Arizona republican., 1915-02-15
Accept Invitation of Epis- copal Prelate to Attend Divine Service Held in Commemoration of Gen. tenary of Peace
ADDRESS MOST
 SCHOLARLY ONE
Reviews History Leading to Treaty of Ghent and Sub sequent Events in Which English-Speaking Peoples Continue at Peace

Members of the state legislature, ac- Julius w. Atwood. bishop of Arizona. attended morning services at Trinity Episcopal Pro- Cathedral yesterday and listened to an able and scholarly sermon by the bishop. It was the occasion of the general observance of the one hundredth anniversary of peace among English speaking peo- pie, and a special peace centenary service had been arranged in com memoration of the event.
 Rev. Bertrand Cocks, archdeacOn of the diocese, read the lessons, and there was most impressive musical program by the choir, under the di- rection of William Conrad Mills. Par ticularly pleasing was the special an them selection, Let Us Have Peace,'' by Ball
 Taking for his text: The work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever Qsaiah &XXII.), IT, Bishop Atwood said:
 T would remind you who have as sembled here that some time ago at the suggestion, I believe, of the Pil- grim Society, made up of distinguish ed representatives of both England and America, it was decided to cee- trate in a fitting manner the ceL- tenary of peace between the two great English speaking nations of ha al ta ,,la that were formed for a fitting cele- bration have been disarranged and thrown into confusion by the events of the past summer, which have in Volved Great Britain in d. life and death struggle on the battle fields of Europe.
 Tt was later decided by the com mittee who had the matter in hand to ask the churches to commemorate in some way this hundredth anni- versary of peace.
 AS a member of the American Committee appointed to represent Arizona, I am glad to welcome the representatives of this commonwealth who have come here today on a date that is significant for us in two fold way, as it also commentaries the third anniversary of the achieve ment of statehood by this common wealth.
 Today is not the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent That took place on Christmas Eve, 1874, but it was not until February IA, 1915, that the messenger bearing the news in those slow days of travel found his way ill the final lap of his journey through the mud-stained streets of Washing ton to the temporary home of Presi- Gent Madison, the White House hav- ing been recently burned by the British army.
 It was an eventful meeting on this Christmas Eve almost two months earlier when the treaty of Ghent was signed by the commis- sioners of Great Britain and the United States. Our own country was represented by John Quincy Adams our most trained diplomat. who had already been a member of the Unit cd States senate, who had held var ious positions in the diplomatic ser vice abroad and who as the son of John Adams had been familiar with public life from boyhood. Later. as secretary of state under President Monroe, he was destined to become the author of what Is known as the Monroe doctrine Still later in life he became, as you know. president and closed his long and brilliant ca reer with many years in congress as the upholder of the right of peti- tion and the defender of human free dom He was a scholar as well as a. statesman, honest, patriotic. a Puritan, obstinate and irascible, dif- ficult to get on with, cold and harsh in appearance and character With all of his remarkable force ano