Shanghai Nov. 24. S677 is generally agreed that if a stalemate ensues in -Europe, or if the time should come when the Democracies are being overthrown, America's power would be sufficient to turn the tide, to prevent the catastrophe of the downfall of Democratic Civilization, And can we imagine that in such a situation the American people would be willing to watch such a catastrophe and do nothing about it? That, no doubt, is what the totalitarians hope will happen.
Perhaps it gave them encouragement to start wai But what then would be the next eventuality What would America's future then be?" Before a large congregation composed of members of the American Community in Shanghai, who gathered at Holy Trinity Cathedral yesterday morning for the annual Thanksgiving service, Dr. J. L. Caugh uttered these words. In his address he bitterly attacked war-minded nations and spoke of the efforts made by the leaders of preserve the peace of the world, the English-speaking nations to Judge Milton J, Helmick: presided atthe: service. while Mr, Frank Rockhrts Acting. Consul-General Shanghai read the Presidents Thanks~ {ving Day Proclamation. Dr. Robert Mextailen conducted the" service and. "Dean. Trivett pronounced the Benedistion the service opened with an organ voluntary, "Choral. Prelude" (arg-Blore) "afd was. followed. by the the "HPaener' ones Mare Within Thy Holy Place" GH. A. Matthews) Then came the, Invocation, followed the hymn, "Harvest Home," and ihe tending of the President's Pro~
'Alt the anthem, "The Byes of the ord' and. the responsive. scripture Fendlnjg, the Offertory, 3010, "How Denulifir are the Feet" was excel-Tenlly rendered by 9 member of the hole, Nina 3. F. Ballam,. "The service loved "with me hymn "Americs the Benuticuly" the anthem "Lord of the Worlds Above" 'John'. West), the Sevenfold amen "(Stainer), andthe fonchuding "voluntary" "Toseata, and Fugue In Ds Minor" (Bach). The Offertory_ was in ald of "American The sermon {tn his sermon Dr, Caughey, after cating, with the real meaning of the Word "Thanksgiving," stated that Thanksgiving ought "not to be do-pendent. upon any' official proclama~ ion, Nevertheless. it was well have a day when they were reminded the duty and the decency of giving Thanks to' God for the multitude of His, meteles, 'Those who did not respond to the summons of Thanks-diving, if they.examined themselves, Would' discover a serious deficiency their spiritual nature; and also fley denied themselves Uae of the real Joys of life—giving thankful Drnlse to the Giver of every. end.
"There were many things, he said, which they could be thankful for in this bamMed, bewildered, distressed and Uigiurbed word. There was no day without its" blessings. They had been greatly, Blassed in many ways. He continued: our greed for gain. But we protest, that itis not to save our own skins, 'oF to protect our gold and our property, that we do not want to go to war again! "It Is rather because we hate war. We know now what modern warfare means, how destructive, how futile, how wicked It is! War never settles any problems! It only creates new and greater ones. And we have had enough of war. We do want another!" We' want to stay Out of this war, if that is possible!
"And, we may well be thankful for our practical sel"-sufficiency as a nation and for our geo gray loeation—for the 8,000 miles.of ocean that separates us from the European strife, and the 000 miles of the. Pacific, which protects us from any sudden oF surprise attack. It Is true that In these days, distance has been almost annihilated. Nevertheless there is a large measure of protec: tion, in the wide stretch of the seas, "But, America, is not selfish, nor cowardly, nor niggardly! "Has there not been proof enough of that? When thas America shirked a duly? played the coward among the na-Yions? We have a right to be, and are thankful for the "American nation's keen' and discriminating sense, of moral responsibility, which hag never tailed, in any rear test, "we hate war' (I repeat 1), and we will stay out of this war—if that is possible, with Ronour, without filing In_our duty.
Very reluctantly at times, America and the other sel(-Roverning vations, have turned away from the arts and industries and pursuits of peace, to the stern necessity of war, wicked and essentially ineffective as it is, when war has seemed to be the only means of repressing and overcoming.
brutal and vindictive foe, a foe that has made known its furious and cruel character, not only as a menace to civilization, but as an enemy of the human race. To subdue and discipline such arrogant, evil power seems at such times, 16 be the coly way of brining an ern of enduring. peace to the world.
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