---
title: 'Fighting for Peace'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Henry Jackson Van Dyke, Jr.'
date: 1917-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '20th century'
topics:
- 'War and Peace'
- 'United States'
- 'History (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Isaiah 2'
- 'Matthew 5'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/20th-century/van-dyke-1917-fighting-for-peace
---

# Fighting for Peace

Henry Van Dyke's essays recount his 1913 service as U.S. Minister to the Netherlands, reflecting on diplomacy at The Hague and arguing that durable peace requires justice backed by strength.

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