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Show 68 to one things, but these things cannot be done, for the navies have with the weapons of iron, they were champions of the right by their patience, by their persistence; and this is the highest glory, for righteousness' sake you may suffer, for righteousness will triumph and law and justice are not empty ideas. They are the pillars on which God's throne rests, and the nations may come to that throne, and God, through law and justice, will decide their disputes, and the day will come when swords will be turned into plowshares and lances into pruning hooks. (Applause) and devoured our resources, the armies have received large graves, stupendous stuns. and in the meantime men totter to their children go without their mothers‘ care. and thousands and thousands are left to suffer, and the masses feel that the blood tax is, after all, on them. Rankling discontent strikes deep root in their hearts. They believe that they are treated as though they were merely destined by nature to be food for the cannon, and that the pomp and the glory of war are always tracked by the wrath and the fury of the worst form of social disorganization, lqhow [‘M'le limp" anarchy in the truest sense of the word. For war is organized anarchy, and begets its own offspring,r in individual anarchists. \Vhat is wrong for an individual is wrong for a nation. (Applause) I cannot conceive that when God said, "Thou shalt not kill," He made a mental reservation in favor of organ- ized men as nations, as regiments. as brigades or as army corps. \\'e have paid enough for this worship at the altar of this Moloch, and we wish by this Congress to create a healthier mental atmosphere. In one of the books which we of my religion sometimes read I find this story: It was the day after the defeat of the Egypti» ans, and Miriam and her companions had gone out to sing of the great victory accomplished and to rejoice in the extermination of the enemy: and the angels in heaven, so runs the legend, took tip Miriam‘s song and began to intone the jubilant strains within sound of the very walls where God's own throne was reared. Then from that throne came a heavenly voice of reproof, saying: "The work of My hands. My children, have been drowned in the Red Sea and you would sing songs of joy before me!" That is in the old Hebrew book. a book written, you say, by men who did not know how to fight. It may be not, though they had their Judas Maccabeus; but these men who wrote that book and placed on the lips of God that reproof of the joy in Victory won from battlefield knew what is more than to fight, they knew how to suffer. The world did them wrong. For fifty centuries the world lifted up the hand against them and smote them. but they were like the other Jew who said: "Offer the left cheek to the blow when the right cheek has been struck." To that they were true. They suffered courageously, heroically, and while they were not fighters CHAIRMAN 3AM. . When the Cornell University desired a great president and when the leader of our nation in the time of a great peril desired wise counsel on one of the most important commissions ever formed, that of the Philippines; when the officers of the Second National Peace Congress wished for a wise statesman to express their views~the same man was chosen. The wisdom of the choice we all recognize. it gives us great pleasure to listen to words from l'resident Jacob Could Schurman of Cornell [Ini- versity. (Applause) Forces Which Make for Peace PRESIDENT JAUH) G, Scut'mmx. Brother Burdette has already told you somethingr about t'or- nell University. He says and he is a clergyman-wthat it is easier to get into the army than into Cornell University. because to get into the army you need to have some physique, you need to know something, and you need to have some character. \\'tll. if this were not a peace meeting-(laughter)iall i can say is I am sorry that Brother llurdett‘e was never a member of the t‘oruell athletic team or worked in a (lurnell class room, and had a chance, to get "busted out," as the boys say, or worked and prayed in the Cornell Christian Association. He perhaps under those cir- cumstances would have had a dit‘t‘erent idea of the institution. int my own experience, a: suggested by his remark. eon- vinces me, of the truth of his s yine' that men are lighting :inin \Ve are all fighting animals. lit: and llrother llir, it is in the blood. \\‘eh:1ve inherited it from countless generations of ancestors. |
