The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-12-07

ton Of opinions in the realm of trade, |
so that no one will think of engaging
in any business that does not minis
ter to human need and contribute to
human progress. 1t involves the es-
tablishment of relations between men
in society and business SO that each
shall recognize
THAT. all men shall brothers be,
And form one family the wide world
over"
But the Problem is International.
The church of Christ is the first
great international society. We must
not imagine that the well being of
our country will arise out of the ruin
of one half Of mankind. This is the
curse that has brought about the
present conditions. We are nearer in
commercial and even in social rela-
tons today to any of the warning ma
tons than Massachusetts was to Vir-
ginia in 1881. Steam since then has
annihilated nine-tenths of the distance
and electricity has abolished the other |
tenth. Instead of cultivating this in
creasing neighborliness, we have been |
living in the olden time. The kings |
and diplomats, unWise to understand |
their times, have encouraged racial |
hates and feuds for reasons of tyranny
and greed, and, when the time was
ripe, have let slip the dogs of war,
and summoned their helpless sub
| jects and agents to bear the brunt of
matters in which they have had no
part Men, wise to understand, have
been secuted as they foresaw the i'm
| pending doom. The missionaries who
have truly sought new International
ism with sacrifices untold, have open
| ed unknown lands to Christian COM
| merce and with it to exploitation,
have toiled on by sufferance only;
1.-THE money, energy and brains which
should have been poured into commun-
ity and world betterment by social and
evangelizing agencies, has been worse
than squandered in militarism. He
who is wise to understand his times,
| should have known that we can not
now do without each other, and the
war has emphasized the oneness of hui
man needs as nothing else can do.
| The problem involves the bringing of
all nations into the relation of neigh
bors, the Punishment of hate and sus-
picion, which is implied in all talk
of preparedness" Do I then teach
that war Is never right?
War Is Righteous When for Truth
Men Ought to Die.
! To deny this Is to cast reproach
upon the name of Washington and
Lincoln. We have not reached that
stage yet where we can always dis
pense with the ministry of force un-
less we are ready to give up ideals
/ which are far more precious than any
mortal life. He who shuts the door
on the possibility of force, who re-
jects physical conflict in toto, opens
another door for the lusts of oppres-
sion and wrong. If it is immoral to
resist the buccaneers of international
oppression and robbery 1t is immoral
to resist any plunderings of evil men.
Such brand of Christianity is out
|, OF touch with human need, even If
suited to the prospective millennium.
But the diabolical notion that war Is
of itself transcendent virtue should
! be suppressed even at the cost of
!, war.
This Must Pass and That Soon If the
: Race is to Endure.
Feudalism, medieval kingship and
slavery have gone. So, too, must this
curse of barricaded nations, caring
!. only for themselves and filled with
wrath toward other nations, pass
away. He who truly believes the
Bible and In Gods fatherhood, can not
deny this as the goal toward which
: even in this awful war, we are hurry
ing But in the language of Nicodemus
Elbow can these things be-? The
Master would answer, the nations
> must have a new birth of freedom
Men do not gather grapes of thorns
nor figs of thistles." He tells us the
!, secret.
! "Aake the Tree Good and his Fruit
), Good.n
3 His spirit is in the world and In hui.
man hearts but 1t is not vitalized
3 enough. We are spending half bill.
l lion each year for the education of the
] youth In the sciences, arts and indus.
tries, and we spend not half a hundred
to teach them UNSELFISHNESS
. which is the true spirit that shall save
the world and society. This is the
spirit OF Jesus Christ, the spirit Of
the gospel of His grace. The ten
? dency of the past has been toward di
e versity; that of the future must BIZ
e toward unity, assured that the mos
: sublime unity Is not in likeness but IL
: diversity. In the right hand and thu
: left. the relation of husband and wife
t there is the complementary diversity
: which makes for the greatest unity
: So God meant every true man to b.
: to his fellow and every nation, with it,
: peculiar people and resources to every
b other nation. But only the Gospel
: truly applied by men wise to under
t stand this time ct times, can make
4 this possible Ours is and will be still
= far from perfect, for I know Of moth
s Ang perfect among men except it lie {
, perfect fool. But, THE TASK OF TIT
!. CHURCH OF GOD LOOMS LARGE
r BEFORE US. To secure, through tn,
r incubation of the spirit OF unselfish
( ness and service, the spirit Of unself
t ishness in the world and ultimately
8 the goal OF the ages, "The oneness will
T Him for which Jesus prayed and still
| prays. and for all the world and