A Catholic Paper on the Peace Congress
The Rome correspondent to the "Western Watchman," in the issue of that paper of October 24, referring to the Peace Congress at Geneva, says: "It is past at last, and peace to his ashes; for the International Peace Congress, which closed its sessions at Geneva the other day, proved to be merely something worse than the barren fig-tree. The press of Europe has laughed at it. The Catholic and antireligious newspapers have looked in expectation of some good result from the much lauded Peace Congress; but the whole affair has proved to be nothing else than a sounding brass and tinkling cymbal. "An International Peace Congress has been established. But what period brought us more war than the past dozen or so years? "The Russo-Japanese war rivaled pagan struggles in its rivers of blood; then came the Boer war in South Africa to 'stagger humanity;' France and Germany were not, for a time, far from a struggle within the past two years; and to-day is the anniversary of the commencement of the Italo-Turkish war for Tripoli. Rather a pretty record for the Hague! "But the question is, What might have saved the institution from becoming the huge fiasco that it now certainly is? There is one power that could probably have brought success to its banner. When the veto of Italy, seconded by Holland (the course of which Holland has long since repented), excluded from the Hague conference the vicar of the Prince of Peace, it sounded the death knell of what otherwise might have been fraught with excellent results to the Dreadnought-building powers." It will be seen, from this last paragraph, what Rome’s method, and only method, is of establishing peace, and that is to place at the head of the nations the pope. According to the Scripture, that will come. Peace will be declared. But when that supposedly worldwide Peace Congress comes, then the Holy Scripture declares sudden destruction comes with it. 1 Thess. 5:1-3.