A minister, a priest and a rabbi, participating in a round-table discussion on the subject of “The Church and World Peace” at the fifth session of the Internation Relations Conference held here under the auspices of Elmira College, agreed that the churches of the nation could unite to promote world peace without compromising on their differences in creed and denomination.
The speakers were Dr. Brewer Eddy, secretary of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Mission; the Rev. Moorhouse I. X. Miller, member of the Executive Committee of the Catholic Association for International Peace and a professor at Fordham University; and Rabbi Alexander Lyons.
“Peace,” declared Rabbi Lyons, “has been the prayer, the prophecy and the hope of the church of our western world ever since Isaiah forecast the time when men would beat their swords and their spears into pruning hooks.” The Brooklyn rabbi declared that the churches which have common interests in civic, national and world welfare should seek opportunity and welcome all the work together.
Dr. Eddy declared that if the millions of the Jewish organizations and the Catholic Church were added to the 25 million Protestant Church members of this country, the group would represent the most intelligent, the most patriotic and useful half of our population.
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