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Show I A CHRISTIAN SOCIALIST'S VIEW, "ftditor Standard I agree with your view, in Tuesday s Standard, of tne President's proclamation setting apart Sunday, October 4. as a day of prayer for peace in Europe. And further, fur-ther, I believe, that Christian people have a right to ask Almighty Cod to do for them those things that thoy deslrc to have done and are unable to do for themselves, but that they are imposing upon Him by asking for those things which the refuse or neglect, to do for themselves. "The church and Christian people throughout the world heartily support the thing that is the cause of war I modern commercialism and so long as It exists wars will be waged, and it is but h mockery to ask God for peace while they support that which makes war If as you say, 'the war is the work Of the devil' and I will not disagree from you surely the cause of war Is j his work also, and when tho church and Christian people shall, on their knees, confess their past sins and neglect of duty, and then Bbind erect and work to abolish the cause of war, the world will have peace, and the President may proclaim a day of Thanksgiving (Signed) C E. Dennett, Den-nett, 2229 Lincoln Avenue." .Mr Dennett is right in chnrging modern commercialism as being the cause of the war The intense commercial com-mercial rivalry of Great Britain on the one side and Germany on tho other has been the underlying cnuso of tho conflict But even with our modern commercialism, if there had been neither kings nor emperors, the war would have been impossible. Had Cerm.my been a republic during tho past five years, the present struggle would have been avoided The divine di-vine right of kings has played a mighty part in throwing countless thousands of nun into an arena to fight and kill. nn |