Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1916 — Archbishop Ireland Terms Preparedness Religious Duty. [ARTICLE]

Archbishop Ireland Terms Preparedness Religious Duty.

St. Paul, Feb. 12.—Peace advocates were criticised and preparedness was termed a religious duty by Archbishop Ireland at the cathedral today in a funeral oration over the body of Colonel Josias R. King, the first man to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers in 1861. “My prayer is that our country may have social and commercial peace, prosperity and a quick response to patriotic duty. If peace means that we are to be the prey of international ambitions; to do the bidding of every Other nation on earth, and that our flag must dip in disgrace, then we must not have