S THE Christian church opposed to war? Is it force for peace? Many would immediately respond in the affirmative. Is not Jesus traditionally the Prince of Peace? Does not the ethic he preached include Resist not, and the injunctions to turn the other cheek and to forgive even to seventy times seven? True, the injunctions of the Sermon on the Mount are capable of convenient interpretation to make way for common personal and business practices; but the very genius of Christianity, the brotherhood of God's children, it is generally assumed, is quite opposed to the unbrotherliness of war. Not alone in view of Christian principles would there be an affirmative answer. Did not 62 per cent of almost twenty thousand clergymen responding to recent questionnaire declare their belief that the church should go on record as refusing to sanction or support any future war, while 54 per cent declared that in any case they themselves would refuse to participate? One's mind runs back over the numerous post-war declarations of religious conferences (of which one assiduous student has collected 239) in behalf of peace, of education for peace, of disarmament, of the League or league of nations, of outlawry, of arbitration, of the Kellogg Pact, and the resolutions condemning war in such terms as inglorious, ineffective, wasteful, and unchristian, a colossal and ruinous sin. One thinks of the annual Armistice Day message of the Federal Council of Churches and of the thousands of sermons on the theme-It must not be again. The host of religious organizations working for peace comes to mind: The Church Peace Union, The World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches, The Women's Church Committee on International Good-Will, The Catholic Association for International Peace, The Committee on International Jus-