| Show the arr 0 ace of peace FAMOUS lM BY ay WILLIAM IENNI IE BRYAN AT NUMEROUS AND Y iti C AS AND A AT T TOKYO MANILA BOMBAY I 1 offer no apology for speaking upon tillon a religious theme for it Is the most universal ol of nil all tb themes ems it I 1 addressed aou ou upon the subject ol of luw I 1 might interest the lie lawyers it if I 1 di discussed tile science of medicine I 1 II 11 might inte interest iest he physicians I 1 in like manner merchants might be interested tit in a talk on commerce coin merce and farmers in ill a ol of agriculture put nut none or of these subjects appeals to 0 o ally alii even the science of government though broader than any profession or occupation ices does not embrace 1110 whole buni bum of life anil and those thoo who think upon it differ bo among wein th ein selves that I 1 could not speak upon tile the subject so as to please a part without offending others while to me the science of government is I 1 intensely absorbing I 1 recognize thit that the most important things in life lie outside of the realm of government and that more depends upon wha the individual ices does for himself than ban upon what the government does or can do for jim him men can be miserable unter under the he hest best government and they can lie be happy under the lie wo st government government affects but a part 0 of the alie life which we iho hero here and does not touch at all tile life beyond while religion touches tile the an fn 1 anite cirle circle of existence as well as the small are arc 0 of I 1 that hat circle which we spend on earth no greater theme therefore cats can engage our attention mart man is a religious being the heart instinctively sealis for a 1 god man alan I 1 ii i essentially there ire are honest doubters whose sincerity wo we recognize and respect but occasionally I 1 find young men who think it smart to ile bo skeptical they tit tall talk as if it were an tit evidence of target larger intelligence to scoff at creeds and refuse to connect ves vc with churches they call themselves liberal as it if a 1 christian were narrow minded to these young men I 1 desire to address myself RELIGION THE BASIS OF av MORALITY even sonic some older people profess to regard religion is as a superstition pardonable in the ignorant but bilt unworthy or of tile educated a menial taic which one ona can and should outgrow those who inho hold this rhew jew look down with mild contempt upon such as give dive to a definite place in birr kal tiit ft sume m intellectual superiority and otten take little pains to conceal tile the a is religion Ile ligion has been nedas the re lanioh which man mail fixes between himself and ills his god and morality as the outward manifestation of this relation every one by the time lie he readies reaches maturity matu Ity has fixed sonic some relation between hini himself seir and god and no material change in fit this relation ran an tali take e place without a revolution le in in tile the min man for this his relation is tile the most potent influence that nets lets upon a human life religion is the he basis of morality in it the individual and in the group of individuals INI materialists Materia ateria lists have lave at tempted to build up tip a system of morality upon the basis of enlightened self interest they would haie h ne man mail by mathematics that it pays jim him to abstain from wrongdoing they would even inject an all element of selfishness into albu albuiso ism but tile he moral system elaborated by the ma teria lists have lave several defects s first forst its virtues me aie borrowed fro from n j tit moral ral systems based upon religion second as it rests upon argument rather than upon authority it does not appeal to the young and by the time the young are able to 10 follow their reason they have already become set in their ways our laws do not permit a young man mail to dispose of rea real estate until lie he is twenty one why this restraint le because his reason jr ia not mature and yet a mans life Is largely molded by the denvir environment 01 of his youth third one never knows knows just how hou much of his decision slon is due to reason and how low much is duts dint to passion or to selfish interest we recognize tile he bias of self interest when wo we exclude from frodi the jury every man no matter how reasonable or uptight lie may be who has a pecuniary r y inhere inte s in it the result of oc the trial and fourth one whose mortality 1 is based upon a nice tile calculation of benc air to be bec secured spends time figuring that thai he should spend iu in action I 1 morality Is the power of endurance in ili man mail and a religion which teaches leaches personal responsibility to god gives strength to morality there is a powerful restraining influence in fit tile the belief that till an all seeing eye kizee every thought and word and acts of 0 the individual there are difficulties to bo be encountered in fit religion but there are curties cul ties to be encountered everywhere I 1 passed through a period ot of skeptic elsin when I 1 was in ili college and I 1 have been glad ever since that I 1 be bc caine line a member of file I 1 ho church before I 1 left home tor for college for it helped tile me during those trying days tile the college lays days coca the dangerous period in fit the young mans mails lift life it Is when lie he is just come into possession of ills his powers when lie he feels st stronger than lie he ever feels afterwards and thinks he knows more than lie he ever ices does know it was waa at this period that I 1 was confused cont used by the different theories of creation but I 1 examined these theories and found that they all assumed something hom ething to begin with the nebular hypothesis for instance assumes that matter and force existed matter in particles infinitely line and each particle separated from everyl every ollier oilier parti particle cle by space infinitely gidai teat beginning with this assumption force working on matter according to this hypothesis creates a una unhorse un herse erse well I 1 have a right to assume and I 1 prefer to assume a designer back of the design a back of creat creation loh and no matter how long you draw out tile the process of creation so 60 long as god stands back ot of it you cannot shake bake my faith in jehovah n genesis it I 1 is written that in the beginning goi god created the heavens heaven and the earth antl and I 1 can stand on thit that fintel 1 find sonic theory 0 that goes further back titan than the file beginning I 1 do not carry arry the doctrine ot of evolution as fur as as boine Foin cdo do I 1 have not 3 ec been able to cow convince ince myself that man is a lineal di ascenc int of the lower animals I 1 do not wean to find fault with aou ou it ic you want to accept it all I 1 mean to 10 say is that while you may trace yoni out ancestry back to the monkey if you find pleasure plea suie or pride in doing sv s you shall not connect me with your family tree without more evId evidence enco than tali has yet been produced it is true that man mail in it some physical qualities resembles the beast but mari man lizi has a i mind as well veil as a body and a soul as a s well as a mind the mind is greater than the jolly body aal the ile soul sent is greater than tile the mind ind and I 1 object to having mans pedigree tra cedon one third of hint him only anti and that the lowest third one does dees not escape from mystery however by accepting tills this theory tor for it doe docs not explain the origin of life when tile tho follower ot darwin ha has traced the germ of life back to the lowest form in which it appears and to follow jim him one must exercise more faith than religion calls for lis hs ti iris that scientists differ so conw in i I 1 belleve believe that the first germ of life mine came from another planet and other others hold that it was the result of spontaneous generation era tion if I 1 were compelled compell dl cd to accept one of these theories I 1 would prefer the first for if we can chase tile the germ of life off this planet and get it out into space we can guess the rest of the way ind and no one can call contradict ns Is but if we accept the of spontaneous gen generation ration we cannot explain why spontaneous generah generation ton ceased ce aced to let act afta ati as tile the first germ was created efm ick as far as we may we cannot escape front from the creative achand act and it fa 19 just as easy eaby foe me to believe god created man is as he Is as to believe that millions of years ago ll 11 created a germ garni of life ind and endowed it with power power to develop into all that we see fee today but I 1 object to the dar ginian theory until more conclusive proof is produced because I 1 fear we shall lose the consciousness of god goda q presence in ill our daily life if we must assume that through all the ag ages no spiritual force has tou touched chell the life or men or shaped the destiny of nations but there if 13 another objection abe th Dai willian theory represents man i a i reaching ills his present perfection by tile the operation of the law of hate merciless law by which the strong crowd out and kill oft off the weak if this is the lie law of our development then it if there is any logic that can bind the human mind we shall turn backward toward the beast in proportion as we substitute the law of love how can hatred be the law of development when nations have lave advanced in ili proportion as is they have lave departed from that line law and adopted the law of love but while I 1 dl do not lot accept the darwinian theory 1 I shall not quarrel with aou ou about it I 1 refer to it only to remind you that it does not solve the mystery of life or explain human progress I 1 fear that some have accepted it in the hope of escaping from the miracle but why should tile the miracle miracia frighten us it bothered me once and I 1 ant am inclined to think that it is one of the test questions with the christian wily WHY SHOULD NOT INOT MIRACLES BK BE PERFORMED christ li annot be separated from tile the miraculous ills his birth ills his ministrations rations and his resurrection re s urr e atio n all I 1 11 in colive e the miraculous and the change W which I 1 lie I 1 his lis religion works in the human man vart heart is a continuing miracle eliminate Uli minate the he miracles and christ becomes beco aies merely a human being and aej his gospel is stripped of divine an ali dhority thorl ty 1 tiie the miracle rales raises two questions C can all god perform a miracle aej would lie he want to the first is easy to answer A god who can call make a world ran can to do anything he wants to do it the power to perform mir miracles aole Is necessarily implied in fit the power to create but would god want to perform a miracle this is the question that has given most of the trouble the more I 1 have considered it the less I 1 am inclined to answer in the negative to say that god would not perform a miracle is to assume a 1 more intimate knowledge of gods plans and pur riot cs than I 1 can claim to have I 1 will not deny that god does perform a miracle or may perform one merely bici beci iise I 1 tie do not know how or why lie he does it the fact that we ire constantly learning of tile the existence of new forces suggests the possibility that god coll may operate through forces yet unknown to it us and the rn mysteries ya ster with which we deal every day warn me that faith is as feces nc cesary ary as sight who would have credited a century ago the stories that are now told of the wonder working electricity tri city for ages man had bad known continued on page seven I 1 THE PRINCE OF PEACE continued horn flout dist page F the lightning but bill only to fear it now tills this invisible current is generated by a inari made machine till im ori in ill it man made wire and made to jo do the bidding of 0 man mail the miracle is not more mysterious than many of 0 tile he tiling enill ith willell which man now bicak it is simply diffrient it is sometimes giitl daiil t that ha t C god 0 d could not suspend one of its his laws S without vit hout stopping the tha universe but ff do we not suspend or overcome the p law of gravitation ciery cery lay day every p unit time we move a foot or lift a weight we temporarily temporal ily interfere with tile S operation of tile most 0 of natural laws ond and et hie ile A oi id is not v disturbed ILs y science enc ins hn taught us so m many 1 things that we are tempted to lo con elude cluda that we know now everything but there is icalla a groat great unknown which is still unexplored and that V which we have learned ought to increase our reverence rather than our egotism science has disclosed some of the machinery of the universe but science lias has not yet repealed ree aled to us the ile great secief the secret of life it is to tie be found in every blade of grass in every bird and in ili every animal as well as in man six thousand years of recorded history and yet we know no mole moie about tile the secief of life than they hy knew in ili the beginning we live we plan we ve have our hopes our fears and yet in ili a moment a change may come over any one ot of us and this body will become a mass 0 of lifeless clay what is it that having we live and having not we are aie is as the clod we know not and yet the progress of the race anti and the civilization which we now behold are the work of men and women who have not solved lie he mystery of their own lives and our food must we understand it before we eat it it we refused to eat anything until we could understand der stand the mystery of its growth grouth we ae would die ot of starvation but bui mystery does docs not bother us in tile the dining room only in it the lie church chu II 11 it is as an ail obstacle I 1 was eating a piece of watermelon some soine months ago and was struck with its beauty I 1 took some of tile the seed and d i led them and weighed them and found that it would ie ic quire some five thousand seed to weigh a pound and then I 1 applied mathematics to that forty pound melon one of these seeds put into the ground when warmed by the sun and moistened by the rain goes to work it gathers front from somewhere two hundred thousand times thues its own weight and forcing tills this raw material through a tiny stem stein constructs a watermelon JL it covers the outside with a coating of green inside of the green it puts a layer oi of white and within the white a core of red and all through the red it scatters seeds each one capable of continuing tile he work of to p lo where did hat ahat little seed get its tremendous power where did it find its coloring mattera how did it collect its flavoring extract lion how did it build pi pt watermelon until you can call ex cx 1 plain a water watermelon meon do to not be too auve sus g hat you can set limits to 10 die lie power r of the almighty or say just how lie he bould do it I 1 cannot explain the i watermelon but I 1 eat it and enjoy it THAT IS AND DIVINE K everything that pious ws fells a 1 like y story of infinite power why should ft I 1 deny that a divine hand fed a mul ff etude with a few loaves and fishes V when I 1 see hundreds eds of millions fed every ear by a hand which converts the seed scattered oer the file field into an abundant harvest we know that food can he be multiplied in a few 1 months time shall we deny the power of the creator to eliminate tile the clement of time when we have 1 gone so tar far in eliminating tile the cle ment of space but there is something even more j t wonderful still the mysterious change that taller takes place in ili tile the till hu man heart when the man begins to hate the things he loved and to love the things lie he hadd tile the marvelous marv clous i transformation that takes place in tile man who before the change i have sacrificed the world wol 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