The Monticellonian., 1915-10-07
PRAYERS OFFERED
 FOR WORLD PEACE
FORMER SECRETARY BRYAN SAYS OTHERS AT CAPITAL CAN
 HANDLE ROUTINE.
EFFICIENCY MEETING ENDS
Inspiring Scene Witnessed on Summit of Hot Springs Mountain When Delegates Offer Up Suppications
 For Rule of Christianity.
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IleIegateS to the Southern l9lStrlc Efficiency convention of the Presby l terian Church, U. S. A, concluded 1 their sessions with an open-air 'peacC i prayer service" on the summit of Ho Springs Mountain. Surrounding Will l liam J Bryan. former secretary O state. they prayed for peace in Europe and that q spirit of Christianity rather ] than spirit of force might goverr the world
 Mir Bryan was the principal speaker ! SA the concluding session of the con Nsuten He declared the country should he grateful that we have in the White House n man bending every effort and energy for peace" rather than "jincU." It is tue duty of the ynited States to maintain its position as the strongest neutral power and shenlder its responsibility when the time comes for peace between the Flu ropean nations to be worked out
 Ii was an inspiring scene. MT 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: "I believe if there was ever a question on which the referen- dunn should be invoked it should be on this war question. and I want the women who must bear their part of the burdens of the war to have a vote end it should also be that the man who votes for war should be the first to fill the regiments, and that the man who votes against war should be left to fill the reserve columns, and l shall 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 na- tion ever tie itself to the quarrels of warning nations. We must make our own war if we are ever to have war so that we can make our own peace. but never let us be joined as an ally where others must speak for us.
 It looks like the differences with Germany have been passed No na- tion is challenging us. but out of the mad spirit of the present conflict if 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 a jingo looking forward. We should be grateful that we have in the White efIouse a man bending every human energy and endeaYor for peace .
 MT 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 it's 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 Sene- ration has been spent in preparedness for war and then the war came2"
 Speaking of the American lives lost In the torpedoing of ships, MT. Bryan said that there might be right in favor of being on those ships, but there was a duty above right, and that the duty of every man citizen in such an hour was to stay within the bounds 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. MT. Bryan said that it was a position it was the duty of this nation to maintain. He said that when the time came for peace to ity of this nation to be m position to contribute it's portion.
 "There is not a soldier boy who falls on 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 to Put It.