Anna Mow's Analysis

Anna Mow once said, “’Peace is an attitude, the kind that doesn’t create dissension. We create hostility when we turn away from what the other person is saying instead of listening to understand. The primary task is to perceive the perspective of those who differ with us’” (Long 146). Anna Mow covers a great point. She says that in order to have peace in the world, we must listen to what people have to say. Even if one does not agree, it is best to not walk away; it creates hostilities between the two people which will bite back in the long run. Pacifism is all about peace between people. The Church of the Brethren has strived to achieve and spread peace throughout the world. Why people choose pacifism, conscientious objection, and pacifism

Many people thought that there was more courage involved in resisting the draft than actually going to war (Berlatsky 29). The people at the Goshen Conference soon found that out. They wrote a statement to the government, called the Goshen Statement, which talked about the Brethren’s standpoint on war and peace (Garber 9). By doing this, they reaffirmed their historic position with peace (Long 16). After the government received the statement, it wrote back and said that the statement was treason (Garber 9). M.R. Zigler heard about the statement when he was on Paris Island (Long

After the war in 1937, West went to Spain to help with the relief effort by handing out cups of milk to those who were devastated by war (West). When he was done, he went back to his home state, Indiana, and asked for heifers to send oversees to help those who did not have much to eat (West). Men volunteered their heifers to be sent overseas. The heifers were taken over to Europe by men called seagoing cowboys. The “cowboys” told the people who received the heifers that when the first calf is born, they were to give it away to another needy family like they had been before they had gotten the heifer (West). This project of giving heifers became known as Heifer Project and was created by Dan West (West). Through Heifer Project, West taught youth about peace (Garber 45). As West used Heifer Project to spread peace in other countries, other countries such as Nigeria and Haiti are also spreading