Forum on genesis and persistence in advocacy for peace. Faith organizations. My name is john roth. I am editor of the mennonite orderly review and professor of history at Goshen College in northern indiana. I am delighted to serve as moderator of this conversation. Anyone who has taken a tour of the museum here or seen footage of the flag waving parades of enthusiastic young conscripts as they departed for military Training Camp in the summer of 1917 might have the impression that support for the war and the United States entry into the conflict was universal. Yet those of us gathered here for this conference are keenly aware that there were many voices of caution, of dissent, of objection, and even open resistance to the war fever that seemed to grip the nation in the spring and summer of 1917. As we will hear in the days that followed, that dissent originated from many different sources and took many expressions. But one of the lead edges of resistance to the war came from various re