PEACE SUNDAY.
By the request of the Peace Society of New South Wales Sunday, December 22 was observed in several churches as Peace Sunday. Speaking at Whitefields, Surry-hills, Rev. A. Rivett said that to-day, nob only in Australia, hut in a thousand pulpits the world over, arguments would be advanced in favour cf peaceful arbitration as against the dread arbitrament of the sword. Despite the ominous appearance of things in Europe at that hour, the outlook for a cosmopolitan tribunal for the adjustment of all international difficulties was never brighter. The nations were discussing as never before the question of increasing armaments and the relation of the people to war. The issues would bo with the people themselves. The workers of the world, who provide blood and treasure for the battlefield, were discovering that they have no quarrel with each other, that their interests were one, and that to fight was suicidal. It was the day of the people, and the teaching of the Advent is telling, and in a hundred different ways Tennyson’s dream cf The Parliament of man, The Federation of the world, was nearing fulfilment.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 2 January 1913, Page 8
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188PEACE SUNDAY. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 6, 2 January 1913, Page 8
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