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is to help other evangelical bodies to leaven the whole lump.
What is the contribution of the Twentieth Century to this
work? A high court with plenary powers to settle all contro-
versies, national or international without resort to the arbitra-
ment of war; disarmament of the great nations; the peace
movement among the first Anglo-Saxon peoples; the lay mis-
sionary movement to bring the world to Christ in this genera-
tion; the gospel on wheels, whereby special cars are fitted and
operated along railway lines to all classes of people; the uniting
of the great denominational bodies of the same persuasion in
fraternal pact to advance the Master's kingdom when all shall
be one.
  His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons at the recent Peace Con-
gress said: "I am persuaded that the signing of a treaty of
arbitration between Great Britain and the United States would
not only be a source of incalculable blessings to these two great
powers, but would go far toward the maintenance of per-
manent international peace throughout the civilized world.
  We live under practically the same form of government.
England is governed by a constitutional monarchy; the United
States is ruled by a constitutional republic, and I believe that
both of these nations have been more successful in adjusting
and reconciling legitimate authority with personal liberty than
any other country of the world.
  Oh, if England and America were to enter into an alliance of
permanent arbitration with each other, such a bond of friend-
ship and amity would be a blessing not only to these two great
powers, but to all the nations of the civilized world. Let Brit-
tania and Columbia join hands across the Atlantic, and their
outstretched arms will form a sacred arch of peace; a rainbow
which will excite the admiration of the nations and will pro-
claim to the world that, with God's help, the earth shall never
more be deluged with bloodshed in fratricidal war.
  The time seems to be most auspicious for the consummation
of this alliance. It meets with the approval of the president
of the United States. I earnestly hope it will have the sanction
of Congress now in session. It meets with the approval of
Edward Grey, English minister of foreign affairs. It has the




			

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African Methodist Episcopal Church Review, Vol. 28, Num. 2

Volume:  28
Issue Number:  02
Date:  10/1911