The Washington herald., 1910-04-04
GIBBONS SEES PEACE
Arbitration and the Church
to Settle World Strife.
CHRIST'S EXAMPLE IS VALUED
Cathedral Crowded TO
Hear Sermon on "Peace BE TO
YOU" I'm Which Catholic PreIate
Urges settlement of International
Conflicts by Means OF Peace Board.

| Baltimore. April 3.-That weak nations
should exult in the existence OF the
international Board Of Arbitration be-
cause it VIII help to protect them was
f, the statement made by Cardinal Gibbons
/ to-day at the II o'clock solemn high
mass This being the first Sunday Of the
| month, the cardinal preached the sermon
ct the cathedral The big edifice was
crowded to the doors.
/ The first words that Christ addressed
to His apostles after His glorious resur-
rectiOn were words of peace. said the
| cardinal, and Jesus stood in the midst
of them and said: Peace be to you He
says to us that We might have peace
with our God: be at peace with our
neighbors and have peace within our
own breasts.
Christ came not only to establish
peace among individuals. but also to
preach peace among nations-interna-
tional peace-to preach peace so as to
break down the walls and barriers that
separate one nation from another and
bring US all together in, one common
brotherhood
0huFch W orktnK LOT Beaces
You hear people say that from the
earliest ages of history down 10 the
present time there have been wars and
strifes of all kinds and that there is
still strife IN the world" continued Car
dinal Gibbons. This is so. my brethren.
but il does not mean that Christ's procla-
nation is not true or that 1t has never
true. and it is my purpose TO convince
those who do not think so. because
the Church has doDe very much to pro-
mote peace, and has always worked for
peace. not only among individuals. but
also among nations. Brethren. the influ-
ence of Christian religion has been ex-
erted not only in lessening the number
of wars. the length of battles. but it has
mtigated the cruelties Of the wars. it
has helped to do away with the depravity
and the insults, death, and shame heaped
upon women in war: it has helped to
do away with exiting those captured in
war from their homes; II has prevented
famines.
'In the olden times all kinds Of cruel |
ties were resorted to by the armies in |
battle. Take Gen. Lee and Gen Grant
for instance. Suppose Gen. Lee and his |
officers had been put in bonds and led |
through the streets of Washington, fol- |
lowed by the flower of Southern chivalry.
and had been put to death. Brethren, |
the American people would have pro-
tested In the loudest terms against such !
barbarism and cruelty. But such scenes
were enacted in the early ages.
Value of Arbitration Board
"There are bullying nations, actuated l
by lust and greed for territory and /
eager to gain soil that they have no |
right to. The weak nation to-day is
protected by justice, by healthful public |
opinion, and by the hope of the aid that
it will receive from the international |
board Of arbitration.
There is no doubt that the pros |
perity that has existed in the United /
States has in no small way been due 10 |
the healthy immigrant. Welcome the /
immigrant to these shores; let him be-
come so enamored with our political and
civic institutions that he win be the
bone of our bone and the flesh of our
flesh; let him till our barren fields When
l see the German. the Scandinavian, the
Saxon. and all other nations coming to
our soil. see that they are coming, not
bent on deeds of blood. but deeds Of
good; not bent on destruction. but con-
struetion.
GOD grant that day is not far OFF
when the Prince of Peace. God. viii
reign over the cabinets of the nation.
1ver the kings. presidents, and settle
disputes not with standing armies. but
BY the international board Of arbitration:
rot by the sword. but by the pen. for
he pen is mightier than the sword.''