That FRANCE and HOLLAND agreed to have the boundary between their
possessions in Guiana determined by arbitration.[13]
That the international committee which met in Washington to arrange the
impending fishery question between GREAT BRITAIN, CANADA and the UNITED
STATES, decided to recommend the creation of a permanent tribunal of
arbitration for adjusting future disputes respecting these relations;
also:
That the council of the Swiss Confederation, at the combined request of
PORTUGAL and of the CONGO STATE Government has undertaken to arbitrate
the possible disputes which may arise respecting the regulation of
boundaries amongst their African territories.
Besides these and other instances which I am acquainted with, many
others have certainly taken place, though attracting less attention.
The idea of arbitration goes peacefully and quietly forward, and the
world therefore takes little notice of it.
It is quite otherwise with the crash of war, whose external show of
greatness and glory, and whose inward hatred and crime, are desolating
the happiness of the nations and are accompanied by distress and gloom.
The one is a fearful hurricane which rends the mountains and breaks in
pieces the rocks.
The other is the still small voice, mightier than the devastating
storm, since it speaks to us in the name of everlasting righteousness,
because it is the voice of God.