Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-02-07
CATHOLICS PRAY
 TODAY FOR PEACE
Pope Sets This Sunday for Services in Europe, March
 21 Elsewhere.

Rome, Feb. 6.--The pope sets two days to be devoted by Catholic clergy and laity throughout Christiandom to service and prayers for the restora- tion of peace. Tomorrow is the day on which the services are to be held in every Catholic church in Europe Sunday, March 21, is the day for special services in churches in all parts of the world except in Europe.
 The pope's decree exhOrts clergy men and their flocks not only to at tend the special services of the day, but by prayer, acts of modification and self-denial invoke God to restore tranquility to a world now suffering expiation for it's sins.
 The decree orders that the blessed sacrament be exposed in the churches, that special masses be said, the Rosary and Litanies recited, the services to conclude with benediction of the blessed sacrament. A special plenary indulgence will be gwen during the service.
 The Popes allocution expressing his deep chargin that month after month was going by without even the uWSldHC uOPC tiitO ldCdl WtAA hOSA" would cease. He alluded to what had been done toward the exchange of prisoners, and explained that the limitations of his apostolic office did not permit him to go further. As interpreter of the eternal law, the ,Pontiff said, he could declare that nobody should be permitted to inflict injustice, but he could not go further in this conflict. To do so would be neither convenient nor useful. The Holy see must remain perfectly inn partial.
 The Roman pontiff, as the vicar of Christ who died for all, must em- brace all the c1mbatants in his senti- ments of charity. Being the father of all Catholics, he has sons on both sides in this conflict for whose safety he must be anxious. Consequently it was impossible for him to look upon the special interests dividing the peoples in this conflict, but rather, the common bonds making them. brothers in the faith. Any other course not only would not assist peace but would create aversions to religion and .cor.i thus expose the internal tranquility and concord Of the Church to the danger of grave disturbance.
 While not taking sides with either antagonist, the Pope continued, he followed with deep anxiety the ter rible phases of the war
 %Concerning our beloved Belgium people," the Pope continued i've showed our sympathy in our letter to Cardinal Mercier. Here we make an appeal to the sentiment of human ity of those who cross the frontiers of hostile nations conjuring them not to devastate the invaded regions more than is absolutely necessary from the standpoint of military occu- patton, and above all not to wound without actual necessity the feelings of the inhabitants in their dearest minister of God. their. rights, their religion and their faith."
 The Pope said he ventured to ex- press the opinion that God allowed people whose thoughts were entirely engrossed with things of this world to punish each other with mutual slaughter for the disdain and neglect with which they treated Him.
 Continuing, the Pope alluded to the recent earthquake in Italy saying that other events had occurred which had obliged men to humiliate them- selves before the powerful hand of God, and he brought his allocution to close by urging the faithful to