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Show NEM PROBLEMS TO . PRESS FORSOLUTIOrJ After-war Issues Subject of Cathedral Sermon by Washington Divine. "Tiic groAi lrsson thai is clearly written writ-ten over the skies of ICurope. today that If you uoiiJri havo pence do tho.so things whirh are for the preservation of peace," 1 -ddlared tlto Very Kev. Kdivnrd A. Pare. I. D., in a sermon on tbe problems which must bo mot after tile war w hitrh lie preached at tho Catholic rntlicxlra.1 of the-ladelelne the-ladelelne yesterday morning. Dr. 1'ace, who is one of the noted professors of the Catholic University of America. In Waah- v iiiRton. p. C, was tho truest over Sun- dny of tho Rt. Rev. Joseph S. Glass, C M.t It. !.., un his way iroin California to, V' Washington. I ec loj-ins that the problems of war ! t were boin solved In their own hard fash- .on, Lr. i acc reminded lus conresalion Mint the days of peace were coining, and uk.iat they would confront the nation with v yobleins which, he said, would, be no less rlous and no less difficult than those I rented by the war Itself. A i p many respects it has been proved iii-- our country was not prepared for 'ir," Dr. I'ace said. "We did not anticipate antici-pate five years hko, or even three years a to, that this would bo our war. Now we are standing, as we hope, on the threshold thresh-old of peace, and it is time to ask our- selves If we are prepared to meet the - problems that peace will inevitably set before us. "When the representatives of the belligerent bel-ligerent nations gather In conference to discuss the conditions of peace, to settle the terms which will satisfy all claims of all interested, the first question to come up will be the question of justice. 'What Is our right; what Is your just claim; what Is their claim?' """" "Wo have proclaimed that our purpose is to bring liberty to the peoples of the earth. The question will be raised: 'What is liberty?' This, then, is not a question to be answered by the learned scientist. The war, with all its horrors, is in a certain cer-tain way a supreme triumph of those sciences which have produced the engines of death. Never lias killing been such a consummate art. But the scientist will not solve the problems of peace. All honor Is due theso men who have penetrated pene-trated the secrets of this mysterious world, but there is another law, another system of truth that must come into play with the coming of peace, it is a moral order. You ask : "What is right?' and you ask a moral question. You ask what Is Justice, and only the moral law can d-ecide. You ask what is liberty, and therein you ask one of the deepest questions of moral science. "We give as our purpose in this war to spread democracy to the ends of the earth. Le we realize that democracy, above all o;!ier forms of government, must rest upon liie moral law? J "What will secure that peace we pray for, what will make it permanent? Will il be the hand of military might or a i inner foundation respect for law, rev-cience rev-cience of the rights of our fellow men?, We have heard a great deal recently about I righteousness and justice, but note well that unless a people shall have been taught in the practice of peace, it cannot bo brought about by any edict of a "poteri--, tute unless it is instilled in the hearts of a people. "The cominsr of neace rpndnra mr-A Am. rjiiatic than ever before the need of moral ed li caption. Nations are craving for a per- y manent peace, one which will eliminate wthe very causes of war. That peace must Fprlns: from the -feeling in the hearts of the people that moral law and its teachings teach-ings are supreme. No people will be moral, just and. upright except through the agency of moral education. "This is why the Catholic church and Catholic schools always insist that no education is complete that does not inculcate incul-cate moral principles. If our Catholic ideal was ever justified it stands today in the light of modern events and in the light of the future the -world looks for. "It might not have appeared twenty years ago that men would know by these things what was right. Many men thought that war was impossible because we were too civilized, because of our close economic relations. Yet these economic eco-nomic relations failed to obtain. It was , said International comity and law would prevent war, yet both are gone. "The great lesson of the war, written olearly across the skies of Europe today, is that if you would have peace do those things which are for the preservation of peace. Let peace grow up In the hearts v. of the people. Let them obey the moral order, respect authority and have reverence rever-ence for the law." |