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¶ Sir Willoughby Dickinson: "We must be ready to fight, pacifist though we may be. We have got to attack war as a sin ... It is to the simple, God-fearing people we must appeal."
¶ Professor Plato C. Durham, President of the Atlanta Christian Council: "We propose to wipe out the Mason Dixon Line from the Kingdom of Heaven. We shall Christianize our race relations."
¶ Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta: "Evangelistic Christianity is the surety of our country and the hope of the world."
¶ Cyrus E. Woods, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Japan (in a letter) : "The Japanese Exclusion Act was an international disaster of the first magnitude."
¶ The Rev. Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer of Cairo: "Christianity and Islam face each other as rivals for world domination."
¶ Rev. Dr. Adolf Keller of Zurich, Switzerland, and Professor Julius H. Richter of the University of Berlin ascribed the poverty of European Protestantism to disestablishment resulting from revolutions and depreciation of currencies.
¶ Judge Florence E. Allen of the Ohio Supreme Court: "War must be outlawed if humanity is to survive."
¶ Rev. Thornton Whaling of Louisville, Ky., moderator of the Southern Presbyterian Churches: "Christ is the solution of all moral and spiritual problems. . . . Social reforms are the results and are truly secondary to the spiritual mission of the churches."
¶ Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado: "The most urgent question before the nations of the world today is the establishment of universal peace."
¶ Rev. Rockwell H. Potter, chief of the National Council of Congregational Churches: "The growth of secret organizations confessing Christian purposes and seeking to effect them by un-Christian methods and so defeating their purpose, is a nemesis upon the free churches of America resulting from their failure to realize their essential unity."
Dr. Cadman, in his "official sermon" to the Council, said that, some time in the "far future," all forms of Protestantism and Roman and Greek Catholicism would be "sublimated in one great faith." . . . "The hour has struck," said he, "for the condemnation of war."
Came also William J. Bryan, made a masterly denunciation of war, submitted a peace plan.