PLEA FOR PEACE.
“A Plea for a Peaceable Spirit ” was the i subject of a fervent address to the yearly meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. After referring to the effects of the war upon the Christian Church, the address proceeds:— The defamation of our foes, which has defiled the columns of our secular and even of our religious press, cannot by any jugglery of logic bo accommodated to the sublime command, “ Love your enemies.” The unchristian spirit which denounces “ magnanimity ” and insists on a “ fight to a finish,” has swept like a parching desert wind through the churches. Conceal it as wo may, wo .have been betrayed into inconsistencies which stand exposed to a scoffing world and weaken our testimony to God’s redeeming love. In condoning militarism the Christian church destroys with one hand the edifice of love which she seeks to build with the other.
It is her call to purify the national conscience, to build up national character, and to insist that in corporate as in individual life the one standard of comfort must be the standard of Christ. The address concludes with a spirited appeal to the churches to wake up to their high task of maintaining a faith which shall penetrate life with the Master’s spirit of peace.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 179, 6 August 1901, Page 3
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