HOMAGE TO PEACE
DUTY OF DISARMAMENT
ACID TEST OF SINCERITY
CHRISTIAN VIEWPOINT
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received Ist February, 2 p.m.) GENEVA. 31st January. The Archbishop of York, preaching in St. Peter's Cathedral to a representative congregation, including the German disarmament delegation, on the text, "We arc members, one of another," said that the clause in the peace treaties affixing to one group of belligerents in the Great War the whole moral guilt offended the Christian conscience, and Christendom's voice must be raised for its deletion by the framers. Referring to the Conference, he urged that armaments had been representative of a conception of national sovereignty which wa,s politically pernicious and an abomination to Christians. The opportunity was now afforded to abandon competition for co-operation. "This," he said, "is the acid test of the sincerity of tho homage we pay to peace. I believed and still believe*that Britain did her duty in 1914. I am still more convinced of the urgent duty to prevent a recurrence of a situation in which such "a course is obligatory, even permissible."
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1932, Page 8
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179HOMAGE TO PEACE Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 26, 1 February 1932, Page 8
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