The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1922-12-21
LOCAL CHURCHES
ASKED TO JOIN
Churches Asked to Help to
Make Sunday a ''WOrld
Peace" Day.


Kenosha churches were asked today
to join in a movement to preach
peace on earth-goodwill to men" IN
every pulpit in the city on next Sun
! aav morning in an appeal sent by the
Federal Council of Churches to 1907
600 congregations throughout the ma
ton to unite in the demand that the
Governments of the world find other
ways to settle disputes than by war.
The message asks for concerted &C
ton not only at Christmas but also for
persistent effort during the year to-
wards the attainment Of an eventually
warless world through international
cooperation.
Christians in 81 countries through
out the world will observe World
Peace Sunday. This was agreed upon
at the Conference of the World Al
lance for International Friendship
Through the Churches in Copenhagen
last summer.
Signed BY Council Officials.
The call of the Federal Council of
Churches is signed by DR.. Robert E.
Speer. its president, DIR. John H. Fin
lev. chairman of it's Commission on
International Justice and Goodwill and
Bishop Charles H. Brent, vice-chair-
man of the Commission. Bishop
Brent was chief-chaplain of the A. E.
7. during the war.
The message is as follows:
''In accordance with the proposal of.
the World Alliance for International
Friendship Through the Churches that
Christmas Sunday, or the Sunday pre-
ceeding Christmas, be recognized in all
nations as World Peace Sunday, the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America urges all churches
throughout our country to cooperate
in this world wide observance.
A Most Appropriate Time.
"When can we more appropriately
voice our appeal for peace than at the
celebration of the coming into the
world of Him whom we hail as the
Prince of Peace? Especially in a year
when we are still haunted by the mem
ory of ten million young men who laid
down their lives in the last war; when
famine and want still stalk in its wake,
intrigue and selfishness again are seek
ing to control the foreign policies of
nations; when rival ornaments and
threats of war tragically harass the
peoples of Europe it would seem to be
the clear obligation of every Church
that bears the name of Christ to raise
its voice unequivocally against the
whole war system and to demand that
the governments of the world find
other ways of settling every dispute
which may arise.
"Other ways can and will be found
if the Christian people of the. world
urgently and persistently demand it.
BY concerted appeal at Christmas
time, followed by persistent effort
during the year we may bear effective
witness to our conviction that war can
be outlawed by the building up of
international agencies for the preser-
walton of peace and the developing of
community life among the nations.
Proclaim mistaken Faith.
"Most of all at this Christmas time
let us proclaim our mistaken faith
that a great increase in the spirit of
trust and brotherhood and goodwill
and this alone, will make world peace
a permanent reality. The task of get
ting rid of war and securing peace
requires international organization,
but it requires more. The trouble in
our present international life is a
spiritual trouble-the attitude of sell
fshness, of fear, of suspicion, among
men in organized groups. So the rem
edy must be spiritual one, the ac-
eeptance of way of life not yet
generally accepted in economic and
International affairs,-the way of
brotherhood of friendly cooperation
and Of love, revealed to us in Him
whose life we now commemorate"