Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-05
Peace Service
 at Carnegie Hall
ADDRESSES BY sEc'Y BRYAN AND
 OSCAR S. STRAUS
MANY TURNED AWAY
Mir. Bryan Asserts It is "our Duty to Use Such Influence as We Have for the Return of Peace"

New York, Oct 4.-Hope that the European battle will be the last object lesson Of the horrors of strife, and that after it all the efforts of man will be devoted to production, rather than de- Struction, was expressed today py Secretary of State Bryan and Oscar $. Straus, former secretary, of commerce and labor, at the special Peace day service held. at Carnegie hall. The service was one of many held in this city in accordance with President Will sons recent proclamation designating today as day Of prayer for peace The large hall was filled and hundreds of people had to be turned away.
 Today, when a number of nations all our friends, have been drawn into the vortex of war;" said Secretary Bryan, "our first duty is to use such return of peace. There will be ample time afterward to. discuss ways and means for preventing future appeals To arms.
 Neutral Nations Suffer.
 Tn this age our interests are so en- twined with the interests of those who reside in other lands that no nation can live or die unto itself alone. If we had no higher reason for encourag- ing conditoons conducive to peace, we should find ample justification in the fact that the burdens of war are no longer borne alone by. those who are direct. participants in it. Today every neutral nation finds itself greatly en- barraSsed by the disturbance which the European war has wrought in ev- cry department of human activity.
 ''We must not be discouraged if this, the greatest of all wars, broke out just when we were most hopeful of the sub stitution of reason for force in the settlement of international disputes. It may be that the world needed one more awful object lession to prove conclusively the fallacy of the doc- Urine that preparedness for war can give assurance of peace. This. as- sumption is built upon the theory that peace rests upon fear, whereas all his tory proves the contrary. Continuous preparation for war preSuppoSeS the l existence of an enemy who must be l hated until he can be overcome; but l hatred begets hatred, and revenge is | the heaviest load that man or nation cancarTy.
 | "One of the announcements to D< 1 drawn from the present European con | fiict is to be found in the fact that the governments involved vie with eacf other in refusing to admit that they began it. We have taken long steT | in advance when no civilized natio- | will either admit a desire for war o1 confess an intention to inaugurate it.
 Oscar Straus expressed hope thai mediation would eventually settle the European struggle.
 Cardinal Farley at St. Patrick's.
 Cardinal Farley, making his first public appearance at St. -Patrick's ca | thedral since his return from Rome
 said that if Europe had needed Pope Plus X the war would never have i started.
 The pope,'' he said, 'tdied amid the
 sounds of battle Of the nations of Flu
 rope, praying for peace, his heal broken by the thought of strife in this civilized age. Had these European | countries looked to hi nafor advice l this carnage would not have occurred Let us hope, however, that God in His
 mrcy will answer the prayers of the
 whole world, and grant universa | peace"
 l At the cathedral of St. John the Di- vine, Bishop David H. Greer asserted l that although all methods heretofore | tried have failed to insure universa | peace, the principles laid down by l Christ have yet to be applied to dip1o.
 macy and politics and that until suci principles are tried the world will | never be sure of peace.