Seriously lol, you guys gotta check this out. My jaw is hitting the floor reading this shit.
This was published in The Pacific, Volume 58, Issues 1-26 Congregational Churches in California. Northern California Congregational Conference.PROGRESS AND PROPHECY AT LAKE MOHONK.
A Sketch of the Fourteenth Arbitration Conference.
"When, thirteen years ago, Mr. Albert Smiley founded the International Arbitration Conference at Lake Mohonk. the peaceful enthusiasts that met on that beautiful mount of vision dared anticipate nothing beyond the adoption, some day, of arbitration treaties, nation with nation; and yet every one looked upon them as visionaries.
This year,
three hundred of the leading men in the nation have spent three days in conference on the subject, and the uppermost topic has been congratulation upon achieve...
The personnel of the conference was brilliant, as it always is. Think of a conference whose chronicler must pass with the merest mention such speakers as Admiral Chadwick, General (ex-governor) Manderson, of Nebraska, Ex-governor McLane, of New Hampshire, President Rush Rhees, of Rochester University, General Horatio C. King, Prof. John B. Clark, of Columbia, President Warfield, of Lafayette College, Editors Rollo Ogden, of the New York Evening Post, and Hamilton Holt, of The Independent, Dr. Rowley, Dr. MacArthur, and John R. Mott! The programme Committee, at their wits end, had to stop with enough speakers unheard to equip a dozen other conferences.
The platform rehearsed the many encouragements of the past year, and called for further advance along the lines upon which the natjons have already progressed so ..appily. Presented by Chief Justice Stiness, of Rhode Island, it was moved jn a masterly and eminently Christian speech by Justice Brewer, of the Supreme Court of the United States, seconded by Chief Justice Moore, of Michigan.
Justjce Brewer declared that he always returns from Mohonk fired with new zeal for the great cause of international arbitration and the establishment of a world government, and with new determination to do what he can to bring about that great result. This has been the case for thirteen years with all whom Mr. Smiley's statemanlike planning has Drought together in uiese annual conferences. Now that so much has been accompl;hsed, I am sure that the purpose of these Mohonk enthusiasts will not flag, but will go on from one gain to another, till the lirmly based congress of nations shall substitute for the cost and threat of war the assurance of law and the prosperity of peace."
So I looked up the kind of stuff they were talking about to make sure I understand what they mean by world government, here's from one of their conferences:"Disarmament, or any considerable reduction in fighting establishments it would seem, can proceed only so fast and so far as world-government is substituted for independent national government. For, so long as one nation may, openly or covertly, strike at another, adequate preparation for self-defense will be necessary. Yet, in the name of humanity, justice, religion and material progress, let us have this international court and congress, this responsible, authoritative, and recognized worldgovernment!...
...many of the more prominent European statesmen were under a spell of scepticism, particularly as regards the project of a permanent Congress of Nations, which involved, as they,said, a surrender of sovereignty. The old story! It was pointed out by us that no surrender of authority could ever be made for a nobler cause; that it was to be made not for peace alone, but also for justice, and that each human being must surrender natural rights for the boon of living in a community of individuals, hence governments should be willing to do the same for the boon of living in a community of nations." And what amazes me, this wasn't just a bunch of loosers talking about this stuff, the attendence list is filled withpretty important people.
