Article August 10, 1935 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Gilbert Murrary, John Bevan, Rollin H. Walker, Samuel J. Abrams

[From the Glasgow Herald, Lanarkshire, Scotland]

Memory of the long agony of the last war and the present atmosphere of fear and confusion throughout the world have had a numbing effect upon the public mind. Peace for the common people has become a hunger rather than an aspiration, and a large number of men and women have come to ask whether personal renunciation of war and all its works would not hasten the day of its abolition. . . .

The importance of the pacifist movement in our time is the rising challenge it offers to statesmanship to get to work with more passionate determination to extend the rule of law from the national to the international sphere. For that reason the second part of the deliverence is more important than the first. Here we see the church restating in political terms the very core of its spiritual message. Peace is here presented as a positive state to be achieved with the help of God by the noblest efforts of man. And if peace is to be made by men they will need to be better men who make it If it is not the business of the church directly to contrive political peace, it is its solemn duty to nurture the men who must—and who can if they will.

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