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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 ALLIES By H. I. PHILLIPS PRAYER FOR D.N. CHAPEL ("The United Nations is to provide a non-denominational chapel in its new home where men of all nations may pray." News Item) In this small room will be the cathedral, the mosque, the synagogue, syna-gogue, the temple and the parish chapel. Within these lour walls will be the prayer-room of 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 of all races and creeds gather to hear the still, small voice of what ever God they worship. Here the representatives of all peoples shall come humbly and devoutly in their separate faiths and reach understandings understand-ings that will save a stricken world. Here let them kneel separately and at a time of their own choosing and ask their God or gods that their words and actions may never make a mockery of the precepts of whatever religion they observe and cherish. s Guide them as they invoke You. Keep their minds clear and make their decisions just; rid them of suspicions, fears and hatreds. Let them never lose sight of the belief that the Supreme Being of their own faith and of all faiths loathes war and holds peace and the brotherhood of man foremost. Seldom have the representatives of peoples from the four corners of the earth been in a more difficult dif-ficult spot; rarely have human beings faced tasks more colossal; never have their decisions meant life or death, joy or misery, laughter laugh-ter or tears to so many millions. Grant that they may not qnibble over the details of this room, its appointments or its mood. Help them realize that if men can fight and die as allies, they can worship and live as allies; that men who serve together in the same armies and navies and in the same cause can worship in the same cloister and in the same hopel Here let all men find that if there is to be one world there must be one brotherhood, one depth of devotion, one abiding confidence in a Supreme Being. Make them understand that if a man Is not contaminated in the nse of another man's council chambers, routines and customs in daily considerations, he can never be contaminated by the use of a common meeting meet-ing place for meditation and prayer. Here may no man forget that in every faith a man of any other faith may find the essence of his own faith: The belief in divine guidance. Prayer is universal. How strange that until now those who have come together from all parts of the earth to face the most complicated problems of recorded time have failed to provide a common com-mon meeting place In which to seek guidance! Of all moments In history when men of every race, color and creed needed divine council, this is the most desperate. How barren and hopeless have been these edifices of world peace without recognition.' of a God above! How futile these proceedings In council chambers of 100 rooms without one room for a Creator! May this quiet room be hal- lowed! Here there is no publi- i city; here no photographers, no newsreels, no microphones, tensions. Here he may sit not as an Important Im-portant statesman, harassed diplomat dip-lomat or instructed agent, worried over the reactions at home, but rather as a child reaching for the hand in which he has confidence, pleading for the light, believing-that believing-that nothing matters more than a cause be just. This room shall be no device of architects, blueprinters and construction con-struction crews, its value to be measured in dollars; this shall be-a be-a room dedicated In the spirit of all 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 be no lasting peace and no brotherhood brother-hood of man. Here at last there is "room In the-Inn!" . 1 I I I-"- - risT tfe old 6nd |