There! There is the Church—the Church with her vast influence!—and she breathes, “Peace, good will to all men.”
The Church?
Will the Church save us from war?
We shall see.
Reader, let us always open wide our souls to every man and to every influence great enough to make us socially wholesomer.
Sincerely, I admire every great Priest, every great Rabbi, and every great Preacher of our time who is too fine, too proud, too nobly social and international to rent his eloquent voice to the captains of industry for the blood-spilling business of conquering the markets of the world with sword and cannon and for the equally brutal business of benevolently stealing large sections of the earth to be swinishly exploited by money-greedy capitalists.
These men are masculine—unafraid. Let us salute them: “Good cheer, noble friends!”
Boldly these greater Priests refuse to toady to industrial and political masters and thus refuse to scream for war.
Defiantly these greater Rabbis refuse to inflame the tiger lurking in every human breast and thus refuse to prepare men for war.
Nobly these greater Preachers refuse Caesar and Shylock, and thus they stand by the Man of Peace and abhor war.