Religious Unity Can End War, Says Minister

1938

The war problem can be solved only by religious unity, Dr. Douglas Horton, minister of the United Church of Hyde Park. Ill., declared in an address at the Memorial Union Tuesday night. His talk was one of a series during the University of Wisconsin's Religious Emphasis week.

"If war comes tomorrow, it is because of what we do today," Dr. Horton said. "Shall we be the cause of the death of the next generation by war due to the activities that we conduct today? It is our duty to place religion on such a strong international scale that no nationalistic force can break down our loyalty to God to be replaced by a loyalty to a nation."

Three methods of preventing wars pointed out by Dr. Horton are:

1. Preparedness through huge military and naval expenditures.
2. Complete disarmament.
3. The establishment of an international religious community.

Racial discrimination against the Japanese, Dr. Horton said, has caused hatred between Japan and the United States.

"War that is international in scope," he declared, "cannot be solved by limiting ourselves to our national boundaries. We must seek the answer in the great world of Christian peoples."

The church must take a deeper interest in social issues of day, Atty. Frank W. McCulloch, Chicago, declared. Need for better recognition of the rights of unionists, and a Christian industrial democracy was cited.

"Our patriotism. like our religion, must not be beguiled by the Pied Piper flutings of our leaders," he said. "We must inquire into their motives and principles and make free use of the rights accorded us by our constitution."

Loyalty to the state, he declared, must not be placed above loyalty to a common cause and God.

—Wisconsin State Journal, Madison, Feb. 23, 1938, p. 6.

In Local Pulpits

Galveston, Texas, 1938

Dr. Harold L. Fickett, pastor of First Baptist Church, will continue h is series of sermons on the status of the believer after death at evening services at his church tomorrow. His subject tomorrow night will be "The Believer Between Death and Resurrection."

Douglas Corrigan, trans-Atlantic flier who is now in Galveston, will be the subject of the evening sermon by Rev. J. R. Hillman, pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, tomorrow night. The title of the sermon is "Corrigan's Smile Demonstrates Worth of Christ's Philosophy."

Some other sermon titles:

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH - "The Holy Spirit Convicting of Righteousness."

ARMY SERVICES, FORT CROCKET - "A Model Young Man."

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - "Think of These Things."

VALDESE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - "The Disaster of a Spiritual Compromise."

FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH - "Who Are the Fortunate?" and evening, "Why God's Saints Sing."

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (Mormons) - Subject of lesson: "The End of the Jaredites."

CENTRAL METHODIST CHURCH - "The Christian Warfare" and evening, "The Greatness of Man."

ST. JAMES METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Evening, "Is It Reasonable to Accept the Bible as Inspired?

CENTRAL CHRISTIAN CHURCH - "The High Priest of Our Profession" and evening, "Such a Time as This."

FIRST SPIRITUALIST CHURCH - Topic: "Spiritual Guidance Through Trance."

--The Galveston Daily News, Galveston, Texas, August 27, 1938, page 9.

Note: Douglas Corrigan mentioned above is the famous "Wrong Way" Corrigan.