Elbert Hubbard's "Message is considered by many people one of the most inspired pieces of English writing in existence. With the exception of the Bible, more copies of it have been printed than of any other book. OVER FORTY MILLION COPIES OF IT WERE DISTRIBUTED DURING THE LIFETIME OF THE AUTHOR. During the world war three of the allied governments distributed it to the boys in the trenches. The Roycrofters have just printed a special edition containing portraits of the author and Major Rowan, who carried the message. It is thoroughly Roycroftie. We would like to distribute them among those who are in. sympathy with Roycroft ideals. You may have one of them for the asking and without obligation on your part. Our object in doing this is to get in touch with friends who would be interested in the Roycrofters' memorial to the late Elbert Hubbard. 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For this we poured out treasure as water. For this we got our atlas shoulders under the world's debt. For this, and for no other reason. To stop war, the sum of all vi lainies, the concentration of all that defies the will of God and menaces the welfare of man. War-disgrace to God in the highest, and on ear h ill will to men. When the enemy was conquered the Allies naturally met to carry out this purpose for which they had fought. They knew, everybody knows, that war is due to the Old Order, to secret di. plomacies, to lack of World Government. Hence to remedy this, they did the simplest, most rational thing possible, they formed a League of Nations which by universal concert should render war impossible. America proposed this thing. The other nations agreed. Can America afford to stay out of the very World Pact she originated, chain. pioned and fought for? Shall America desert her Allies and line up with Turkey, Austria, Germany, Mexico and Russia? For these are the non-league nations. Ministers of God, if you ever had anything worth preaching about, this is it. For surely a League of Nations to stop war is the consummation of all religious hopes. It is the most important act of history. It is the first unified effort of the world to end the hideous system which pro. duces war. Do not let your mouths be stopped by the timid who say this is a Party question, and the Pulpit should not meddle. It is not a Party question. It has no possible connection with the principles or traditions of either party. We could not get it through the Democratic Party; very well, let us try the Republican. It is a National question. It is a New question. Is there no moral backbone in the United States? Is there no Conscience, no sense of outraged decency? Speak out, O ministers of God! If America has any conscience, it is time to hear from it! Conscience abolished Slavery. Conscience abolished Alcohol. Conscience led us to attack Spain. Conscience induced us to join the Allied nations to save Belgium and resist Germany. Conscience dictates now that we should join the world in a League to prevent war. Shall you, the exponents of American conscience, be silent? The situation is not without its parallels. The adoption of the Constitution was as bitterly fought by the partizans of that day as the League is fought now. And this crisis, this issue, this question, transcends them all. Be not deceived! Think straight! Shall America now play the Benedict Arnold or the Sir Galahad? Speak! Speak now, ministers of God, or forever after hold your peace! |