Enforced peace; . in deUvering the Chancellorsaddress at Union College, I made an argument onthis theory: that if we were to promote internationalpeace at the close of the present terrible war, if we wereto restore international law as it must be restored, wemust find some way in which the united forces of thenations could be put behind the cause of peace and said then that my hearers might think that I waspicturing a Utopia, but it is in the search for Utopiasthat great discoveries have been made. Not failure,but low aim, is the crime. This League certainly has the highest of all aims f
Enforced peace; . in deUvering the Chancellorsaddress at Union College, I made an argument onthis theory: that if we were to promote internationalpeace at the close of the present terrible war, if we wereto restore international law as it must be restored, wemust find some way in which the united forces of thenations could be put behind the cause of peace and said then that my hearers might think that I waspicturing a Utopia, but it is in the search for Utopiasthat great discoveries have been made. Not failure,but low aim, is the crime. This League certainly has the highest of all aims forthe benefit of humanity, and because the pathway issown with difficulties is no reason that we should turnfrom it. It is the vision of a perhaps impossible per-fection which has led humanity across the our aspirations are for that which is great andbeautiful and good and beneficent to humanity, evenwhen we do not achieve our end, even if the resultsare little, we can at least remember Arnolds lines:. photo by Matzene, Chicago SHAILER MATTHEWS, , , of Divinity School, Chicago University ENFORCED PEACE 167 Charge again, then, and be the victors, when they come,When the forts of folly your body at the wall. Shailer Mathews, , , Dean of theDivinity School of Chicago University and pres-ident of the Federal Coimcil of Churches of Christin America, discussed WHAT THE CHtTRCHES HAVE AT STAKE EST THE SUCCESSOE THE LEAGUE TO ENTORCE PEACE It is one of the gratifying facts of recent days thatJew, Romanist, and Protestant have imited in cham-pioning the cause of peace as a great common divisorwhich rvms through aU religious organizations. Thechurches, under whatever name organized, representin a social form that underlying conviction which weaU have that the significance of life is not to be foundsimply in economic forces, but rather in those spiritualvalues which tower above all economic, geographic,military, and even soc
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