The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-04
DR. STUART TAXES WILSON'S APPOINTS
 AS SERMON TOPIC
Believes God Directed Writ ing of Basic Note for Peace-That Brother
 hood of Nations Near

Members and visitors filled the large auditorium at the First Methodist church yesterday morning when Dr. George K. Stuart occupied his pulpit for the first time in three weeks, preaching with his characteristic vigor an intensely interest ing as we'll as educational sermon on Christianity and Wilson's Fourteen Points
 Some people think God lets all tho good people live and kills the mean ones, said Dr. Stuart, but that is not so, for l have personally known some who lived to be 90 years of age, and they were the meanest old devils l ever saw, while l have to the contrary seen beautiful Christian characters die at the age of 15 and Is and up."
 Using the Scripture to back his utter ances Dr. Stuart delved into the II points of the Presidents basis for peace and made a masterful argument from the standpoint of Christianity and the part it is playing i'll this war
 "The Church of God is to be very prom inent ill the future." he said, "ahd it is going to be raised to the top of the mountain. That is the problem, and we are coming to it. The church is going to be popular and the nations of the earth are going to flow into it. The very laws that will be the basis upon which the government rests will come out of the church.
 GOD WAS IN IT
 "When God Almighty put the words of the IA points that Wilson wrote, into his mind, and gave him the power to frame that note, he never knew, l don't think, what the power behind him was, nor did he know the far reaching effect of those words, but I believe God was in it. believe he is using that man to bring about a peace that will mean the complete disarmament of the world.
 Every principle of this war comes out of the Bible. out of Gods word. The swords shall be beaten into plowshares and the spears into pruning hooks says the Scripture, and instead of the blood Gf man, it is going to be the juice of the grape as we dig into the earth with these former implements of warfare We are going to mold the cannon and the guns into things of service and not of murder.
 The damnable military schools will be closed and we will teach our children to arbitrate instead of to anurder. The seven points of the prophecy will be car ried out.
 "What God Almighty thought when he took man and wrote out the destiny of the world, as he did with President Will son, only He knows but think that he was preparing for just, fair and righteous peace.
 CHRISTIAN COMMERCIALISM
 Take the first clause-the first point of Wilson's basic note for peace. It was for a free, fair open and great broad international peace. The second point calls for an open sea, free navigation and unmolested trade and fair and square commerce of the nations of the earth. In other words a Christian com mercialism. The third point deals with the reduction of the armament of the world to domestic necessities. As sure as there is any character in nations-in a signed statement-we are going to take these old cannon and make things of usefulness of them.
 Russia will be helped-all trouble makers will be removed from her land don't that sound like Christianity? Bel gitim will be evacuated and restored, all old buildings will be restored and every shell hole will be smoothed over and made like it was before. Russia will be made her own master. Italy is going to have her bootleg and all Austria, who doesn't know whose pig she is will have her own pen and a 'nubbin and place to drink. Turkey, gobbling around all over all of the little chickens in her neighborhood, will be made to stay in her own pen. and the old gobbler is go-