The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-04-15
\ PEACE PRELUDE
GRBAT CHORAL SERVICE TT CAR
 NEGIE HALL.
Wa . Fitting Preface to Opening of F1t1onal Arbitration C0ngress.--Ad- arenses Delivered by Rabbi and
 BfahOp.

New York, April 14.--A choral service, fitting prelude to the first national ar bttratton and peace congress which Is to be opened tomorrow, was held at Car negfe Hall tonight. Probably five thousand persons found admittance while thousands were unable to get within the hall.
 Andrew Carnegie was to have presid- cd at the meeting but. returning from Ptttsburg on a delayed train, he failed to reach the hall until the meeting was we'll under way and, when once inside the place, he was unable to make his way through the throng to the plat form. In his absence, Cishop Henry C. Porter presided.
 It had been expected that a peace message from President Roosevelt would be read but no mention of the message was made.
 Archbishop John M. rarley, who was to have been one of the speakers, wa. detained at Washington, and his pre- pared address was read by Monsignor iJ. M ]. Lavelle of St. Patricks Cathe- dral
 < The other speakers were Rabbi Emil O Hirsch, of Chicago, and Bishop Pot ter
 The former spoke from the words The advent of the plough"
 In conclusion Bishop Potter said:
 Let us thank God for The Hague Congress. and that an American has built the building in which 1t is to meet: and may 1t hasten the triumph of universal peace."
 Tomorrow at 3 o'clock the first de- Lucrative session of the peace con- gress proper will be held.
 Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Sinai Con- gregation. Chicago. speaking on ''The Advent of the Plough" said:
 ssI0 tQnsffv inc nrOductfye Hnefbods which coax from earth the blessings stored therein. and hunger's dominion rorrespondingly Hhrinks None need starve if all work together to pre- won't famines, capricious and iniqui- tous intrusion. We hail the advent of the blow. It is the sign of tri- umphant democracy.
 With cooperation, friction will be minimized. If the courts are compe- tent to maintain the social equilibrium between different contestants and liti- Gants in one country, shall we despair of an international tribunals efficien- cy in making for equilibrium among the nations?
 'Tf all nations were united, would the single nation dare reject the de- creer
 Let nations dream of peace and peace will be sure of consummation The hands that guide the blow carry
 
 less doubtful than do the fingers that pull the trigger"
 Archbishop Farley, writing on Uni versal Peace." said he was not pre- pared to say that war could ever be removed from society. but that much might be done to mitigate its horrors and lessen its frequency Efforts for universal peace, he declared, would accomplish only imperfect results un- til the moral power of authority of organized religion were openly recog- hized
 The Archbishop said no horror. moral or material, was lacking to war and added: Its benefits, if any. are indirect and uncertain: its evils are immediate, inevitable and universal. Vitiation of human character, waste Of life and gain, arrest of human pro- gress, injustice to the helpless and Innocent popular and permanent leg acies or hate and all the ffercest and most ruinous passions of the human breast"