Evening star., 1932-10-31
BISHOP Of EXETER
ASKS WORLD PEACE
Lord Cecil Summons Aid of
All English Speaking
Peoples.

The Right Rev. LCrd William Gas
coyne Cecil, Bishop Of Exeter, yesterday
morning, preaching in the great choir
of Washington Cathedral, summoned
the English-speaking peoples of the
world to be the peachemekers Of the
earth.
To a congregation which filled all the
completed portion of the church, he eX-
planned how he had come to undertake
his present visit to the United States
In behalf of world amity and CrdHr. H
reviewed his own experience in the
Great War OF lSl4-1918. Il lest three
sons" he said. and a fourth was
cruelty wounded. Bombs fell from the
air about my house. The church OF
my neighbOr was blown to pieces. l
know how difficult it is to forgive. But
it is the spirit of forgiveness that
Europe needs al the present time, and
it is Christian to forgive
Special Mission Given.
God gives a special mission to each
Nation The English cOloniStS. coming
to jamestown. came with a mission.
Their first object was to enlarge the
kingdom of God The great American
Nation which they helped TO found has
the mission of aiding the world TO
higher ideal-the IDEAL of world peace.
But if you would make peace you
must forgive You must uplift the
world, make it a holier place, by for
giveness.
"A time must come when our race
must disappear as history shows every
race does disappear. Each race should
remember that it has its day to do its
T. &c ,,Io 20 of
country does not consist Of It's power
and wealth Greece was but a small
country, but it is gratefully remem-
bered What will be the memory of
our work? VIII it be said that the
English race seeing the sorrow caused
by war, set about roofing out the causes
OF war?
1t is not enough merely to preach
Christianity. We must practice il. l
believe that it is the mission Of tbs
British race and the American race
to lead the crusade against war That
is my message TO you"
Second son of the third Marquis
of Salisbury, the great prime minister
of Queen Victoria, the bishop is now
60 years Of age. His face Is dellcately
lined. and he bears a resemblance to
we'll known portraits of thc American
poet, LongfelloW.
He recently has visited jamestown,
and spoke of his thought there that the
river, flowing by. is much the same as
it was when the early cOlonists first
saw it.
Asked for his impression Of the. work
at Mount St. Alban he dictated the fol-
loving message: I was much impressed
by the beauty of the lines of Washing
ton Cathedral, which appeared even in
its unfinished state. 1t follows faith
fully the lines Of the Gothic archl-
lecture which are seen in so many OF
the English Cathedrals. Architecture
can and does express thought. some
write with pen some express their
thoughts in music but the architect eX-
presses his thought III stone. The lines
of the cathedral seem to me to express
that reverence and love which we should
feel toward our Creator. It remains
for those who worship in it, by their
earnest prayers, to sanity it III hcly
thought and beautiful memory, SO that
those who will come after shal! feeI
uplifted from the lower things OF TINS
earth to the higher spiritual and mys-
te-ious things which bring to us the
eternal 10y which we call heaven