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Show i PLEA FOR PEACE. ; j A most important announcement was read after a!l the Masses on 'hriftmas day, in which the members I r.f the -congregation took interest. The I following petition, composed by the iditor of the Cosmopolitan Magazine, was sent to the heads of all the i churches in America, irrespective of creed, with a request that it be read ! at the services on Christmas day: i I "We, the congregation of St. Mary's ' cathedral. Salt Lake City, assembled on j j the first Christmas day of the new cen- ) 'ury. in sympathy with the sufferings it . being endured in the South African war, hereby petition our English , brothers to join with us in asking the : $ appointment of the president of the 1 United States aril the queen of Hol- jl land us arbitrators, to whose minds J 1 shall be committed the settlement of ;- questions affected by the South African i: ; dispute, and that meanwhile hostili- I ties shall cease." The names of Tit. Rev. Bishop Scan-Ian Scan-Ian and Rev. Father Kiely head the list, followed by hundreds of signatures signa-tures of members of the congregation . of St. .Mary's. I |