From The Indianapolis Times, Monday, October 5, 1914: In response to President Wilson’s call for a National Day of Prayer for Peace, practically every church of every faith in Indianapolis offered prayers yesterday for the ending of the war now raging in Europe. Many sermons echoed the words of Rev. Lewis Brown of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, “War stands as contradiction of every reputable attribute of modern life.” A special peace meeting, under the auspices of the Indiana Peace Society, the Indianapolis Church Federation, and the Marion County Sunday School Association, met in the afternoon at Roberts Park Methodist Episcopal Church to hear Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of Indiana University, deliver an address on peace. He held out hope that world-wide peace is not to come only in the dim future, but that is near.