In Springfield'
Bishop Edwin H. Hughes, formerly of Boston and now transferred to Chicago, concluded the speech by which he concluded the Methodist World Conference† as follows: "Now we go forward to bear our testimony against all offensive war and to proclaim that the Hebrew prophets were not misguided fanatics when they foretold the swordless and spearless day of God. God has given us here the vision of a warless world. Lord, we go; and as we go, we preach."
The official utterance of the Conference on war (TIME, May 26) was a compromise. It...
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