Rebuke the brutes who betray Christ’s humble followers!
Speak! There is no excuse for silence—on your part.
Speak defiantly—and clearly.
You have for nearly two thousand years held the brain of vast portions of the human race in your hands. Have you taught peace—effectively?
Look—see that gaping war-stab in the breast of the working class.
The cash cost of militarism in the world for forty-eight hours would be sufficient to provide a 150–page book against war for every person on earth who can read.[[285]] Three sermons per year against war in every one of 160,000 churches of the United States could be paid for, at the rate of $50 per sermon, with less than the cost of two first-class battleships.
“Nothing can be clearer than that the leaders of Christianity immediately succeeding Christ, from whom authentic expressions of doctrines have come down to us, were well assured that their Master had forbidden the Christians the killing of men in war or enlisting in the legions. One of the chief differences which separated Roman non-Christians and Christians was the refusal of the latter to enlist in the legions and be thus bound to kill their fellows as directed.”[[286]]
IN MY NAME! AFTER NINETEEN HUNDRED YEARS!
Eagerly we search the world for relief from the hell’s horror of war.