Arizona republican., 1915-07-05
PROGROM OF PEACE
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human hatred flows out like a scorching lava flood.
 Dr. Ainslie. in his article on The | Scourge of Militarism,' calls atten- | ton to Franklin's Pest of Glory" which was written after the battle of l Martinique and which is as follows. 1 "A young angel of distinction, being sent down to ths world on some busi- ness for the first time had all old courier spirit assigned him as a guide = hey arrived over the Se1 Of Mar tir.ico il the middle of the long .!"y oe an obstinate fight betwc-n the fleets of Rodney and De GraSse. when. through he clouds pr smoke. he saw the fire of the guns the decks covered with mangled limbs and bodies of dead or 1Nng, the ships
 sinking. burning or blown into the ai;., and the quantity of pain, misery anL destruction. The crews vet alve Hcir thus with so much etg e"ncss
 dealing around to one another, when
 he termed eagerly to his -sI.Ge sL:i
 s1ic. Nc& laundering bln .-,I -l1,
 vol. ignorant of yod. busncss;
 yD- LnCt'tCuk to conduit ne to
 Earth. and you have brought me to
 He'll No. sir. replied the guide, I
 have made no mistake. This is really
 the Earth, and these are men. Devils |rever treat each other in this cruel
 manner. They have more sense and
 more of what men call humanity.
 Christ says. Love your enemies,
 but the cry rings out: We must hate
 them" While Jesus says: Blessed
 are the peacemakers," Nietzsche de-
 clares: Blessed are the war makers,
 ~l...
 is greater than Jehovah"
 For a nation to forever bow at
 the shrine of the god of war is to court savagery, brutality. and the
 lower passions. If persistently pur sued. it will drive the race back to the jungle. Mighty armies and
 nial menace to the peace of the world. Starr Jordan says: This war was brought on by being prepared for it. Like most other murders, it came from carrying weapons of de- 1 fense." A part of the creed of Milf tarism is declared to be: ITO strike | first and strike hard" Charles Jef- ferson calls attention to how Sir Edward Grey sent a telegram to Sir Edward Goshen on August l, 1914 | saying: '1 still believe that it might | be possible to secure peace if only | a little respite in time can be gained. | But the nations were ready, and | Jefferson concludes: The messen- | gers of peace were just a little late all the way round because the horses of war were on. the gallop.'
 The cultivation of the art of war is the reproach and breakdown of You go to the com munity where every man carries gun and a dagger and you will find the highest percentage of murders. A nation with dreadnaughts, subma- rines, and trained armies is- like an individual with pistol and a poinard. Everybody knows that if individuals bear arms crimes will multiply We wisely strip the individual of arms and lodge authority and power in police force. Why not lodge inter- national power in an international police force? The relation of nation to nation is still on a dangerous basis. We need an international po- lice force to secure a world peace. Let each nation bear the same re- 1ation to the international police force that an individual does to the police force of his city or state
 We must turn back the tide of or the race is doomed. When nations build battleships, con struct forts, train mighty armies, whet their swords, test their guns, the next step is to trust in these for safety and forget God. We must that trust in God is cen tral, vital, crucial. As Hodgkin of London asserts: Jesus was per petually summoning men from the lesser securities into the larger trust. Would not His message to us