Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-11-09
SPIRIT OF BROTHERHOOD
MUST FOLLOW WORLD WAR
Otherwise BloodsI,cd Will Havc Been
in Vein, Says DIR.
Rice.
sTor CUT-THRoAT METHODS
Real Democracy Must BE Injected
Into Religious, Business and So
cinl World IL Repetition OF World
Conflict Is to BE Prevented.

''rhcre has never been Il Christian
nation; have never lived In Chris
tian community: have never seen n
Christian church" asserted Rev. John
a. Rice. -. D.. pastor OF st. Johns
Methodist Church. South. st. Louis. in an
impassioned lecture last night I'm the
chapel of the old Woman's College.
DR.. Rice was speaking to the Student
Young Mems Christian Association of
the Medical College of Virginia on the
WAR Call of College Men" ..It is
foolish" he said. ito speak of the
downfall OF Christianity In this war.
Christianity has never been tried. We
are just now at the strategic moment
Of saving the world for Christianity.
The old way has been Il failure. We
must find a new way. The world must
be rebuilt. fash.oning the society of
man after the personality of Christ, or
else this war. with all it's sentimental
slush about saving the world for
democracy has been the wasting Of
our blood in vain
DIR. Rice asserted that this is funda-
mentally religious war. But he re-
minded the students present that it
was up to the college men TO see that
it was a war for the right sort of re-
ligion-the religion OF cosmopolitan
brotherhood and not denatured bigotry
and sentimcntalism. which 1t Is the
purpose of the Y. NJ. C. y. to prevent
by it's battlefield efforts.
GRATIFYING PRIVILEGE
TO AID Y. NJ. G. a. WAR FUND
"And it should be q gratifying privi-
1eGe," he remarked. ito those who must
stay at home to raise the s35.O00,000
asked by the Y. NJ. c. 4. to make the
hell the soldiers are in as endurable
as possible" IL VIC do not do all that
we can in this respect. Or. Rice im-
piled that the men over there" might
be justified in thinking OF us back
home as idlers and slackers for whom
they were wasting their blood.
DR.. Rice extended the fellowship
Idea of his address to the most remote
aspects of social life, taking Il vitriolic
fling at the "diabolical throat
methods of business" III such things
are to continue after this war" he
said. 1--WE had as we'll call our boys
hack home and let them be called
towards and slackcrs; for they arc
fighting for nothing. If the new order
to come out of the ashes of this war
is not to be based on the universal
brotherhood and fellowship of men and
n real democracy is not to be injected
into the religious. business and social
world. then these boys had as we'll keep
their own bic Cd. For. otherwise, there
Will be another war as soon as we
can get ready tor II. inc ruling pas
sion of the victorious world must be
the cnthronement of altruism. he said.
and not only the religion of the square
deal, called Justice.
That this is a terrible and glori-
GUS moment, urged DR.. Rico. because
at last all precedcntG are broken, and
the world is for the first time free
from their oppressive tyranny. and out
of this chaos OF freedom must arise the
new Christ Personnllty religion, big
and abySmal, to saw this war from
having been a colossal failure. He
took a stab at the reformation brand
Of religion that looked with clear con-