RELIGION AND THE WAR

The present volume is the second work published by the Yale University Press on the James Wesley Cooper Memorial Publication Fund. This Foundation was established March 30, 1918, by a gift to Yale University from Mrs. Ellen H. Cooper in memory of her husband, Rev. James Wesley Cooper, D.D., who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, October 6, 1842, and died in New York City, March 16, 1916. Dr. Cooper was a member of the Class of 1865, Yale College, and for twenty-five years pastor of the South Congregational Church of New Britain, Connecticut. For thirty years he was a corporate member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and from 1885 until the time of his death was a Fellow of Yale University, serving on the Corporation as one of the Successors of the Original Trustees.

PREFACE

Religious interests are quite as much involved in the world war as social and political interests. The moral and spiritual issues are tremendous, and the problems that arise concerning "the mighty hopes that make us men,"—hopes that relate to the Kingdom of God on earth,—are such as not only to perplex our most earnest faith, but also to challenge our most consecrated purpose. It is the sincere hope of those who have contributed to this volume that it may prove helpful in the solution of some of these problems.

CONTENTS

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•    Moral and Spiritual Forces in the War11
  
  • Charles Reynolds Brown, D.D., LL.D., Dean of
  • the School of Religion and Pastor of the University
  • Church
    
    
•    God and History22
  
  • Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Ph.D., Professor of
  • Theology
    
    
•    The Christian Hope in Times of War33
  
  • Frank Chamberlin Porter, Ph.D., Professor of
  • Biblical Theology
    
    
•    Non-Resistance: Christian or Pagan?59
  
  • Benjamin Wisner Bacon, D.D., Litt.D., LL.D.,
  • Professor of New Testament Criticism and
  • Interpretation
    
    
•    The Ministry and the War82
  
  • Hallam Tweedy, M.A., Professor of
  • Practical Theology
    
    
•    The Effect of the War upon Religious Education105
  
  • Luther Allan Weigle, Ph.D., D.D., Professor of
  • Christian Nurture
    
    
•    Foreign Missions and the War, Today and Tomorrow122
  
  • Harlan P. Beach, D.D., F.R.G.S., Professor of the
  • Theory and Practice of Missions
    
    
•    The War and Social Work141
  
  • William Bacon Bailey, Ph.D., Professor of
  • Practical Philanthropy
    
    
•    The War and Church Unity151
  
  • Williston Walker, Ph.D., D.D., Professor of
  • Ecclesiastical History
    
    
•    The Religious Basis of World Re-Organization161
  
  • E. Hershey Sneath, Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of
  • the Philosophy of Religion and Religious
  • Education
    
    

I
MORAL AND SPIRITUAL FORCES IN THE WAR
CHARLES REYNOLDS BROWN

In one of our more thoughtful magazines we were favored last February with an article entitled, "Peter Sat by the Fire Warming Himself." It was a bitter, undiscriminating arraignment of the ministers and churches of the United States for their alleged lack of intelligent, sympathetic interest in the war. It was written by an Englishman who for several years has been vacillating between the ministry and secular journalism, but is now the pastor of a small church in