The Dickinson press., 1917-05-26

as late as 1885, when Bismark sub
mitted the German controversy with
Spain owe the Caroline Islands to the
which established peace and prevented
war. Aye, but a year ago., our Holy
Father Pope Benedict XIV, was Sc
lected as arbitrator of the difficulty
then existing between Peru and b.
livia.
It is most significant that those
powers who have so long ignored
Rome are now sending ENJOYS to her
court and who shall say that if Eng
land, Russia, Turkey, Germany and
all the other nations now engaged in
war, had, before the war, sent their
ENJOYS to the Vatican, that the great
European slaughter now going on
might not have been averted? Even
though Rome by the rebellion of nee
loyal nations is limited in the exer-
else of her divine power, yet she has
done more than all the other powers
put together to bring relief to those
thousands of wounded soldiers of all
creeds and no creed, who were Ian
gushing in foreign lands. It is the
good offices of our Holy Father that
oAC p1I1lSllS OdCh tIle WOuIlueu SOlQ-
iers to the firesides in their native
lands which they love and long for.
Let us hope and pray that the day
is not far distant when Rome shall
again be recognized as the great
papal court Of arbitration and so
avert in the future the awful slaught-
er that the world is a witness of to-
day. Aye! it is Rome alone that will
ever bring about the understanding
necessary to an enduring peace Of
nations. For the brotherhood of man
divorced from the fatherhood of God
is a mere mock.
Peace Palace Mockery.
What a rebuke' this war of many
nations is to the pride and conceit
which set up The Hague as the pur-
veyor of international peace! It is
Hamlet with Hamlet left out. There
it stands, a magnificent building-the
peace palace at The Hague-to mock
it's founders. The money did not
come by multiplying the bits donated
by the poor,-no, the money was
rolled up mountain high by manipu-
lating the tariff schedules and by
grinding the face of the poor. The
peace palace is now silent. 1t was so
filled with emptiness that there was
no room for the vicar of Christ. It
meditated vain things and verify it
received it's reward. Its reward was
not peace but the plaudits Of those
who deny the authority of the Pope
of Rome, of those who would dethrone
religion in favor of science-not
knowing that theology is the highest
intellectual science of them all.
The very idea Of The Hague came
from the Church. It was a French
Catholic monk, Emeric Cruce, who
some 300 years ago wrote out a con-
crete plan for a world court Of arbi-
tration. It was from the book of this
monk-The New Cyneas-that Hugo
Grotius, Gustavus Adolphus, our own
Charles Sumner and many other lead
ing advocates of international arbi-
tration r said to have received
their inspiration which afterwards
m~aterialized in The Hague.
In his plan, the holy monk gave
first place to the Roman pontif, but
at The Hague, they would not have
it so. Shall we wonder then, that this
cold temple stands. stark, warning the
world that Christ is the center of
peace and that a rejection Of His vicar
is a rejection Of Christ Himself
Must Pay Price of Peace.
Oh! it is as simple as can be; if we
want peace.in our hearts, peace in our
homes, peace in our industries, and
peace in our governments, we must
lpay the price. The price Of peace is
the obedience to- the law Of Christ.
when the Lord is Ny Shepherd, I
have no want"
It was but yesteryear that the