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PRIME MINISTER ON - THE DUTY OF THE CHURCHES:
OUR SOLDIERS THE TRUE APOSTLES OF THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS.
I observe some criticium because we
GERMANY'S TRADE.
THE ALLIES, FIRM GRIP
Bag that was now waving high was not bedraggled in the mud, and was not soiled with vengeance, greed, or savagery. Keep the war till the end whenever God wills that it shall come to an end- A Berlin telegram states that Dr... krep the war a holy war. Anything else Helfferich, in the course of an address to would diegrace the memory of the heroic the Import Trades Association there, dead. I have stated, so have all political said: The world war arose directly - A brief visit was paid by the Prime of international right, restoration of which Serbia Agared as a puppet worked lenders, what these aims are vindication out of tho Insso Austrian conflict, in Minister recently to the annual assembly of the National Conncil of the Evenge conquered and trodden territories, the by her big: Slav brother For Great Lical Free Churches at the City Templether in Europe, Africa, or Asia, from start, an economic war for the over Freeing of oppressed populations, whe Britain, however, the war was, from the Mr. Lloyd George addressed the gather the thraldom of alien despots, and, throw of German world competition. ing for nearly forty-five minutes. He above all, making sure that war shall Much has turned out differently said I have come here not as the chief henceforth be treated as a crime punish what Great Britain expected. By means from Minister of the Crown, but as a humble able by the law of nations. (Cheers) of the boat war we have laid an axe member of the Free Churches, to talk to As society is banded together for the at the root of Great Britain's strength. my fellow Free Churchmen in an hour punishinent of oppression, of murder, with incomparably greater effectiveness of grave national emergency. There is theft, fraud, and all kinds of wrong than did Napoleon with his Continental a sense in which every Church is a and injustice inflicted by one individual interdiction. But we must not overlook national Church. It is an essential part upon another, 60 nations shall be banded how systematically and successfully Great of the nation not merely its members as together for the protection of each other Britain has carried out the programme individuals, but as an institution, on and the world as a whole against the her vononic way By breaking all the osganisation and 18.such it owes a duty force, frand, and greed of the mighty laws relating to contraband and blockade to the nation: Nobly have the Fres To faker ere all this be achieved would she has eat as off from our oversen tradic Churches discharged that national obliga be to doubt the justice of the Ruler of with the outer world. Great Britain has tion in this crisis (Hear, hear.) In the the World To carry the war on sought everywhere, within the range of tarent the great Civil War Noncon single hour after these aims could be her power, to destroy our economic in- Tomists fought for individual liberty attained would be to abandon the world terests. All these measures aim at the They are now fighting for international to the spirit of evil (Cheers.) extermination of German trade and Gor right (Cheers.) Our brethren in are supposed not to have given sufficient return to us what our enemies have taken man labour. Ti the final pence does not America two generations ago, fought for prominence to the League of Nations in the emancipation of the slaves. To-day our speeches. (Hear, hear.) Frank and it does not restore to us freedon in our and destroyed in the outside world, 35 they and we together are fighting for the fair criticism merits an equally frank deliverance bondage to give world, then the German people is crippled spirit of enterprise in the of the sword. (Cheers,) In the history it. (Cheers.) I have said a good deal for an immeasurable period. When Mr. of this country, the Churches of the Innd about the League of Nations. In tho Bonar Law, in his Inst Budget speech, have often been severed in the carefully studied statement which I made for the hundredth time proclaimed the great struggles for liberty, Today, all early this year of the aims of the Allies destruction of German militarism the ons Churches are one and indivisible in the I put that definitely as part, and I have and unalterable war aim of the Allies, greatest struggle for freedom the world said it repeatedly. If we do not say I reply to him. Long live the German has ever seen. None the less am I proud mere, kay it oftener, and say it with people's army." of the part which the Tree Churches have greater elaboration, it is because the taken in this world-shaking conflict. Bolshevists have taught us one lesson, They had specin difficulties to overcome at any rate--that a real League of before they took part-greater difficulties, Nations does not come by talking about perhaps, than any other Churches. For which was essential that is, once you it. (Cheers.) They forgot something over two generations at least the Free have begun you have to fight for it. Tite Churches of this land have taken a lead result was that whilst they were writing ing part in teaching the nation to seek despatches and ranking speeches about a for more equitable means of settling League of Nations they were left with international disputes than the senselessly half a nation with which to enter and conscienceless arbitrament of the into a league with anybody. (Cheers)
about the right Bright and John Henry Richards, the of selfdetermination, great apostles of peace, were leading Free Churchmen, and the righteous pre judice against war was sinking deeper and deeper generation by generation, year by year, info the minds of Non. conformists.
After referring incidentally to what he described as Mr. Lloyd George's blas phemies in the name of freedom at the English Free Church Council, and after dared at the moment of the oppression declaring that Mr. Lloyd George had of Holland to hail the freedom of all peoples as a war aim well-pleasing to God, Dr. Helfferich concluded
The peace which we need above all
wis an economic pence,
We have
however, still Arst to win. If it must be, then the Ger
cannon and the rifle. (Cheers,) John Whilst they were tand allowing their man people will endure this final extrems
armies to fall to pieces, the Germans were stripping Russia of province after province, and whilst they still went on talking the Germans at Rigs went on to Reya), und now are on their to make Odessa a German port.
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The German challenge struck something That is not the way to got a Longue of that was deeper still in the Free Church Nations. Cheers.) I would warn you mind-struck the love of freedom, the in all sincerity not to mistake phrases hatred of oppression, the instinct of for facts. There is nothing more deadly right and fair-play. And when the call even in peace. It is disastrous in war came the Free Churches rose even above I could-so could anyone frame for you the abhorrence of war, and once more declarations of the most resounding girded on the sword that in the past help. equity as a basis for peace, every one of ed to win the liberties of Britain the which would be accepted with a loud sword of the Lord and Gideon. The call tongue by the Prussian War Lords. was the call of our country; but it was And Vit, you would find exactly as the something wider, deeper higher than Bolsheviks did when these phrases came aven the call of our native land. I am to be interpreted, that they were os
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals." not one of those rather superior persons No man has discoursed so eloquently on who despise patriotism. (Hear, hear.) the League of Nations as the Kaiser.
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We demand restoration for all violation test. We are all confident of the issue- of the law and for all acts of destruction. we demand indenmification for all dam - ages done, and we meet the plan of differentiation with the demand for the most favoured-nation treatment and equal rights, the plan of exclusion with the demand for the open door and free sens, and the threat of a blockade of TR
materials with the the demand for the delivery of raw materials."
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There is, I am glad to be able to tell you, no prospect of such a deficiency. But there are things which years of prosperity taught us to expect as almost part of the essentials of life which we either aco no more or see in very diminished proportion (laughter)-noi to grumble at tho
Love of country is one of those potent (Laughter.) He would have satisfied the there is People face big things;
engines which enable the children of men minutest and most exacting critic in the to use their wingų, lifts them above self. Free Church Council (Laughter.) interest, and sordid appeals to the Have you read his reply to the Pops! clearer atmosphere of sacrifice. But the It breathes the spirit of brotherhood and appeal of the war was greater than oxen Christian kindliness, (Laughter.) There the appeal of patriotism. It was the ery was never a word about giving up Bel of the weak for help against the cruelty gium, but there were whole passages on of the strong (Hear hear.). It was the disarmament not a syllable about sur- ery of conscience against greed, of rendering Lithuania or Courland, bat humanity against the tyranny of force on the League of Nations be That is the call that led millions of the absolutely sound. (Laughter.) What best young manhood of the British Em- did he say He said, "Not only do I pire to their Calvary. When that call accept the League of Nations, but Ger- came the young men of the Free Churches head of it. (Laughter.).
many is prepared to place herself at the thronged to the standard. As a Free Churchman I am proud of that record.
THE SPECIAL TASK,
Was
restrictions.
they get worried at the small things. Whatever you ration-well, there will be
growl. There has only
been one Bue- cessful Food Controller in the history of the world-the one who made fr loaves and two fishes feed a multitude: Then
you could have faced the war evon if the Sea of Galilee were throbbing with submarinos. But as long as you have any scarcity of commodities you get difficulties and troubles, and some temper.
I will tell you what rationing, means, It means we are learning to beat cach other's burdens. (Hear hear.) It means that the nation in the furnace of war is becoming more of a brotherhood. Instead of having, in the words of an old writer
REALITY TO TRUATIES. When I saw that I knew what he really meant, Ali Ah It was then that you What is the special task of the Tree found a spirit of dominancy still there brilliant old writer who isn't very Churches in the war? One is to help to the dagger wrapped in the Sermon on much read in those days--hunger at one preserve the nation from everything the Mount (Hear, hear.) We have had end and surfeit at another, you have which is unworthy of the sacredness of treaties bofore; we must now prove that got a fair distribution between men of this great cause (Hear, hear.) The we can give reality to them. There are all classes and ranks. This is one of the Churches have not merely the right, but millions of young men from all lands in lessons that will never be forgotten after it is their special task to see that the the British Empire, from France, from the war, and that will be one of the moral and physical fibre of the nation is Italy, in battle array. There are milgreatest tasks of the Free Churches when not undermined by drink and vice (Alions who in due time will be there | this ghastly war is over to help rebuild Voice: Why not stop it, then 1") Just, from America. (Cheers.) They are the nation on stronger, cleaner, ticalthior let me conclude Governments have to engaged in demonstrating at the risk of lines. That in time. Meanwhile tra deal with practical difficulties, but that their gallant lives to the Prussian War does not absolve the Churches (Hear, hear.) Not only, have Governments no right to resent pressure from the Chur ches, they have a right to expect it, and they ought to welcome it; it helps them
Lords that the world has reached that stage of civilisation where justice can nations that trample upon its decrees be enforced against the most powerful These are the true apostles of the Longue of Nations. If they fail, believe me
it helps them to solve practical difficu!all kagues will be thams, and all
have to bring this war to a successful conclusion. It taxes all one's energies if you give your mind and strength to abhor. I know you will forgive me the things you have been taught to know that my very zeal, if I felt bound. by my outh to King and country and by my love for my native land, my real has.
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ties, to get over practical difficulties and treaties will continue to be nothing but led to misunderstandings with my best national effort from the unsavoury in-
to reinedy glaring evils and cleanse our scrap and they will(thera) when I distress than I can tell you But pardon.
HELP AND SYMPATHY NEEDED.
I have terrible tesks on my shoulders. When those are over I shall have some thing to say, but meanwhile, I have task which is almost more than I can
of paper (Cheers.) If they friends And they have cost me more eidents which reveal the sordid side of they succeed the League of Nations will me, I have no time to clear them up now war. I resent no pressure and no criticism, he an established fact. (Hear bear) Cheera) extent one I resent the kind of Then you might beat your swords into eriticism that seems to imply that these ploughelares, but not till them evils began when I took office (Hear, What is the other task of the Free hear) I claim fair play above all from Churches To keep up the spirit of the my fellow Free Churchmen, and I come nation until these high ideals be attained. here to say so. By the end of 1910, after (Cheers) The higher the ideals the two a half years of war, the consumption harder the road to reach them. The bear (hear, hear) and I ask you, what of slechal has been reduced by 28 per hour prolonged agony, the dreary think, I ask, as the chief caunellior of the anxiety, the ever you may feel, whatever you may cent, a very considerable reduction, and more than any man ever dreamt of four wear down the heart of the stoutest of the nation's greatest perplexity, for waiting for the dawa, all combine to the Crown and the nation in the hour or five years ago By to day, by our orders, there has been a further cut of people. Nothing but a great and your help, for your sympathy-aye, with 30 per cent. (cheers.)-not including the to continue to the end. The only way (Cheers) You cannot half wage a war. sustained inspiration will enable than reverence I say, for your prayers. 23 per cent. but 50 per cent, upon the to carry any great purpose is not on your reduction, not merely of beer, but of shoulders, but in your heart. Carry it must give the whole of your strength,
horror, the
spirits. In 1914, if any man had attend-op your backs, and it will gradually ed a meeting of the Free Church Council wear you down, Carry it in your heart, and had said, When you meet in 1918 and it will lift you up (Hear, hear.) thero will be a man there, a Free Church That is where the churches come in. man, who will stand up and say that the Don't discourage, don't dishearten, don't drink consumption of the country is only always be pointing to the clouds, don't one-third of what it was four years ago, always be saying When will the dawn who would have believed it (Hear come?" It has already come. It will hear) Criticism which is nothing but come again. Trust in God and the light eriticism does not help (Hear, hear. We want help, in these things. I wi
shine upon you. You need all the will inspiration the churches can give, not toll you more Bread has not been merely for great sufferings and great rationed, but if ever there be such a need anxieties, but, even to carry the people in this country that you have got to through the minor worries of the war choose between bread for the children They give us far more troubles than the and beer for their parents, you will find bigger ones. There is no hunger no hesitation on the part of this or any Hear, hear.) There is less hunger in other Government. (Cheers.),
rnment (Cheer
this land than there was when the first Cannon shot was fired. There is no privation. But people are being de
NATION'S RIGH PURPOSE.
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or not at all. That great old Noncon formist, who wagad many wars and faced many misunderstandings Oliver Cromwell-said: According as you shall find your spirits and reasons. grounded in what hath been said, so let you and me join in the proscention this war, according as we are satisfied, and as the cause should appear to our con consciences in the sight of the Lord, bal if you can come to prosecute it, prosecuto it vigorously or don't do it at all That sound Cromwellian sense. If any man hore or elsewhere can show me any way by which we can make
peace without betraying the great and sacred canse for
PERCO which we entered the war, and for which so many millions have sacrificed their lives, to him will I listen gludly, grate fully, thanking God for the light that is given me. Short the Ahre and morale of that, mere peace of the
nation
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What else is the function of the prived of a good deal of what they had talk is undermeers.) I confidently
Churches It is too keep the nation been taught to regard as the essential up to the level of its high purpose when ingredients of a comfortable existence.
WHAT RATIONING MEANS.
it entered the war (Hear, hear.) No (Laughter.) nation ever entered a war with a more holy purpose (Cheers.) There was not a grain of carishadss in the national sims. It is the business of the Churches to see that there is none now (Hear hear.) The Churches must see that the
There is no lack of abitodant food to sustain the strength of the people (Continued at foot of next Column.)
to
ask my fellow Free Churohmen to use their potent influence in this land to sustain the heart of its great people, enable them to carry through to a trium phant end the greatest task that Pro vidence has ever yet entrusted to their ́hands. (Loud cheers)