The Archive · 1928

COMMUNITY CHURCH

Making en impassioned, yet exceedingly thoughtful plea for a warless world in his Armistice Day sermon at the Community Church the Rev, E. W, Luccock laid down three requisites that must be met before that condition comes.

After paying high tribute to those who had died in the war the speaker went on to say, "The significance of Armistice Day is also in meeting the problems of to-day og we think the "Unknown Soldier" would wish them met.

"Before a warless world can come there must be a transfer of loyalties. No one wishes that the fine courage and loyalty of those who went to war should be paralyzed. There is no alluremen* to any programme which does not call for the heroic and the difficult. Rather, we want to transfer such loyalties from the things of war to} the things that make for peace. The Kingdom of God cannot come, in many instances, except fighting, and oft-times—vieious

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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