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WARS OF THE LAST CENTURY
CARDINAL GIBBONS POINTS OUT
DANGER OF LARGE ARMIES.
Expresses the Hope That European Con-
ditions May Never Obtain Herc-The
outrage of One Christian Nation
Fighting Another for Civilization
Rectifying of boundaries PoI'o
Name fog Robbery.

Baltimore, Jan. 6.-Cardinal Glppons
1 TODAY delivered sermon at h1gh mass
in the Cathedral in which he reviewed
briefly the events of the century JUS
closed with special reference TO the wars
which have been waged during ina
period as a preface to an urgent plea
for universal peace. He incidentally
touched upon the subject Of the propos-
ed increase Of the standing army In
this country, pointing out the evil re-
suits arising from the maintenance OF
large bodies of armed men in European
countries and expressed the hope that
similar conditions may never obtain IN
this country. The sermon was as fol
lows:
"The mission of Jesus Christ on earth
was mission of peace. He came to es-
, tablish in our hearts triple peace,
peace with God, peace with your neigh
Dor and peace with ourselves. Man
peace with God was dissolved by his re-
bellion against his Maker. Christ came
to restore man to the friendship of God
by sacrifice of His life on the cross.
He tells us that this peace Is to be
maintained by the observance OF the
commandments, There Is much peace,
o Lord. to those that keep Thy law and
for them there is no stumbling block.
''He has taught us to have peace with
our neighbor by observing the eternal
principles of justice and charity, by do
ing unto others what we would wish
others to do unto us. He tells us
that we will have peace with ourselves
by keeping our passion subject to rea-
son and our reason subject to faith.
But Christ's mission of peace had a
wider scope than to the Individual man.
His mission was also to bring peace
to the family and society AS the God
of peace which He is called by ST. Paul,
He brings peace to the human heart.
AS the father of peace He brings peace
to the family, and as the Prince of
peace, as He is called by Isaiah, He
brings peace to society and the COM
monwealth.
Before the advent of Christ, war was
the rule, peace the exception, through
out the world. So regular, incessant
and habitual was war before the coming
of our Saviour, that the sacred writings
in the Book of Kings speaks of GER
tain season of the year as the usual
period fo rthe re-opening of hostilities.
In pagan Rome the temple of Janus
was closed in time of peace and kept
open in time of war. From the reign
of Tullus Hostilius, the third king of
Rome, to Augustus Caesar, period
covering six hundred and fifty years
the temple was closed only for six
years. So that Rome enjoyed only six
years of tranquility against six hundred
and forty-four years of warfare
But although wars are less frequent
and less inhuman in the Christian dis
pensation than in pagan times it must
be confessed that we are, as vet, far
from the millennium of univer-
sal peace.
"'Glory to God in the highest. and
On earth peace to men of good WILL was
The song of the angels on the night of
our Saviour's birth in Bethlehem.
Although these words have been re-
sounding throughout the world for
nearly 1000 years, and though Chris
,1anity is the prevailing religion of Eu-
'ope, 1t is melancholy reflection that
t has not yet succeeded in arresting
var and establishing the permanent
'eign of peace on that continent. In
Continued on Seventh Page.) J.