Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-06-19
AVOID ALL BOASTFULNESS
FOR PEACE, SAYS HADLEY
Only Change In Mems Hearts Cnn Bring
Desired Result, Says Yale
Prcsident.
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NEW HAVEN, CONN. June IS
World peace cannot come by laws and
hearts. President Arthur T. Eadley. OF
Yale University. said in his bacca-
laureate sermon here to-day.
we must not be deluded by false
visions and theories OF peace" he de-
clared, but must set our bands to
the work OF lessening the actual dan
ger OF way. by understanding other
people and other nations. avoiding
boastful or self-complacent speech. and
preparing to take our part in national
defense II a fight is forced upon US"
II reformer breaches the gospel OF
peace and good will between nations.
Mr.. Hadley said. the people at once
dream OF the establishment OF courts
OF arbitration which shall render war.
forever impossible. He continued:
But the thinker sees some things
that his followers do not see. He sees
that something moro than government
tai machinery is required in order to
make people temperate or moral, pros
porous or peaceable. He sees that the
result desired cannot be reached by or
gained force; that the social revolu-
ton Of which his followers dream Will
do more harm than good: that self
control. rather than public control. Is
the power on which we must rely for
achieving the greatest results; that the
slow influence of example. rather than
the quick compulsion OF law. is the
means by which the real regeneration
of society is achieved.
we must not yield to the fatal
temptation OF being flatterers of De-
mocracy. We must not cry, Peace,
peace. when there is no peace. We
must be ready to suffer abuse for our
unwillingness to trust short cuts to
Righteousness. We must be willing to
forfeit consideration and influence and
office which might be ours If we would
sacrifice or suppress our convictions.
We must remember that leadership is
never worth having If it comes through
sacrifice OF intellectual straightfor-
wardness.
I'VE must believe in humanity when
humanity deserts us. We must hold
to our faith in the truth even when we
are compelled to sacrifice our leader
ship because OF the truth. That was
Jesus Christs supreme achievement
The man who can see through this
failure to the success beyond, who can
trust the slow force OF character and
example to do things that organized
society has failed to do, who can
fight for cause that appears to be
losing, or die for it il there is no
chance to fight, drinks OF the cup OF
which the Master drank, and Is baptized
with the baptism with which He was
baptized.
when some one told Abraham Lin
coin that he hoped God would be on
his side, Lincoln answered. I am not
so much concerned to try to have God
on my side As to put myself on Gods
side May this be our resolve to-day.
May each of us try to place himself on
Gods side and stay there, through evil
report and good report, so that, when
we are called on for our last account,
every one OF us may be able to say, I
have fought a good fight. have finish
ed my course. I have kept the faith,
Faith in man. or faith in the truth. or
faith In God: they are but different
names for the same thing. Whose
keeps one has kept all, and has secur-
ed the best thing that life has to Of
fer"