N EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 'd, 1919 The underlying reason for the fall of Germany "Christian morality .is based on the law of love. This law. can claim no signifi cance for the relations of one country to another." GENERAL BERNHARDI Spokesman for Military Gtrniany I Li i The force which will dominate the world "... the rights of the weak as well as of the strong, and the maintenance of justice by the irresistible force of free na tions leagued together in the defence of mankind." PRESIDENT WILSON Onthe border between the two countries instead of fortifications, this statue of Christ was raised ' ON TRIAL - CHRI STIANITY For thtjirst time in history Christianity is bang tested between Nations READY to fly at each other's throats ready to settle in one deadly encounter - the bitter dispute of years. Money pouring recklessly into armaments. The people pressing for instant declaration of war. This was the situation between Chile and Argentina in 1898. And then on the very eve of war, Roca, Argentina's great president, persuaded his people to submit to arbitration. Without the shedding of one drop of blood, the dispute of generations was settled. Today, on the highest mountain peak of their common border, in silent eloquence to all the world, there stands erecteds the pledge of eternal goodwill between these two countries a great statue of Christ. Can the statue of Christ be raised on all the boundary lines of the world? Goodwill among men, as a substitute for force, long ago became the standard of con duct between individuals. Can it succeed between nations? That is the test that Christianity is going thr.ough today. One great ideal brought the nations to gether during the world war. ' To fight for it, twenty-six nations put aside the jealousies and antagonisms that had always separated them. Twenty-six nations stood shoulder to shoulder in a magnificent spirit of magnanimity and mutual helpfulness. Will this new spirit endure? Now under the ten times more difficult test of peace, will the nations still hold to the great ideal they fought to achieve? For all of us, every where, a leader in spiritual thought voices this question: " Christian Interna tionalism is there such a thing? Can mere be. such a thing? Can there be Christian na tions living together like Christian gentle men? If not, we may as wejl stop talking about Christian civil ization." Every individual wants this. Every na tion wants it. How is it to be brought about? The wish alone will not achieve it. It is a thing' which must be World-wide work done by readers through The Christian Herald IN recent years, the Christian Herald ha rancd nearly $S,000,0U0 for relief work and education in foreign countries. The King of Italy asked the editor of the Christian Herald how he raised sucli enormous sums whether they came from millionaires. He was amazed at the reply that they came through voluntary, individual contributions, and that the average contribution was $2.75. I3ELGIUM Readers of the Christian Herald sent the first relief ship to Belgium. Brand Whitlock organ ized a Christian Herald Committee at Brussels. INDIA Money is now pouring in for relief from the plague. In recent years $1,257,000 has been given to relieve famine sufferers. ARMENIA In the past two years, the Christian Herald has sent .$140,000. During the Turkish massacres it sent $73,000. RUSSIA,, FINLAND, CUBA, MEVICO. JAPAN. each has received thousands of dollars for relief in recent floods, war and famine. struggled for consciously, collectively, by the millions of individuals and by nations, just as individuals and nations worked together to win the war. Immediate, overwhelmingnecessitybanded mankind together then. Vision to see the thing before it happens must hold us together now. What forces have been at work, what forces are at work, to make this possible? What can give these forces unity and expression: For 300,000 Amer icans, the Christian Herald has been the means of crystallizing into action their desire for Christian Internationalism. In this week's issue, out today, Dr. William Pierson Merrill says, "The most truly Chris- -ise is tne vnns- of human in fernal relations. patriotism, how- ardent or beauti must not stop at "the border of our own land. It must reach out to the whole world." tia. "mi V w -J -4'. "World Democracy can and will be real ized," says Dr. S. Earle Taylor in this same issue, "only through the practical application of the religion of Jesus, and nothing but faith lessness on the part of the Christian Church need delay its realization now. Over a period of forty-four years the Christian Herald has been the mouthpiece of Christianity in its relation to democratic ideals. In a cenuinely democratic way, through voluntary contributions of one, five and ten dollars from its thou tanas of readers, the Christian Herald has raised millions of dollars. Its representatives have personally taken this money into all countries. There it has been used to i c 1 i c c distress and famine, to save lives and to educate wherever there was need, regardless of race or class. For the iclief of famine in China, $642,449 was personally distributed. Twenty-one orphanages arc now maintained there. The head of the Christian Herald Industrial Home is the only foreign educator ever decorated by the President of China. "Except for the Christians," China's first President declared, "China would never have be come a republic." In Poland, Servia, France, Belgium, Holland, England (for Belgian refugees), Turkey, Galicia and Palestine, the Christian Herald is now maintaining relief committees. Such are some of the means of expressing in concrete form the conviction that only through Christian Inter nationalism will come world democracy. Week by week the Christian Herald interprets the significance of world events; gives its readers the thoughts of the greatest spiritual leaders; shows how the great re vivifying power of Christianity is sweeping the world. The Christian Herald is today the dominating journal istic force in this pioneer work of building up a Christian Democracy throughout the World. The Christ ian Herald s GRAHAM PATTERSON, PUBLISHER $2.50 a year 52 issues, illustrated Single copies .may be obtained at the larger newsstands and at railroad stations. Trial subscription at the special rate of $1,00 for six months. T" ., - IF 'TffV mv, iSrnli0 jfii iiiBf'n'lriTniii w Urn in 1 llr nmiTiVin i il : mr X V"' 'VJ -J A WtW WfW MTI? lT-UM.UUllt'.AUl.M',X P " 'WrfcfS3 llf-Vq 1 Af 7 K f. 'jUDBWKTC. jZL- ...JtjV 3SarVi"i,WY"WUVmYiV' uj ii i ibii i .'. 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