The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-07
WORLD JUSTICE.
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quite long time after peace comes.
Sepd your nurses into our training
school in order that we may get them
out. You need not be afraid of an over
supply of nurses. The public health
Geld is understocked and always has
been. She urged the people to encour
age the young women to get into the
work. 1t is a patriotic duty to serve
rs nurse and the health of the ma
tion is a very vital asset
BY way of bringing out wildly the
point of his address, Rev. Mr.. Cum
mings told q parable of two men from
the planet Mans who were sent to make
observations on the earth. Mr. East
| man was to travel from east to west to
! find out the two greatest hindrances to
! civilization. while Mr. Westman was
| to journey from west to east to dis
cover the two greatest helps to civili-
cation. Mr.. Eastman reported that he
was disappointed in what he saw.
| There was anarchy and chaos and no
international council on the planet
earth; no international parliament,
Judge or sheriff. Billions We're spent on
processes for destruction and this pre-
ceded great disaster in the form OF
| . world war, score of nations being
litted against another group of nations
People called Christians had killed rcIi.
Sioa; groups of religious peoples had
uuarreled with one another, there was
distrust and they had declared religion.
war on one another and this had divid
cd the world into hostile groups insteat
of uniting them.
Mr.. Westman said that he found tn,
religious seets and denominations hat
divided the peoples up instead of unit
ing them. They were divided into de
nominations and the denominations acr
divided into parish families. lie SAT-
that the two greatest helps to civiliza
ton on the planet Mars were on the ON
hand patriotism and on the other han
religion. Patriotism was the creates
help because it had given them all Tia
: civilization, all the progress, thus ia
obtained.
Patriotism Is in reality a large fami
of families loving devotion. Mr. Cum
mings said that the peacema ken
: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
Thomas jefferson and others, worke
for larger family-thc organization Q
e the United States, new kind OF coul
try conceived in liberty. Others hay
tried to arrange for an iaternation;
aud supernatural peace and just as ii
next great step was to be taken I'll
UNITED states of Germany launched upo
the wotld a great war,
Religion WAS the other great hel
to civilization, Ia spite of the many n;
!. tioNal AID UNCONVENTIONAL religions Il
d thought that rcrvadcd it all was ii
e belief in the one great universal spir
a OF the Father. The great fundament
Ie universal religious convictions of q
children TO that one Father and gre;
universal teachings of their gre;
it savior s religious and moral teaching
N recognizing the inspiring truth of VIII
d. religion really stands for and TIL
n measures which heretofore have divi
= ed the world into hostile groups sha
when the victory is won, unite them in
: one family, working all together.
great church militant, fighting togeth
for the establishment of the kingdo
of God.
After the audience had sung one yer
Of the Star Spapgcd Banner Rev. n
Clapp introduced Rev Dr. Merrill, w
said that the man who had just spok
was introduced as Mr.. Cummings,
that he really WAS II. G. Wells of En-
land, as no one else could have paint
such picture.
DIR. Merrill said that America was
the war for but one gain, and that W
the establishment of an organization OF
society of nations. We have gone in
the war only to effect an information
1 Justice The war is an issue between 4
spirit which seeks the best place in t
sun" and the spirit which seeks OF
ones proper place in family of natio
In great wars Germany has brok
through and robbed nations and fou
it profitable and it was for gains of t
kind that she was tempted and fell
1914 There must be defense of int
nationalism by setting up an inter-
tional organization, to which the Pre-
dent refers, and the strong statesn
are referring continually to the gr
worth of league of nations. 1t is
idea with which we entered the war q
it is the idea for which we are prosec
i ling the war. Let US not be deceived {
say there will be no next war 1
treaty between Russia and Germany