Evening journal., 1921-11-07
WORLDLESSON
FROM WAREVILS
DR.. Dole Says Gods Truth
Worked Through Mighty
Conflict
HOPES SWORD NEVER
WILL BE USED AGAIN


terday as bearing on the Limitation
OF Armaments Conference to convene
Friday in Washington.
DR. Dole. in the course of his SER
mon. said:
Many people shall go and say.
come ye. and let us 20 up TO the
mountain OF the Lord to the house
of the God OF Jacob: and He will
teach us Of His ways. and we will
walk in His paths; for out OF Zion
shall go forth the law. and the word
of the Lord from Jerusalem.
And He shall judge among the
nations, and shall rebuke many peo-
pie. and they shall beat their swords
into plowshares. and their spears
into pruning hooks. nation shall not
life up sword against nation. neither
shall they learn war any more. o
house Of Jacob. come ye, and let us
walk in the light OF the Lord,
Isaiah H. SIS.
wonderful is our Bible-the Law
and Word OF Godl Here. in this
stirring and pleading text. is not
only a prophecy Of the universal
peace that every Christian Graves.
a
means by which II can and shall be
secured.
Many people shall go and say,
come ye. and let us go up to the
mount upon which Jerusalem stood ?
We are clearly told, because from
there went forth the law. and the
Word Of the Lord II is not to
Jerusalem as a place that all ma
tons are called. but TO that for
which the old Jerusalem stood, the
law and the Word Of the Lord The
law is Gods law, the law that
brings His favoring presence. power
blessings and peace. He is in His
Word and accomplishes by Il. His
law and word teach us OF His ways
that We may see to walk in His
paths
''Sometimes we hear II said that
the Word Is outgrown and that we
need a modern Word. The Word OF
God is and always will be modern.
It contains and teaches every truth
OF life and sets up in the life OF
Christ an eternal ideal ever TO grow
brighter. The Word is and always
will be the primary formative. Gre
ative power in the world. About Il
centers and always will center the
highest civilization. From It alone
come the truths that will make all
things new or II is truly said, II
shall accomplish that which please
and It shall prosper in the thing
whereto I sent it,
1T is God in His Word-the truths
or the Word-that shall Judge
buke many people We hear much
about the nations being reluctant to
surrender what Is called national
sovereignty. Only in a most limited
sense is a nation sovereign. The
truths OF the Word are sovereign
over all the nations. and they re-
buke many people in repressing sell
fshness and exacting justice.
And how today the many people
are rebuked by the Word of Cod
Tho best energies. material and men
tai, have been spent vielng in arm
ament and drilling for war, thinking
that Beelzebub might be cast out by
Beelzebub. Up to the present time
nations have not believed in peace.
but in war. They have thought that
war might bring profits. Are We
not now undeceived by the millions
of parents who mourn their dead, b,
the millions OF orphaned children, b,
the millions OF bereaved wives? Ar,
we not undeceived by the wave o
crime submerging the world, by tn
heavy burden OF debt laid upon tn
posterity OF the warning nations, b.
the devastation that lies vas
abroad. both material and spiritual
And all this suffering. blight. bur
den and wretchedness for nothing
For what nation has gained mate
rally by the war? Does not tn
Word of God, which enjoins justic
and Judgment, peace and good viii
today rebuke many people2
In the dark days of the war tn
hearts OF many failed them, thinkin
that the great. cause was lost 1t /
said that Clemenceau avows no faitl
in God. His hope failed him in ad
versity. Foch believes that Go,
rules. Never in the mighty struggl,
did faith in victory fail him. 'Thot
wilt keep him in perfect peace who's,
mind is stayed on thee There were
those who saw clearly that Cod:
truth was working through the
mighty conflict 10 a more glorious
dominion, and the blackest clouds
never dimmed their vision.
There were those who saw how
God ever desires peace, and how the
selhshness Of His enemies has pre-
vented. The world was not ready
for peace. II wanted war, con-
quest and the spons The world. like
the Individual. could be led out OF
It's evils only by being allowed to 20
INTO them and learn the lesson: il
nao 20 be let into temptation to con-
quer tne evil that leads into tempta-
Ion The world has now had tho
essentiai experience IL secs fbe
evils OF war. 1t has learned that ~,
human family is a unit: that on,
nauon cannot suffer without AN na,
uons sharing In the afiiction. tha
one nation cannot be reconstructe,
without the reconstruction ~ an -
tons God grant that by The mn,
versal affiiction, all may acknowlea. /.
that justice and judgment No.
and good will. summarized as cod
law, are the only profitable and ga,
ing Sowers.
To-day the nations are loolxi,
hack over the ruins caused by fal
principles. May this self-examin
ton bring true repentance. As nvy
before. the Golden Rule is embla
oned across the skies. Delegates a
assemblins IN our Capitai to asce
tain the way Of peace. Thus out
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