The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-12

within him. Education and lesisla tion
are as nothing unless the heart of man
is reached.
Father Doherty spoke of the broad
religious spirit which recognized God as
tine COO OF all men. He thought the
.ille haa passed When men would lie
about one another for the sak, of tr,,tb
and hate one another for the love Of
Christ VI
Dr. ABORTION, the next to address
the audience, spoke as follows.
Madam President cannot exnross
my sense of gratitude to the woman's
club of Butte for the privilege Won
nave accorded me to sit this evening On
this stage and participate in these ex-
erclses. You have given me a theme
OF the greatest magntude-"The Relie-
lous significance of the Peace Promo
sal 1t seems to me that this is the
significant feature of the proposal.
see in this the beginning of the fulfill
Hient OF lsfaeIs greatest prophet. ut
tered 700 years before the advent of the
Christ, His name shall be called the
Prince of Peace 1t Is the harbinger of
better days, when they shall beat
their swords into plowshares and their
spears into pruning hooks;' when ina
ton shall not life up sword against ma
ton, neither shall they learn war anv
more" Does the proposal have any
less significance in originating with the
car OIL Russla! think not, but rather
more. Inc creek church is Christian
anu the cars wife is a daughter of
Queen Victoria and, Judging from this
meeting called by the women of Butte
what influence may not the woman
from the palace of Great Britain exert
upon the car of Russia? We are adj
VancIng. 1t takes long for the Ieayen
or righteousness. as expressed by st,
Peter, to leaven the world, that Sin ev-
cry nation he that feareth God and
worketh righteousness is accepted of
Hlm, but 1t is doing so. 1t is signifi-
cant tonight that 1t is not the church
nor the creed, but religion, Joined to
God, that is drawing the people on
ward and upward. When the churches
cease to fight the nations come to-
Gether, and that day has come to us
now. There are two articles of religion
never yet formulated into a creed by
any ecumenical council, but are adopt
ed to-day by Catholic and Protestant,
orthodox and liberal-,-the fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man: and
it is the universal brotherhood of man
taught by the carpenter of Nazareth
that has gone into the heart of Nicho-
las and led him TO begin operations
by Which war among the nations shall
become thing of the past. These two
facts have been and are the forerunners
or the highest type of civlizati ton and
the powers doing more than all others
for the unification of the race. If we
look back along the history of the past
100 years we can note plainly the draw
ing together of those nations that ac-
cept the Bible They have come to-
gether physically and commercially.
lN,,
more and they barter and trade with
each other as men of one family. All
this is being brought about by Him who
said Whatsoever We would that men
should do ITO you do We even so to
them" l would not be understood as
saying this is being carried out to-day,
by no means; but we are tending to-
ward that point, and the good cars
proclamation is more significant of this
fact
The time has not been so long passed
when Romanism, and Professionalism were
whetting their swords and piercing
each other with them in the name of
religious conscience, but that day is
past, and there will never again be a
war between Professionalism and Ro-
man Catholicism; for We are brethren
of the one Christ. AS prominent man
said not long ago, 1.-The attempt to ere
ate a feud in America between Ro-
manists and Professionals ended in few
sulphurous words and went out in a
puff of smoke" The Catholic church
of Butte is filled nightly with an anxious
throng of people of all denominations
and no denomination while the Paulist
fathers conduct their mission as an old
time revival, while Mr.. Crittenton, a
devoted member of the Episcopal
church, comes and without surpiice or
prayer book breaches Christ, and all
denominations work with him in rescu-
ing souls from sim And when the fore
most women of our land come together
to give their approval to the peace pro-
Continued on Page Eighty