Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-08-28
SOME THINGS ARE WORSE THAN WAR

VIZ AR is an awful calamity.
express. During the four years of
the World W>r, from 1914 to 1913, more
than three hundred billions of dollars, the
accumulated fruits of human toll for CEN
turtles WEI. consumed In the hideous con-
| flagratiOn
War wastes treasure far moro precious
than gold ana silver. 1t squanders the lives
of youth. 1t Stays not the aged who are
already about to drop into the tomb 1t
! Kills not thu sick and feeble WAC have but
| little strength Cor labor and but a frail hold
on life 1t sacrifices the young whh all
their productive powers and joyous hopeful
ness.
War fills the lands Of bellgerents with
grief and woe. Multiplied thousands of be-
reaved Rachels aro made to weep, refusing
to be comforted because their manly sons
are not
Is it not strange, therefore, that the heart
of humanity yearns for waTless world. OF
Such a golden age of universal peace poets
have sung and Seers have pTephesed; and
the souls of men have been cheered hy their
visions.
Some day the glorious hope will be full
filled when the swords Of soldiers shall be
beaten into pruning hooks, and nation shall
not lift up sword against nation neither
shall they learn war any more. (lsaiah-ll: e.
For the coming of that blessed time all low
ing and devout souls will pray and for the
Fastening of it's coming all Christian hands
will labor earnestly and persistently.
But the idle dreams and vain endeavors
of pacificism will not bring it nigh. They
will rather delay it's coming and bring dis
appointment to the hopes which they inspire
in breasts too trustful of their ill-conceived
visions.
The area of peace never be wider
than the area of righteousness without MAX
ing room for wickedness which ought not
to be tolerated. A regenerated world,
IF oil
before we can have warless world, how
ever we may love peace and abhor war.
No right-minded person wishes to see any
human being killed. but some n.Nst be slain
in order to preserve many more. alive. hence
the word of the Scriptures, Whose she'd
deth mans blood by man shall his blood be
shed; for in the image of God made he
man" Genesis iX:6O Human life is too
sacred TO be left unprotected from the muir
derous assaults of the 1awess. Wherefore,
we are taught that the executive OF civil
war is the minister of God for good: for
he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is
the minister of God revenger to execute
wrath upon him that doeth evil" (Romans
xiii: A..
It is dreadful to kill burglar, but it is
far more dreadful for burglar to kill good
citizen and go forth UNPUBLISHED, with power
to kill many more The life of one good man
is worth more than all the lives of all the
burglars in city.
AS long as there are thieves and burglars
and murderers and rapists we must have con-
stables and sheriffs, and policemen, and these
officers of the law will have to take human
lives betimes in order to save far more HUI
man lives of much nobler quality and greater
value
Otherwise orderly government must give
place to anarchy and lawless wickedness will
rule the pure and peaceable.
7 In like manner burglarOus nations must be
restrained and punished by the armed forces
of nobler nations. Armies and navies are re-
qured at the present stage of the moral life Of
mankind, and it seems that they will be neces-
sary for many years to come, however re-
grettabe the necessity may be-
There is one thing that is worse than war.
Powerful wickedness tramLling under foot all
righteousness and practicing bloody oppression
is worse than war. 1t is worth taking up
arms and fight even unto death to arrest it
in its wild career, or to put it off the planet.
1t has been said that Liberty in it's last
analysis is the blood of the brave and so it
is. For the selfishness of wickedness would
enslave all mankind, if it dared, and if it
feared not the resistance of force which it's
attempts would call forth. world full Of
war would be better than world full Of
slaves. Freedom is more precious than Eeace
The going Of our brave boys to Europe to
help put down a wicked assault upon the lib
erty and peace of mankind was a mission of
mercy to the world truly as it was an