The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1917-10-18
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CHURCH union
IS SPEAKER
DR.. Charles S. Mcfarland,
Gilbert Bowles and Ebert
Russell on Program.


Sessions of the Five Years Meeting
OF Friends in America Wednesday
afternoon and evening were of particu-
lar interest to the delegates, for the
list of speakers included such notables
as DR.. Gilbert Bowles, of Japan; Dr..
Charles Mcfarland, general secretary
of the Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America; Prof. Allen D.
Hole, chairman OF the Friends Peace
Association, and Prof. Ebert Russell,
one of the most brilliant of church
leaders.
Dr. Bowles Is one of the most In
fluential Americans In the far east and
the Meeting was informed by James
Wood of New York, exerts more in
fluence in Japan than the American
ambassador.
DR.. Bowles, discussing Our Inter
national Opportunity" declared that
this was the golden time for the
Friends church to apply the principles
of its faith and work for the main
tenance of world peace and brother
hood.
Denies Theory About Japs.
This famous missionary took occas-
ion to refute the general American
opinion that the Japanese view their
American neighbors with jealous, hos
tile eyes.
"Japan's hope for It's future develop
ment is based on the principle of the
maintenance of friendly relations with
the United States" DR. Bowles de-
clared. He recommended the estab-
lishment of American scholarships in
colleges in Japan, China and India.
Dr. Hole described the work of the
Peace Association in his report, and
the meeting was urged to exert all its
influence in the promotion of inter
national amity.
Not word of criticism was directed
toward the war policies of our govern
ment for the Society of Friends de-
spite it's historic opposition to the
policy of force in the righting of
wrongs, is sturdily loyal. The report
characterized war as essentially and
inevitably an unchristian method of
settling dispNtes"
"cIear Of Blood"
DR. Russell discussed the war from
the standpoint of his sect His audit
ors were intensely interested in his
remarks He declared the first duty of
of a Friend was to keep a free and
enlightened conscience, and his hands
clear of blood; that the Friend, as
much as possible, must help his fel
low conscientious DIRECTORS" in their
struggle for such liberty as he enjoys,
and that he must aid in the mitiga
tion of the penalties of those who have
been drafted and who suffer for con-
science sake.
DR.. Russell urged all effort for the
aI, t<D
make sure while the world wars for
democratic freedom for mankind, that
precious liberties are not lost and stol-
en- away. Make the world safe for
Christians said Dr. Russell.
Dr. Russell declared that Friends
must not hold aloof from the worlds
sorrow He said it was the duty of
Friends to aid in the repairing the
waste of war, while war RACES and aft
er peace has come.
Must Bear Double Burden.
We must bear a double burden of
the constructive work in our own
country. We must keep alive the dis
oussion of the possibilities, and the
needs and the terms of peace, and do
ell in our power to prepare the world
for a settlement of differences which
i'll render a recurrence of such d
conflict improbable. We must con-
tinually make sentiment for world or
eanization and disarmament"
DR.. MacFarland in his address de-
scribed his visit to Berlin last year to
attend a church conference. He said
prominent German churchmen with
fearful eyes informed him they de-
plored the present war and declared
they desired totally different interna-
tIonal relations.
Illustrating the bitterness which the
war has occasioned he said that when
he informed French churchmen of
what German churchmen had told
him the Frenchmen angrily declared
their belief that the Germans were
lying
Rufus Jones. chairman of the BUSH
ness committee, reported a recon-