The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-06-06
DISARMAMENT OFI NATIONS NECESSARY. FOR PEACE OF WORLD.
Dr. BarnWelI States Movement an Economic Necessity and Religious Ideal-Danger
 of Smother Great War

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 of Smother Great War
 That the government of the United States should take the iniative in the movement for the disarmament of na- tions, not only as an economic neces- sity, but for the future peace of the world, was the subject of strong and timely sermon preached by the Rev. Middleton S. Barnwell, rector of the Church of the Advent, at the morning service yesterday.
 Preceding the sermon, pr. Barnwell read the request from Bishop Tuggle presiding bishop of the council of bishops of the United States, asking that sermon on this subject be preached in all the Episcopal churches and an extract of letter from Gen. Tasker II. Bliss, late chief of staff of the United States army, urging the co-operation of the clergymen in bringing about limitation of arma- ments. These notices, Dr. Barnwell said, were merely his excuse for preaching the sermon, but his real reason for it was that he believed in the movement, heart and soul, not only as an economic necessity, but as re- ligious ideal.
 Cost of Armament
 Tn to the enormous cost of armament and by comparison stated that the cost of the battleship Tennessee" was greater than the endowment of liar death and destruction and the other for the advancement of arts and sciences and the high ideals of civili- zation.
 Referring to war and the causes that led up to 1t Dr. Barnwell said: "The world has been taught to think of wars as political phases of life. l would to God they were, and that politicians were alone involved There never was a war that did not begin with politicians, and never a war that ended there. Politicians weave a tan gled web-and cominb to the end of their wits appeal to national passion and prejudice-then war"
 He said that no nation under the sun had gained by the catastrophe of the last seven years, but all had been adversely affected and that when war affects the happiness and purity Of whole nations it can no longer be ciassed as political, but becomes ire ligious and as such it becomes Chris tian people to combat it.
 Trial By Combat
 He said war was merely the old me- dieval way of settling dispute between individuals that of trial by combat, which he declared was the sillicst pos sible way of settling dispute, and that like the duel, rested on the fal- lacy that s"might is right"
 An unchristian conception of life brought about the World war, he sa1d and that conception of life we must fight now to prevent the ugly neces- sity confronting us again. Wars are not born in a moment. he declared There are occasions and causes. The occasion may be a pistol shot in Ser bia or a mine explosion under ves- sel, but the cause is international dis trust fostered by scheming politicians through a generation previous.
 ile ueCIdTcu that the w Orlu war was not started in 1914, but in 1S70-71, when Germany sought to crush France forever with the imposition of an enor- nous indemnity. with the result that it bred in the French a desire for re- renge, and with the German a desire for world conquest. He said that through the intervening years. na- tional hatred and distrust had been fostered among the politicians of Eu- rope and that the war was the ulti- mate result.
 Fentering Hatred
 He said the same insidious influence is at work in the United States today. In the west by a group of west coast politicians who are fostering hatred of Japan by the constant cry of the yellow peril.' which, he declared was a fallacy. and in the east by the Sim Feiners scheming to bring about a hatred of England by false propo- ganda. which, If not stopped. would in another generation bring about war, more dreadful than the one just ended.
 New inventions for dealing death and destruction have been perfected. he said, and that unless the propaganda and naval appropriations were stopped, the inevitable will be another world catastrophy.
 war Sdl pc SlopPeu, He Sdlu, put IfOt by armament or preparation for war. but by training children to think in terms of the world by the development of confidence among nations that we have among neighbors.
 All Love Peace
 All men are alike in some things, he asserted, they love peace food and shelter and wives and children, and given & chance. they will enjoy these things under the law rather than sac rifice them in bloodshed.
 International peace will come as a growth, like inter community peace has already come. he said. and 1t will come through education and experience and suffering.
 We may already know enough, but have not perhaps suffered enough to declare for world peace. he stated, and that it was because of its suffering na- tions that Europe embraced the League of Nations covenant. while we rejected 1t. If we were as war torn as they, we would believe in it, he declared.
 But, o, why wait for further heart breaks to see the light?' Dr. Barnwell concluded. Why not recognize what God has been trying to teach through out the years that all men are breth- ren? o. teach your children to think and so in your children's day the king doms of earth shall become the king. dom of God.'
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