968 THE KING’S BUSINESS gesting that what we call life is fundamentally a product of catalytic laws act ing in colloidal systems of matter throughout the long periods of geologic time.” Further on he says, “Catalysis is essentially a determinative relationship, and the enzyme theory of life as a general biological hypothesis, would claim that all intravital or ‘hereditary’ determination is, in the last analysis, catalytic.” We trust this will be as plain as A. B. C. to our readers.
Nothing that has occurred in connection with the awful war has awakened more wide and deep interest than the Pope’s Peace Proposal. The editor of T he K ing ’ s B usiness was in Montrose, Pa., when the
The Pope’s Peace Proposal.
Pope’s message was published. The editor of the Christian Herald of New York telegraphed him asking him to telegraph his opinion of this proposal, and he replied as follows: • “I long for peace even though we do not obtain all that we desire or that is clearly just, but I suspect all proposals concerning the present war or con cerning peace emanating from the Papal court. From almost the beginning of the war the Pope has been the catspaw, if not the ally of the Kaiser and the Central Powers. He has permitted the most infamous atrocities by the min ions of the Kaiser to pass without effective protest, even when the outraged victims were his own faithful Roman Catholic subjects. There is good reason to believe that he has an understanding with the Kaiser. His present move is for the purpose of weakening the hands of America, England, France and Belgium, by making the Roman Catholics restless. Thank God, however, our Roman Catholics, for the-most part, are patriotic in spite of the Pope.” The Christian Herald did not publish this opinion in full, omitting all after words “Papal Court.” It has since come to light, as all know, that the Pope did have some understanding with the Kaiser.
It was felt by many that the subtle cunning of the Pope’s Peace Proposal would embarrass the President of the United States, but all fears on this point were set at rest by the President’s reply to the Pope, made
The President and The Pope.
on August 27th. His reply reads as follows:
A ugust 27, 1917.
To His Holiness Benedict XV, Pope: In acknowledgment ^of the communication of your holiness to the belligerent peoples, dated A ugust 1, 1917, the president of the United States requests me to transm it the following reply: Every heart th at has not been blinded and hardened by this terrible war m ust be touched by this moving appeal of his holiness, the pope; m ust feel the dignity and force of the humane and generous motives which prompted it, and m ust fervently wish th at we m ight take the path of peace he so persuasively points out. But it would be folly to take it if it does not ini fact lead to the goal he proposes.^ Our response m ust be
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