The Church and Political Peace

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 22, 1915

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 42, No. 25.

The Church and Political Peace

CARDINAL HARTMANN, the archbishop of Cologne, has issued a pastoral letter directing that a petition for peace be included in the general prayers of the Catholic churches in Germany. When the peace program is agreed upon, we will find the church power in the center of the stage. But it will be a church power that will be seeking to establish peace in a political way. And we need to beware. The church as a political organization has always worked disaster and tyranny. The spiritual power of the gospel must work in the hearts of men. It cannot render its Heaven-appointed service in political harness.