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Show PRESIDENT TALKS TO CHURGHJCOWFEREIMCE Says No Man Is Wise Enough to Pass Judgment on European War IDEALS BEHIND IT ALL Methodists Reminded of the Eternal Principles The Try to Exemplify "WASHIJ-GTOJ. pr 1 8 In a speech beforo the Maryland annual conference of the Method st Protestant church ln sess on here ton ght Pros dent 'Wilson said it was h s bel ef that no man was wiso enough to pronounce judgn ent on the European war at this t me But, he added we can all hold our spints in readiness to accept the truth vihen t is revealed to us in the 0 tcome of th s t tan c struggle The president reminded the delegates that in transacting the business of the r church they were like the n en in charge of the nat on s government in reality handling the phases of the day You are handling the affa rs of the church as they stand under the treat ment of vour generation he 8a d Back of them 1 e the eternal pr nci pies which jou are trying to exemplify in the life of the work back of us here in the government 1 e the eternal pr n ciples of 3 stice and righteousness wh ch in my conviction at any rate we do not der ve from oursel es but from the same source from which a great church derives its inspiration and authority Days of Perplexity It seemed to me that it was worth saying something like th 3 These are days of very great perplexity when a great cloud of trouble hangs and broods over the greater part of the world It seems as if great blind mater al forces had been released wh ch had for long been held in leash and restraint let and underneath it you can see the strong impulses fit groat ideals It would be impossible for men to go through what men are going through on the battlefields of Europe and strug gle through the present dark n ght of their ten ble struggle if it were not that they saw or thought that they saw the broadening or 1 ght where the morn ing should come up and believed that they were standing each on his s de of the contest for some eternal pnnc pie of r ght Spiritual Forces Behind Then all about them all about us, there fa ts the silent wa t ng tr bunal which s go ng to utter ultimate jndg ment upon th s struggle the great tr bunal of the opm on of the vorld and 1 fancy I see I hope that I see I pray that it may be that I do truly see great spiritual forces lying wa t ng for the outcome of th s "ih ng to assert them selves and asserting themselves even now to enlighten our judgment and steady our sp r ts N 0 man is wise enough to pronounce indgment, but we can all hold our sp nts in readiness to accept the truth when it dawns on ns and is reiealed to us m the outcome of th s t tame struggle You will see that it is only in such general terms that one can speak n the m 1st of a confused world because as I have already sa d no mau has the kev to th s confus on. Io man can see the outcome but every man can keep h s own sp r t prepared to contr bute to the net res lit when the outcome d s plays itself What Washington Is That is the reason I said to a body s milar to this only a few months ago that I welcon ed the atmosphere wh ch these solemn assessments of the human sp r t br ng to Wash ngton For th s s the place of assessment. In one sense Washington is not even a part of the Un ted States It s where evervbody else comes and sooner or later speaks h s m nd about the United States and about many outlying parts of the world Mr Bryan and I are constantly aud t-ors t-ors to what I dare say is a large part of the opm on of the world to -judge hy the t me t takes to express t I th nk a very large pa t and to ludge by the ar etv and contrar ety of t 1 dare sav it is a fa r cross sect on of what men are thinking about 8cretary of State Bryan followed the pres dent with an address of wel come to the v s tincr clergy Hi re marks we e confined str ctly to a d s cuss on of the three g eat relat on sh ps wh ch he character zed as government so ety aul rel g on or man s relat on to God Great and tn portant as all these relat onsh ps were Mr Bran sa d hc 1 el e ed rel gion was nost important to the welfare of a na t on |