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to corns; and today it looks as
though the dream of peace would
be shattered for years and gory
battlefields would in carn ad in e the
civic strongholds of C hristendom .
In such tim es there is but one re­
course for the lovers of peace. They
m ust send round the globe the
ceaseless
cu rren t
of
peaceful
thoughts, exalting the glory and
em prise of the reign of peace and
declaring everywhere, in valley and
m ountain height, in school room
and at the m erchant’s desk, in p a r­
liam ent and palace, in hum blest
homes and most honored places,
th a t only by the reign of peace are
the true interests of h u m an ity con­
served, th a t war is a curse and
though sometimes a seeming neces­
sity, never necessary if men are
willing to be unselfish and live the
larger life of love and brotherhood.
B ut how unlikely are s u c h
thoughts seriously en tertainad, even
in w hat are known as the religious
circles of society. H ere comes a
bishop of the M ethodist C hurch,
Earl Cranston, lately retu rn ed from
a tour around the globe, who, be­
holding the coveted prize of the
O rient for the greedy appetite of
C hristianity, avows th a t a war by
which H eathendom would be sub­
jected to the civilizing influences of
C hristendom , i3 justified a t any
cost, eith er of filthy lucre or the
sacrifice of hu m an life. C h ristia n ­
ity is dying a t home, therefore it
m ust be strengthened and expanded
abroad. If the clergy can arouse
the enthusiasm of a crusade, it
would be the m ost fortunate event
in the m aterial growth of C hristen­
dom which has occurred since P eter
the H erm it hurled all E urope
ag ain st th e M oham m edan stro n g ­
hold and sought to rescue the Holy
City from the grasp of A hti-C hrist.
No doubt every p u lpit in the land
would thunder with “ p a trio tic ”
outbursts, stirring th e m u ltitu d es
to m artial fervor, if they discerned
the possibility of evangelizing all
Asia with a Bible satu rated with
hum an gore and the prayers of a
thousand cannon th u n d erin g at the
gates of Pekin. T his is the mission
of the gentle Jesus; th is the way
“ C h ristian ” leaders since the days
of C onstantine and C harlem agne
have ever dissem inated the Bible
and the tenets or C hristianity.
Every letter and syllable of the
Creed is m yriad-dyed in the blood
of hum an sacrifices. The estab ­
lished church, alas, craves war,
yearns for it, for w ithout conquest
she becomes m oribund and th re a t­
ens to offend th e nostrils of civili­
zation with the p u trid corpse of
Ecclesiasticism .
But there is a new day and a
new religion. . . . Peace, peace
everywhere, not the peace of c rim ­
inal resignation, not the peace of
wrong and injustice and error and
despotism , not th e peace of a v a r­
icious power which sways its ty r ­
annous sceptre over the weak and
poor, not the peace of cowardice
and fear, or of cringing sycophancy;
but the peace of T ru th and R ight,
and Justice and Love— let this
peace be everyw here proclaim ed
from hut to palace and work-bench
to the thrones of reigning d y n a s­
ties— and ere long the forbidding
clouds of horrid war will roll away
and the Angel of Peace, blessing
the world, will appear am id the
glorified heavens, to enlighten, e n ­
noble and uplift a terrified, dow n­
trodden and benighted age.— [The
Independent T hinker.
c
obbler, stick to th y last!
A shoem aker found fau lt w ith an oil-painted slipper in
one of the paintings of a celebrated a rtist, but showed the
greatest ignorance in criticising the other ‘parts of the p a in t­
ing. Hence has arisen the oft-quoted saying, Let the cobbler
stick to his last, and let every one atten d to his own business.
As a result of sticking to business come and see the rush
at S ilv erto n ’s Busy Store and inspect the B argains, at
Ja m e s C raig’s
S ilv e r to n , O re g o n .
“ If.'
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