South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-05-31
ADDITIONAL MISHAWlKA
UNIVERSAL PEACE MUST
CONE BY DISARMAMENT
Rev. E. E. ShoufIer breaches
Memorial Sermon to Old
SoIdierS-0pen Question as
to Wars Place.

The veterans OF Houghton post O.
A r.. attended the First Baptist
church sunday morning in company
with several OF those who fought in
the Spanish-American war They
marched in "a body 10 the church
where the Rev. +. S. Shoulder preach
ed the memorial sermon. his subject
being UNIVERSE Peace a Divine
Proclamation IN the course OF his
remarks he said Let the civilized
world rejoice in this declaration. Let
it hearken so the ancient prophet AS
we look bal ok upon this divine prOcla-
nation Of nearly q. ZOO years ago. and
then consider the present world crisis
IL seems that we are far distant from
its fulhlment. There never was a
time like the present for emphasizing
the principles OF universal peace.
Peace I'm the sense OF disarmament
has never lasted for a long period of
time Nations have continued peace
fuI relationships but they also con-
tinueO 20 learn war. AS long as we
continue 10 spend millions 20 educate
men IN the principles az war we may
expect wars. The triumph Of uni
versal peace must come as a result of
universal disarmament and world
wide peace like methods. The most
peace loving nations Of today are
highly trained and thoroughly equip
ped for military service. yet we are
optimistic concerning the peaceful flu
ture The United States hold a strate-
gic position in both the military and
the peace affairs of the world. When
the present crisis is ended American
statesmans' ip may have an OppOr-
tunity TO suggest terms Of disarma-
mcnt and peace"
+ War a Necessity?
Conditions I'm ancient Israel have
many times been repeated i'm these
more recent times. Seasons of peace
aud prosperity followed by periods of
conquest and war AS we study the
struggle for religious and civic free
dom. we behold q succession of tragic
scenes. where armies clash and ma
tions rise and fall; where justice
bleeds but truth and righteousness
triumph. In the great sea Of human
ity these are only surface move
ments; the real causes lie hidden in
the depths. The Magma Charter of
England was horn under the stress Of
revolution. Likewise tho great re-
formation was "a struggle for relig-
Gus and political freedom The
French revolution was a conflict be-
tween the nobility and the oppressed
peasantry of France. The tyranny of
King George III. called forth the de
Tense of civil rights by few op-
pressed cOlOnists. Puritan. ard cava-
lier march side by side into the con-
fiiCt at Lexington. Bunker Hill Tren-
ton, Saratoga, the final struggle at
Yorktown and America is free. In
each case some great principle has
triumphed. May universal peace. now
hidden in the most gigantic and
senseless struggle the world has ever
known, prevail when this war is
ended.
1T is an open question whether or
not war has any place in the divine
order Of the world, but in the affairs
OF men God seems to have accom-
plshed His purpose in the ultimate
end. However we believe thar the re-
suits that prevail in the end might
have been attained through wise
craftsmanship and righteous endeav-
or. The Civil war was not an eXceD-
ton. Human slavery and love for
freedom could not live together on the
same soil. On July 3,1S63. came the
great crisis On the battlefield of
Gettysburg lay the broken fragments
OF a ruined COnfederaCy. State sOVer-
eighty and the cause of slavery were
lost forever. To some the result of
the Civil war was logical. TO others
IL was appointng-to all IL was
final"
The speaker paid a high tribute TO
the veterans of the civil war for pre-
serving TO us nation that now en-
JOYS the blessings of peace i'm this