The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-04-15
Choral Service at CaTnggie Hall
 Fitting Prelude THOUSANDS CROWDED OUT
Andrew Carnegie Arrives Late and is Unable to Reach Platform and  Bishop Potter Presidesa Over
 Vast Assembage.

New York, April 14.-A choral service fitting prelude to the first national arbi- tration and peace congress, which is to be opened tomorrow, was held at Car negie hall tonight. Probably 5000 persons found admittance. while thousands were unable to get within the hall.
 Andrew Carnegie was to have presided at the meeting, but returning from Pitts burg on a delayed train, he failed to reach the hall until the meeting was well un- der way and when once inside tine place he was unable to make his way through the throng to the platform In his ab- sence Bishop Henry C. Potter presided. It had been expected that a peace mes- sage from President Roosevelt would be read but no mention of the message was made. Archbishop John M. Farley. who was to have been one of the speakers, was detained in Washington and his pre- pared address was read by Monsignor J. 8I. J. Lavelle of St. Patrick's cathedral
 IAe other speakers were Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch of Chicago and Bishop Potter
 The former spoke from the words, The Advent of the Plough"
 Rabbi Hirsch said:
 Battle cradled Judahs early poetry, like the youthful strains of the awakening national consciousness among other peo- ples, running in melodies singing of gory victories. and sounding the crash of clash inG swords, the whir and stir of flying arrows It Is the mighty God of War whom it invokes and proclaims. and to read the significance of the uniyerses re- volving and changeful sceneries the He breY, bard's Tyre borrows symbol and sign from camp and contest. Stars are an army sent forth in nightly raid to de- feat the stormclouds daring minions. Tide and tempest. roaring sea and rayenous abyss are giant warriors leaping to the fray. Thus mythology and tic pascent natiorts vivid faerhoriNs Of recellt s1elius and braiis vie with each other to Iend glamour to the horrors of the man-wast- ing battle-ground.
 But in the noontide fullness of the nations maturity Judahs muse and ec- stasy give a vision of purer and softer tints and tones. They sing of peace. They prophecy of swords turned into plough shares They picture God enthroned as Judge over the dwellers of His footstool. His decisions render superfluous the ap- peal to arms. The art of war is forgot ten in consequence. Not as one destined
  blood but as one waving the palm unde- filed by grime of murder, they name and hail the future ruler of their nation prince of peace"
 The Forevision.
 ''The conservation of Israers prophetic assurance is upon us. The glad day of it's fulhllment Is nearing. Let them doubt who will Ours Is the fervent faith that vindcates the forevision.
 What old fable told of Titan parent devouring his own offspring, in inverted sequence we know to be the fate of war. The children of war devour their progen- itor. Every device and every invention which the warlike spirit has 'cradled have contributed to hold war itself in greater restraint. Old scrap iron are the proud fortresses constructed only a decade ago. The dreadnaughts of today Twill be re- garded as puerile toys tomorrow. They have filled torpedo and pro3ectlle with explosives of terrible potenltialities of havoc. Armors are pierced with great ease as though they were glued together of paper. But while shipyards4 are teem- ing with thousands of toilersl intent on forging the steel ramparts of the treach - erous deep, from the quiet labQratory of an experimenter emanates the fuse that reduces turrets and steel cuirass to im- potent makeshift. Mercenaries used to be the sons of war.
 Later only a small percentage of the people under command of professional soldiers were drafted into the service. Now war calls to arms the whole nation. And this very fact puts powerful brakes on the car of Juggernaut. Prepare war if thou desire peace The Latin's wisdom is discredited. The very futility of all preparations, the gruesome certainty that the breech loaders of today will De use tar ie of "a n yIot1r oc which go with armed peace. What folly of dissipation, what waste of toll and treasure. Shall human sweat not bei deemed too precious to devise and to fashion implements meant for defense and thus believed to prevent attack from without, which, ere they are finished on the anvil or formed in the furnace are outclassed by others in this mad rage and rance for more thorough preparedness for war in the interest of peace?
 Hope is the Plough.
 "Our hope is founded in the advent of the plough By A costly and cirfuitous route the sword has been turned Unto a plowshare even as 1t is now. Gun metal had to be returned to industry. for in many cases, and In an experience Ever re- peated, when employed for wars purpose it was, scarcely molded, detected to be insufficient, for a rival across tie from tier had discovered a more powerful en- zine which the day after againl had to be abandoned because another lad hit upon a still quicker process. Nc would come to the plough by more direct and less wasteful road. Yea, the plough has arrived. If 1t Is true that every war was in the last analysis inspired by fear of hunger and not by dynastic ambition national antiquities, then thq larger the number of ploughs the less the need of war. Intensity the productive meth ods which coax from earth the kessings stored therein and hungers dominion cor respondingly shrinks. None needs to starve if all work together to prevent famine's capricious and iniquitous intru- sion.
 We hail the advent of the plough. It is the sign of triumphant democracy. The toilers have always had to pay tlh price of war Theirs was chiefly the yolI in blood and tears and treasure, upoi them the recoil inevitable of brutality. But the men of the plough have come topnder- stand fallacies w-herewith they havdlitler- to been misled and duped. TherN is no clash between the interests of the toilers in one country and those In anothe. Ma tions are historic organisms deviled to
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