Religion: The Cost of Peace

We Christians are appalled at the tremendous cost of war, but hitherto the churches generally have not considered the cost of peace. We have too often assumed that peace can be had without planning political and economic conditions which will make that peace tolerable to other countries.

With these words Protestantism's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace served notice last week that the church has now gone beyond the resolution-passing stage and is getting down to serious work on a practical program to count itself in on the next peace.

Head of the commission, which was set up...

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