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Monday, July 15, 2024

Methodists Say War Is Unchristian, July 15, 1924

Churchmen Declare War as Unchristian Method

Lake Junaluska, July 14—War was denounced as an unchristian method of settling any question and the church was urged to continue its fight for the observance of the prohibition law at the meeting of the social service conference under the auspice of the Methodist church.

Dr. S.M. Calvert, secretary of the federal council of churches, discussed the question of war and Ernest Cheerington, secretary of the World League Against Alcoholism, delivered the address on prohibition.

Dr. Calvert in his address declared unless people organized to combat narrow nationalism and prejudice there never would be international peace. He asserted that able men in the United States government were planning what they will do when the next war comes and deprecated the national mobilization day as announced by the war department for September 12.

Mr. Carrington told his audience that unless the churches solved the question of law enforcement, there would be a question whether it could solve other problems in the church field. The question of union of the Methodist Episcopal church and the Methodist Episcopal church South was discussed in a round table discussion. The plan adopted by general conferences of both churches was explained and speakers for both sides were heard.

From the front page of the Wilson Times, Tuesday, July 15, 1924

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