The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-09
PEACE PROBLEMS !. TRYING AS WAR
McAdOO's Views on Inter church World Movement
 Praised By Minister

"The Interchurch World Movement is the board of strategy in the new or ganizaton of the Christian forces of the world" says Rev. James o. Grogan,
 state secretary of the Interchurch World Movement in Alabama, and the finest statement of the aims and purposes or
 the interchurch movement that have yet read is contained in the following statement made by William G. McAdoo in a recent address delivered in the city of Chicago:
 Tt is as follows:
 The whole world seems adrift these days. After five years of the most terrible war in the annals Of manKlno We find that the problems of peace. are in many respects more difficult than
 the problems of war A deep unrest pervades the world statesmen are grop- ing in the dark and feeble voices cry out amid a tumult of discordant tongues
 and conflicting purpose. No lllumlnat- ing and directing voices gives promise or a solution of the many problems thdt confront the human race. It is frult- ful time for the agtator and the denla- gogue, for self-exploitation, for trluiHcn- ant greed for heartless selfishness. 'The poor and oppressed Tn every land are as usual the chief sufferers and the contrast between their condl- ton and that of the favored lew Wno live in complacent ease and luxury IS more striking than every. EVeryWhere the cry is for peace order, security anu opportunity for life, liberty and the ppr- suit of happiness and yet there IS no response. ".After all the terrible sacrifices or the war in blood and treasure, the suf- i fering of those who survived the actual fighting in the ranks and the misery, poverty and agony of the millions of l1l, hoe xul,n n fought in the ranks, should excite char itv and pity in human hearts every where. Nothing but the divine spirit of Christ can calm the troubled waters and bring that peace and contentment for which the human soul yearns.
 But reaction and materialism seem everywhere to be in the saddle. Wlld extravaganza. lust for pleasure. the de-
 sire for ease. pervade apparently every
 class. Superficial and half-baked reme-
 dies are offered from every quarter
 Mems minds are in confusion; there is nc
 com mpreher sion of the real problems, and
 so long as there is no comprehension ny
 intelligent remedies can be offered. It does seem as If God had in fact won the war, and that the devil had won the peace. What we need immediately is to organize and revitalize the great spiritual forces of the world We need less of politics and more of Christian re- ligion. We need to bring into operation those great Christian doctrines and forces which have always been not alone the chief anchorage, but the very saliva ton of civilization.
 Leaders of the church have been in- spired to see this, and it is out of that inspiration that the Interchurch World Movement has sprung. These leaders realize more than ever the magnitude oi the forces of evil and that they cannot fight them effectively in separate detach-
 m4pts. They realize that the Christian forces must present a united front. and that. while each division must fight un-
 der it's own colors. yet all must light in