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HAT does the future hold in store
for this
Whether
this is
world — peace or war?
one realizes it or
not,
a question of great mo-
ment to every human being.
The peace conferences at the Hague, and
in Boston and other American cities, at-
test the world-wide desire for universal and
enduring peace. With what joy would all
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rianism has endeavored to assuage its hor-
rors; the gospel of the Prince of peace gives
it no countenance; nevertheless the fear
and dread of it are still with us.
Note how values fluctuate in the great
of the world at even the
money centers
rumor of war! The financial, the indus-
alike shrink
from this monstrous and unnatural thing.
trinl, and the social world
awaken to the stern realities of devastat-
A few brief months after the
czar called the first peace congress at the
ing war.
Hague, his own armies were engaged in a
life-and-death struggle with the forces of
the Mikado; while at home his empire
the Baltic to the Urals was filled
with internecine strife.
from
Practically nothing was accomplished by
LAYING THE CORNER-STONE OF THE TEMPLE OF PEACE AT THE HAGUE, JULY 30, 1907
peoples hail the certain knowledge that
everlasting peace, based upon the golden
rule, had settled down upon the world!
But desirable as peace is, we are still
without the pleasing assurance that it will
ever be realized. Civilization has tried to
supersede war by arbitration; humanita-
And yet much of the wealth of the nations
is spent in preparation for war. Civiliza-
tion 1s groaning under the burden of build-
ing and equipping navies, and of drilling,
accoutering, and maintaining armies, but
finds no way of escape from it.
Men fondly
dream of peace only to
the first peace congress; and aside trom
laying the corner-stone of the great Peace
Palace, or Temple, as Mr. Carnegie prefers
to call it, the second congress has been
equally fruitless of practical results. In-
deed, the difficulties to be encountered in
securing disarmament and arbitration have
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