The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-02-26
Or. DAY MAKES
IMPRESSION IN
FIRST ADDRESS
international Diplomacy the
Diplomacy of Distrust,"
He Declares.

international diplomacy is the dip
lomacy of distrust," declared rev.
William Horace Day, D. D., new pas
tor of the United CONVERSATIONAL
church, in his first sermon to the con-
gregation yesterday. Every Pc" was
filed when the service began ana al
ter the service warm gTeet1hs was
extended the pastor his sermon nav
ing made a deep impression. Dr. Lay
said that the worlr war is the result
of an acute system Of conditions OF
long standing.
DIR. Day is both forceful and elo-
quent and his mastery presentation
of his subject held the close attentlon
of his congregation throughout MS
discourse. His text was: For other
foundations can no man lay tnan tnat
which is laid in Christ. Inc suoJect
Of the sermon was 'Christ, the Undfier
az humanity It was the first in a
series Of three sermons, the titles OF
the others are: "Christ, the Unifier of
Nationality" and Christ, the Undfier
of Personality.
In part he said:
s.Nations have accepted the doctrine
that national necessity knows no law
and therefore instead Of behaving like
civilized men, they behave towards
each other like cut threats. World
international diplomacy is dollar
diplomacy. Material ambitions over
ride moral principles and diplomacy
but increases the chaos. The cause or
the chaos Of diplomacy is in the char
acter of the nations themselves. Ig-
norance Of one another produces racial
prejudice Racial prejudice is the IA
Their of fear and suspicion. People
clamor for war because they are
afraid. Nations are neither trustwor-
thy nor trustful and for that reason
world relations are in chaos.
"World chaos DIS the result of made
,quate foundation. Men had been say
ing that there could be no world war.
The militarist had pointed out the
frightfulness of modern weapons. He
used to say the more terrible amid ex-
tensive armament the more impossible
that any ruler or people would dare to
begin war. We were also told that
the money power Of the world wouldk
prevent war for modern warfare would
be impossible without the banker and
the banker WOULD refuse aid. It was
stated that the soliditary of scholar
ship and the education of the masses
would also prevent war because the
people would be too intelligent, to per-
NIT anything so inexcusably wasteful
and Irrational The International So
cialists told us that the radical work
ing people Of the nations would refuse
to enlist and make munitions of war.
In other words we had become firm in
the belief that civilization was a suf-
icient foundation for a world unity
that should not only check war but
prevent racial and national conflicts.
"Just before the beginning of the
war I was in London and headlines
appeared in the newspapers that st.
Paul's cathedral had been closed to
the public because great cracks hajd
appeared in the walls. It threatened
to collapse because the foundation
was inadequate. The dean and chap
ter asked for $4,000 pounds to make
the foundation sufficient to bear the |
weight of that structure Of worship. |
For the same reason collapse of the |
temple of humanity has come because |
we have tried to build it on an mad |
equate foundation.
1.-THE New Testament presents Jesus |
Christ to the world as the only ade-
quate foundation for a world unity. |
He Himself has said that they who
built upon His worlds would find ade-
quate foundation and he hkened the
result to a house built on rock that
would stand in flood or cyclone.
"A great traveller in the most i'm
portant cities Of the world was once
studying world conditions and found
race at enrnity with race; nation with
nation and religion with religion. AT
hat time there was apparent peace
but soon war broke out. AS the re-
'ult of that experience he wrote the
words of the text
when the peoples come under His
'way, then and then alone moral prin-
iples will become nightier than ma
erial ambition. We are devoutly hop
ng that after this war there may be
orTned a league Of nations to enforce 1.
,eace. Such a world police is essen
ial because nations hike dogs some
lines go mad. Important as such a
eague viii be, it cannot establish en- /
Turing world unity. Only by the sac
iffce for which Christ came into the
world can human solidarity be finally ,