The following outlook toward universal peace was written by George
Frederick Knowles:
When navies are forgotten
And fleets are useless things,
When the dove shall warm her bosom
Beneath the eagle’s wings;
When memory of battles
At last is strange and old,
When nations have one banner
And creeds have found one fold;
When the Hand that sprinkles midnight
With its powdered drifts of suns
Has hushed this tiny tumult
Of sects and swords and guns;
Then hate’s last note of discord
In all God’s worlds shall cease,
In the conquest which is service,
In the victory which is peace.
(2324)
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“The inauguration of a monument of Christ, the Redeemer, on the
Cordillera of the Andes,” says Carolina Huidobro, in _The
Christian Herald_ (New York), “has a grand significance, at
once political and social. The colossal statue upon a pinnacle
14,000 feet above the sea, surrounded by peaks of perpetual
snow, dominating as it does the two countries which stretch out
on either side of the mountain range, is a tangible witness
of international brotherhood.... Chile and Argentina have not
only created a symbol; they have inculcated into the minds of
men for all ages an idea of greater significance than any other
in our contemporary age, by erecting that colossal monument
to the Christ, with the inscription on its granite pedestal:
‘Sooner shall these mountains crumble to dust than Argentines
and Chileans break the peace which, at the feet of Christ, the
Redeemer, they have sworn to maintain.’ On the opposite side
of the base are the words of the angels’ song over Bethlehem:
‘Peace on earth, good-will to all men.’ The statue cost about
$100,000, and was paid for by popular subscription, the working
classes contributing liberally.” (Text.)
(2325)
See CHRISTMAS; MILITARISM.