New Britain herald., 1929-11-11
Rev. Theodore A. Greene Says Nations Must De- velop Confidence in Each Others Good Faith.

T tbc statomen of the world but on the | common reople, according to Rev. 'I Theodore Ainsworth Greene, pastor of the First Congregational church. {,, in an Armistice Day sermon yeS'e'- h day morning.
 Tn his sermon Rev. Mr. Greene Il took as his subject:
 Making the Peace Pact Work
 He said, Tomorrow at :oP o'clock the bells of Christian churches all over the land will toll IN and then will come those two mlh- mites of reverent silence, which marx 'our Armisticc anniversary pracuce in America Eleven years ago, at four o'clock in the morning the k World War ended in little railway l Fear behind the allied lines in France God grant it may prove the las, crcat war this world shall ever ! know,
 "Who can forget the wild, out n. 'brealing. cNultant joy which greclcI thc news Of that great armlstlce OH November II. l9fS? How our pent- lp hopes and longnGS burst iorb' Pike d flood. when the dam preahS' Ono or the clcarcst and most impress ~lyc memories of my life is tho DIG I turc of those iubilant throngS that .surgcd mp and down Fifth avenue and Broadway in New York. filed the old brick church to orerhoWihg dI -ba noon service, and joined, each 'A his own tongue and fashion. in that 'Frae,n of tho Christmas angels on rn,, day of Christ's nativity
 Glory to God in the Highest,
 EE Peace or Earth Good Will to Men, gS "All this was the natural oApr'S- sion of emotion at the time. But how much better now the two mn 1uos of silence. Today as always we learn more from the still small r,oicn than from the carthquakc' ,,;nd and fire, the tumult and the shouting. We need to think qulclIN and to act rcsolutoiy now I'll ,h.S A,attcr of war and peace. for It IS today tho one question ot supreme Importauco to all Christians every where. We need to pause ana re- 7nomhcr with poignant apprecla'lo" Those 5000. GOO men, who died m tbe armies of the world on both sides of the line, died hoping for an Yl eventual and lasting peace.
 we need to echo once aSalh V'e words of Kipling's 'RccessionaI Just sung by our choir;
 e'T,ord God of Hosts be with us Ae'' Lest VIC forget: lest we forget
 t eve need to keep fresh Tn mefn- ! ,,,,. all the horror of it: to let those nr ,hc younger generation. growing in with no personal memories ot t.1c black war days, know what 'chastly. frghtful time 1t was
 eve need also. to let them know .o,,ctbinr of the hcroism with ,rhirh millions Of mon and Won'eh' tombantants and -combatah'S -nko. faced that awful hell ana wont through it without f'mchlnE' e1ch books as "All Quiet on the .ycstorn Front such plays as Jour Iay.s End.' thcsc constitute for ns ,,cmorios terrible and magnificent Ind we must never let them grow ,dim' ~ ,o po,co
 "Eut we must make this annNHr- s2rv of tho World war armlStlcc rluch more than just q day Of mon- h,ry It must be a day of conSocra lion also. And we must here rcded'- cate our lives to the cause Of a peaceful world in which sucl lining as war shall never be again.
 "At last. and I say it now "''n an humility and carn"StnoSS' 'hanN ! God at last we begin 10 S'" '"' davniuA. of a better day Npon 'n' H3borizon Of q war-sDcnt and moro nearly peace conscious world. IL I' lurhly significant and a cause to' doon gratitude that, at the end o' iii ,nars of armisticc. tho nations o Inc world have joined in a solemn act Of agreement 10 condemn ah' rcuouncc war. Six years or moro eco, at the Washington dlsar,na' iment conference, Mir. Hughes 'he' ,ocrotarv of state vcntcurcd th' definite statement:
 "'Wc have learned that prepara }.,,ion for war makes for war ant not for peace.
 "I believe that was tho first Tn ,tancc. where a responsible offlcla ,nf any great government went SC Tar as 10 say such thlnG 10 'h' diplomats of other nations. 1he' rame his successor, Mir. kelloSS who made it palmer Stlll.
 "'Modcrn war he declared 1 hn assault on civilization itself.' Ant ru honor 10 Mir. Kellogg, for he no only said so. but he set to "ofN 1' E'o something about it. Aided by M Erand Of France. ho has snccc'no' in leading tho nations to the S(gh'h' of an agreement which remove var from the list of honorablH 'h Comprises. and places it now ana TOT -vcr under the ban
 H. "1t Is worth our while here t < taad over the simple but solemn Strcvords of this international agree lnant signed in Paris on August 27th 1a2S, and ratified now by the Nnite' States and forty-siX other nation bf the world.
 | "ArtiCle 1. The high Contract'n harties solemnly declare in tn names of their respective people that they condemn recourse to Wa M Sor the solution of international con trovcrseS and renouncc it as an in ,,rumcnt Of national policy in thei relations with ono another. ] "'Articlc 9. The high coutractin NartioS agree that the settlement o l .oIution of all disputes or conflict wlf ,f whatever nature or of Whatevo III ,rigin they may he. which ma III jrisc among them. shall never b rought except by pacific means People Rcrl Pcaccn,allrrs HI "Eut it will be infinitely nor worth our while to attempt here I |