The Washington herald., 1922-10-18
CHURCH CONFEREES FLAY
U. S. POLICY OF ISOLATION
America Mus. Not Be Black Sheep of Nations.
Is Keynote of Convention.

Necessity for international CO.
operation was the emphatic note
expressed by speakers before the
conference of Allied Christian So
cieties engaged in Community
Work, which opened at the New
York Avenue Presbyterian Church
yesterday.
Mere declaration of war against
war finds no response in my mind
or heart" declared Rev. NJ. Ashby
Jones, of Atlanta. at last nights
meeting. You can no more boy
colt war than you can boycott
disease. You must clean up your
SO that the germs of
disease can't live in IL.
Flays .Isolation.,
The task of the church is to
make q world in which the war
spirit cannot live. 1t is to make
war against social and political
conditions which inevitably breed
war. The United States cannot do
this alone. nor can other nations
of the world do 1t without the help
of this nation. So long as our
government Is committed to a pol
icy of isolation, We will be i'm
potent and Ineffective The world
will sneer at our dual role OF
Christian philanthropy in rescuing
few children from starvation OF
social wreckage, and our pagan
politics"
Our government, being a de-
mocracy, must be the will of the
people expressed at the ballot box.
DR.. Jones pointed out. Hence the
duty of the church Is to further
the Christian principles that they
Will become the core Of the peo-
pies thought
'The world is an invalid" agreed
Rev. Nehemiah Boynton. of Brook
lyn- The remedy is comradeship.
No high board fence can be built
around America. shutting her away
from other nations. We will 20 up
or down with the world.
Says L. 8. Must $50 In,
America must not be the black
sheep of the nations. She will have
to come in. And in loving the whole
world more we are not loving the
old flag less. The dove of peace is
growing a bright new feather. in
ternationalism."
Change in nsethods and treat
ment of sex education was urged by
Bishop James Cannon. jr.. of Nor
folk. in the principal speech OF the
sfternoon session. New emphasis
mould be placed upon the sacr.dness
of the home and the duty of men
and women to control their appe-
tites.
Bishop Cannon warned the confer
ence that the leopard does not
change his spots and the forces en-
gagged in liquor traf1 are as activs
now as before the eighteenth amend
ment.
Reports and discussion of work
in the various fields weer presented
by Lorne w. Barclay, of the Bo,
Scouts of America; Howard s.
Brancher. Playground and Recrea-
tion Association of America: Miss
Mabel Head. National Board of the
Y. W. C. A; Rev. Henry A. Atkin-
son. World Alliance for Interna-
tional Friendship: A. ]. Shartte,
United Society of Christian En-
deavor; DR.. Frederick Lynch. World
Alliance; Mrs. Charles L. Thompson.
and DR.. G. p. Williams, American
Sunday School Union.
Speakers Urge Unity.
Pleas for unihcation of the work
of the Christian churches in COM
munity service. forgetting the de-
nominational angle when the work
is involved. were presented at the
morning session. DR.. James f
Freeman. rector of the Church of
the Epiphany. emphasized the seri-
BUSINESS of the situation on the
clergy and said that IL laymen had
been handling the problem 1t would
have been solved long ago.
DR.. Hugh S. McGill will discuss
the "Perils of An Incomplete Chris
tion Program" at 10 o'clock this
morning, and Bishop Francis ]. Nc