Show PEACE IS PRICE OF PLENTY SAYS DEAN Rev S. S R. R Colladay Makes a Strong Appeal for International International I lional Arbitration PROTECTION HEAVY DRAIN One Hundred and five Eighty Million Spent Annually Maintaining Army and Navy Outlining the peace movement nt from the beginning of or time and urging furher further fur tur ther her efforts toward that end the tho Rev fey H S. S R. R Colladay dehn delivered a strong ser- ser iron on on In Universal Peace at starks St. St Marks arks cathedral yesterday esterday morning Universal peace according to the re remarks re- re marls marks of ot Mr r Colladay means the lessening les leg of oC the expense attached to the maintenance nante of or armies and navies and the use ulle of ot this money for tor productive purposes and a true living JIving In the spirit of ot God Mr Ir Colladay said In part For or t thousands of ot years cars the great grent movement toward universal un peace has been going forward We e read in the eld ck testament of laws curtailing the traditional rights of or the avenger enger of ot the blood lood This is one of ot the small be be- be ginnings And so we v trace the process through the struggle str to secure e equitable Ip- Ip settlement of or all disputes tho the patriarchal ram family 11 We see seethe tho the principle of oC legal leeal adjustment banishing ban ban- Cau causes es of war between various families within the nation We Ve see petty nations and states forming In a larger federation having a common le legal le- le of or dis dis- gal goal procedure for fol the settlement plies And now we see the civilized c nations striving for the worlds world's peace through the establishment of the International Inter Inter- national onal Court of or Arbitral Justice at atThe atThe atThe The Hague S Selected Good It is rI right ht and proper that the capItal capital cap cw- ital Hal of oC Holland should have this honor for Cor it was Hugo GroHus one of ot her greatest sons and one of the worlds world's greatest prophets who may nm be said to have first put the vision In the form Corm of ot definite legal statement In his essa essay of 1 entitled The Rights flights of oC War and leace Peace But most of ot the advance ance toward to its its' attainment has been made within a comparatively few years cars We c all know of the two Ha Hague ue conferences In 1899 and 1907 We c all ail know of ot the Influence ence nce of or these conferences upon the thereat great reat international question Which thich has hasa a agitated the tha world in recent years ears They have ha not pre ent prevented d wars altogether alto alto- ether gether hut but the they have ha settled some ome disputes disPUtes dis dis- which seriously threatened war They have materially aided In reducing its Injustices and above all thc they have hare to toward toward toward to- to aroused and focused the movement ward peace The Tho next stage stas naturally is to make war between nations as impossible as between two individuals It Is a long IonS advance and we will not accomplish it itin in ht a hurry It means not only an In International International international In- In court but international agreements to submit causes tc such sucha H Lt court and to abide by b its decisions And It means eventually something Int Inthe in t the l n nature tur of an International police force Coree to compel n nations who wh would be outlaws in this federation or of the tao world t to reeo recognize the rights of or the whole So the path to the goal is still a long longone one but a n decisive step has been heen taken In ht the establishment of oC the International al court of or arbitral Justice now In process pro pro- cess of arrangement And a still more decisive one will be made In the adoption tion of treaties with Great Britain and France recognizing that court now be before before before be- be fore our senate OIl If IC there are elements clements In these treaties treaties treaties trea trea- ties which are not wi wise sa let them be properly proper amended But let the test of wisdom be simply the question of or helpIn helpIng helping help help- In ing forward the time when all aU nations shall hall adopt arbitration treaties which I shall bind them to send their disputes t to td the Hague court for final decision In this as all aU els else let the peace of ot Christ be umpire And there Is 13 a special reason for urging the early adoption of or this method meth moth od of oC preserving the worlds world's peace for forthe forthe forthe the alternative e seems to be the maintenance maIntenance main maln- and expansion of oC the present expensive armaments The average an annual annual an- an nual cost of our arm army and na navy during the past decade was The cost of one battleship would build two such buildings as the congressional li library 11 brar at Washington and the cost of or maintenance for such a building is on only three fourths of ot that of ot a battleship Now ow no sane man wish to dispense dispense dispense dis dis- pense with either cither our arm array army or na nac na nae navy AVe c want to have all the military and naval na force torce we need But this cost is too great a drain The Thc need of such armaments must be removed It is time Hmo that the governments should find finda a wa way of or replacing suspicion and force Corce by reason and law so that the worlds world's wealth can be used for productive hu humane humane humane hu- hu mane and enlightened purposes As Christian men and women our interests In this matter must be Le higher than even cen the desire to turn the nations nation's wealth to a better better better bet bet- ter use If Hour our Christianity means anything It means that we are to be bemore bemore more and mOl mor more trul truly children of God And to make peace Is to prove oneself a child of or God Gods God's purpose is peace The uThe spirit of retaliation Is not the spirit of oC God and it cannot be the spirit of His children We Ve remember what our Lord Jord said when one of ot HI His do- do c urged him to retaliate on the Samaritans If JC we e are children of God haying having His character we must make makepeace peace whenever wo we can in inthe the home or orIn orIn orIn In the world I |