Selected Quotations on Peace and War: With Especial Reference to a Course of Lessons on International Peace, a Study in Christian Fraternity Included in this VolumeFederal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Commission on Christian Education Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, 1915 - 540 pages |
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American Association American Peace American Peace Society appeal arbitration armaments arms army Association for International battle become brotherhood cause century Christ Christian church citizens civilization common conscience cooperation Court DAVID STARR JORDAN disputes duty Elihu Burritt ELIHU ROOT ethical Europe evil Extracts fact Federation feeling FELIX ADLER fight force G. P. Putnam's Sons glory Hague Conference heroism human ideal individual industry influence interests International Conciliation international law Jesus justice labor land less live mankind means ment military millions mind modern moral nature navy neighbor never Noah Worcester NORMAN ANGELL organization passion patriotism Peace Congress peace movement Peace Society permanent political principle public opinion question race relations religion result sense sentiment settled social soldier spirit sword teaching things thought tion to-day treaties true truth United universal Universal Peace Congress WALTER RAUSCHENBUSCH wars whole words
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Page 282 - In the execution of such a plan, nothing is more essential than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated.
Page 160 - International arbitration has for its object the settlement of disputes between States by judges of their own choice and on the basis of respect for law.
Page 281 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct: and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Page 127 - New occasions teach new duties ; Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea, Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 256 - Seat; But there is neither East nor West, Border, nor Breed, nor Birth, When two strong men stand face to face, though they come from the ends of the earth!
Page 126 - Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide, In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side; Some great cause, God's New Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, Parts the goats upon the left hand and the sheep upon the right; And the choice goes by forever 'twixt that darkness and that light.
Page 200 - Department officials, the plaintiff must recover, if at all, on the strength of his own title, and not upon the weakness of that of the defendant.
Page 156 - To coal and iron mines, to freight trains, to fishing fleets in December, to dishwashing, clothes-washing, and window-washing, to roadbuilding and tunnel-making, to foundries and stokeholes, and to the frames of skyscrapers, would our gilded youths be drafted off, according to their choice, to get the childishness knocked out of them, and to come back into society with healthier sympathies and soberer ideas.
Page 156 - If now— and this is my idea — there were, instead of military conscription a conscription of the whole youthful population to form for a certain number of years a part of the army enlisted against Nature, the injustice would tend to be evened out, and numerous other goods to the commonwealth would follow.
Page 538 - It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life.