Book Description

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... WOODROW WILSON AND THE WORLD'S PEACE LREADY, spoken as they were on the L 22nd of January, the words of Woodrow Wilson concerning the world's future peace seem remotely in the past--so swift, so unpredictable, so immeasurable and amazing, are the strides of history in these tremendous days. Yet it is not too late--it is rather too early--to consider the interrogation, as unescapable as it is momentous, which these words upstand athwart the human climb. They were addressed to the American Senate; but that body was merely the necessary medium of a message intended for the ears of all the earth. Not many have harkened to the message in its I entirety; fewer still have laid hold of its meaning. It remains yet to be rightly read, and it will be pertinent so long as the ancient yet perennial predicament of the world continues. So long as our national egoisms prevail; so long as diplomacy flounders amidst predacious follies and futilities; so long as political power pursues its belief in material might and remains skeptic and cynic towards the justice of love and its liberating correlatives;--just so long will the summons of the American President stand across the course of the nations, demanding an answer that shall accord with the mind of God as it was revealed in Christ, and weighted with judgment and doom if the answer be not faithfully forthcoming. Not that I wish to overstate Mr. Wilson's seership and statesmanship. There were errors of judgment in his earlier dealings with Germany. In the pursuit of his American program, he has more than once had to retrace his way and start anew--and who among the pioneers has not had to feel and to plot his path through inevitable mistakes and misgivings? But whatever his retracements or turnings, he...