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VOLUME 8, NUMBER
12
THE PRINCE OF PEACE
(Continued from Pago 10)
Some have sought peace In social
distinction, but whether they have
boon within tho charmed circle and
fearful lest they might fall out, or
outside and hopeful that they might
get in, thoy have not found peace.
Some have thought vain thought!
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to find peace in political promi
nence; but whether office comes by
birth, as in monarchies, or by elec
tion, as in republics, it does not bring
peace. An office is conspicuous only
when few can occupy it. Only when
rew in a generation can hope to en
joy an honor do wo call It a great
honor. I am glad that our Heavenly
Father did not make tho peace of
the human heaTt depend upon the
accumulation of wealth, or upon the
securing of social or political distinc
tion, for In either case but few coum
have enjoyed It, but when He made
peace the reward of a conscience
void of offense toward God and man.
He put it within the reach of all.
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the rich, the social outcast as freely
as the leader of society, and the
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who wield political power.
To those who have grown gray in
tho faith I need not speak of the
peace to be found in tho belief in
an overruling Providence. Christ
taught that our lives are precious
in tho sight of God, and poets have
taken up the theme and woven it into
immortal verse. No uninspired writ
er has expressed the idea more beau
tifully than William Cullen Bryant
In the Ode to a Waterfowl. After
following the wanderings of the bird
of passage as it seeks first its north
ern and then Its southern home, he
concludes:
Thou art gone; the abyss of heaven
Hath swallowed up thy form, but
on my heart
Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou
hast given,
And shall not soon depart.
He who, from zone to zone,
Guides through the boundless sky
thy certain flight
In the long way that I must tread
alone,
Will lead my steps aright.
Christ promoted peace by giving ua
assurance that a line of communica
tion can be established between the
Father above and the child below.
And who will measure the consola
tion that has been brought to
troubled hearts by the hour of
prayer?
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mate the peace which a belief in a
future life has brought to the sor
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of a great affliction. When 1 was
a young man I wrote to Colonel Ing-
ersoll and asked him for his views
on God and immortality. His secre
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of a speech which covered my ques
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and found that he had expressed him
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say there Is no God, I simply say I
do not know. T do not say that there
Is no life beyond the grave, I simply
say I. do not know." And from that
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If the Father deigns to touch with
divine power the cold and pulseless
heart of the buried acorn and to
make it burst forth from its prison
walls, will He leave neglected In the
earth the soul of man, made In the
Image of his Creator? If He stoops
to give to the rose bush, whose with
ered blossoms float upon the autumn
breeze, the sweet assurance of an
other springtime, will He refuse the
words of hope to the sons of men
when the frosts of winter come? If
matter, mute and inanimate, though
changed by the forces of nature Into
a multitude of forms, can never die,
will the spirit of man suffer annihil
ation when it has paid a brief visit
like a royal guest to this tenement
of clay? No, I am as sure that there
is another life as I am that I live
today!
In Cairo I secared a few .Trains nf
wheat that had slumbered for mora
than three thousand years In an
Egyptian tomb. As I looked at them
this thought came into my mind:
If one of those grains had been
planted on the banks of thQ Nile the
year after it grew, and all its Uneii
descendants planted and replanted
from that time until now, its proeenv
would today be sufficiently niuW
ous to feed the teeming millions of
the world. There is in the grain of
wheat an invisible something which
has power to discard the body that
we see, and from earth and air fash
ion a new body so much like the old
one that we can not tell the one from
me otner. 11 tnis invisible germ of
life in the grain of wheat can thus
pass unimpaired through three thou
sand resurrections, I shall not doubt
that my soul has power to clotho
Itself with a body suited to its new
existence when this earthly frame
has crumbled into dust.
A belief in Immortality not only
consoles the individual, but it ex
erts a powerful influence in bringing
peace between Individuals. If one
really thinks that man dies as the
brute dies, he may yield to the temp
tation to do injustice to his neigh
bor when the circumstances are such
as to promise security from detec
tion. But if one really expects to
meet again and live eternally with
those whom he knows today, he is
restrained from evil deeds by tho
fear of endless remorse. We do not
know what rewards are in store for
us or what punishments may be re
served, but if there were no other
punishment it would be enough for
one who deliberately and consciously
wrongs another to have to live for
ever in the company of the person
wronged and have his littleness and
selfishness laid bare. I repeat, a be
lief in Immortality must exert a pow
erful influence in establishing justice
between men and thus laying tho
foundation for peace.
Again, Christ deserves to be
called The Prince of Peace because
He has given us a measure of great
ness which promotes peace. When
His disciples disputed among them
selves as to which should be great
est in the Kingdom of Heaven, Ho
rebuked them and -said: "Let him
who would be chiefest among you
be the servant of all." Service is
the measure of .greatness; it al
ways has been true; It is true today,
and it always will be true, that he
Is greatest who does the most good.
And yet, what a revolution it will
work in this old world when this
standard becomes the standard of
life. Nearly all of our controversies
and combats arise from the fact that
we are trying to get something from
each other thero will be peace when
our aim is to do something for each
other. Our enmities and animosities
arise from our efforts to get as much
as possible out of the world thero
will be peace when our endeavor is
to put as much as possible into tho
world. Society will take an immeas
urable step toward peace when it
estimates a citizen by his output
rather than by ins income and gives
the crown of its approval to the one
who makes the largest contribution
to the welfare of all. It Is the glory
of the Christian ideal that, while it
is within sight cf the weakest and
the lowliest, it is yet so high that
the best and the: noblest are kept
with their faces turned ever upward.
Christ has also led the way to
peace by giving os a formula for Me
propagation of good. Not all of those
who have really desired to do good
have employed the Christian method
not all Christians even. In all iub
history of the human race but two
methods have been employed. Ana
first is the forciDle method. A man
if
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