The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-25
DAWN OF PEACE ON EARTH
REV. DR. MUNG ER's DISCOURSE ON
 THE REPATRIATION TREATY.

'oPhocy-NO sane Man belieVes ihab
 Nations Are Forever to Remain Pugilists
 and Cutthroats-The Lesson the Pro-
 posed Treaty Teaches Armed Europe.
 The. Pending International Arbitra- ton Treaty" was the subject of the concluding portion of very able dis course by Rev. Dr. Munger in the Unit ed church yesterday morning. The dis course was based on the first ten verses of the eleventh chapter of Isaiah, in which occurs the familiar passage, "The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf, and the young lion, and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.'
 Dr. Munger, referring to this descrip- tion by the Old Testament prophet, spoke as follows:
 There is no picture of peace compar- able with the picture presented by Isa- iah in our text, except, perhaps, that painted picture of it by Landseer, who, because he was master painter of lambs and kids, and lions, and cows, and children, and because he saw into the depths of animal nature, could find there the peace which he could not find in sman. The same insight that sent Isaiah to the animal world for en- blems of peace inspired the artist In nature he found harmony. The lions of Landseer do not devour; they guard and they rule in kingly majesty.
 "The picture of peace to which I re- fer is a scene on the cliffs of Dover overlooking the narrow channel beyond which lies France with whom England has waged war in almost every cen tury. The sea is smooth and a steam CT is making its frequent journey from one shore to the other. On the cliff is a family group, a mother and two chill dren, surrounded by sheep and goats lazily resting or feeding under the summer sun. The sea gulls float over- head. the shepherd boy stretches him. self in sleep, the flock is too peaceful to need his care. On the ground lies a long -disn1antled cannon, left and for gotten as useless; the grass is growing in the mouth of it, and lamb thrusts it's little head within and crops the
 
 the threads for their knitting. Could art go farther in picturing peace? It could perhaps be better suited to the hour. The scene should not lie on the cliffs of Dover, but on some headland of the western coast overlooking the Atlantic, and there might be added an- other figure looking with eager gaze across the waters for some message or Al. |. S.- ,oo<, fnr,n Q figure will not look in vain if 1t Is pa tient; patient, for the people are not vet wholly awake to the real signifi- canoe of the treaty for arbitration We must be patient on all sides-good MT. Hoar (the noblest Roman of the few left); he must be patient with the peo- ole, for we have a great matter in hand, and it begins to stir the blood of the people; they are awaking. They will be told in ten thousand pulpits to- day what the treaty means. cannot better do my part in this great duty than by quoting from a daily newspa- per the best statement of it that have seen:
 This treaty signifies that two of the foremost nations of the world, both alike powerful and proud, with a rec ord of great and valiant wars, strong in actual or potential armament, with hot blood in their veins and possibili- ties of grave quarrel between thenl--do soberly agree that all disputes too diff ficult for ordinary negotiation shall be submitted to a peaceful tribunal, so weighti1y constituted as to give pre- sumption of just decision, and by it's decision these two nations will abide. They agree to adopt in their interna- tional relations the very principle and method which for ages has maintain ed peace and justice among private in- dividuals. They discountenance war war, the burden and curse of the 1u- man race, the mother of evil passions, the foe and menace of civilization. They propose to make an end of war between themselves, not by an ideal sentiment too high for average human nature, but by the plan of peaceful ljudicature approved through many centuries of experience. Its transfer from individual to national relations has waited only until the people com posing the nation should sufficiently advance in intelligence, virtue and self control, to approve and adopt this method That point of advance has at last been reached by the two great English-speaking peoples. First of earth's family to establish orderly free dom within themselves, England and America are also the first to establish an international tribunal of peace. Great is the achievement, great is the promise!'
 "There is danger lest the importance of this treaty be overlooked, because it is without visible sign; nothing is done; nothing happens as the result. The Proclamation of the Emancipation took three millions of people out of slavery. But this is simply a negative agree nent; we will not go to war; when signed, all goes on as before. But the sign is no measure of the event. The silent sunrise, not the thunder storm, tells on the day that follows. This treaty is a very simple thing-a few agreements as to action under contln- gent circumstances; if we disagree we will not fight, but arbitrate. So was Magma Charta a. simple thing-a few stipulations affecting the relation Of the king to the people, but it marked the longest advance ever made by civ ilization. So here nothing is done eX- cept to vote, but when it is taken-be