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Show 315' tion of humanity. "here war and lawlessness, an indignity offered to the least in this federation of man. is treason to all. I believe the redeeming power of tlte bullet and the bayonet 31‘) t) the white-bordered banner in beauty shall wave ()‘er the lands and the seas, all God's children to save! "Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just, are gone. I would convert every great battleship in the world And this be our motto, ‘In God is our trust !' into a university. and there is money enough in any one of them 0 the white-bordered banner in beauty shall wave to make a noble foundation; I would dismantle. if I could. the O'er the lands and the seas, all God‘s children to save !" grim fortresses of the world and remand to the tields the supple youths who now people them. Every peasant left in the field l> now compelled to carry on his back as a dead weight, not the one soldier of the old computm tion, but two soldiers. while he hoes the corn. trims the vine and directs the lathe. The history of our country has shown that many who won honor with the bayonet have won dishonor with the ballot. we must rise to this higher history; believe in the universal brother- hood, the divine in every man and the sacred right of every soul. . n- interim rfllllm‘nmn- . . It was the cross and not the sword that Constantine saw in the heavens, by which sign Europe was conquered. The widest known, perhaps the best beloved man on the footstool today bears no crowns. wears no epaulettes. directs no railroads. He is rather the peasant prince who has been foolish enough to take Jesus at his word and who believes that the Golden Rule is work- able-Lyof Tolstoy, in far-oft Russia. Perhaps the head that wears the most regal crown in the estimation of the world todav is the little Queen of Holland, who invited to her palace city the nations of the world in the service of Peace. Let him, then, who would honor his flag rim it with white. Its center may well represent his chosen nation, btit its circum- ference will stand for humanity. He can love his own country only when he loves all its boundaries, when he recognizes that it is but a noble fragment of a greater and a nobler whole-the world. "Our stars and our stripes are now bordered with white, To justice and peace all the nations inviting. 'Tis the emblem of love giving might to the right, All the races and creeds in truth's service uniting. Not by powder and ball, but through love's louder call \‘V'ill the merciful banner yet wave o'er us all. (Dr. \V. W. I'Iinshaw then rendered the song "Danny Deever," which was received with enthusiastic applause from the audience and the delegates.) (The Chairman then stated that it had been suggested that Dr. Ilinshaw also singr the songr entitled "Illinois," which was rendered by Dr. IIinshaw, the audience joining in the chorus.) Tin; CHAIRMAN: When we take steps toward bringing peace somebody has to do the work, and I wish to present to you one of the men who has done a very large part of the work in this direction in our country. Mr. Edwin Ginn, of Boston. Outline of the International School of Peace EDWIN GINN, or Bos'rox Although man has been obliged to fight front the beginning, yet through the development of ages he has risen in a large measure above the necessity of fighting. Formerly the lord had his castle upon a spur of the mountain for defense against the lawless and against his enemies. This custom was extended and they would signal each to the other when danger threatened. Later it was found to be cheaper and better to settle in a town and to build around it high walls which could not be scaled. But the walledvtown stage has long since passed, and we have now reached a state of development where physical force within each nation is applied only as a police force to restrain the vicious and turbulent. But as between nations the earlier conditions still prevail, are and thev still act toward each other as barbarians. They wholly almost other, each of distrust and fear from suffering; unwarranted. In fact, each individual nation wishes to be undis- turbed in the peaceful development of its own resources. Rarely Mum anwll‘ll |