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Show PAN-AMERICAN MASS OBSERVED Fourth Annual Thanksgiving Service of Unity Between U. S. and Latin-America. ALL HIGH OFFICIALS Church Decorated With Flags and Symbols of Peace War Decried. Washington. D C. Nov. 27. The fourth annual Pan-American Thanks giving celebration with Its attendant mass a serv ire of thankful unity be tween the United States and the twenty-one Latin-American republics, was observed here today. President Wilson. Secretary Bryan and a number of other cabinet offi ers all the diplomat's from Latln-Anerira. Latln-Anerira. Chief Justice White and Jus tiee McKenns of r.ic supreme court, and senators, representatives and other oth-er public officials attended. SI Patricks church was decorated with American and Latin -American flags. A dove of peace holding to gether in its beak the flag of the United Uni-ted States and that of the Pan American Ameri-can union, symbolized the peace of the western hemisphere for wblt li prayers were offered. Cardinal Gib bons was present War Decried Right Rev. Charles W Currier, bish op of Matanzas, Cuba who preached the sermon, decried war as the "nat Ural enemy of order, and therefore ot that which Is good and true." said thai It "subverts the moral order by open ing wide the door to all manner of vices, vi-ces, and concluded by portraying to his audience the "sickening sight of the battlefield, with Its carnage, its blood. it grim death. Its misery', on which only vultures feed Tell me, after this." he asked, "can you still love war7" Toasts Are Drunk At luncheon In the recory. toasts were drunk to President Wilson, Secretary Sec-retary Bryan, Ambassador Da Gama of Brazil, and others. Monsignor Russell, in toasting Secretary Sec-retary Bryan, said "When we see the representatives of 167.000,000 people join together here In prayer and afterwards In anii-) anii-) able, cheerful communion around this table, mav we not rightly hope for I some results in peace that will warrant war-rant a truer and broader significance I to Thanksgiving day?" . |