| Show war Antiqua antiquated in its spirit Is on trial in europe and will be discarded by BISHOP JOHN W HAMILTON chancellor of the Ame american university ty 1 there is a sin single oe standard of ethics for nations as for individuals what i is s right for one is right for the other but it is far more difficult for nations to accept and adhere to this stan standard daril than for individuals the one man trusts in liis his appeal to righteous authority and competent government to guard his faith and conduct and defend liis his adherence to righteousness and truth government is the embodiment of power and restraint a city of refuge nations are often prone to think they haye have no appeal hut but to themselves war is an antiquated thing in its spirit hatred atred Ii cruelty barba barbarity rity there is nothing now new in this greatest of tragedies except in the disco discovery very and invention of more unmanly and brutal torture it is a belated thing and belongs with a belated people it is both a mode and measure of paganism there is nothing christian about it the only definition is that might makes right there can be no defense of it worthy of any name by even the mentho men who make a vocation of it I 1 repeat it is paganism and what is paganism but the natural expression of physical force an and d force inspired by malignity it settles nothing never did settle anything it is not christianity that is on trial in europe but physical force and war already 91 ready the i belligerent nations themselves are crying for the hing kingdom doin of peace if this is not the last war there will be a last one the sword shall be beaten into plowshares the spear into pruning hooks I 1 I 1 know of no advocate of peace who would submit to the law of the jungle and make no resistance A when brutes drive them to temporary expedients but the world will not always be a jungle and men will not always be brutes |
