Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-24

allure and art which, like her material
riches, are still in their infancy. with
unlimited prospects before them.
She has been able to utilize the ac-
thus to do in the first century of her in
dependence what it took the older coun-
tries of the world centuries upon GEN.
turtles to accomplish. It is the will Of
the Omnipotent Power that America
velop them to their full extent, rising
ever higher in its ideals and in striving
for the attainment of truth, goodness
and beauty.
These three transcendent qualities of
every being possess no greater foe than
strife. Nothing impedes so much the
progress of nation as war does. In war,
when passions rise high, the atmosphere
grows dark, the sky is overloaded, the
horizon of intellectual progress disap-
pears and science is neglected. Virtue
is lost sight of and the meanest vices.
like titanic shadows of the night, come
creeping out of their hiding places to
stalk abroad. Conscience, If it is not
completely ruined, languishes. while
it's place. Sorrow and pain cast their
shadow over the land and the voice of
lamentation is everywhere heard, the
voice of Rachel weeping tor her children.
LAS to literature and the fine arts. they
have no place mid the tumult of arms,
however war may afterward inspire the
fervid imagination of the poet, or the
blood-stained pencil of the artist, to place
1t like the shadow beside the light. With
the groans of the dying still ringing in
on our hands, with the memory of our
unhappiness, our fear. our disappoint-
ments and our sorrow, let us swear eter-
nal enmity to war, let us sheath the
Eternal Peace. Let US not heedlessly
cast away the gifts that God has be-
slowed upon us and impede the progress
Of America for generations.
Learned a Bitter Lesson.
I'VE have all learned a bitter lesson,
but it is not lost, 1t will not be lost. With
the advance Of Christian principles the
love Of peace win advance. Christ is the
Prince OF Peace. though His followers
have not always been animated by His
spirit.
Il feel that the day is coming when hui
man blood will no longer be shed. save by
the beneficent knife of the surgeon; when
humanity will redeem it's grievances with
out resort to bloodshed. But before that
day comes humanity must be transformed
through Christ and in Christ. America
made a great step in advance. when the
statue of the Prince of Peace was erected
on the Cumbre. which nearly a century
ago witnessed the passage of an invading
army.
''Ail honor to those ladies OF South
America to whose Initiative this is due
and who nave labored for the promotion
of peace. Oh, we owe SO much to our
mothers, we of the north and you of the
south! Never. men Of Spanish America,
can you repay your debt to those pure
minded, noble. self-sacriticing women of
your respective countries, whose hand
rocked your cradle and whose tongue
planted in your heart those sentiments
which nothing can completely efface.
1.-THE statue on the Andes does not be-
long exclusively to the two republics be-
tween which it stands. No. 1t providen-
turned to all the countries of America
with the admonition to peace and har-
mony.
Advance, then, nations of America,
sovereign. independent in your own right.
but united, not politically, but mo ally. in
bears the Christ and as lasting as the
eternal SHOWS that crown its summit"
Program of Music.
Under the direction of r. Mills silby,
Prof. Gloetzner. director of the mixed
was sung: Prelude. march from Suite No.
Uachner), by the orchestra; introit,
by the sanctuary choir: 'kyrie'' and
Gloria" from Beethoven's mass In c, by
the mixed choir; "Graduale.' by the sane
tuary choir; 'veni Creator" by the sane
tuary choir; credo from Gounods Mass
of st. Cecilia" by the mixed choir; Of
fertory. by the sanctuary choir; offertory
motel. "A Sacrum Convivium." by the
sanctuary choir; ..sanctus.' "Benedictus'