Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-08-01
END THE CARNAGE,
|SPLEA OF POPE
ImpIores BeIIigerent Nations
Before Divine Providence
to Lay Down Arms.
EUROPE DISHONORED
BY CONFLICT, HE SAYS
Feels Despair of Father Who Wit
nesses His Home Torn
Asunder.

| PARIS. July 31.--The text of the
peace appeal just issued by Pope Bene-
| dict reads as follows:
when we were called to succeed to
| the apostolic throne of Pope Plus Y,
whose upright and exemplary life was
brought t oan end by the fratrcdal
struggle which broke out in Europe,
we. too, felt, after gazing fearfully
upon the bloody battlefield, the despair
of a father who witnesses his home
| torn asunder and ravaged by a furious
tempest
We thought with inexpressible sor-
row OF our young sons cut down by
death: we felt in our heart enlarged
by Christian charita bleness, the great
unspeakable sadness of mothers and of
wives made widows before their time,
and the tears of children deprived too
soon of parental guidance
Resolved to End War.
participating in our soul in the fear
and anguish of innumera BILE families.
and we'll knowing the imperial duties
imposed upon us by the mission of
peace and love with which We have
been conf1ded during these sad days,
we adopted hrm resolve to concen-
trate our whole activity and all our
power to the reconciliations of the peo-
pies at war. We made solemn prom
Use to our Divine Father, who wished
with the price of His blood to make
all men brothers.
words of peace and love were the
first we addressed to. the nations and
their chiefs as the supreme guardian
of their souls. Our affectionate and in
sistent counsels as father and friend
were not heard
Resolution Is mistaken.
This increased our sadness but did not
shake our resolution. We continue
with confidence to appeal to the. ALL
Powerful, who holds in His hand the
minds and hearts of subjects as we'll
as kings. imploring Him to end the
great scourge.
In our humble but ardent prayer we
want to include all the faithful and, to
make it more effective. we has taken
care that it be accompanied by works
of Christian penitence.
To-day, on the sad anniversary of the
terrible conflict. our heart gives forth
the wish that the war will soon end.
fatherly cry for peace. May this cry,
dominating the friShtful noise of arms,
reach the warning peoples and their
chiefs and induce kindly and more
1mplores Nations to Act.
I'm the name of the Lord God: in the
name of the Father and Lord in
Heaven: in the name of the Blessed
Blood of Jesus-the price of redemp
ton of humanity--we implore the bel
ligerent nations before Divine Provi
dence henceforth to end the horrible
carnage, which far a year has been dis
honoring Europe.
This is the blood of brothers that
is being shed on land and sea. The
most beautiful regions of Europe
this garden of the world-are soWn
with bodies and ruins. There, where
recently fields and factories thrived,
cannon now roar in a frightful manner
in d frenzy of demolition, Sparing nei
Their cities nor villages, and spreading
the ravages of death
Listen to Our Prayer"
You who before God and men are
charged with the grave responsibility
of peace and war, listen to our prayer
listen to the fatherly voice of the Vicar
of the Eternal and Supreme Judge. to
whom you should give account Of your
public works well as private &C
tons.
The abundant riches which the Gre
ating God has given to your lands per-
mits you to continue the contest; but
at what a price is the answer of thou
sands of young, whose lives are lost
each day on the battlefields, and of the
ruins of so many cities and villages, so
many monuments due to the piety and
genius of our forefathers.
Is Not Price Too Great?
THE bitter tears flow in the sanctity
of homes and at the foot of affairs; do
they not also repeat that the price OF
the continuation of the contest is great,
too great?
And it cannot be said that the inn
mense conflict cannot be ended without
violence OF arms. May this craze for
destruction be Abandoned; nations do
not perish. Inundated and oppressed,
they tremblingly carry the yoke i'm
posed them and prepare their re-
Venge, transmitting from generation to