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Show IN THE MASTER'S CAUSE. On Sunday evening. May 17. a gathering of unusual un-usual importance in behalf of international peace will be held at the Congregational church in Salt Lake, at which a number of 'prominent speakers will be heard. The program includes a message from Governor Cuflcr, who is absent in Washington; Washing-ton; addresses by Rt. Rev. Bishop Lawrence Scanlan, Scan-lan, Bishop F. S. Spalding and Judge W. II. King. Other pastors of the city will be on the platform and a splendid musical program will be given. The movement for peace on earth began with the Christian era, but not until toward the close of the last century did men begin to realize how far from the teachings of the Man of Peace all humanity hu-manity had departed. Xations preached harmony but practiced the arts of -war: they talked of a millcnium on earth and periodically produced a hell of war with its death harvest, its destruction of property, its defiance of everything. Christian. For aggrandizement, for what they called honor, for the sake of gratifying some petty revenge, they shed their brothers' blood and called their cause sacred. Some of these wars Vcre, naturally, for the right; all of them could have been averted if the right had prevailed of its own weight. But because be-cause men have been wicked, because lust of empire or lust of money has been stronger than love of their fellow men they have fought over and over again, reverting to the primitive beast. Although it seems a long way off, the time approaches ap-proaches when war will be an impossibility. Already Al-ready it has reached the stage where the enormous loss of life, the certainty of tremendous sacrifice of treasure, the difficulty of financing wars, makes them slow of generation and quick of settlement. The last great war, the one between Russia and Japan, Ja-pan, came near furnishing such a final object lesson les-son in the penalties for precipitating a conflict as to deter any repetition of it for long years to come, if ever. Back of the sentiment which has grown so rapidly rap-idly against war, has been the organization originated orig-inated in this country by Andrew Carnegie and others, oth-ers, with branches in practically every state and subordinate bodies in all the larger communities. It has done and is doing incalculable good in the cultivation of a belief in arbitration as the rational mode of settling international troubles, a hope of the time when Christ's doctrines will be practiced as well as preached by nations; when the incalculable incalcul-able sums now spent on armies and navies and military mil-itary preparations will be devoted to mankind. Xo |
