Evening star., 1943-11-09
Peace Demands
Moral Heroes,
DR.. Crane Says
Detroit Pastor Sounds
Keynote at World
Order Mission

A call for moral heroes" who will
take a leading role in forming
durable peace was sounded today
as lay and church leaders of the
Protestant faiths here gathered for
the Christian Mission on World
Order.
With more than 1000 persons
present in Calvary Baptist Church,
DR.. Henry Hit Crane, pastor of
Detroit Central Methodist Church
and the holder of an airplane pilots
license, sounded the keynote of the
day-long mission, which is part of a
wide movement toward Just
and lasting peace
I'VE are on the beam-on the verv
right track" in searching for the
basis of peace, the speaker declared.
The moral leaders, he said, can be
found among just such a group
assembled today" They do not
have to be big names" in order to
achieve that goal he continued.
Warns of Pressure Groups.
From DR.. Herman J. Sweet of Chi
cago, International Council of Re-
ligion Education, came the assertion
that the new world order "is going
to start where you and I live" Such
order. he said, is all one piece
whether it is at the family or COM
munity, or national, or international
level
Warning against the danger OF
what he termed a drift toward
pressure group thinking" then DR..
Sweet asserted:
What we need in America more
than anything else are a few mil
lion Christians who can say: I
count, and God can depend on me-
Delivers Opening Prayer.
Earlier the Rev. Calvin Wingert.
pastor of Grace Evangelical and Re-
formed Church, delivered the OPEN
ing prayer, in which he declared.
I'VE come. oh Lord. seeking world
order in a world of chaos
Senator Connally, Democrat. Of
Texas, author of the postwar resolu-
ton passed by the Senate last week,
is scheduled to make a brief appear
ance at the session this afternoon,
officials disclosed.
The mission will be climaxed this
evening with two rallies, one at First
Congregational Church for adults
and the second at Mount Vernon
Place Methodist Church for youth.
With DR.. Wilson Compton presiding
at the first mass meeting, DR.. Crane
and Representative Judd, Republic
an; of Minnesota will be the princi.
pal speakers.
Scheduled to address the youth
rally will be DR.. Ewart Turner
former pastor of the American
Church in Berlin. and DR.. Sweet.
One of 100 Meetings.
The Washington mission is one ot
more than 100 such meetings benp
held this month throughout the
Nation under asupices of the Fed
eral Council of Churches of Christ
in America, and four national inter-
denominational agencies. The mis-
sion here is sponsored by the WASH
lngton Federation of Churches and
the Washington Council OF Church
Women. The Federal Council.
meantime, made public the Six Pill
lars Of Peace" as proposed by the
Councils Commission to Study the
Bases Of Just and Dura BILE
Peace-which served as the basis for
mission discussion here and else
where through the Nation. They
are:
Il. The peace must provide the
political framework for a continuing
collaboration of the United Nations
and, in due course, of neutral and
enemy nations.
y. The peace must make provision
Tor bringing within the scope of in
ternational agreement those eco
nomic and financial acts of national
governments which have widespread
international repercussion.
| 3. The peace must make provision
for an organization to adapt the
treaty structure of the world in
! iioAiSHAS' uiiuCl ~ llS CoIlul tlOIlS,
a. The peace must proclaim the
goal OF autonomy for subject peo-
pies, and it must establish interna-
tional organization to assure and
supervise the realization of that end.
IS. The peace must establish pro-
cedures for controlling military es-
Establishments everywhere.
e. The peace must establish in
principle and seek to achieve in prac-
tice, the right of individuals every-
where to religious and intellectual
liberty"
The missions opened nationally
October % when a mass meeting
was held in the Cathedral of st.
John the Divine in New York City.
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