Troops of Peace

Led by a crucifer and four churchmen in hot black cassocks carrying Christian flags, a parade formed one evening last week near the grave of famed Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody on Round Top near East Northfield, Mass. Missionaries, laymen, church delegations, Bible students, nationals in native costume and two Salvation Army bands--2,000 people in all--marched down to the small New England town. They carried placards: BUILD FRIENDSHIP, NOT BATTLESHIPS--ADMIT JAPANESE ON THE QUOTA BASIS -- RELIGION RENOUNCES WAR.

At Northfield, sacred to the memory of Dwight Moody, U. S. churchfolk refresh their spirits every summer in a series of conferences which succeed each other week after week, fill the Northfield Hotel run by Ambert Moody (nephew). Last week's peace parade was the high point of the Northfield season. The 2,000 marchers took a peace pledge. Rev. James Myers, industrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, declared: "Missionaries have ever been the shock-troops of religion. ... As the church now turns with missionary zeal, courage and sacrifice to the high adventure of the abolition of war, we may look forward with renewed assurance to the final victory of peace and goodwill among men."

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