Connecticut western news., 1921-11-10
CHURCHES AND LIMI- EATON OF APARTMENTS Timely Subject of Unusual Interest, Especially
 This Week

From the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, rep resenting we'll over q score of the strongest and most forward looking among the denominations has gone out ringing appeal to 150,000 of our American churches, asking that they observe these days of Armistice week, by special meetings of prayer and consecration in connection with the coming Conference on the Limi- tation of Armaments.
 To all good citizens to all lovers of humanity, but especially to all Christian people should the con- ference present a great opportunity and carry a deep significance. Let all such in these days declare with an insistsnce that may not be waved aside that war is an unmitigated curse to humanity, and denial of the Christian gospel.
 Three short years since the signing of the armistice have given us scant opportunity to forget the memory of more than ten million lives laid down on the alter of sacrifice, of countless homes bearing burdens of anguish and suffering, of destruc- tion and pestilence that have sprung from the war and still ravage whole peoples, of the aftermath of bitter ness suspicion and hate which per- vades all lands: these are powerful considerations bidding us find some solution other than an appeal to arms, for the settlement of inter- national difficulties. But when we have weighed and considered them all we have not reached the neart of the matter. The issue of the abolition of war is not a scientific, not a political not an economic issue, chiefly. At bottom it is moral and religious one. It is not primarily a matter of more or less armament it is matter of plain obedience ur disobedience of Gods imm utable moral laws which demand that men love one another and bear one anoth- er's burdens.
 Let us not shrink then from pro- claiming unequivocally that war is not a necessity, that the pacific set clement of every international ques- tion is possible, that a warless world can really be achieved. Our witness must be unmistakable that force is not the final arbiter among the nations, but that justice reason and goodwill can control their life as we'll as the life of individual men.
 Let there be throughout the Chris tian Church fire of holy indignation not only against war but also against the mad competition in armaments which has nourished suspicion, ill., will and fear, and from which wars have always sprung and always will. Mindful of the terrible consequences of national selfishness let us humbly confess our own share of national sin in participating in this race of arrna- ments, in seeking our own advantage regardless of neighbors, in adding to the worlds burden of suspicion and distrust.
 Let us on this third anniversary of our deliverance from the scourge of the great struggle dedicate ourselves anew to building in this war-ridden earth the City of our God, foretold by the mouth of his prophets since the world began.
 ! A Creed for Believers in a Warless World.
 1! We believe in a sweeping re- duction in armaments.
 2. We believe in international law, courts of justice and boards sf arbitration.
 8. We believe in a worldwide association of nations for world peace. .r
 4. We believe in equality of race treatment.
 5. We believe that Christian pa- triotism demands the practice sf goodwill between nations.
 6. We believe that nations no less than individuals are subject to Gods immutable moral laws.
 2. We believe thta peoples achieve true welfare, greatness and honor through just dealing and unselfsh service.
 8. We believe that nations that are Christian have special interna- tional obligations.
 9. We believe that the spirit of Christian brotherhood, can conquer eevry barrier of trade, color, creed and race.
 10. We believe in a warless world and dedicate ourselves to it's achievement.-Rev. A. K. Skinner.