of men, militarism has shown, by the violation of this sweet Rose of the World, its hide ous heart.

Some means should be found to ascertain the name of the military bandit who was responsible for the order to train guns upon the cathedral, that his name may be pilloried forever in special infamy along with the names of Cain, of Judas, and of Nero.

The whole earth mourns the loss of Rheims as they that weep for their first born.

Bitter are the hearts and salt the eyes of all men everywhere as they turn to God and

cry:

"How long, O Lord, how long!" Wednesday, September 23, 1914.

MISTAKEN APOSTLES OF PEACE

THERE is an enormous force of public sentiment in the United States in favor of peace. It is consequently an easy matter to organize movements everybody will join, arrange mass meetings everybody will attend, and prepare resolutions everybody will sign.

It is very natural, also, that so vast a sentiment should be eagerly grasped by the notoriety seekers. I already know of fifteen or twenty gentlemen and ladies who are willing to head the Smith peace movement or Jones's international peace programme.

You can get any amount of oratory turned on at a moment's notice denouncing war and whooping it up for the Dove.

These might all be harmless enough, but when they take the direction of heckling the President, secretary of state, and congress, and urging them to all sorts of erratic and premature moves they become a nuisance.

Everybody deplores the war in Europe. Everybody in this country wants peace.

These statements are so true they are platitudes. Why shriek them?

The only proposals for peace that mean anything, that are not mere sentimental guff, are THOSE WHICH INCLUDE DOING AWAY WITH THE THINGS THAT CAUSE WAR. All else is but prunello.

Therefore it is with pleasure that I hear of the resolutions passed the other day by the Baptist Missionary Society. Some one there had horse sense. He proposed and it was adopted that the society shall exert its influence in favor of a peace which

"Shall seek to promote and permanently conserve the welfare of all nations now engaged in war and of the world at large, and shall involve a federation of nations with an international court and international army and navy, with disarmament of the several nations of the federation and the cessation of the manufacture of the implements of warfare except by national government under control of the international federation."

In this practical and excellent resolve you will find the fundamental essentials not merely to peace, but to ANY SORT OF STABLE CIVILIZATION AND INTELLIGENT WELT-POLITIK.

These essentials, and they cannot be too often reiterated, are:

1. THE FEDERATION OF THE NATIONS.

2. ONE CENTRAL COURT FOR SETTLING INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES. 3. ONE ARMY AND ONE NAVY UNDER THE COMMAND OF SAID COURT.

4. THE DISARMAMENT OF THE INDIVIDUAL NATIONS.

5. AND THE CESSATION OF THE MAKING OF IMPLEMENTS OF WAR.

Yelling for peace is cheap. But whoever assists anywhere in any small corner of the earth the bringing to pass of those five things is boosting the world toward intelligent civilization.

Thursday, September 24, 1914.

IN THE MEANWHILE

THEODORE ROOSEVELT is an ex-president of the United States and a man of most distinguished attainments. What he writes should be considered with respectful attention.

Also what he writes will doubtless exert a profound and wide effect upon our citizenship. It is for this reason that I call attention to a recent article of his in The Outlook, which has been extensively quoted by newspapers all over the country.

The article is a thoughtful, able plea for precisely that state of things that caused the present war and will go on causing war forever until it be abandoned.

In a nutshell, he says that while peace is desirable, and while international federation, with armed force behind the international court, and there only, will eventually come, yet IN THE MEANWHILE it behooves every nation, and the U. S. A. in particular, so to arm itself as to be able to secure justice for itself.