and go through the sickening and
desolating sorrows of the war when we are
not united in our hearts?
WE ARE FIGHTING For
eve are fighting" says the Bishop, "for the
hottest things ever intrusted to the care Of
mantle freedom of our country, the honor
of our women, the right to live for the smaller
nations international honor, as the condition
of the future brotherhood of nations and the
Christian principles which are to govern the
future of the world, instead Of the pagan
gospel that Might is Right"
The Bishop goes on to say: you who have
lost your boys, but what are they? Martyrs
martyrs as really as st. Stephen was martyr
martyrs dying for their faith as really as
st. Stephen, the first martyr, died for his.
They looked up when they died in the trenches
or in the little cottage where they were car
red, they looked up and saw Jesus standing
on the right hand of God. And He is keeping
them safe for you there when your time comes.
Covered with impershable glory they pass to
deathess life
If the people had known, even they, in the
midst of this their day, the things which be-
long unto their peace!
The red rose from the garden Of the Bishop
of London stands in my glass.