| Show IF MEN CAN FIGHT AND DIE AS ALLIES All Races to Have One Place to Pray for Peace THEY CAN WORSHIP AND LIVE AS ALl AL ALLIES i Bv By Il R it H. H i I. I PHILLIPS PRAYER FOR UN U.N. CHAPEL The United Nations is le to provide a non non denominational chapel in its It new home where men of ot all aU nations may pray pray News News Item In this small room will be the cathedral the mosque the synagogue synagogue syna gogue the temple and the parish chapel Within these thull four walls will be he bethe bethe hethe the room prayer-room of ot the world To this place let the white man and the black man the Christian and the Jew the yellow man and the brown man the Hindu the Moslem and the Buddhist men Buddhist men of ot all aU races and creeds creeds gather gather to hear the still small voice of what what- ever God they worship Here lIero the tho representatives of 01 all aU peoples shall come h humbly and In their separate faiths and reach understanding understand ing Inge that will save a stricken world Here lIere let them kneel separately and at a time of ot their own choosing and ask their God or gods that their words and actions may never make a mockery of the precepts of ot whatever religion the they observe and cherish Guide them as they Invoke You Keep their minds clear and make their decisions Just rid them of suspicions fears tears and hatreds Let them never lose sight of the belief bellel that the Supreme Being of their own faith and of ot all aU faiths loathes war and holds peace and the brotherhood of man foremost K Seldom have the representatives of ot peoples from the four lour corners comers of the earth been in a more difficult difficult dif dlf spot rarely have human beings faced tasks more colossal never have their decisions meant mean t life lIle or death jo Joy or misery laughter laugh laugh- ter or tears to so man many millions Grant that they may not quibble over the details of this room Its appointments or its mo mood d. d Help them realize that if men me n can fight and die as allies alUes the they y can worship and live as allies that tha t men who serve together in th the e same armies and navies and In th the e same cause can worship in th the e same cloister and in the same hope hopel Here let all aU men find that if u there is to be one world there mus must tf t be one brotherhood one depth o of f devotion one abiding confidence Ina in it ina oit a Supreme Being Make l them understand that if It a man Is not contaminated in the use of another mans man's council chambers routines and customs In dally considerations he be can never be contaminated b by the tho use nee of a common Ing lag place for n S prayer N ey Here nere may no man forget every faith A R man of faith may find the essence any own faith faiths The belief la In of guidance Prayer is unto How strange that until now no noT who have come together from parts of the earth to face tace the 11 complicated problems of ot X I time have failed to rero provide provid i a c mon meeting place in which to is seek guidance Of all aU moments in history men of every race color end and nd 5 e cree needed divine council this ii h most desperate How barren the ij bd 14 hopeless have been these edifIce of world peace without of a God above I How tutu futile th tees thelt proceedings in council cha tib of ot rooms without one root room 2 a Creator May lay this quiet room be bt hat lowed I Here lIere there Is la no city here no Photographers Photograph no newsreels no tensions Here he may sit not as aa an la iio statesman harassed dip din dip lomat instructed or agent worried over the reactions at home horne b but rather as a n child reaching for th the hand in which he has confidence pleading for the light believing I that nothing matters more than thae than I cause be just I lF- lF This room shall be no device of at architects and con eon crews its value to bej 69 b measured in dollars this shan shall be bea a room dedicated in n the spirit of at all aU faiths a hushed chamber where every man may find the mood of his own temple Within these walls may the United Nations see the universal altar and find that guidance inspiration and wisdom without which there can ean beno be beno beno no lasting peace and no brotherhood brother brother- hood of man Here at last there is room in the inn I |
