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A Just and Endurable Peace. Grace Church. Nov. 7, 1943. [1] (1943)

handle is hein.ali/hrbor605106 and id is 1 raw text is: .Draft of an-Address at Grace Church, Mount Airy, Sunday November 7,.1943 -Everyone is in favor of a just and pe t pece, lough te other day-I did meet a person who said he was opposed. He said that what we should have was bigger. better, and more frequent wars; that the human race was going to destr6o itself anyhow; that the quicker man returned to barbarism the better- chance there would be that a new race would through new ages develop c.. civilization from which the seeds of its own destruction might be absent. But even this an had to admit that if we could get a just and peam-e=t peace it would be well. There are, of course, many persons who believe that if people wish to interest themselves in a just and permanent peace it is all right; but their efforts are useless; that there always have been wars and always will be; that then.ature of man does not change. I would not be too hard on such persons. True,they are not helping things along. But like most pessimists, their pessimism is due to a lack of energy. There are a large number of people dead on their feet. They lack energy because they lack vision* They lack vision because they lack energy. There are, however# another class of persons who are fighting against, though unconsciously, a just and pevaanen peace. These are those who believe that the only way we in the Dnited States can obtain peace and prosperity is to isolate ourselves and let other nations Itstewl in their o~n quarrels. As a .class the isolationist is a well-meaning person who fails to lace facts. He 'is a dreamer with the facts of yesterday rather than the facti of today aa the -material-for his dreams. .He is potentially dangerous. Man sufers more from mnlSamistakes than from his intentionally evil acts. The mistakes of the -believers in the balance of power at the Versailles treaty and the mistakes

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