Evening journal., 1921-05-30
TAKES ISSUE
With HARVEY
DR.. Alban Richey Critics
Ambassador For London
Speech
WOULD DEMAND
HIS RETIREMENT


ment recently made in an address in
London, as TO why this country en-
tered the World War. He said it was
wonder to him that the nation had
not become so infiamed over the re-
marks as to demand his retirement
from public office. The rector also
denounced any attempt to CONNER
cialize the Christian Church.
"a few days ago." said Doctor
Richey. "the Chief Executive of this
nation stood on one of the great
ocean steamship piers OF the port Of
New York, amid the rows OF caskets
containing the earthly remains OF
over 5000 Of those who answered
the call Of Europe to America, and
made the supreme sacrifice for faith
and freedom And these 5000 were
but a handful in comparison with
the total estimate of forty millions
of human beings killed, wounded. i'll
or disabled, who jeopardized their
lives in the struggle, which. as the
majority hold was the fight Of right
with might.
| "Of Americas proud share in the
greatest conflict in all human history
there can be no question. and 1
should be recreant. believe. to the
spirit of a true American, did 1 not
| lift my voice this morning to chal-
lenge and rebuke the shallow skepti-
cism OF a self-appointed spokesman
for America. who dared recently to
say that her sons gave themselves
not to rescue humanity from all
kinds OF menacing perls, but solely
to save the United States, and most
reluctantly and laggardly at that
The wonder to me is that the
conscience OF a whole nation is not
so inhamed with a righteously indig-
nant reputation of such a base
slander as to demand his retirement
from public office for betrayal of a
sacred trust
1T is not long since a bishop of
the church incurred the resentment
OF many people in proclaiming the
dominance in America of a mere
commercial ethic, which called forth
a food Of denunciation from the So
called vested interests of this coun-
try May we not ask whether his
charge, after all. has not some foun-
dation II what our ambassador to
England told the Pilgrim Society be
true?
Must Maintain the Faith.
And shall we not stop this morn
ing. when the call is ringing in our
ears; Lest we forget, to consider
whether the heart of the nation is
really sound and worthy of the sac
rifce her sons made for her.
! tsNtTn must tfn or.r faI,
sent a thrill throughout the world
as it echoed from the heights Of Yer
dun: They shall not passl' Pre-
cious memories OF other days and
wars come to sustain us. too, i'm our
determination to hold fast this faith;
persistent in the past, and promising
ultimate victory in the future What
ever men of the world may think or
say we Christians know that it is
our high mission to be the salt Of
the earth the light Of a world that
sits in darkness till the day-star from
on high shall rise with healing in its
wings.
1T seems to me that instead Of
wasting our time in idle speculation
about the present welfare OF that
vast host of those who made the
supreme sacrifice we might better
reverse the picture and ask: What
do they think OF us for whom they
laid down their lives?'
Calls for Disarmament
why should America not be lead
ing in some immediate plan for dis
armament? How long shall party
politicians be allowed to delude
themselves and others with the fool
ish cry Of isolation from foreign en-
r tanglements, when the nations Of the
world seem to be so knit together
by joints and bands of mutual de-
/ pendcnce as to render such a policy
4 | absolutely impossible since economic
% law and the moral law are found al
last to be in perfect harmony in their
demand for unity?
But Il is not only in questions OF
G international relations that the voice
OF the Christian conscience Of the
nation must speak out. IL must ut.
q ter its voice with no uncertain sound
upon domestic questions too. In or
a der that there should be peace
abroad, there must be peace at home
II war must cease, then it must be
all wars. not merely some wars. Ant
so the Christian conscience must de.
clare that industrial war shall cease
class war must stop, the war. fol
q IL is war, between capital and labor
must cease; the war born of wha
men are pleased TO disguise for con
venience as economic law, for tn,
purpose Of escaping moral response
bility-that must cease. A civiliza
ton based ultimately upon no higher
/ principle than satisfaction of ami
NAL appetite must fail
Church Above Capital and Labor.
Propaganda such as that Of tn,
Employers Association OF Pitts
burgh. and the Lusk Committee. OF
New York, compel that the voice Of
Christian conscience be heard in tho
land, declaring on the one hand tC
capitalist and employer that tn,
church is not for sale when bis
business threatens TO muzzle the
, pulpit for protesting in Christs name
against the tyranny Of trade.
Nor viii she quail before thoss
: who would brand her as red wher
she breaches the gospel OF the Mas
ter OF Men, that a mans life con.
sisteth not in the abundance OF
things which he possesseth, and OF
the other hand she must notify thos,
u who seek to commit her to any so.
cial programs of doubtful politica