New-York tribune., 1918-08-05
Services Held in
New York Show Unity
Of Allies in Conflict
Pacihsts Excoriated
Camp Upton Chaplain Says
Lord Lansdowne and His
Followers Are Wrong

The fourth anniversary of Great
Britain's entrance into the world war
was celebrated yesterday quietly and
solemnly throughout New York. While
the news OF Allied victory was being
spread New Workers were making the
day special occasion for thanksgiv-
Ing and for prayer.
At Trinity Church. Wall Street
and Broadway, where the British Con-
sui General, Give Bailey; General
Kenyon, of the British Recruiting
Mission, and other British officers at
tended morning service, special tribute
was paid to America as an ally. In
the professional the British flag was
carried with the Stars and Stripes and
the national anthems of both Great
Britain and the United States were
sung
Upton Chaplain breaches
The Rev. DR.. w. T. Manning, chap
lain ut Camp Upton, took for the text
of his sermon this passage from Exc
dus: "This day shall be unto you for
a mem orial."
Though not day of rejoicing, this
4th of August is one of the greatest
Manning. con this day four years
ago Great Britain met the challenge
flung at her and threw all the power
of her vast empire into the fight for
liberty. The whole world knows the
significance of that move. Prussia's
hatred bears sincere testimony to it
and is the truest tribute that Great
Britain could receive.
"The debt that we and ell who love
freedom owe to the British Empire is
one that can never be repaid or for
gotten. From the first week of the
war Britain has held the German feet
captive in the harbor it dares not
leave. British transports have car
ried 60 per cent of our army to
France.
Send Word of Greeting
Britain, like ourselves, was unpre-
neither expected nor desired it, nor
believed that it could come in this
age. For her own preservation she
was forced to leap into the breach all
unprepared as she was, with terrible
results.
"And so on this day Of decision we
send TO Britain this message-to her
King, her government and her people:
"'We Fay tribute without reserve,
OF ADMIRATION without measure, to
your whole people for the part you
have. played in these four years. We
thank God that our men are now fight
ing beside yours. They will be with
you in ever-increasi numbers until
the stern task of the war is completed.
eve want the little group of pactists
in Great Britain, with Lord Lansdowne
among them, to know that their views
will find no support in the United
States, and that their suggestions of
peace by negotiation with the Prussian
power arouse in US only deep moral
disgust. We are not going to barter
with Germany, but will dictate the
terms of a just peace and compel her to
keep them.
Pacifists Are Execrated
'To us in America the position of
these pacitists is disregard of justice
and treason to mankind. 1t is not ad-
vocacy of peace; it is betrayal OF peace
and encouragement of war. We will
hear of no peace by negotiation with a
power which respects no treaty and re
CARDS no law in heaven or on earth
AS President Wilson has said, so long
as Germany is controlled by her pres
ent rulers no nation on earth can take
/ her word
I'VE want peace This is our one and
only desire. But We know that until
the Prussian military power is broken
there can be no peace. No real lover
of peace, no man who cares at all for
justice, can want an lnconclusive end
ing to this war. Because we want peace
we Will listen to no word of peace with
an undefeated and unrepentant Prus-
sa- The necessity to end this war only
! by decisive victory is to the American
people matter of determined resolve
and OF deep religious conviction"
Members of St. Georges Society. the
/ Canadian Society, the Pilgrim Society,
the British War Commission, the
Daughters Of the British Empire and
students of British schools and univer-
sites attended the services. The col
lection was turned over to St. George S