The Harrison times., 1915-10-09
FORMER SECRETARY BRYAN SAYS
OTHERS AT CAPITAL CAN
HANDLE ROUTINE.
EFFICIENCY MEETING ENDS
: inspiring Scene Witnessed on SUNNI:
OF Hot Springs Mountain When
Delegates Offer Up Supplications
. For Rule Of Christianity.
Hot SPRINGS.

Hot Springs
Delegates to the Southern District
Efficiency convention Of the Presby-
terian Church, u S. A., concluded
their sessions with an open-air peace
prayer service" on the summit of Hot
SPRINGS Mountain Surrounding VIII
liam ]. Bryan, former secretary OF
state. they prayed for peace in Europe
and that spirit of Christianity rather
than a spirit of force might govern
the world.
Mr.. Bryan was the principal speaker
al the concluding session of the con-
vention. He declared the country
should be grateful that We have in the
White House "a man bending every
effort and energy for peace" rather
than a lingo" 1t is the duty of the
United States to maintain its position
rs the strongest neutral power and
shoulder its responsibility when the
time comes for peace between the Eu-
ropean nations to be worked out.
II was ali inspiring scene. Mr..
Bryan had Just delivered an address
before the Southern District Confer
ence Church Efficiency Board OF the
Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., in
which he said: 81 believe if there was
ever question on which the referen.
DUN should be invoked 1t should be
on this war question, and | want the
women who must bear their part OF
the burdens Of the war to have a vote
and 1t should also be that the man who
votes for war should be the first 70
I'LL the regiments, and that the man
who votes against war should be left
to fill the reserve columns, and shall
continue to insist that the lingo edi.
tors who are urging war shall be given
the honor OF the first command. and
that they be permitted to have the
glory of death first in such a war.
''If ever we go to war let it be our
own war God forbid that this ma
ton ever tie itself to the quarrels of
warning nations. We must make our
own war if we are ever to have war
go that we can make cur own peace,
hut never let us be joined as an ally
where others must speak for us.
1T looks like the differences with
Germany have been passed No ma
ton is challenging us, but out of the
mad spirit of the present conflict il
there should come such a challenge
we should say no, We will not get
down in the mire to follow a false
standard. Imagine all the trouble we
would have now If we had in the
White House jingo looking forward
We should be grateful that we have in
the White House man bending every
human energy and endeavor for
peace"
Mr. Bryan took for his topic an an
swer TO the doctrine that might makes
right.
"The nation that adopts a doctrine
that might makes right" said the
speaker, "has no complaint TO its citi-
zen who declares that dynamite makes
right. They talk of preparedness for
war, and say that preparedness for
war will make for peace, but was that
the situation in Europe where a gene
ration has been spent in preparedness
for war and then the war came?"
Speaking of the American lives lost
in the torpedoing of ships, Mr. Bryan
said that there might be a right in
favor Of being on those ships, but
there was duty above right, and that
The duty Of every man citizen in such
an hour was to stay within the bounds
where he would not involve his coun-
try in trouble. "A country which has
the right to take a widows son and
place him in the front Of the battle
line can make her citizen stay at
home when there is danger abroad"
Referring to the great advantage
this country had in being the strong.
est neutral power, Mr. Bryan said
that It was a position 1t was the duty
OF this nation 10 maintain He said
that when the time came for peace 10 |
be worked out, 1t was the responsible |
fly of this nation to be IN position TO
contribute its portion.
"There is not soldier boy who falls
on a foreign battlefield" said he, but |
what there is somewhere within this |
country an echo Of sadness That Is
how close this nation is bound to all !
the warning nations. And that makes
the Obligation the stronger that we
should remain absolutely neutral and
One Way 70 Put H.