The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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177 arena, they assembled in the c hands to heaven, and prayed and sang until life was extinct. How helpless they appeared! HOW irresistible seemed the forces arrayed against them! And yet those people, upon their bended knees, in- voked a power stronger than the legions of Rome, and it was only a few decades before their prayers were answered, and their doctrine of love over- whelmed the doctrine of force that had con- signed them to their death. QLong and loud applausej , u I found in Russia a peasant philosopherpreach- ing the gospel of love. He lives in a land where they have almost a million soldiers. They do not allow some of his articles to be publishedg they will banish people for circulating themg they stop at the border those who attempt to carry 'them printed into the countryg and yet the doctrine of that apostle of love has so touched the hearts of the people of the world that, while they may punish the people who circulate what he says, they do not lay their hands upon the man himself. What does it mean? It means just wha.t has been said by Carlyle, that thought is stronger than artillery parks, and that' back of every great thought is love. I believe that this movement to substitute reason for force in the settlement of differences between nations rests upon love, upon an all-pervading love, upon a love that must 1171 the end triumph. If we build in this country, We must build upon that foundation. If you ask me if there is any doctrine that will bring pefwe 111 this country, I reply that it is the doctrine, T11011 shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, and that that is the only peace-bringing doctrine- u fG7'eat af' entre, raised their 2 I

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179 I remember that these children are image of God as your children are, and that you must love them as you love Mpplausej . I came here to speak of peace, international peace, the peace that will bring together the na- tions of the earth, a peace that will give us the substitution of reason and right for for-ee and might. But I am willing to apply that doctrine to my own country, and I am willing to apply it to every question. You, who boast of your descent from the brave Dutch, you, who boast that in your veins is the blood of a noble ancestry, I apf -peal to you to meet these questions with the heroism that your ancestors displayed. If they were willing to die for their rights, are you not will- ing to respect the rights of others as well as to defend your rights? There is something that is greater than dying for one's own rights. That is great, but I am looking for the time When there will be something greater yet, a civilization be- yond any that we have yet seen, a civilization in which the greatest citizen will be not the man who will die in defence of his own rights, but the :man who will die rather than trespass upon the rights of another. CGreat applausej Upon this foundation only can we build peafle, peace among citizens and peace among natiO1'1S. Peace must rest on love, and every queS13iO11 that affects us must be decided not by the way it af- fects the pocketbook, but as it is determined by the conscience--that prompter Whiflh We all have With us if .we will but listen to it. I am very grateful, my friends, for this opporttf- nity to speak to you. CCries off' G0 on! G0 071-I P made in the your own children.