RELIGION AND THE WAR
SCHOOL OF RELIGION, YALE UNIVERSITY
EDITED BY
E. HERSHEY SNEATH, Ph.D., LL.D.
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
MDCCCCXVIII
COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
PUBLISHED ON THE FOUNDATION
ESTABLISHED IN MEMORY OF
JAMES WESLEY COOPER
OF THE CLASS OF 1865, YALE COLLEGE
The present volume is the second work published bythe Yale University Press on the James Wesley Cooper MemorialPublication Fund. This Foundation was established March 30, 1918, by agift to Yale University from Mrs. Ellen H. Cooper in memory of herhusband, 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, andfor twenty-five years pastor of the South Congregational Church of NewBritain, Connecticut. For thirty years he was a corporate member ofthe American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and from 1885until the time of his death was a Fellow of Yale University, servingon the Corporation as one of the Successors of the OriginalTrustees.
When tyrant feet are tramplingUpon the common weal,Thou dost not bid us bend and writheBeneath the iron heel;In Thy name we assert our rightBy sword, or tongue, or pen,And e'en the headsman's axe may flashThy message unto men.
Thy will,—it bids the weak be strong;It bids the strong be just:No lip to fawn, no hand to beg,No brow to seek the dust.Wherever man oppresses manBeneath the liberal sun,O Lord, be there, Thine arm made bare,Thy righteous will be done.
—John Hay
PREFACE
Religious interests are quite as much involved inthe world war as social and political interests. The moral andspiritual issues are tremendous, and the problems that ariseconcerning "the mighty hopes that make us men,"—hopes that relate tothe Kingdom of God on earth,—are such as not only to perplex our mostearnest faith, but also to challenge our most consecrated purpose.