The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-01-14
SUPRA-NATI0NAL
CHURCH FORCE
Religion Must Not BE
Confined by Lines Of
Race Division
LOVE UNITING POWER
Dividing Forces Must Give
Way 10 Universal
Idea i'm Church

CIuCAGO jan a.. Duo f7gf
divides humanity to-day tho uioat
wHt and ~ hts I,rt 10, ria
torn tHuudur hv MUrr great oIctt-
HrpV and t,IuR three challenging
prphlcWv, Dr g. sherwood Eddy ~
Now York told tho annual meeting
~ thr Federal Council uf tho
tIuuthpH ut Christ Iu America
hare The subject WaA Tho church
ana international Relations
1--WE are separated by national
racial nud tlus# strife. every ma
tlnn demaudng scIf.determinatlon
with now iut.ususod uutlpuHlisn
and patriotism ,Nuty race demand.
ing ltT equal and rirhitul place In
the brotherhood OF man, every class
demanding economic freedom ana
moro abundant NO." ho said 1--WE
must return to tho dominant uniting
force uf mighty love. The church
must rcasscrt iia supra national
character.
"Two forcos hre contcndlng In
the church todny--thc centrifugal
and the ccntripctals. tho dyisivo
and uniting forces, the national and
supra national The divlsive forces
during tho last 10 centuries have
been an exclusive nationallsm and
religious soctnrlanism
The Powers OF Division.
Europe lies today divided. i'm
poVoriahed by the great war, yet
In bitterness, hatred and susplcion
IN drifting back into war again, un-
less we can now find means TO pre-
vent Il. by the very terms OF the
treaty Germany ~ becoming the
awcntshop Of tho world, threatening
tho economic situation of Europe.
Frank Vanderlip told uH In Europe
that only great spiritual revival
could save the world Now Ia tho
time to prevcnt future war. In the
light OF the mighty eacrifice that
was made. we must resolve that
these dead shall not have died In
AS | returned from Europe n
wns with the conviction that mod D.
ern war nA n means of settling IN %
ternatlonal disputes IN monstrous
moral wrong for the following rca-
sons.
Il. Because OF the inevltable
wholesale destruction OF human
life, Ten millions of tho flower OF
the worlds youth lio buried on the
battleflelds of Eruope.
"2. Because of the inevitabic
wholesale destruction of noncom
batants. Thirty millions OF non
combatants have already hsoi
killed by those five camp followers
of modern war-further wars. revo.
lutiOn. hunger. famine ana distrese
Keeps Hatred Alive.
~. because Of the enormou
material loss, the waste and destruo
tlon of wealth. and the burden o
debt left upon the nations whic
have increased ten-fold by tho las
war. - nr
~. Because war mortgages tn
future in the ever~increasing rae
for srmaments Now that German
II disarmod. Europe has inoreaso
Its annual expenditure for war. com
pared 10 the preewar standard
three times,
"5 because war Inevitably en-
gcnders hatred. cruelty, reprisals
atrocities and counter atrocities.
80 Because tho propaganda q
modern warfare inevitably victim
Tres tho people ON both sides, an
leads TO loss OF truth and the de
moralizatlon OF both victor an
vanished alike. We must be tol
an unbroken stream Of enemy n
rocitios; every unfavornble fat
about ourselves aud our allies mu,
bo silenced.
80, because modern warfnr,
RH conducted In tho last war. IL ~
human and unchristlan.
"a generation ago the churc
faced tho moral Issue Of shaver
and put an end To Il, To-day "
must face the greater wrong
wnl, and find Its moral equivalent
peace