New Britain herald., 1925-11-09
END WAR OR RACE,
 MINISTER WARNS
Rev, I, A, Greene Says Con.
 liCtS Will Wipe Out Man

. " ASHA' N'lii "NN'' Nl''a Nb lN'Ns lANp dorc Ainsworth Greene, pastor Of ! the First Congregational church, in an Armistce day sermon yes 1 tcrday morning, Rev. Mir. Greene i predicted that Unless we end war, war will finish off the human race"
 He based his theme on the text from Isaiah, Prom out of Zion shall go forth the law and the i word of the law from Jerusalem
 The sermon was us follows; { "We celebrate this week the seventh anniversary Of the armis- iicc. It is with q very definite pur- pose, then, that 1 take these words of the prophet Isaiah, as the basis of our thought this morning, 1 Prom out of Zion shall so forth the law, and the word Of the Lord 1 from Jcrusalcm.
 "They arc the words Of m ideal ist, a dreamer Of great dreams. i "All men who have shown our race how great things are possible have begun by dreaming Of the i'm possible, Rcformcrs, who died con it,nt to have been the means of q moving forward but one inCh some portion of their fellow men, 1 began by believing themselves able to lift the whole world at once, l And Isaiah was no exception to this human fashion. His first vi. sion was that of a Utopia His first belief. that his countrymeu would immediately realize 1t, Plat, dreamed his ideal republic. Thomas Moore, his 'Utopa,' Eticr Cabot, his Icaria--in Texas. Oi late H. G. Wells. in his Men like Gods, has taken to painting | literary pictures of just such a perfected and fool-proof world Not one Of these dreams has cycl rccn realized. And yet, Christians -- who claim idealism as esSentia to life -- must admit that only b! dreaming and hoping does tho world get on. It is automatic witf us that
 Where there is no vision, the
 people perish.
 But what of this particular vi sion?
 Isaiah is dreaming here yer! grand picture of vast common wealth ccntcrcd in Jerusalem some think he borrowed the dream from an older prophet. Micah ha this idea also. It may have becl the ideal of his age. and his peo pie. At any rate, Isaiah accepts it amplifcs it, makes it his own.
 Ut is evident, at once, that ,l the ideal Jerusalem humanit. shall meet. and law shall reign The prophet sees his own capita as the centre of the world, It is L be the school, the temple, and tn judgment seat of all the nations In his first enthusiasm for thi ideal. Isaiah cries aloud his call { Israel.
 @ House Of Jacob. come yet
 and let us walk in the light of the LorJ.'
 Tt seems to tho young prophet hopeful heart that the idea is sur to take with the people. He feel that by his own glowing words, h can lift them to it's fultillmcnt. II tries. But Judah does not respond A second trial. a second look as sure the young man that, howcvc perfect may he the ideal Jerusalcu of his dreams - the real Jcrusa lem has not yet set law in plaC of war. Neither has it cstablishc he word of the Lord of Hosts a the final authority for world judG mcnt. In the actual Jerusalem c Isaiah's day, foreign Worships an hoathon priests are found Th streets are fairly Chokod with Vast and novel armament, horse and chariots and armed me abound. The real Jerusalem coul not possibly he more different tha the ideal. Nor its inhabitants, a they arc, from what Isaiah call them to become. But Isaiah is no discouraged. For he B no ordinar dreamer And we may best judg the caliber and quality Of tho ma from this single sentence. whic We have taken as our theme today
 From out of Zion shall go
 forth the law. and the word of
 the Lord from Jerusalem.'
 Was there ever dreamer Wh did not imagine for himself a per fccted world, a world in which a men should attain perfect free dom by perfect obedience to per feet law" The very inmost in stinct of any intelligent man Is { order, 10 classify, and to unify hi life. And not only his life, but tn life of the universe in which h finds himself - in so far as h may. Down through the ages me have dreamed and dreamed. An , lSalah's dream concerns us vitall today. For l am not stretching tn truth when l claim that the pee . pie of America. and the thought full people of our world have bee l dreaming the same dream, hopin the same hope now for more tha q century. And the Iast seven veal have brought our own dreams [ : some sort of fruition,
 Isaiah dreamed @,So0 years az Of an ordered world, where Ia would take the place of war An we have shared his hope! We, to- have been looking forward to tn; day when mankind shall
 Beat their swords into plough
 shares and their spears into
 pruning hooks
 To that happy time, when
 nation shall not lift up sword
 against nation, neither shall r they learn war any more "If the last great war taugl thoughtful men anything, 1t Wa this: That - as surely as like be gets like - so surely does Wa , make moro war. War today is nc