Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1919 — METHODIST DIVINE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS [ARTICLE]

METHODIST DIVINE ON LEAGUE OF NATIONS

Rev. Frank C. Brum of Asbury Methodist Episcopal church, Chicago, said in his sermon last Sunday: The league of nations has in it a 'new birth of freedom for humanity. The idea is not President Wilson’s. Its cradle is found in the Sermon on the Mount. It is of divine origin. That nations may learn war mo more is the sacred injunction. In dim age, through th® stress of the most destructive war in history, it seems to many a new-born child. It is not so. it is an idea as old as God. The central truth in tne superb teaching of Jesus for the betterment of the world was this principle that now seems like a baby in swaddling clothes. It is a truth that you cannot put political harness on and drive any partisan turnpike to tne glory of a selfish purpose. The articles as outlined by Wllsoniam statesmanship have been only a resurrection of a sublime truth that appears to many sincere folks as a lad in knee pants—to some, still in its early cradlehood. Such blind force as was displayed by men in the United States forum against the league of nations is a lack of good judgment on their part. Their action strikes a telling blow at a vital world civilization. No nation has thrown itself with such omnipotence into the arena of a world’s humanity, that freedom “might mot perish from the earth,” as ours. The mighty task has not been finished. It is still in embryo. True statesmanship sees the vision of a full splendor in the world’s condition. It breaks down the narrow walls which may have put themselves around any inationhood.