Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-11-03
PLEA FOR LEAGUE
/. BY REv.F. H. STEAD
London Clergyman Sees Op-
portunity for U. S. to Ameri-
canize World.

America is called to a divine work of
| reconstruction, comparable only with
| that to which the Israelites were sum-
moned by the Prophet Isaiah. in the
opinion of Rev. F. Herbert Stead of
London, brother of the late William
T. Stead, who spoke yesterday at the
First Baptist Church on THE Cali to
America The speaker was intro
duced by DR.. Henry Allen Upper, the
pastor.
The words of the prophet. 1T is too
light thing that thou shouldst be my
servant to raise up the tribe of Jacob
and to restore the preserved of Israel:
VIII also give thee for light to the
nations that thou mayest be my sal
vation to the ends of the EARTH" gave
Mr., Stead his text. and the same call
to International service, he said, came
to America.
Urges Treaty Ratification.
AS an answer to this demand he
urged the ratification of the peace
treaty with its league of nations cove
nant- The document was far from per-
iect, he said, but it presented divine
! invitation to all nations. and most of
all to the United States. to unite the
world in the maintenance of peace.
1T is too light thing for you to
Americanize the United States: you
have before you the God-given oppor-
tunity Of Americanizing the world"
said Mr.. Stead. ut is more than
God-siven opportunity. 1t is God-im-
proved obligation.
You have shivered the worlds autoc-
racies. However badly, they did at
| least govern. Dare you think of leav-
| ing their unframed and undisciplined
peoples to go laundering on through
bioodshed into anarchy? Are you not
morally bound by the terrible destruc-
I ho We
full share in the necessary constructive
work? Armenia calls to you. Anatolia
calls to you. Gallipoli and Constants
nopie calls to you: Come over and
| And the rest of the powers .s T.
were on Bonded knee. urge their claims
| and from the distracter souls of the
new peoples OF Central Europe rises the
nope that you, impartial. aftruistic, hu-
Iiane. VIII guide and shephers and nur-
| ture them into stable freedom.
May Have to Feed World.
You may have to feed the world.
That is mere matter of business Rnt
IN the name of the highest l will dare
70 say: You are called to abolish war
from the face of the earth. You can
90 1t as no other power can do it.
| me instrument is prepared by
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can be done. The prophet in this very
chapter speaks of "A Covenant of the
Peoples A covenant of the peopIes
IS already before you. Its acceptance
by the world has only been made pos
s1ble, first, by the war, and. second
by the wonderful utterances of your
great President. It is the word and
the weight Of the United States which
! which have stamped upon the con-
! science of the planet the league of
nations covenant
| That document is far from perfect
or practically effective, but with all
| it's imperfections it presents a divine
| invitation to all the nations, and,
most of all to the United States. to
unite the world in the maintenance
| Of peace. 1t is an invitation which,
once it is viewed by the American
people, not in the light of pure poll
tics or personal pique. but in the
| light of the Eternal purpose cannot
believe the American people will re-
| ject.
THE United States, more than any
power. can give effect to the vision
of Daniel, which saw established in
succession to the empires of brutal
force, kingdom of humanity. which
should include all peoples. nations
and languages in the bond of per-
! petual peace"