Excerpt from The War and World Opinion
The European war is no breakdown of Christianity, as some have called it. With all its horrors, its progress has been a quickening influence to the faith of millions, however imperfect and misguided that faith may be in many who sincerely feel it, however adverse to Christian ideals the ambition that brought on the war, and however inconsistent with Christian teaching some of the hitherto unknown methods by which it has been waged
Neither docs it mark the breakdown of international civilization. Individual nations will continue to live in their individual capacity, and to make engagements with one another; and the necessity of holding such agreements sacred will be all the more deeply felt because of the sad lesson which the violation of her Belgian agreements by Germany has taught to the world as to the intolerable results of such violations.
Nor yet does the war signal the death of the movement towards arbitration as a substitute for war in the settlement of international difficulties, thus opening the way towards final disarmament. Outside the domination of the Prussian school, represented in literature by the von Treitschkes and von Bernhard is, and in action by the German and Austrian governments, militarism is a dying cause, and the billions now being spent by Russia, England, France and Italy, with the countless ship-Ioads of war munitions crossing the seas from this country, are all effective contributions to its death.
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