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Norman Thomas
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The Case of the Christian Pacifists at los Angeles, Cal (Classic Reprint) |
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Paperback |
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258 |
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2012-07-30 |
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B0090VTX0S |
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Forgotten Books |
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1.0 pounds |
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0.59 x 6.0 x 9.0 inches |
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Product Description
The Case of the Christian Pacifists A CALL for a Conference of Christian Pacifists in California, signed by a group of ministers and laymen was somewhat widely circulated in A ugust, 1917. It began: The Conference of Christian Pacifists in California is called at the initiation of many Christian ministers and laymen, who notwithstanding their various religious and political beliefs, are united in open protest against the militaristic interpretation of Christianity. Grieved to note how the deep silence and confusion of the Church on this great moral issue is often broken by an open endorsement of war, they desire to meet for prayer and conference in open convention, wholly independent of denominational or political control, and eager only to seek and to do the whole will of God. In so gathering they desire to manifest the spirit of Christian love toward all who disagree with them and ask of their Christian brethren and fellownnen that kindly tolerance which is the grace of the Church of Christ upon earth. On December 8, 1917, the three leaders of this conference. Rev. Robert Whitaker, a Baptist, Rev. Floyd Hardin, a Methodist, and Harold Story, a young Quaker, were sentenced by Judge White in the Los Angeles police court to six months in prison and fines aggregating $1,200 each. He thus described their crimes at the beginning of an elaborate address on patriotism: You three defendants stand here for sentence after having been found guilty by a jury on three counts of a complaint charging most serious, extremely aggravated, and intensely unpatriotic charges, that is to say: 1st: Participating in an unlawful assemblage unlawful because of the unpatriotic utterances and purposes of said meeting against the President of the United States, the conduct of the war against Germany, and the selective draft law, under the terms of which we expect in the United States t
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