The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-23
Sunday Sermon
PEACE VISION
NEED OF WORLD,
SAYS DR.. CILR0Y
Propaganda Will Not Solve
Arms Troubles; Spirit
Aid Necessary.
Text: Isaiah 11:1-9
Text: Isaiah 11:1-9
BY VIM. E. GILROY, ID. ID.
Editor of The Congregationalist

If there is any vision that the
world needs at the present time,
it is a vision of peace. But when
we remember that the lesson we
are studying comes out of the an
Gent world, and that the dream
of peace is still unfulf1lled after all
the centuries, it is obvious that we
need in these days not only vision,
but action.
1t is to be noted that Isaiah'S
vision of world peace was not an
idle dream. Peace was not going
to come through some miraculous
or mysterious readjustment of
things, but peace, in the vision of
Isaiah, was associated with right
eousness and justice.
The Prince of Peace, the ideal
and righteous judge who was to eS-
tablish his reign upon earth, would
judge the poor with righteousness.
He would overturn the counsels of
wickedness and injustice and treat
the meek of the earth with equality.
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There is the danger in our mod
ern world of imagining that peace
can come without peaceful attitudes,
and sound foundations in right at
titudes and right living. We are apt
to think that if we have sufficient
propagandiSm in behalf of peace
that if we have enough interna-
tiona1 organizations highly endowed,
that if we can only bring the ma
tons together into world courts or
leagues of nations, the problem of
overcoming war with peace will be
solved
None of these agencies is to be
deSpised or disregarded. w can not
work out great human plans without
publicity, and appeal, and organiza-
ton; but ultimately the power Of
organization depends upon the ex-
tent and quality of the forces or
ganiZed
Disarm in Spirit
The nations never will disarm
outwardly until they have become
disarmed in spirit and purpose, and
until a new spirit of mutual good
will and willingness to live together
has supplanted the present spirit
of distrust, commercial rivalry and
the lust for power.
The cause of peace still finds its
great exemplar and exponent in the
Prince of Peace. 1t is in the princi-
pies of Jesus that the world alone
can have hope. Not that one would
set these principles of Jesus over
against the peaceable and right
eous teachings of other religions,
but because Jesus expressed so fully
and vitality in his life and teaching
the substance of all true religion.
1t is the things that are against
the spirit of Jesus shat are so
menacing in the world today, both in
national and in international life.
AS long as race prejudice and intol-
erance and persecution rule in any
nation the peace of the world is
endangered.
Dark Days Now
These are dark days in which we
are living, from the standpoint of
the cause of peace; but the world
is being driven by events as much
as by ideals to solve this problem of
peace, if civilization itself is to be
preserved. The forces of war have
become so destructive that it is
commonly recognized that whole
peoples may easily be wiped out with
the weapons and resources of mod
ern warfare. The Notifications and
weapons of defense today are al
most powerless to resist attack,
where formerly such defenseS would
have been impregnable.
There is no way out for human
ity, except the right way. If the ma
tons will save themselves, they
must be as attentive to the laws of
health and safety as is necessary
for an individual.
Hence we must preserve the Wis
ion, and at the same time be seek
ing constantly to put it into prac-
tice. 1t is through peaceful ways
and attitudes that peace alone can
be restored to a world torn by dis
sension and diStrust.