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APPENDIX
A AVORD OF ENTREATY
From the Y. M. C. A. address of Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, delivered at
Brooklyn, New York, Sunday, October 6th, 1918, and reported
in the "Brooklyn Daily Eagle," of October 7th.
Let us keep the sympathetic intelligence toward Russia which
President Wilson has nobly recommended. Here, as he has hinted,
is the twentieth century field for democracy’s missionary toils. Here
are different races to be welded into one by these values in religion
and in politics which we have tested and found sufficient for our
unification. Here is hazard enough for the courageous, problems which
will tax our wisdom but also probabilities which guarantee new vision
for those that sit in darkness, while beneath their unwilling feet is
the wherewithal for a rejuvenated Europe and Asia.
Potential Russia is the key to the many barriers in the vexed
situation. It promises that continents shall be recast and the world
insured against the nests of potentates and madmen who wantonly
usurp its peace and prosperity. A United States of Russia, or even a
constitutional monarchy there, after the pattern of the British mon-
archy, might consolidate the salutary features of the past and equip
them for their work in the future. The synthesis will be worked out
by the sentiment of sacred nationality, which subserves progress. It
needs counsel, stimulus, steady friendship. If you require more than
nationalism (and who does not?), remember that the pan-human ideals
have a warm place in the Russian soul. Many of her children who
died martyrs against the former usurpations did so, not for local free-
dom alone, but for universal fraternity. The music, the literature,
the unuttered aspirations of Russia on the Mount have nothing narrowly
domestic in them. They do not babble in local dialects, nor exhibit a
fettered nature. They prophesy an all-inclusive human society, a true
Catholicism to which we must be alert, or the world-republic distant
but ever-nearing will have little meaning for us.
Dostoievsky called Russia, "the God-bearer," giving to Europe the
Christ child. Strange as this may seem to some, the regeneration of
her whole body, its crystallization in political unity, its dreams and
its daring, its power to rise above the encircling floods, is found in
Jesus. And the brotherliness, the generosity, the candor of the Russian
character at its normal stage proceed from the trust in Jesus, which
has found expression in the past. "What else can the torn and bleed-
ing nations look to for help and healing? We cannot give to Russia
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