Who Originated the Peace Conference?
By Editor
A writer in the August Catholic World claims that the pope originated the late Peace Conference, negotiations and conferences to that end with the czar beginning as far back as 1894. And the writer contends that if the pope had not been shut out of the conference by the Italian Government, the good results of the conference would have been far greater, because of the great influence the pope holds over several continental governments. As it was, the writer truly says: "The conference is a preparation for the exigencies of war. A peace conference it has proved only in name. As a peace conference its results have been Dead Sea fruit." And so will it be with every merely human attempt at peace. There is one "counsel [or conference] of peace" that is worthy the name, and that is between the Father and Son. There in that counsel is peace for all who will accept it, who will yield to God.