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diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6833f05 --- /dev/null +++ b/.gitattributes @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +* text=auto +*.txt text +*.md text diff --git a/15266-8.txt b/15266-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d77ac2 --- /dev/null +++ b/15266-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1160 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, What Peace Means, by Henry van Dyke + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: What Peace Means + +Author: Henry van Dyke + +Release Date: March 5, 2005 [eBook #15266] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PEACE MEANS*** + + +E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa Er-Raqabi, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +WHAT PEACE MEANS + +by + +HENRY VAN DYKE + +New York Chicago +Fleming H. Revell Company +London and Edinburgh + +1919 + + + + + + + +To +My Son in the Faith +My Brother in the Work +Tertius van Dyke + + + + +FOREWORD + +This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New +York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian +Church, of which my son is minister. I had no thought that they would +ever be printed. They were, and are, just _daily bread discourses_ meant +to serve the spiritual needs of a congregation of Christian people, +seekers after truth, inquirers about duty, strangers and pilgrims, in +the great city and the troubled world. + +But if, as friends think, these simple chapters may be of service +through the printed page to a larger circle of readers, I willingly and +freely let them go. + +May the blessing of Jesus follow them on their humble path. May the +Spirit of Truth bring them home to some hearts that want them,--to those +who desire to escape from evil and do good,--to those who "seek peace +and ensue it." + +HENRY VAN DYKE. + +Park Avenue Church Manse, New York City. + + + + +CONTENTS + + I. PEACE IN THE SOUL + + II. PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS + +III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE + + + + +I + +Peace in the Soul + +_Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you._--ST. JOHN 14:27. + + +Peace is one of the great words of the Holy Scriptures. +It is woven through the Old Testament and the New like a golden thread. +It inheres and abides in the character of God,-- + + "The central peace subsisting at the heart + Of endless agitation." + +It is the deepest and most universal desire of man, whose prayer in all +ages has been, "Grant us Thy Peace, O Lord." It is the reward of the +righteous, the blessing of the good, the crown of life's effort, and the +glory of eternity. + +The prophets foretell the beauty of its coming and the psalmists sing of +the joy which it brings. Jesus Christ is its Divine Messiah, its high +priest and its holy prince. The evangelists and prophets proclaim and +preach it. From beginning to end the Bible is full of the praise of +peace. + +Yet there never was a book more full of stories of trouble and strife, +disaster and sorrow. God Himself is revealed in it not as a calm, +untroubled, self-absorbed Deity, occupied in beatific contemplation of +His own perfections. He is a God who works and labours, who wars against +the evil, who fights for the good. The psalmist speaks of Him as "The +Lord of Hosts, strong and mighty in battle." The Revelation of St. John +tells us that "There was war in Heaven; Michael and his angels fought +against the dragon." Jesus Christ said: "I came not to send peace, but a +sword." + +It is evident, then, that this idea of "peace," like all good and noble +things, has its counterfeit, its false and subtle versary, which steals +its name and its garments to deceive and betray the hearts of men. We +find this clearly taught in the Bible. Not more earnestly does it praise +true peace than it denounces false peace. + +_There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked_ (Isaiah 48:22). + +_For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, +saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace_ (Jer. 8:11). + +_If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things +which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes_ (St. +Luke 19:42). + +_For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is +life and peace_ (Romans 8:6). + +There never was a time in human history when a right understanding of +the nature of true peace, the path which leads to it, the laws which +govern it, was more necessary or more important than it is to-day. + +The world has just passed through a ghastly experience of war at its +worst. Never in history has there been such slaughter, such agony, such +waste, such desolation, in a brief space of time, as in the four +terrible years of conflict which German militarism forced on the world +in the twentieth century. Having seen it, I know what it means. + +Now we have "supped full with horrors." We have had more than enough of +that bloody banquet The heart of humanity longs for peace, as it has +always longed, but now with a new intensity, greater than ever before. +Yet the second course of war continues. The dogs fight for the crumbs +under the peace-table. Ignorant armies clash by night. Cities are +bombarded and sacked. The barbarous Bolsheviki raise the red flag of +violence and threaten a war of classes throughout the world. + +You can never make a golden age out of leaden men, or a peaceful world +out of lovers of strife. + +Where shall peace be found? How shall it be attained and safeguarded? +Evidently the militarists have assaulted it with their doctrine that +might makes right. Evidently the pacifists have betrayed it with their +doctrine of passive acceptance of wrong. Somewhere between these two +errors there must be a ground of truth on which Christians can stand to +defend their faith and maintain their hope of a better future for the +world. + +Let me begin by speaking of _Peace in the Soul_. That is where religion +begins, in the heart of a person. Its flowers and fruits are social. +They are for the blessing of the world. But its root is personal. You +can never start with a class--conscious or a mass--conscious +Christianity. It must begin with just you and God. + +Marshal Joffre, that fine Christian soldier, said a memorable thing +about the winning of the war: "Our victory will be the fruit of +individual sacrifice." So of the coming of peace on earth we may say the +same: it will be the fruit of the entrance of peace into individual +hearts and lives. + +A world at war is the necessary result of human restlessness and +enmities. "From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not +hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members?" Envy, malice, +greed, hatred, deceit,--these are the begetters of strife on earth. + +A world at peace can come only from the cooperation of peaceful human +spirits. Therefore we must commence to learn what peace is, by seeking +it in our souls through faith. + +Christ promised peace to His disciples at the Communion in that little +upper room in Jerusalem, nineteen hundred years ago. Evidently it was +not an outward but an inward peace. He told them that they would have a +lot of trouble in the world. But He assured them that this could not +overcome them if they believed in Him and in His Father God. He warned +them of conflict, and assured them of inward peace. + +What are the elements of this wondrous gift which Christ gave to His +disciples, and which He offers to us? + +I. First, the peace of Christ is the peace of being divinely loved. +Nothing rests and satisfies the heart like the sense of being loved. Let +us take as an illustration the case of a little child, which has grown +tired and fretful at its play, and is frightened suddenly by some +childish terror. Weeping, it runs to its mother. She takes the child in +her arms, folds it to her breast, bends over it, and soothes it with +fond words which mean only this: "I love you." Very soon the child sinks +to rest, contented and happy, in the sense of being loved. "Herein is +love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to +be the propitiation for our sins." In Jesus Christ God is stretching out +His arms to us, drawing us to His bosom, enfolding us in the secret of +peace. If we believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, He makes us sure +of a Divine affection, deep, infinite, inexhaustible, imperishable. "For +God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting +life." God, who "spared not his dearly-beloved Son, but delivered him up +for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" +"Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in +Christ Jesus our Lord." + +II. The Christian peace is the peace of being divinely controlled. The +man who accepts Jesus Christ truly, accepts Him as Master and Lord. He +believes that Christ has a purpose for him, which will surely be +fulfilled? work for him, which will surely be blessed if he only tries +to do it. Most of the discords of life come from a conflict of +authorities, of plans, of purposes. Suppose that a building were going +up, and the architect had one design for it, and the builder had +another. What perplexity and confusion there would be! How ill things +would fit! What perpetual quarrels and blunders and disappointments! But +when the workman accepts the designer's plan and simply does his best to +carry that out, harmony, joyful labour, and triumph are the result. If +we accept God's plan for us, yield to Him as the daily controller and +director of our life, our work, however hard, becomes peaceful and +secure. No perils can frighten, no interruptions can dishearten us. + +Not many years ago some workmen were digging a tunnel, when a sudden +fall of earth blocked the mouth of the opening. Their companions on the +outside found out what had happened, and started to dig through the mass +of earth to the rescue. It was several hours before they made their way +through. When they went in they found the workmen going on with their +labour on the tunnel. "We knew," said one of them, "that you'd come to +help us, and we thought the best way to make time pass quick was to keep +on with the work." That is what a Christian may say to Christ amid the +dangers and disasters of life. We know that He will never forsake us, +and the best way to be at peace is to be about His business. He says to +us: "As the Father sent me, even so send I you." + +III. The Christian peace is the peace of being divinely forgiven. + +"In every man," said a philosopher, "there is something which, if we +knew it, would make us despise him." Let us turn the saying, and change +it from a bitter cynicism into a wholesome truth. + +In every one of us there is something which, if we realize it, makes us +condemn ourselves as sinners, and hunger and thirst after righteousness, +and long for forgiveness. + +It is this deep consciousness of sin, of evil in our hearts and lives, +that makes us restless and unhappy. The plasters and soothing lotions +with which the easy-going philosophy of modern times covers it up, do +not heal it; they only hide it. There is no cure for it, there is no +rest for the sinful soul, except the divine forgiveness. There is no +sure pledge of this except in the holy sacrifice and blessed promise of +Christ, "Son, daughter, thy sins are forgiven thee, go in peace." + +Understand, I do not mean that what we need and want is to have our sins +ignored and overlooked. On the contrary, that is just what would fail to +bring us true rest. For if God took no account of sins, required no +repentance and reparation, He would not be holy, just, and faithful, a +God whom we can adore and love and trust. + +Nor do I mean that what we need is merely to have the punishment of sins +remitted. That would not satisfy the heart. Is the child contented when +the father says, "Well, I will not punish you. Go away"? No, what the +child wants is to hear the father say, "I forgive you. Come to me." It +is to be welcomed back to the father's home, to the father's heart, that +the child longs. + +Peace means not to have the offense ignored, but to have it pardoned: +not to the punishment omitted, but to have separation from God ended and +done with. That is the peace of being divinely forgiven,--a peace which +recognizes sin, and triumphs over it,--a peace which not merely saves us +from death but welcomes us home to the divine love from which we have +wandered. + +That is the peace which Christ offers to each one of us in His Gospel. +We need it in this modern world as much as men and women ever needed it +in the old world. No New Era will ever change its meaning or do away +with its necessity. Indeed, it seems to me that we need this +old-fashioned religion to-day more than ever. + +We need it for our own comfort and strength. We need it to deliver us +from the vanity and hollowness, the fever and hysteria of the present +age. We need it to make us better soldiers and workers for every good +cause. Peace is coming to all the earth some day through Christ. And +those who shall do most to help Him bring it are the men and women to +whom He gives Peace in the Soul. + + + + +II + +Peace on Earth Through Righteousness + +_And the work of righteousness shall be peace: and the effect of +righteousness quietness and confidence forever._ + +--ISAIAH 32:17. + + +After we have found peace in our own souls through faith +in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour, if our faith is honest, +we must feel the desire and the duty of helping to make peace prevail on +earth. + +But here we are, in a world of confusion and conflict. Darkness and +ignorance strive against light. Evil hates and assaults good. Wrong +takes up arms against right. Greed and pride and passion call on +violence to defeat justice and enthrone blind force. So has it been +since Cain killed Abel, since Christ was crucified on Calvary, and so it +is to-day wherever men uphold the false doctrine that "might makes +right." + +The Bible teaches us that there is no foundation for enduring peace on +earth except in righteousness: that it is our duty to suffer for that +cause if need be: that we are bound to fight for it if we have the +power: and that if God gives us the victory we must use it for the +perpetuation of righteous peace. + +In these words I sum up what seems to me the Christian doctrine of war +and peace,--the truth that in time of war we must stand for the right, +and that when peace comes in sight, we must do our best to found it upon +justice. These two truths cannot be separated. If we forget the meaning +of the Christian duty to which God called us in the late war, all our +sacrifice of blood and treasure will have been in vain. If we forget the +watchword which called our boys to the colours, our victory will be +fruitless. We have fought in this twentieth century against the pagan +German doctrine of war as the supreme arbiter between the tribes of +mankind. They that took the sword must perish by the sword. But in the +hour of victory we must uphold the end for which we have fought and +suffered,--the advance of the world towards a peaceful life founded on +reason and justice and fair-play for every man. + +So there are two heads to this sermon. First, the indelible remembrance +of a righteous acceptance of war. Second, the reasonable hope of a +righteous foundation of peace. + +I. First of all, then, it must never be forgotten that the Allies and +America were forced to enter this war as a work of righteousness in +order to make the world safe for peace. + +Peace means something more than the mere absence of hostilities. It +means justice, honour, fair-play, order, security, and the +well-protected right of every man and nation to life, liberty, and the +pursuit of happiness. It was the German contempt for these Christian +ideals, it was the German idolatry of the pagan Odin, naked, cruel, +bloody, god of war, it was the German will to power and dream of +world-dominion, that made the world unsafe for real peace in 1914. + +Never could that safety be secured until that enemy of mankind was +overcome. Not only for democracy, but also for human peace, it was +necessary, as President Wilson said, that "the German power, a thing +without honour, conscience, or capacity for covenanted faith, must be +crushed." + +I saw, from my post of observation in Holland, the hosts of heathen +Germany massing for their attack on the world's peace in the spring of +1914. Long before the pretext of war was provided by the murder of the +Austrian Crown-Prince in Serajevo, I saw the troops, the artillery, the +mountains of ammunition, assembled at Aix-la-Chapelle and Trier, ready +for the invasion of neutral Belgium and Luxembourg, and the foul stroke +at France. + +Every civilized nation in Europe desired peace and pleaded for it. +Little Servia offered to go before the Court of Arbitration at The Hague +and be tried for the offense of which she was accused. Russia, Italy, +France and England entreated Germany not to make war, but to submit the +dispute to judicial settlement, to a righteous decision by a conference +of powers. But Germany said no. She had prepared for war, she wanted +war, she got war. And now she must abide by the result of her choice. + +I have seen also with my own eyes the horrors wrought by Germany in her +conduct of the war in Belgium and Northern France. Words fail me to +describe them. Childhood has been crucified, womanhood outraged, +civilization trampled in the dust. The nations and the men who took +arms against these deviltries were the servants of the righteous God and +the followers of the merciful Christ. + +He told us, "If any man smite thee on the right cheek, turn unto him the +left also." But never did He tell us to abandon the bodies and the lives +of our women and children to the outrage of beasts in human form. On the +contrary, He said to His disciples, in His parting discourse, "He that +hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one." + +Does any silly pacifist say that means a spiritual sword? No. You could +get that without selling your garment. It means a real sword,--as real +as the purse and the scrip which Christ told His followers to carry with +them. It means the power of arms dedicated to the service of +righteousness without which the world can never be safe for peace. + +Here, then, we may stand on the Word of God, on the work of +righteousness in making the world safe for peace. Let me tell you of my +faith that every one who has given his life for that cause, has entered +into eternal rest. + +II. Come we now to consider the second part of the text: "the effect of +righteousness, quietness and confidence forever." + +What shall be the nature of the peace to be concluded after our victory +in this righteous war? + +Here we have to oppose the demands of the bloodthirsty civilians. They +ask that German towns should endure the same sufferings which have been +inflicted on the towns of Belgium and Northern France. Let me say +frankly that I do not believe you could persuade our officers to order +such atrocities, or our soldiers to obey such orders. Read the order +which one of the noble warriors of France, General Pétain, issued to his +men: + + "To-morrow, in order to better dictate peace, you are going to + carry your arms as far as the Rhine. Into that land of + Alsace-Lorraine that is so dear to us, you will march as + liberators. You will go further; all the way into Germany to occupy + lands which are the necessary guarantees for just reparation. + + "France has suffered in her ravaged fields and in her ruined + villages. The freed provinces have had to submit to intolerable + vexations and odious outrages, but you are not to answer these + crimes by the commission of violences, which, under the spur of + your resentment, may seem to you legitimate. + + "You are to remain under discipline and to show respect to persons + and property. You will know, after having vanquished your adversary + by force of arms, how to impress him further by the dignity of your + attitude, and the world will not know which to admire most, your + conduct in success or your heroism in fighting." + +The destruction of the commonplace Cathedral of Cologne could never +recompense the damage done to the glorious Cathedral of Rheims. Nor +could the slaughter of a million German women and children restore the +innocent victims of Belgium, France, Servia, and Armenia to life. We do +not thirst for blood. We desire justice. + +No doubt the ends of justice demand that the principal brigands who are +responsible for the atrocities of this war should be tried before an +international court If convicted they should be duly punished. But not +by mob-law or violence. Nothing could be less desirable than the +assassination of William Hohenzollern. It would be absurd and horrible +to give a martyr's crown to a criminal. Vengeance belongeth unto God. He +alone is wise and great enough to deal adequately with the case. It is +for us to keep our righteous indignation free from the poison of +personal hatred, and to do no more than is needed to uphold and +vindicate the eternal law. + +William Hohenzollern, and his fellow-conspirators who are responsible +for the beginning and the conduct of the dreadful war from which all +the toiling peoples of earth have suffered, must be brought to the bar +of justice and sentenced; otherwise the world will have no defense +against the anarchists who say that government is a vain thing; and the +bloody Bolshevists who proclaim the Empire of the Ignorant,--the +Boob-Rah,--as the future rule of the world, will have free scope. + +It is evident that a league of free, democratic states, pledged by +mutual covenant to uphold the settlement of international differences by +reason and justice before the use of violence, offers the only hope of a +durable peace among the nations. It is also the only defense against +that deadly and destructive war of classes with which Bolshevism +threatens the whole world. The spirit of Bolshevism is atheism and +enmity; its method is violence and tyranny; its result would be a reign +of terror under that empty-headed monster, "the dictatorship of the +proletariat." God save us from that! It would be the worst possible +outcome of the war in which we have offered and sacrificed so much, and +in which God has given us the opportunity to make "a covenant of peace." + +How vast, how immeasurable, are the responsibilities which this great +victory in righteous war has laid upon the Allies and America. God help +us to live up to them. God help us to sow the future not with dragon's +teeth, but with seeds of blessed harvest. God paint upon the broken +storm-cloud the rainbow of eternal hope. God help us and our friends to +make a peace that shall mean good to all mankind. God send upon our +victory the light of the cross of Christ our Saviour, where mercy and +truth meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other. + + + + +III + +The Power of an Endless Life + +_Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the +power of an endless life._ + +--Hebrews 7:16. + + +The message and hope of immortality are nowhere more +distinctly conveyed to our minds than in connection with that +resurrection morn when Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. The anniversary +of that day will ever be the festival of the human soul. Even those who +do not clearly understand or fully accept its meaning in history and +religion,--even children and ignorant folk and doubters and +unbelievers,--yes, even frivolous people and sullen people, feel that +there is something in this festival which meets the need and longing of +their hearts. It is a day of joy and gladness, a day of liberation and +promise, a day for flowers to bloom and birds to sing, a day of +spiritual spring-tide and immortal hope. + +Mankind desires and needs such a day. We are overshadowed in all our +affections and aspirations, all our efforts, and designs, by the dark +mystery of bodily death; the uncertainty and the brevity of earthly +existence make us tremble and despair; the futility of our plans dismays +us; the insecurity of our dearest treasure in lives linked to ours fills +us with dismay. + +Is there no escape from Death, the Tyrant, the autocrat, the destroyer, +the last enemy? Why love, why look upward, why strive for better things +if this imperator of failure, ultimate extinction, rules the universe? +No hope beyond the grave means no peace this side of it. A life without +hope is a life without God. If Death ends all, then there is no Father +in Heaven in whom we can trust. Who shall deliver us from the body of +this Death? + +Now comes Easter with its immortal promise and assurance, Jesus of +Nazareth, who died on Calvary, a martyr of humanity, a sacrifice of +Divinity, is alive and appears to His humble followers. The manner of +His appearance, to Mary Magdalene, to His disciples, is not the most +important thing. The fact is that He did appear. He who was crucified in +the cause of righteousness and mercy, lives on and forever. The message +of His resurrection is "the power of an endless life." + +The proof of this message is in the effect that it produced. It +transformed the handful of Jesus' followers from despair to confidence. +It gave Christianity its growing influence over the heart of humanity. +It is this message of immortality that makes religion vital to the human +world to-day, and essential to the foundation of peace on earth. + +We must not forget in our personal griefs and longings, in our sorrows +for those whom we have lost and our desire to find them again, in our +sense of our own mortal frailty and the brief duration of earthly life, +the celestial impulse which demands a life triumphant over death. + +The strongest of all supports for peace on earth is the faith in +immortality. The truth is, the very character of our being here in this +world demands continuance beyond death. There is nothing good or great +that we think or feel or endeavour, that is not a reaching out to +something better. Our finest knowledge is but the consciousness of +limitation and the longing that it may be removed. Our best moral effort +is but a slow advance towards something better. Our sense of the +difference between good and evil, our penitence, our aspiration, all +this moral freight with which our souls are laden, is a cargo consigned +to an unseen country. Our bill of lading reads, "To the immortal life." +If we must sink in mid-ocean, then all is lost, and the voyage of life +is a predestined wreck. + +The wisest, the strongest, the best of mankind, have felt this most +deeply. The faith in immortality belongs to the childhood of the race, +and the greatest of the sages have always returned to it and taken +refuge in it. Socrates and Plato, Cicero and Plutarch, Montesquieu and +Franklin, Kant and Emerson, Tennyson and Browning,--how do they all bear +witness to the incompleteness of life and reach out to a completion +beyond the grave. + + "No great Thinker ever lived and taught you + All the wonder that his soul received; + No great Painter ever set on canvas + All the glorious vision he conceived. + + "No Musician ever held your spirit + Charmed and bound in his melodious chains; + But, be sure, he heard, and strove to render, + Feeble echoes of celestial strains. + + "No real Poet ever wove in numbers + All his dream, but the diviner part, + Hidden from all the world, spake to him only + In the voiceless silence of his heart. + + "So with Love: for Love and Art united + Are twin mysteries: different yet the same; + Poor indeed would be the love of any + Who could find its full and perfect name. + + "Love may strive; but vain is its endeavour + All its boundless riches to unfold; + Still its tenderest, truest secret lingers + Ever in its deepest depths untold. + + "Things of Time have voices: speak and perish. + Art and Love speak; but their words must be + Like sighings of illimitable forests + And waves of an unfathomable sea." + +And can it be that death shall put the final seal of irretrievable ruin +on all this uncompleted effort? Can it be that the grave shall whelm all +this unuttered love in endless silence? Ah, what a wild waste of +precious treasure, what a mad destruction of fair designs, what an +utter failure, life would be if death must end all! + +The very reasonableness of our nature, our sense of order, declare the +impotence of Death to create such a wreck. And most of all our deep +affections cry out against the conclusion of despair. They will not hear +of dissolution. They reach out their hands into the darkness. They +demand and they promise an unending fellowship, a deepening communion, a +more perfect satisfaction. Do you remember what Thackeray wrote? "If +love lives through all life, and survives through all sorrow; and +remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of +spirit burns brightly; and if we die, deplores us forever, and still +loves us equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the +faithful bosom, whence it passes with the pure soul beyond death, surely +it shall be immortal. Though we who remain are separated from it, is it +not ours in heaven? If we love still those whom we lose, can we +altogether lose those whom we love?" + +To deny this instinct is to deny that which lies at the very root of our +life. If love perishes with death, then our affections are our worst +curses, the world is the cruellest torture-house, and "all things work +together for evil to those who love." Do you believe it? Is it possible? +Nay, all that is best and noblest and purest within us rejects such a +faith in Absolute Evil as the power that has created and rules the +world. In the presence of love we feel that we behold that which must +belong to a good God and therefore cannot die. Destruction cannot touch +it. The grave cannot hold it. Loving and being loved, we dare to stand +in the very doorway of the tomb, and assert the power of an endless +life. + +And it seems to me that this courage never comes to us so fully as when +we are brought in closest contact with death, when we are brought face +to face with that dread shadow and forced either to deny its power, once +and forever, or to give up everything and die with our hopes. I wish +that I could make this clear to you as it lies in my own experience. +Perhaps in trying to do it I should speak closer to your own heart than +in any other way. For surely + + "There is no flock, however watched and tended + But one dead lamb is there. + There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended + But has a vacant chair." + +A flower grew in your garden. You delighted in its beauty and fragrance. +It gave you all it had to give, but it did not love you. It could not. +When the time came for it to die, you were sorry. But it did not seem to +you strange or unnatural. There was no waste. Its mission was fulfilled. +You understood why its petals should fall, its leaf wither, its root +and branch decay. And even if a storm came and snapped it, still there +was nothing lost that was indispensable, nothing that could not be +restored. + +A child grew in your household, dearly loved and answering your love. +You saw that soul unfold, learning to know the evil from the good, +learning to accept duty and to resist selfishness, learning to be brave +and true and kind, learning to give you day by day a deeper and a richer +sympathy, learning to love God and to pray and to be good. And then +perhaps you saw that young heart being perfected under the higher and +holier discipline of suffering, bearing pain patiently, facing trouble +and danger like a hero, not shrinking even from the presence of death, +but trusting all to your love and to God's, and taking just what came +from day to day, from hour to hour. And then suddenly the light went out +in the shining eyes. The brave heart stopped. The soul was gone. Lost, +perished, blotted out forever in the darkness of death? Ah, no; you know +better than that. That clear, dawning intelligence, that deepening love, +that childlike faith in God, that pure innocence of soul, did not come +from the dust. How could they return thither? The music ceases because +the instrument is broken. But the player is not dead. He is learning a +better music. He is finding a more perfect instrument. It is impossible +that he should be holden of death. God wastes nothing so precious. + + "What is excellent + As God lives is permanent. + Hearts are dust; hearts' loves remain. + Hearts' love will meet thee again." + +But I am sure that we must go further than this in order to understand +the full strength and comfort of the text. The assertion of the +impotence of death to end all is based upon something deeper than the +prophecy of immortality in the human heart. It has a stronger foundation +than the outreachings of human knowledge and moral effort towards a +higher state in which completion may be attained. It has a more secure +ground to rest upon than the deathless affection with which our love +clings to its object The impotence of death is revealed to us in the +spiritual perfection of Christ. + +Here then, in the "power of an endless life," I find the corner-stone of +peace on earth among men of good-will Take this mortal life as a thing +of seventy years, more or less, to which death puts a final period, and +you have nothing but confusion, chance and futility,--nothing safe, +nothing realized, nothing completed. Evil often triumphs. Virtue often +is defeated. + + "The good die young, + And we whose hearts are dry as summer dust + Burn to the socket." + +But take death, as Christ teaches us, not as a full stop, but as only a +comma in the story of an endless life, and then the whole aspect of our +existence is changed. That which is material, base, evil, drops down. +That which is spiritual, noble, good, rises to lead us on. + +The conviction of immortality, the forward-looking faith in a life +beyond the grave, the spirit of Easter, is essential to peace on earth +for three reasons. + +I. It is the only faith that lifts man's soul, which is immortal, above +his body, which is perishable. It raises him out of the tyranny of the +flesh to the service of his ideals. It makes him sure that there are +things worth fighting and dying for. The fighting and the dying, for the +cause of justice and liberty, are sacrifices on the Divine altar which +shall never be forgotten. + +II. The faith in immortality carries with it the assurance of a Divine +reassessment of earth's inequalities. Those who have suffered unjustly +here will be recompensed in the future. Those who have acted wickedly +and unjustly here will be punished. Whether that punishment will be +final or remedial we do not know. Perhaps it may lead to the extinction +of the soul of evil, perhaps to its purifying and deliverance. On these +questions I fall back on the word of God: "The wages of sin is death, +but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." + +III. The faith in immortality brings with it the sense of order, +tranquillity, steadiness and courage in the present life. It sets us +free from mean and cowardly temptations, makes it easier to resist the +wild animal passions of lust and greed and cruelty, brings us into +eternal relations and fellowships, makes us partners with the wise and +good of all the ages, ennobles our earthly patriotism by giving us a +heavenly citizenship. Yea, it knits us in bonds of love with the coming +generation. It is better than the fountain of youth. We shall know and +see them as they go on their way, long after we have left the path. The +faith in immortality sets a touch of the imperishable on every generous +impulse and unselfish deed. It inspires to sublime and heroic +virtues,--spiritual splendours,--deeds of sacrifice and suffering for +which earth has no adequate recompense, but whose reward is great in +heaven. Here is the patience of the saints, the glorious courage of +patriots, martyrs, and confessors, something more bright and shining +than secular morality can bring forth,--a flashing of the inward light +which fails not, but grows clearer as death draws near. What noble +evidences of this come to us out of the great war. + +"Are you in great distress?" asked a nurse of an American soldier whose +legs had been shot away on the battle-field. "I am in as great peace," +said he, "through Jesus my Lord, as a man can possibly be, out of +Paradise." + +A secretary of the Y.M.C.A., the night before he was killed, wrote to +his father: "I have not been sent here to die: I am to fight: I offer my +life for future generations; I shall not die, I shall merely change my +direction. He who walks before us is so great that we cannot lose Him +from sight." + +A simple French boy, grievously wounded, is dying in the ambulance. He +is a Protestant The nurse who bends over him is a Catholic sister. She +writes down his words as they fall slowly from his lips: "O my God, let +Thy will be done and not mine. O my God, Thou knowest that I never +wished war, but that I have fought because it was Thy will; I offered my +life so that peace might prevail. O my God, I pray for all my dear +ones, ... father, mother, brothers, sisters. Give a hundredfold to +those nurses for all they have done for me. I pray for them one and +all." + +Here, in the midst of carnage and confusion, horror and death, was +perfect peace, the triumph of immortality. + +What then shall we say of the new teachers and masters, the cynical +lords of materialism and misrule, who tell us that they are going to +banish this outworn superstition and all others like it from the mind of +man? They are going to make a new world in which men shall walk by +sight, and not by faith; a world in which universal happiness shall be +produced by the forcible division of material goods, and brotherhood +promoted by the simple expedient of killing those whom they dislike; a +world in which there shall be neither nation, God, nor Church, nor +anywhere a thought of any life but this which ends in the grave. It is a +mad dream of wild and reckless men. But it threatens evil to all the +world. Do you remember what happened when the French Revolution took +that course, abolished the Sabbath, defiled the Churches, broke down the +altars, and enthroned a harlot as the Goddess of Reason? The Reign of +Terror followed. Something like that has happened, recently, in many +parts of Europe. And if these new tyrants of ignorance, unbelief, and +unmorality have their way, the madness and the darkness will spread +until the black cloud charged with death covers the face of the earth +for a season with shame and anguish and destruction. A sane world, an +orderly world, a peaceful world, can never be founded on materialism. +That foundation is a quicksand in which all that is dearest to man goes +down in death. + +Religion is essential to true peace in the soul and to peace on earth +through righteousness. Immortality is essential to true religion. +Thanks be to God who hath given us Jesus Christ, who was dead and is +alive again and liveth forevermore, to touch and ennoble, to inspire and +console, to pacify and uplift our earthly existence with the power of an +endless life. + + + +***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PEACE MEANS*** + + +******* This file should be named 15266-8.txt or 15266-8.zip ******* + + +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: +https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/5/2/6/15266 + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at <a href = "https://www.gutenberg.org">www.gutenberg.org</a></pre> +<p>Title: What Peace Means</p> +<p>Author: Henry van Dyke</p> +<p>Release Date: March 5, 2005 [eBook #15266]</p> +<p>Language: English</p> +<p>Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1</p> +<p>***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PEACE MEANS***</p> +<p> </p> +<h3>E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa Er-Raqabi,<br /> + and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team<br /> + (https://www.pgdp.net)</h3> +<p> </p> +<hr class="full" /> +<p> </p> +<p> </p> + +<h1><i>What Peace Means</i></h1> +<h3><i>By</i></h3> +<h2><i>Henry van Dyke</i></h2> + +<div class="figcenter"> +<img src="images/001.png" +alt="Publisher Mark" +title="Publisher Mark" /> +</div> + +<h4><i>New York Chicago</i></h4> +<h4><i>Fleming H. Revell Company</i></h4> +<h4><i>London and Edinburgh</i></h4> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center">Copyright, 1919, by<br /> +FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY</p> + +<p class="center">New York: 158 Fifth Avenue<br /> +Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.<br /> +London: 21 Paternoster Square<br /> +Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street<br /> +</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="center"><i>To</i><br /> +<i>My Son in the Faith</i><br /> +<i>My Brother in the Work</i><br /> +<i>Tertius van Dyke</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>FOREWORD</h2> + +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/t.png" +alt="T" +title="T" /> +</div> + +<p>his little book contains +three plain sermons which +were preached in New +York in the Easter season +of 1919, in the Park Avenue +Presbyterian Church, of which my +son is minister. I had no thought that +they would ever be printed. They were, +and are, just <i>daily bread discourses</i> meant to +serve the spiritual needs of a congregation +of Christian people, seekers after +truth, inquirers about duty, strangers and +pilgrims, in the great city and the troubled +world.</p> + +<p>But if, as friends think, these simple +chapters may be of service through the +printed page to a larger circle of readers, +I willingly and freely let them go.</p> + +<p>May the blessing of Jesus follow them +on their humble path. May the Spirit of +Truth bring them home to some hearts +that want them,—to those who desire to +escape from evil and do good,—to those +who "seek peace and ensue it."</p> + +<p>HENRY VAN DYKE.</p> + +<p><i>Park Avenue Church Manse, +New York City.</i></p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> + +<p class="center"> +<br /> +<br /> +<a href="#Peace_in_the_Soul">I. PEACE IN THE SOUL</a><br /> +<br /> +<a href="#Peace_on_Earth_Through_Righteousness">II. PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS</a><br /> +<br /> +<a href="#The_Power_of_an_Endless_Life">III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE</a><br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>I</h2> + +<h2><a name="Peace_in_the_Soul" id="Peace_in_the_Soul" />Peace in the Soul</h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Peace I leave with you: my peace I +give unto you.</i>—ST. JOHN 14:27.</p> + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/p.png" +alt="P" +title="P" /> +</div> +<p>eace is one of the great +words of the Holy Scriptures. +It is woven through +the Old Testament and +the New like a golden +thread. It inheres and abides in the character +of God,—</p> + +<p> "The central peace subsisting at the heart<br /> + Of endless agitation."<br /></p> + +<p>It is the deepest and most universal +desire of man, whose prayer in all ages +has been, "Grant us Thy Peace, O Lord." +It is the reward of the righteous, the +blessing of the good, the crown of life's +effort, and the glory of eternity.</p> + +<p>The prophets foretell the beauty of its +coming and the psalmists sing of the joy +which it brings. Jesus Christ is its Divine +Messiah, its high priest and its holy +prince. The evangelists and prophets +proclaim and preach it. From beginning +to end the Bible is full of the praise of +peace.</p> + +<p>Yet there never was a book more full +of stories of trouble and strife, disaster +and sorrow. God Himself is revealed in +it not as a calm, untroubled, self-absorbed +Deity, occupied in beatific contemplation +of His own perfections. He is a God +who works and labours, who wars against +the evil, who fights for the good. The +psalmist speaks of Him as "The Lord of +Hosts, strong and mighty in battle." +The Revelation of St. John tells us that +"There was war in Heaven; Michael and +his angels fought against the dragon." +Jesus Christ said: "I came not to send +peace, but a sword."</p> + +<p>It is evident, then, that this idea of +"peace," like all good and noble things, +has its counterfeit, its false and subtle +versary, which steals its name and its garments +to deceive and betray the hearts of +men. We find this clearly taught in the +Bible. Not more earnestly does it praise +true peace than it denounces false peace.</p> + +<p><i>There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the +wicked</i> (Isaiah 48:22).</p> + +<p><i>For they have healed the hurt of the daughter +of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; +when there is no peace</i> (Jer. 8:11).</p> + +<p><i>If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in +this thy day, the things which belong unto thy +peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes</i> +(St. Luke 19:42).</p> + +<p><i>For to be carnally minded is death; but to +be spiritually minded is life and peace</i> (Romans 8:6).</p> + +<p>There never was a time in human history +when a right understanding of the +nature of true peace, the path which leads +to it, the laws which govern it, was more +necessary or more important than it is +to-day.</p> + +<p>The world has just passed through a +ghastly experience of war at its worst. +Never in history has there been such +slaughter, such agony, such waste, such +desolation, in a brief space of time, as in +the four terrible years of conflict which +German militarism forced on the world in +the twentieth century. Having seen it, I +know what it means.</p> + +<p>Now we have "supped full with horrors." +We have had more than enough +of that bloody banquet The heart of +humanity longs for peace, as it has always +longed, but now with a new intensity, +greater than ever before. Yet +the second course of war continues. The +dogs fight for the crumbs under the peace-table. +Ignorant armies clash by night. +Cities are bombarded and sacked. The +barbarous Bolsheviki raise the red flag of +violence and threaten a war of classes +throughout the world.</p> + +<p>You can never make a golden age out +of leaden men, or a peaceful world out of +lovers of strife.</p> + +<p>Where shall peace be found? How +shall it be attained and safeguarded? +Evidently the militarists have assaulted it +with their doctrine that might makes +right. Evidently the pacifists have betrayed +it with their doctrine of passive +acceptance of wrong. Somewhere between +these two errors there must be a +ground of truth on which Christians can +stand to defend their faith and maintain +their hope of a better future for the world.</p> + +<p>Let me begin by speaking of <i>Peace in +the Soul</i>. That is where religion begins, +in the heart of a person. Its flowers and +fruits are social. They are for the blessing +of the world. But its root is personal. +You can never start with a class—conscious +or a mass—conscious Christianity. It must +begin with just you and God.</p> + +<p>Marshal Joffre, that fine Christian soldier, +said a memorable thing about the +winning of the war: "Our victory will be +the fruit of individual sacrifice." So of +the coming of peace on earth we may say +the same: it will be the fruit of the entrance +of peace into individual hearts and +lives.</p> + +<p>A world at war is the necessary result +of human restlessness and enmities. +"From whence come wars and fightings +among you? Come they not hence, even +of your lusts, that war in your members?" +Envy, malice, greed, hatred, deceit,—these +are the begetters of strife on +earth.</p> + +<p>A world at peace can come only from +the cooperation of peaceful human spirits. +Therefore we must commence to learn +what peace is, by seeking it in our souls +through faith.</p> + +<p>Christ promised peace to His disciples +at the Communion in that little upper +room in Jerusalem, nineteen hundred +years ago. Evidently it was not an outward +but an inward peace. He told them +that they would have a lot of trouble in +the world. But He assured them that +this could not overcome them if they +believed in Him and in His Father God. +He warned them of conflict, and assured +them of inward peace.</p> + +<p>What are the elements of this wondrous +gift which Christ gave to His +disciples, and which He offers to us?</p> + +<p>I. First, the peace of Christ is the +peace of being divinely loved. Nothing +rests and satisfies the heart like the sense +of being loved. Let us take as an illustration +the case of a little child, which has +grown tired and fretful at its play, and is +frightened suddenly by some childish +terror. Weeping, it runs to its mother. +She takes the child in her arms, folds it +to her breast, bends over it, and soothes +it with fond words which mean only this: +"I love you." Very soon the child sinks +to rest, contented and happy, in the sense +of being loved. "Herein is love, not that +we loved God, but that he loved us, and +sent his Son to be the propitiation for our +sins." In Jesus Christ God is stretching +out His arms to us, drawing us to His +bosom, enfolding us in the secret of peace. +If we believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of +God, He makes us sure of a Divine affection, +deep, infinite, inexhaustible, imperishable. +"For God so loved the world, +that he gave his only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth in him should not +perish, but have everlasting life." God, +who "spared not his dearly-beloved Son, +but delivered him up for us all, how shall +he not with him also freely give us all +things?" "Nothing shall be able to +separate us from the love of God, which +is in Christ Jesus our Lord."</p> + +<p>II. The Christian peace is the peace of +being divinely controlled. The man who +accepts Jesus Christ truly, accepts Him +as Master and Lord. He believes that +Christ has a purpose for him, which will +surely be fulfilled? work for him, which +will surely be blessed if he only tries to +do it. Most of the discords of life come +from a conflict of authorities, of plans, of +purposes. Suppose that a building were +going up, and the architect had one design +for it, and the builder had another. +What perplexity and confusion there +would be! How ill things would fit! +What perpetual quarrels and blunders +and disappointments! But when the +workman accepts the designer's plan and +simply does his best to carry that out, harmony, +joyful labour, and triumph are the +result. If we accept God's plan for us, +yield to Him as the daily controller and +director of our life, our work, however +hard, becomes peaceful and secure. No +perils can frighten, no interruptions can +dishearten us.</p> + +<p>Not many years ago some workmen +were digging a tunnel, when a sudden fall +of earth blocked the mouth of the opening. +Their companions on the outside +found out what had happened, and started +to dig through the mass of earth to the +rescue. It was several hours before they +made their way through. When they +went in they found the workmen going +on with their labour on the tunnel. "We +knew," said one of them, "that you'd +come to help us, and we thought the best +way to make time pass quick was to keep +on with the work." That is what a Christian +may say to Christ amid the dangers +and disasters of life. We know that He +will never forsake us, and the best way +to be at peace is to be about His business. +He says to us: "As the Father sent me, +even so send I you."</p> + +<p>III. The Christian peace is the peace +of being divinely forgiven.</p> + +<p>"In every man," said a philosopher, +"there is something which, if we knew it, +would make us despise him." Let us +turn the saying, and change it from a +bitter cynicism into a wholesome truth.</p> + +<p>In every one of us there is something +which, if we realize it, makes us condemn +ourselves as sinners, and hunger and +thirst after righteousness, and long for +forgiveness.</p> + +<p>It is this deep consciousness of sin, of +evil in our hearts and lives, that makes +us restless and unhappy. The plasters +and soothing lotions with which the easy-going +philosophy of modern times covers +it up, do not heal it; they only hide it. +There is no cure for it, there is no rest for +the sinful soul, except the divine forgiveness. +There is no sure pledge of this except +in the holy sacrifice and blessed +promise of Christ, "Son, daughter, thy +sins are forgiven thee, go in peace."</p> + +<p>Understand, I do not mean that what +we need and want is to have our sins +ignored and overlooked. On the contrary, +that is just what would fail to bring +us true rest. For if God took no account +of sins, required no repentance and reparation, +He would not be holy, just, and +faithful, a God whom we can adore and +love and trust.</p> + +<p>Nor do I mean that what we need is +merely to have the punishment of sins remitted. +That would not satisfy the heart. +Is the child contented when the father +says, "Well, I will not punish you. Go +away"? No, what the child wants is to +hear the father say, "I forgive you. +Come to me." It is to be welcomed back +to the father's home, to the father's heart, +that the child longs.</p> + +<p>Peace means not to have the offense +ignored, but to have it pardoned: not to +the punishment omitted, but to have +separation from God ended and done +with. That is the peace of being +divinely forgiven,—a peace which recognizes +sin, and triumphs over it,—a peace +which not merely saves us from death but +welcomes us home to the divine love from +which we have wandered.</p> + +<p>That is the peace which Christ offers +to each one of us in His Gospel. We +need it in this modern world as much as +men and women ever needed it in the old +world. No New Era will ever change its +meaning or do away with its necessity. +Indeed, it seems to me that we need this +old-fashioned religion to-day more than +ever.</p> + +<p>We need it for our own comfort and +strength. We need it to deliver us from +the vanity and hollowness, the fever and +hysteria of the present age. We need it +to make us better soldiers and workers +for every good cause. Peace is coming +to all the earth some day through Christ. +And those who shall do most to help Him +bring it are the men and women to whom +He gives Peace in the Soul.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>II</h2> + +<h2><a name="Peace_on_Earth_Through_Righteousness" id="Peace_on_Earth_Through_Righteousness" />Peace on Earth Through +Righteousness</h2> + + + + +<p class="center"><i>And the work of righteousness shall be +peace: and the effect of righteousness +quietness and confidence forever.</i>—ISAIAH 32:17.</p> + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/a.png" +alt="A" +title="A" /> +</div> + +<p>fter we have found peace +in our own souls through +faith in God and in His +Son, Jesus Christ our +Saviour, if our faith is +honest, we must feel the desire and the +duty of helping to make peace prevail on +earth.</p> + +<p>But here we are, in a world of confusion +and conflict. Darkness and ignorance +strive against light. Evil hates and assaults +good. Wrong takes up arms +against right. Greed and pride and +passion call on violence to defeat justice +and enthrone blind force. So has it been +since Cain killed Abel, since Christ was +crucified on Calvary, and so it is to-day +wherever men uphold the false doctrine +that "might makes right."</p> + +<p>The Bible teaches us that there is no +foundation for enduring peace on earth +except in righteousness: that it is our +duty to suffer for that cause if need be: +that we are bound to fight for it if we +have the power: and that if God gives us +the victory we must use it for the perpetuation +of righteous peace.</p> + +<p>In these words I sum up what seems to +me the Christian doctrine of war and +peace,—the truth that in time of war we +must stand for the right, and that when +peace comes in sight, we must do our best +to found it upon justice. These two +truths cannot be separated. If we forget +the meaning of the Christian duty to +which God called us in the late war, all +our sacrifice of blood and treasure will +have been in vain. If we forget the +watchword which called our boys to the +colours, our victory will be fruitless. We +have fought in this twentieth century +against the pagan German doctrine of war +as the supreme arbiter between the tribes +of mankind. They that took the sword +must perish by the sword. But in the +hour of victory we must uphold the end +for which we have fought and suffered,—the +advance of the world towards a peaceful +life founded on reason and justice and +fair-play for every man.</p> + +<p>So there are two heads to this sermon. +First, the indelible remembrance of a +righteous acceptance of war. Second, +the reasonable hope of a righteous foundation +of peace.</p> + +<p>I. First of all, then, it must never be +forgotten that the Allies and America +were forced to enter this war as a work +of righteousness in order to make the +world safe for peace.</p> + +<p>Peace means something more than the +mere absence of hostilities. It means +justice, honour, fair-play, order, security, +and the well-protected right of every man +and nation to life, liberty, and the pursuit +of happiness. It was the German contempt +for these Christian ideals, it was +the German idolatry of the pagan Odin, +naked, cruel, bloody, god of war, it was +the German will to power and dream of +world-dominion, that made the world unsafe +for real peace in 1914.</p> + +<p>Never could that safety be secured until +that enemy of mankind was overcome. +Not only for democracy, but also for human +peace, it was necessary, as President +Wilson said, that "the German power, a +thing without honour, conscience, or +capacity for covenanted faith, must be +crushed."</p> + +<p>I saw, from my post of observation in +Holland, the hosts of heathen Germany +massing for their attack on the world's +peace in the spring of 1914. Long before +the pretext of war was provided by the +murder of the Austrian Crown-Prince in +Serajevo, I saw the troops, the artillery, +the mountains of ammunition, assembled +at Aix-la-Chapelle and Trier, ready for +the invasion of neutral Belgium and +Luxembourg, and the foul stroke at +France.</p> + +<p>Every civilized nation in Europe desired +peace and pleaded for it. Little +Servia offered to go before the Court of +Arbitration at The Hague and be tried +for the offense of which she was accused. +Russia, Italy, France and England entreated +Germany not to make war, but +to submit the dispute to judicial settlement, +to a righteous decision by a conference +of powers. But Germany said +no. She had prepared for war, she wanted +war, she got war. And now she must +abide by the result of her choice.</p> + +<p>I have seen also with my own eyes the +horrors wrought by Germany in her conduct +of the war in Belgium and Northern +France. Words fail me to describe them. +Childhood has been crucified, womanhood +outraged, civilization trampled in +the dust. The nations and the men who +took arms against these deviltries were +the servants of the righteous God and the +followers of the merciful Christ.</p> + +<p>He told us, "If any man smite thee on +the right cheek, turn unto him the left +also." But never did He tell us to +abandon the bodies and the lives of our +women and children to the outrage of +beasts in human form. On the contrary, +He said to His disciples, in His parting +discourse, "He that hath no sword let +him sell his garment and buy one."</p> + +<p>Does any silly pacifist say that means a +spiritual sword? No. You could get +that without selling your garment. It +means a real sword,—as real as the purse +and the scrip which Christ told His followers +to carry with them. It means the +power of arms dedicated to the service of +righteousness without which the world +can never be safe for peace.</p> + +<p>Here, then, we may stand on the Word +of God, on the work of righteousness in +making the world safe for peace. Let me +tell you of my faith that every one who +has given his life for that cause, has +entered into eternal rest.</p> + +<p>II. Come we now to consider the second +part of the text: "the effect of righteousness, +quietness and confidence forever."</p> + +<p>What shall be the nature of the peace +to be concluded after our victory in this +righteous war?</p> + +<p>Here we have to oppose the demands +of the bloodthirsty civilians. They ask +that German towns should endure the +same sufferings which have been inflicted +on the towns of Belgium and Northern +France. Let me say frankly that I do not +believe you could persuade our officers to +order such atrocities, or our soldiers to +obey such orders. Read the order which +one of the noble warriors of France, General +Pétain, issued to his men:</p> + +<blockquote><p>"To-morrow, in order to better dictate +peace, you are going to carry your arms +as far as the Rhine. Into that land of +Alsace-Lorraine that is so dear to us, you +will march as liberators. You will go +further; all the way into Germany to occupy +lands which are the necessary guarantees +for just reparation.</p> + +<p>"France has suffered in her ravaged +fields and in her ruined villages. The +freed provinces have had to submit to intolerable +vexations and odious outrages, +but you are not to answer these crimes +by the commission of violences, which, +under the spur of your resentment, may +seem to you legitimate.</p> + +<p>"You are to remain under discipline +and to show respect to persons and property. +You will know, after having vanquished +your adversary by force of arms, +how to impress him further by the dignity +of your attitude, and the world will not +know which to admire most, your conduct +in success or your heroism in fighting."</p></blockquote> + +<p>The destruction of the commonplace +Cathedral of Cologne could never recompense +the damage done to the glorious +Cathedral of Rheims. Nor could the +slaughter of a million German women and +children restore the innocent victims of +Belgium, France, Servia, and Armenia to +life. We do not thirst for blood. We +desire justice.</p> + +<p>No doubt the ends of justice demand +that the principal brigands who are responsible +for the atrocities of this war +should be tried before an international +court If convicted they should be duly +punished. But not by mob-law or violence. +Nothing could be less desirable +than the assassination of William Hohenzollern. +It would be absurd and horrible +to give a martyr's crown to a criminal. +Vengeance belongeth unto God. He +alone is wise and great enough to deal +adequately with the case. It is for us to +keep our righteous indignation free from +the poison of personal hatred, and to do +no more than is needed to uphold and +vindicate the eternal law.</p> + +<p>William Hohenzollern, and his fellow-conspirators +who are responsible for the +beginning and the conduct of the dreadful +war from which all the toiling peoples of +earth have suffered, must be brought to +the bar of justice and sentenced; otherwise +the world will have no defense +against the anarchists who say that government +is a vain thing; and the bloody +Bolshevists who proclaim the Empire of +the Ignorant,—the Boob-Rah,—as the +future rule of the world, will have free +scope.</p> + +<p>It is evident that a league of free, democratic +states, pledged by mutual covenant +to uphold the settlement of international +differences by reason and justice before +the use of violence, offers the only hope of +a durable peace among the nations. It is +also the only defense against that deadly +and destructive war of classes with which +Bolshevism threatens the whole world. +The spirit of Bolshevism is atheism and +enmity; its method is violence and +tyranny; its result would be a reign of +terror under that empty-headed monster, +"the dictatorship of the proletariat." +God save us from that! It would be the +worst possible outcome of the war in +which we have offered and sacrificed so +much, and in which God has given us the +opportunity to make "a covenant of +peace."</p> + +<p>How vast, how immeasurable, are the +responsibilities which this great victory +in righteous war has laid upon the Allies +and America. God help us to live up to +them. God help us to sow the future not +with dragon's teeth, but with seeds of +blessed harvest. God paint upon the +broken storm-cloud the rainbow of eternal +hope. God help us and our friends to +make a peace that shall mean good to all +mankind. God send upon our victory the +light of the cross of Christ our Saviour, +where mercy and truth meet together, +righteousness and peace kiss each other.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<h2>III</h2> + +<h2><a name="The_Power_of_an_Endless_Life" id="The_Power_of_an_Endless_Life" />The Power of an Endless Life</h2> + +<p class="center"><i>Who is made, not after the law of a +carnal commandment, but after the +power of an endless life.</i>—Hebrews 7:16.</p> + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<div class="figleft"> +<img src="images/t.png" +alt="T" +title="T" /> +</div> + +<p>he message and hope of +immortality are nowhere +more distinctly conveyed +to our minds than in connection +with that resurrection +morn when Jesus appeared to +Mary Magdalene. The anniversary of +that day will ever be the festival of the human +soul. Even those who do not clearly +understand or fully accept its meaning in +history and religion,—even children and +ignorant folk and doubters and unbelievers,—yes, +even frivolous people and +sullen people, feel that there is something +in this festival which meets the need and +longing of their hearts. It is a day of joy +and gladness, a day of liberation and +promise, a day for flowers to bloom and +birds to sing, a day of spiritual spring-tide +and immortal hope.</p> + +<p>Mankind desires and needs such a day. +We are overshadowed in all our affections +and aspirations, all our efforts, and designs, +by the dark mystery of bodily +death; the uncertainty and the brevity of +earthly existence make us tremble and +despair; the futility of our plans dismays +us; the insecurity of our dearest treasure +in lives linked to ours fills us with dismay.</p> + +<p>Is there no escape from Death, the +Tyrant, the autocrat, the destroyer, the +last enemy? Why love, why look upward, +why strive for better things if this +imperator of failure, ultimate extinction, +rules the universe? No hope beyond the +grave means no peace this side of it. A +life without hope is a life without God. +If Death ends all, then there is no Father +in Heaven in whom we can trust. Who +shall deliver us from the body of this +Death?</p> + +<p>Now comes Easter with its immortal +promise and assurance, Jesus of +Nazareth, who died on Calvary, a martyr +of humanity, a sacrifice of Divinity, is +alive and appears to His humble followers. +The manner of His appearance, +to Mary Magdalene, to His disciples, is +not the most important thing. The fact +is that He did appear. He who was crucified +in the cause of righteousness and +mercy, lives on and forever. The message +of His resurrection is "the power of +an endless life."</p> + +<p>The proof of this message is in the effect +that it produced. It transformed the +handful of Jesus' followers from despair +to confidence. It gave Christianity its +growing influence over the heart of humanity. +It is this message of immortality +that makes religion vital to the human +world to-day, and essential to the foundation +of peace on earth.</p> + +<p>We must not forget in our personal +griefs and longings, in our sorrows for +those whom we have lost and our desire +to find them again, in our sense of our +own mortal frailty and the brief duration +of earthly life, the celestial impulse which +demands a life triumphant over death.</p> + +<p>The strongest of all supports for peace +on earth is the faith in immortality. The +truth is, the very character of our being +here in this world demands continuance +beyond death. There is nothing good or +great that we think or feel or endeavour, +that is not a reaching out to something +better. Our finest knowledge is but the +consciousness of limitation and the longing +that it may be removed. Our best +moral effort is but a slow advance towards +something better. Our sense of the difference +between good and evil, our penitence, +our aspiration, all this moral freight +with which our souls are laden, is a cargo +consigned to an unseen country. Our +bill of lading reads, "To the immortal +life." If we must sink in mid-ocean, then +all is lost, and the voyage of life is a predestined +wreck.</p> + +<p>The wisest, the strongest, the best of +mankind, have felt this most deeply. The +faith in immortality belongs to the childhood +of the race, and the greatest of the +sages have always returned to it and +taken refuge in it. Socrates and Plato, +Cicero and Plutarch, Montesquieu and +Franklin, Kant and Emerson, Tennyson +and Browning,—how do they all bear witness +to the incompleteness of life and +reach out to a completion beyond the +grave.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>"No great Thinker ever lived and taught you<br /></span> +<span>All the wonder that his soul received;<br /></span> +<span>No great Painter ever set on canvas<br /></span> +<span>All the glorious vision he conceived.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"No Musician ever held your spirit<br /></span> +<span>Charmed and bound in his melodious chains;<br /></span> +<span>But, be sure, he heard, and strove to render,<br /></span> +<span>Feeble echoes of celestial strains.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"No real Poet ever wove in numbers<br /></span> +<span>All his dream, but the diviner part,<br /></span> +<span>Hidden from all the world, spake to him only<br /></span> +<span>In the voiceless silence of his heart.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"So with Love: for Love and Art united<br /></span> +<span>Are twin mysteries: different yet the same;<br /></span> +<span>Poor indeed would be the love of any<br /></span> +<span>Who could find its full and perfect name.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Love may strive; but vain is its endeavour<br /></span> +<span>All its boundless riches to unfold;<br /></span> +<span>Still its tenderest, truest secret lingers<br /></span> +<span>Ever in its deepest depths untold.<br /></span> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<span>"Things of Time have voices: speak and perish.<br /></span> +<span>Art and Love speak; but their words must be<br /></span> +<span>Like sighings of illimitable forests<br /></span> +<span>And waves of an unfathomable sea."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>And can it be that death shall put the +final seal of irretrievable ruin on all this +uncompleted effort? Can it be that the +grave shall whelm all this unuttered love +in endless silence? Ah, what a wild +waste of precious treasure, what a mad +destruction of fair designs, what an utter +failure, life would be if death must end all!</p> + +<p>The very reasonableness of our nature, +our sense of order, declare the impotence +of Death to create such a wreck. And +most of all our deep affections cry out +against the conclusion of despair. They +will not hear of dissolution. They reach +out their hands into the darkness. They +demand and they promise an unending +fellowship, a deepening communion, a +more perfect satisfaction. Do you remember +what Thackeray wrote? "If love +lives through all life, and survives through +all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us +through all changes; and in all darkness +of spirit burns brightly; and if we die, deplores +us forever, and still loves us +equally; and exists with the very last gasp +and throb of the faithful bosom, whence +it passes with the pure soul beyond death, +surely it shall be immortal. Though we +who remain are separated from it, is it not +ours in heaven? If we love still those +whom we lose, can we altogether lose +those whom we love?"</p> + +<p>To deny this instinct is to deny that +which lies at the very root of our life. If +love perishes with death, then our affections +are our worst curses, the world is +the cruellest torture-house, and "all +things work together for evil to those +who love." Do you believe it? Is it +possible? Nay, all that is best and noblest +and purest within us rejects such a faith +in Absolute Evil as the power that has +created and rules the world. In the presence +of love we feel that we behold that +which must belong to a good God and +therefore cannot die. Destruction cannot +touch it. The grave cannot hold it. +Loving and being loved, we dare to stand +in the very doorway of the tomb, and assert +the power of an endless life.</p> + +<p>And it seems to me that this courage +never comes to us so fully as when we are +brought in closest contact with death, +when we are brought face to face with +that dread shadow and forced either to +deny its power, once and forever, or to +give up everything and die with our hopes. +I wish that I could make this clear to you +as it lies in my own experience. Perhaps +in trying to do it I should speak closer to +your own heart than in any other way. +For surely</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span>"There is no flock, however watched and tended<br /></span> +<span>But one dead lamb is there.<br /></span> +<span>There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended<br /></span> +<span>But has a vacant chair."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>A flower grew in your garden. You +delighted in its beauty and fragrance. It +gave you all it had to give, but it did not +love you. It could not. When the time +came for it to die, you were sorry. But +it did not seem to you strange or unnatural. +There was no waste. Its mission +was fulfilled. You understood why +its petals should fall, its leaf wither, its +root and branch decay. And even if a +storm came and snapped it, still there was +nothing lost that was indispensable, nothing +that could not be restored.</p> + +<p>A child grew in your household, dearly +loved and answering your love. You saw +that soul unfold, learning to know the evil +from the good, learning to accept duty +and to resist selfishness, learning to be +brave and true and kind, learning to give +you day by day a deeper and a richer +sympathy, learning to love God and to +pray and to be good. And then perhaps +you saw that young heart being perfected +under the higher and holier discipline of +suffering, bearing pain patiently, facing +trouble and danger like a hero, not shrinking +even from the presence of death, but +trusting all to your love and to God's, and +taking just what came from day to day, +from hour to hour. And then suddenly +the light went out in the shining eyes. +The brave heart stopped. The soul was +gone. Lost, perished, blotted out forever +in the darkness of death? Ah, no; you +know better than that. That clear, dawning +intelligence, that deepening love, that +childlike faith in God, that pure innocence +of soul, did not come from the dust. How +could they return thither? The music +ceases because the instrument is broken. +But the player is not dead. He is learning +a better music. He is finding a more +perfect instrument. It is impossible that +he should be holden of death. God wastes +nothing so precious.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i5">"What is excellent<br /></span> +<span>As God lives is permanent.<br /></span> +<span>Hearts are dust; hearts' loves remain.<br /></span> +<span>Hearts' love will meet thee again."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But I am sure that we must go further +than this in order to understand the full +strength and comfort of the text. The assertion +of the impotence of death to end +all is based upon something deeper than +the prophecy of immortality in the human +heart. It has a stronger foundation than +the outreachings of human knowledge +and moral effort towards a higher state in +which completion may be attained. It has +a more secure ground to rest upon than +the deathless affection with which our +love clings to its object The impotence of +death is revealed to us in the spiritual +perfection of Christ.</p> + +<p>Here then, in the "power of an endless +life," I find the corner-stone of peace on +earth among men of good-will Take +this mortal life as a thing of seventy +years, more or less, to which death puts +a final period, and you have nothing but +confusion, chance and futility,—nothing +safe, nothing realized, nothing completed. +Evil often triumphs. Virtue often is defeated.</p> + +<div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> +<span class="i5">"The good die young,<br /></span> +<span>And we whose hearts are dry as summer dust<br /></span> +<span>Burn to the socket."<br /></span> +</div></div> + +<p>But take death, as Christ teaches us, +not as a full stop, but as only a comma in +the story of an endless life, and then the +whole aspect of our existence is changed. +That which is material, base, evil, drops +down. That which is spiritual, noble, +good, rises to lead us on.</p> + +<p>The conviction of immortality, the forward-looking +faith in a life beyond the +grave, the spirit of Easter, is essential to +peace on earth for three reasons.</p> + +<p>I. It is the only faith that lifts man's +soul, which is immortal, above his body, +which is perishable. It raises him out of +the tyranny of the flesh to the service of +his ideals. It makes him sure that there +are things worth fighting and dying for. +The fighting and the dying, for the cause +of justice and liberty, are sacrifices on the +Divine altar which shall never be forgotten.</p> + +<p>II. The faith in immortality carries +with it the assurance of a Divine reassessment +of earth's inequalities. Those who +have suffered unjustly here will be recompensed +in the future. Those who +have acted wickedly and unjustly here +will be punished. Whether that punishment +will be final or remedial we do not +know. Perhaps it may lead to the extinction +of the soul of evil, perhaps to its +purifying and deliverance. On these +questions I fall back on the word of God: +"The wages of sin is death, but the gift +of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our +Lord."</p> + +<p>III. The faith in immortality brings +with it the sense of order, tranquillity, +steadiness and courage in the present life. +It sets us free from mean and cowardly +temptations, makes it easier to resist the +wild animal passions of lust and greed and +cruelty, brings us into eternal relations +and fellowships, makes us partners with +the wise and good of all the ages, ennobles +our earthly patriotism by giving +us a heavenly citizenship. Yea, it knits +us in bonds of love with the coming generation. +It is better than the fountain of +youth. We shall know and see them as +they go on their way, long after we have +left the path. The faith in immortality +sets a touch of the imperishable on every +generous impulse and unselfish deed. It +inspires to sublime and heroic virtues,—spiritual +splendours,—deeds of sacrifice +and suffering for which earth has no adequate +recompense, but whose reward is +great in heaven. Here is the patience +of the saints, the glorious courage of +patriots, martyrs, and confessors, something +more bright and shining than +secular morality can bring forth,—a flashing +of the inward light which fails not, but +grows clearer as death draws near. What +noble evidences of this come to us out of +the great war.</p> + +<p>"Are you in great distress?" asked a +nurse of an American soldier whose legs +had been shot away on the battle-field. +"I am in as great peace," said he, +"through Jesus my Lord, as a man can +possibly be, out of Paradise."</p> + +<p>A secretary of the Y.M.C.A., the night +before he was killed, wrote to his father: +"I have not been sent here to die: I am +to fight: I offer my life for future generations; +I shall not die, I shall merely +change my direction. He who walks before +us is so great that we cannot lose +Him from sight."</p> + +<p>A simple French boy, grievously +wounded, is dying in the ambulance. He +is a Protestant The nurse who bends +over him is a Catholic sister. She writes +down his words as they fall slowly from +his lips: "O my God, let Thy will be done +and not mine. O my God, Thou knowest +that I never wished war, but that I have +fought because it was Thy will; I offered +my life so that peace might prevail. +O my God, I pray for all my dear +ones, ... father, mother, brothers, +sisters. Give a hundredfold to those +nurses for all they have done for me. I +pray for them one and all."</p> + +<p>Here, in the midst of carnage and confusion, +horror and death, was perfect +peace, the triumph of immortality.</p> + +<p>What then shall we say of the new +teachers and masters, the cynical lords of +materialism and misrule, who tell us that +they are going to banish this outworn +superstition and all others like it from the +mind of man? They are going to make +a new world in which men shall walk by +sight, and not by faith; a world in which +universal happiness shall be produced by +the forcible division of material goods, +and brotherhood promoted by the simple +expedient of killing those whom they dislike; +a world in which there shall be +neither nation, God, nor Church, nor anywhere +a thought of any life but this which +ends in the grave. It is a mad dream of +wild and reckless men. But it threatens +evil to all the world. Do you remember +what happened when the French Revolution +took that course, abolished the Sabbath, +defiled the Churches, broke down +the altars, and enthroned a harlot as the +Goddess of Reason? The Reign of +Terror followed. Something like that +has happened, recently, in many parts of +Europe. And if these new tyrants of +ignorance, unbelief, and unmorality have +their way, the madness and the darkness +will spread until the black cloud charged +with death covers the face of the earth for +a season with shame and anguish and +destruction. A sane world, an orderly +world, a peaceful world, can never be +founded on materialism. That foundation +is a quicksand in which all that is +dearest to man goes down in death.</p> + +<p>Religion is essential to true peace in +the soul and to peace on earth through +righteousness. Immortality is essential +to true religion. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: What Peace Means + +Author: Henry van Dyke + +Release Date: March 5, 2005 [eBook #15266] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT PEACE MEANS*** + + +E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Melissa Er-Raqabi, and the Project +Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) + + + +WHAT PEACE MEANS + +by + +HENRY VAN DYKE + +New York Chicago +Fleming H. Revell Company +London and Edinburgh + +1919 + + + + + + + +To +My Son in the Faith +My Brother in the Work +Tertius van Dyke + + + + +FOREWORD + +This little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New +York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian +Church, of which my son is minister. I had no thought that they would +ever be printed. They were, and are, just _daily bread discourses_ meant +to serve the spiritual needs of a congregation of Christian people, +seekers after truth, inquirers about duty, strangers and pilgrims, in +the great city and the troubled world. + +But if, as friends think, these simple chapters may be of service +through the printed page to a larger circle of readers, I willingly and +freely let them go. + +May the blessing of Jesus follow them on their humble path. May the +Spirit of Truth bring them home to some hearts that want them,--to those +who desire to escape from evil and do good,--to those who "seek peace +and ensue it." + +HENRY VAN DYKE. + +Park Avenue Church Manse, New York City. + + + + +CONTENTS + + I. PEACE IN THE SOUL + + II. PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS + +III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE + + + + +I + +Peace in the Soul + +_Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you._--ST. JOHN 14:27. + + +Peace is one of the great words of the Holy Scriptures. +It is woven through the Old Testament and the New like a golden thread. +It inheres and abides in the character of God,-- + + "The central peace subsisting at the heart + Of endless agitation." + +It is the deepest and most universal desire of man, whose prayer in all +ages has been, "Grant us Thy Peace, O Lord." It is the reward of the +righteous, the blessing of the good, the crown of life's effort, and the +glory of eternity. + +The prophets foretell the beauty of its coming and the psalmists sing of +the joy which it brings. Jesus Christ is its Divine Messiah, its high +priest and its holy prince. The evangelists and prophets proclaim and +preach it. From beginning to end the Bible is full of the praise of +peace. + +Yet there never was a book more full of stories of trouble and strife, +disaster and sorrow. God Himself is revealed in it not as a calm, +untroubled, self-absorbed Deity, occupied in beatific contemplation of +His own perfections. He is a God who works and labours, who wars against +the evil, who fights for the good. The psalmist speaks of Him as "The +Lord of Hosts, strong and mighty in battle." The Revelation of St. John +tells us that "There was war in Heaven; Michael and his angels fought +against the dragon." Jesus Christ said: "I came not to send peace, but a +sword." + +It is evident, then, that this idea of "peace," like all good and noble +things, has its counterfeit, its false and subtle versary, which steals +its name and its garments to deceive and betray the hearts of men. We +find this clearly taught in the Bible. Not more earnestly does it praise +true peace than it denounces false peace. + +_There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked_ (Isaiah 48:22). + +_For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, +saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace_ (Jer. 8:11). + +_If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things +which belong unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes_ (St. +Luke 19:42). + +_For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is +life and peace_ (Romans 8:6). + +There never was a time in human history when a right understanding of +the nature of true peace, the path which leads to it, the laws which +govern it, was more necessary or more important than it is to-day. + +The world has just passed through a ghastly experience of war at its +worst. Never in history has there been such slaughter, such agony, such +waste, such desolation, in a brief space of time, as in the four +terrible years of conflict which German militarism forced on the world +in the twentieth century. Having seen it, I know what it means. + +Now we have "supped full with horrors." We have had more than enough of +that bloody banquet The heart of humanity longs for peace, as it has +always longed, but now with a new intensity, greater than ever before. +Yet the second course of war continues. The dogs fight for the crumbs +under the peace-table. Ignorant armies clash by night. Cities are +bombarded and sacked. The barbarous Bolsheviki raise the red flag of +violence and threaten a war of classes throughout the world. + +You can never make a golden age out of leaden men, or a peaceful world +out of lovers of strife. + +Where shall peace be found? How shall it be attained and safeguarded? +Evidently the militarists have assaulted it with their doctrine that +might makes right. Evidently the pacifists have betrayed it with their +doctrine of passive acceptance of wrong. Somewhere between these two +errors there must be a ground of truth on which Christians can stand to +defend their faith and maintain their hope of a better future for the +world. + +Let me begin by speaking of _Peace in the Soul_. That is where religion +begins, in the heart of a person. Its flowers and fruits are social. +They are for the blessing of the world. But its root is personal. You +can never start with a class--conscious or a mass--conscious +Christianity. It must begin with just you and God. + +Marshal Joffre, that fine Christian soldier, said a memorable thing +about the winning of the war: "Our victory will be the fruit of +individual sacrifice." So of the coming of peace on earth we may say the +same: it will be the fruit of the entrance of peace into individual +hearts and lives. + +A world at war is the necessary result of human restlessness and +enmities. "From whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not +hence, even of your lusts, that war in your members?" Envy, malice, +greed, hatred, deceit,--these are the begetters of strife on earth. + +A world at peace can come only from the cooperation of peaceful human +spirits. Therefore we must commence to learn what peace is, by seeking +it in our souls through faith. + +Christ promised peace to His disciples at the Communion in that little +upper room in Jerusalem, nineteen hundred years ago. Evidently it was +not an outward but an inward peace. He told them that they would have a +lot of trouble in the world. But He assured them that this could not +overcome them if they believed in Him and in His Father God. He warned +them of conflict, and assured them of inward peace. + +What are the elements of this wondrous gift which Christ gave to His +disciples, and which He offers to us? + +I. First, the peace of Christ is the peace of being divinely loved. +Nothing rests and satisfies the heart like the sense of being loved. Let +us take as an illustration the case of a little child, which has grown +tired and fretful at its play, and is frightened suddenly by some +childish terror. Weeping, it runs to its mother. She takes the child in +her arms, folds it to her breast, bends over it, and soothes it with +fond words which mean only this: "I love you." Very soon the child sinks +to rest, contented and happy, in the sense of being loved. "Herein is +love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to +be the propitiation for our sins." In Jesus Christ God is stretching out +His arms to us, drawing us to His bosom, enfolding us in the secret of +peace. If we believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, He makes us sure +of a Divine affection, deep, infinite, inexhaustible, imperishable. "For +God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that +whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting +life." God, who "spared not his dearly-beloved Son, but delivered him up +for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?" +"Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in +Christ Jesus our Lord." + +II. The Christian peace is the peace of being divinely controlled. The +man who accepts Jesus Christ truly, accepts Him as Master and Lord. He +believes that Christ has a purpose for him, which will surely be +fulfilled? work for him, which will surely be blessed if he only tries +to do it. Most of the discords of life come from a conflict of +authorities, of plans, of purposes. Suppose that a building were going +up, and the architect had one design for it, and the builder had +another. What perplexity and confusion there would be! How ill things +would fit! What perpetual quarrels and blunders and disappointments! But +when the workman accepts the designer's plan and simply does his best to +carry that out, harmony, joyful labour, and triumph are the result. If +we accept God's plan for us, yield to Him as the daily controller and +director of our life, our work, however hard, becomes peaceful and +secure. No perils can frighten, no interruptions can dishearten us. + +Not many years ago some workmen were digging a tunnel, when a sudden +fall of earth blocked the mouth of the opening. Their companions on the +outside found out what had happened, and started to dig through the mass +of earth to the rescue. It was several hours before they made their way +through. When they went in they found the workmen going on with their +labour on the tunnel. "We knew," said one of them, "that you'd come to +help us, and we thought the best way to make time pass quick was to keep +on with the work." That is what a Christian may say to Christ amid the +dangers and disasters of life. We know that He will never forsake us, +and the best way to be at peace is to be about His business. He says to +us: "As the Father sent me, even so send I you." + +III. The Christian peace is the peace of being divinely forgiven. + +"In every man," said a philosopher, "there is something which, if we +knew it, would make us despise him." Let us turn the saying, and change +it from a bitter cynicism into a wholesome truth. + +In every one of us there is something which, if we realize it, makes us +condemn ourselves as sinners, and hunger and thirst after righteousness, +and long for forgiveness. + +It is this deep consciousness of sin, of evil in our hearts and lives, +that makes us restless and unhappy. The plasters and soothing lotions +with which the easy-going philosophy of modern times covers it up, do +not heal it; they only hide it. There is no cure for it, there is no +rest for the sinful soul, except the divine forgiveness. There is no +sure pledge of this except in the holy sacrifice and blessed promise of +Christ, "Son, daughter, thy sins are forgiven thee, go in peace." + +Understand, I do not mean that what we need and want is to have our sins +ignored and overlooked. On the contrary, that is just what would fail to +bring us true rest. For if God took no account of sins, required no +repentance and reparation, He would not be holy, just, and faithful, a +God whom we can adore and love and trust. + +Nor do I mean that what we need is merely to have the punishment of sins +remitted. That would not satisfy the heart. Is the child contented when +the father says, "Well, I will not punish you. Go away"? No, what the +child wants is to hear the father say, "I forgive you. Come to me." It +is to be welcomed back to the father's home, to the father's heart, that +the child longs. + +Peace means not to have the offense ignored, but to have it pardoned: +not to the punishment omitted, but to have separation from God ended and +done with. That is the peace of being divinely forgiven,--a peace which +recognizes sin, and triumphs over it,--a peace which not merely saves us +from death but welcomes us home to the divine love from which we have +wandered. + +That is the peace which Christ offers to each one of us in His Gospel. +We need it in this modern world as much as men and women ever needed it +in the old world. No New Era will ever change its meaning or do away +with its necessity. Indeed, it seems to me that we need this +old-fashioned religion to-day more than ever. + +We need it for our own comfort and strength. We need it to deliver us +from the vanity and hollowness, the fever and hysteria of the present +age. We need it to make us better soldiers and workers for every good +cause. Peace is coming to all the earth some day through Christ. And +those who shall do most to help Him bring it are the men and women to +whom He gives Peace in the Soul. + + + + +II + +Peace on Earth Through Righteousness + +_And the work of righteousness shall be peace: and the effect of +righteousness quietness and confidence forever._ + +--ISAIAH 32:17. + + +After we have found peace in our own souls through faith +in God and in His Son, Jesus Christ our Saviour, if our faith is honest, +we must feel the desire and the duty of helping to make peace prevail on +earth. + +But here we are, in a world of confusion and conflict. Darkness and +ignorance strive against light. Evil hates and assaults good. Wrong +takes up arms against right. Greed and pride and passion call on +violence to defeat justice and enthrone blind force. So has it been +since Cain killed Abel, since Christ was crucified on Calvary, and so it +is to-day wherever men uphold the false doctrine that "might makes +right." + +The Bible teaches us that there is no foundation for enduring peace on +earth except in righteousness: that it is our duty to suffer for that +cause if need be: that we are bound to fight for it if we have the +power: and that if God gives us the victory we must use it for the +perpetuation of righteous peace. + +In these words I sum up what seems to me the Christian doctrine of war +and peace,--the truth that in time of war we must stand for the right, +and that when peace comes in sight, we must do our best to found it upon +justice. These two truths cannot be separated. If we forget the meaning +of the Christian duty to which God called us in the late war, all our +sacrifice of blood and treasure will have been in vain. If we forget the +watchword which called our boys to the colours, our victory will be +fruitless. We have fought in this twentieth century against the pagan +German doctrine of war as the supreme arbiter between the tribes of +mankind. They that took the sword must perish by the sword. But in the +hour of victory we must uphold the end for which we have fought and +suffered,--the advance of the world towards a peaceful life founded on +reason and justice and fair-play for every man. + +So there are two heads to this sermon. First, the indelible remembrance +of a righteous acceptance of war. Second, the reasonable hope of a +righteous foundation of peace. + +I. First of all, then, it must never be forgotten that the Allies and +America were forced to enter this war as a work of righteousness in +order to make the world safe for peace. + +Peace means something more than the mere absence of hostilities. It +means justice, honour, fair-play, order, security, and the +well-protected right of every man and nation to life, liberty, and the +pursuit of happiness. It was the German contempt for these Christian +ideals, it was the German idolatry of the pagan Odin, naked, cruel, +bloody, god of war, it was the German will to power and dream of +world-dominion, that made the world unsafe for real peace in 1914. + +Never could that safety be secured until that enemy of mankind was +overcome. Not only for democracy, but also for human peace, it was +necessary, as President Wilson said, that "the German power, a thing +without honour, conscience, or capacity for covenanted faith, must be +crushed." + +I saw, from my post of observation in Holland, the hosts of heathen +Germany massing for their attack on the world's peace in the spring of +1914. Long before the pretext of war was provided by the murder of the +Austrian Crown-Prince in Serajevo, I saw the troops, the artillery, the +mountains of ammunition, assembled at Aix-la-Chapelle and Trier, ready +for the invasion of neutral Belgium and Luxembourg, and the foul stroke +at France. + +Every civilized nation in Europe desired peace and pleaded for it. +Little Servia offered to go before the Court of Arbitration at The Hague +and be tried for the offense of which she was accused. Russia, Italy, +France and England entreated Germany not to make war, but to submit the +dispute to judicial settlement, to a righteous decision by a conference +of powers. But Germany said no. She had prepared for war, she wanted +war, she got war. And now she must abide by the result of her choice. + +I have seen also with my own eyes the horrors wrought by Germany in her +conduct of the war in Belgium and Northern France. Words fail me to +describe them. Childhood has been crucified, womanhood outraged, +civilization trampled in the dust. The nations and the men who took +arms against these deviltries were the servants of the righteous God and +the followers of the merciful Christ. + +He told us, "If any man smite thee on the right cheek, turn unto him the +left also." But never did He tell us to abandon the bodies and the lives +of our women and children to the outrage of beasts in human form. On the +contrary, He said to His disciples, in His parting discourse, "He that +hath no sword let him sell his garment and buy one." + +Does any silly pacifist say that means a spiritual sword? No. You could +get that without selling your garment. It means a real sword,--as real +as the purse and the scrip which Christ told His followers to carry with +them. It means the power of arms dedicated to the service of +righteousness without which the world can never be safe for peace. + +Here, then, we may stand on the Word of God, on the work of +righteousness in making the world safe for peace. Let me tell you of my +faith that every one who has given his life for that cause, has entered +into eternal rest. + +II. Come we now to consider the second part of the text: "the effect of +righteousness, quietness and confidence forever." + +What shall be the nature of the peace to be concluded after our victory +in this righteous war? + +Here we have to oppose the demands of the bloodthirsty civilians. They +ask that German towns should endure the same sufferings which have been +inflicted on the towns of Belgium and Northern France. Let me say +frankly that I do not believe you could persuade our officers to order +such atrocities, or our soldiers to obey such orders. Read the order +which one of the noble warriors of France, General Petain, issued to his +men: + + "To-morrow, in order to better dictate peace, you are going to + carry your arms as far as the Rhine. Into that land of + Alsace-Lorraine that is so dear to us, you will march as + liberators. You will go further; all the way into Germany to occupy + lands which are the necessary guarantees for just reparation. + + "France has suffered in her ravaged fields and in her ruined + villages. The freed provinces have had to submit to intolerable + vexations and odious outrages, but you are not to answer these + crimes by the commission of violences, which, under the spur of + your resentment, may seem to you legitimate. + + "You are to remain under discipline and to show respect to persons + and property. You will know, after having vanquished your adversary + by force of arms, how to impress him further by the dignity of your + attitude, and the world will not know which to admire most, your + conduct in success or your heroism in fighting." + +The destruction of the commonplace Cathedral of Cologne could never +recompense the damage done to the glorious Cathedral of Rheims. Nor +could the slaughter of a million German women and children restore the +innocent victims of Belgium, France, Servia, and Armenia to life. We do +not thirst for blood. We desire justice. + +No doubt the ends of justice demand that the principal brigands who are +responsible for the atrocities of this war should be tried before an +international court If convicted they should be duly punished. But not +by mob-law or violence. Nothing could be less desirable than the +assassination of William Hohenzollern. It would be absurd and horrible +to give a martyr's crown to a criminal. Vengeance belongeth unto God. He +alone is wise and great enough to deal adequately with the case. It is +for us to keep our righteous indignation free from the poison of +personal hatred, and to do no more than is needed to uphold and +vindicate the eternal law. + +William Hohenzollern, and his fellow-conspirators who are responsible +for the beginning and the conduct of the dreadful war from which all +the toiling peoples of earth have suffered, must be brought to the bar +of justice and sentenced; otherwise the world will have no defense +against the anarchists who say that government is a vain thing; and the +bloody Bolshevists who proclaim the Empire of the Ignorant,--the +Boob-Rah,--as the future rule of the world, will have free scope. + +It is evident that a league of free, democratic states, pledged by +mutual covenant to uphold the settlement of international differences by +reason and justice before the use of violence, offers the only hope of a +durable peace among the nations. It is also the only defense against +that deadly and destructive war of classes with which Bolshevism +threatens the whole world. The spirit of Bolshevism is atheism and +enmity; its method is violence and tyranny; its result would be a reign +of terror under that empty-headed monster, "the dictatorship of the +proletariat." God save us from that! It would be the worst possible +outcome of the war in which we have offered and sacrificed so much, and +in which God has given us the opportunity to make "a covenant of peace." + +How vast, how immeasurable, are the responsibilities which this great +victory in righteous war has laid upon the Allies and America. God help +us to live up to them. God help us to sow the future not with dragon's +teeth, but with seeds of blessed harvest. God paint upon the broken +storm-cloud the rainbow of eternal hope. God help us and our friends to +make a peace that shall mean good to all mankind. God send upon our +victory the light of the cross of Christ our Saviour, where mercy and +truth meet together, righteousness and peace kiss each other. + + + + +III + +The Power of an Endless Life + +_Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the +power of an endless life._ + +--Hebrews 7:16. + + +The message and hope of immortality are nowhere more +distinctly conveyed to our minds than in connection with that +resurrection morn when Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene. The anniversary +of that day will ever be the festival of the human soul. Even those who +do not clearly understand or fully accept its meaning in history and +religion,--even children and ignorant folk and doubters and +unbelievers,--yes, even frivolous people and sullen people, feel that +there is something in this festival which meets the need and longing of +their hearts. It is a day of joy and gladness, a day of liberation and +promise, a day for flowers to bloom and birds to sing, a day of +spiritual spring-tide and immortal hope. + +Mankind desires and needs such a day. We are overshadowed in all our +affections and aspirations, all our efforts, and designs, by the dark +mystery of bodily death; the uncertainty and the brevity of earthly +existence make us tremble and despair; the futility of our plans dismays +us; the insecurity of our dearest treasure in lives linked to ours fills +us with dismay. + +Is there no escape from Death, the Tyrant, the autocrat, the destroyer, +the last enemy? Why love, why look upward, why strive for better things +if this imperator of failure, ultimate extinction, rules the universe? +No hope beyond the grave means no peace this side of it. A life without +hope is a life without God. If Death ends all, then there is no Father +in Heaven in whom we can trust. Who shall deliver us from the body of +this Death? + +Now comes Easter with its immortal promise and assurance, Jesus of +Nazareth, who died on Calvary, a martyr of humanity, a sacrifice of +Divinity, is alive and appears to His humble followers. The manner of +His appearance, to Mary Magdalene, to His disciples, is not the most +important thing. The fact is that He did appear. He who was crucified in +the cause of righteousness and mercy, lives on and forever. The message +of His resurrection is "the power of an endless life." + +The proof of this message is in the effect that it produced. It +transformed the handful of Jesus' followers from despair to confidence. +It gave Christianity its growing influence over the heart of humanity. +It is this message of immortality that makes religion vital to the human +world to-day, and essential to the foundation of peace on earth. + +We must not forget in our personal griefs and longings, in our sorrows +for those whom we have lost and our desire to find them again, in our +sense of our own mortal frailty and the brief duration of earthly life, +the celestial impulse which demands a life triumphant over death. + +The strongest of all supports for peace on earth is the faith in +immortality. The truth is, the very character of our being here in this +world demands continuance beyond death. There is nothing good or great +that we think or feel or endeavour, that is not a reaching out to +something better. Our finest knowledge is but the consciousness of +limitation and the longing that it may be removed. Our best moral effort +is but a slow advance towards something better. Our sense of the +difference between good and evil, our penitence, our aspiration, all +this moral freight with which our souls are laden, is a cargo consigned +to an unseen country. Our bill of lading reads, "To the immortal life." +If we must sink in mid-ocean, then all is lost, and the voyage of life +is a predestined wreck. + +The wisest, the strongest, the best of mankind, have felt this most +deeply. The faith in immortality belongs to the childhood of the race, +and the greatest of the sages have always returned to it and taken +refuge in it. Socrates and Plato, Cicero and Plutarch, Montesquieu and +Franklin, Kant and Emerson, Tennyson and Browning,--how do they all bear +witness to the incompleteness of life and reach out to a completion +beyond the grave. + + "No great Thinker ever lived and taught you + All the wonder that his soul received; + No great Painter ever set on canvas + All the glorious vision he conceived. + + "No Musician ever held your spirit + Charmed and bound in his melodious chains; + But, be sure, he heard, and strove to render, + Feeble echoes of celestial strains. + + "No real Poet ever wove in numbers + All his dream, but the diviner part, + Hidden from all the world, spake to him only + In the voiceless silence of his heart. + + "So with Love: for Love and Art united + Are twin mysteries: different yet the same; + Poor indeed would be the love of any + Who could find its full and perfect name. + + "Love may strive; but vain is its endeavour + All its boundless riches to unfold; + Still its tenderest, truest secret lingers + Ever in its deepest depths untold. + + "Things of Time have voices: speak and perish. + Art and Love speak; but their words must be + Like sighings of illimitable forests + And waves of an unfathomable sea." + +And can it be that death shall put the final seal of irretrievable ruin +on all this uncompleted effort? Can it be that the grave shall whelm all +this unuttered love in endless silence? Ah, what a wild waste of +precious treasure, what a mad destruction of fair designs, what an +utter failure, life would be if death must end all! + +The very reasonableness of our nature, our sense of order, declare the +impotence of Death to create such a wreck. And most of all our deep +affections cry out against the conclusion of despair. They will not hear +of dissolution. They reach out their hands into the darkness. They +demand and they promise an unending fellowship, a deepening communion, a +more perfect satisfaction. Do you remember what Thackeray wrote? "If +love lives through all life, and survives through all sorrow; and +remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all darkness of +spirit burns brightly; and if we die, deplores us forever, and still +loves us equally; and exists with the very last gasp and throb of the +faithful bosom, whence it passes with the pure soul beyond death, surely +it shall be immortal. Though we who remain are separated from it, is it +not ours in heaven? If we love still those whom we lose, can we +altogether lose those whom we love?" + +To deny this instinct is to deny that which lies at the very root of our +life. If love perishes with death, then our affections are our worst +curses, the world is the cruellest torture-house, and "all things work +together for evil to those who love." Do you believe it? Is it possible? +Nay, all that is best and noblest and purest within us rejects such a +faith in Absolute Evil as the power that has created and rules the +world. In the presence of love we feel that we behold that which must +belong to a good God and therefore cannot die. Destruction cannot touch +it. The grave cannot hold it. Loving and being loved, we dare to stand +in the very doorway of the tomb, and assert the power of an endless +life. + +And it seems to me that this courage never comes to us so fully as when +we are brought in closest contact with death, when we are brought face +to face with that dread shadow and forced either to deny its power, once +and forever, or to give up everything and die with our hopes. I wish +that I could make this clear to you as it lies in my own experience. +Perhaps in trying to do it I should speak closer to your own heart than +in any other way. For surely + + "There is no flock, however watched and tended + But one dead lamb is there. + There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended + But has a vacant chair." + +A flower grew in your garden. You delighted in its beauty and fragrance. +It gave you all it had to give, but it did not love you. It could not. +When the time came for it to die, you were sorry. But it did not seem to +you strange or unnatural. There was no waste. Its mission was fulfilled. +You understood why its petals should fall, its leaf wither, its root +and branch decay. And even if a storm came and snapped it, still there +was nothing lost that was indispensable, nothing that could not be +restored. + +A child grew in your household, dearly loved and answering your love. +You saw that soul unfold, learning to know the evil from the good, +learning to accept duty and to resist selfishness, learning to be brave +and true and kind, learning to give you day by day a deeper and a richer +sympathy, learning to love God and to pray and to be good. And then +perhaps you saw that young heart being perfected under the higher and +holier discipline of suffering, bearing pain patiently, facing trouble +and danger like a hero, not shrinking even from the presence of death, +but trusting all to your love and to God's, and taking just what came +from day to day, from hour to hour. And then suddenly the light went out +in the shining eyes. The brave heart stopped. The soul was gone. Lost, +perished, blotted out forever in the darkness of death? Ah, no; you know +better than that. That clear, dawning intelligence, that deepening love, +that childlike faith in God, that pure innocence of soul, did not come +from the dust. How could they return thither? The music ceases because +the instrument is broken. But the player is not dead. He is learning a +better music. He is finding a more perfect instrument. It is impossible +that he should be holden of death. God wastes nothing so precious. + + "What is excellent + As God lives is permanent. + Hearts are dust; hearts' loves remain. + Hearts' love will meet thee again." + +But I am sure that we must go further than this in order to understand +the full strength and comfort of the text. The assertion of the +impotence of death to end all is based upon something deeper than the +prophecy of immortality in the human heart. It has a stronger foundation +than the outreachings of human knowledge and moral effort towards a +higher state in which completion may be attained. It has a more secure +ground to rest upon than the deathless affection with which our love +clings to its object The impotence of death is revealed to us in the +spiritual perfection of Christ. + +Here then, in the "power of an endless life," I find the corner-stone of +peace on earth among men of good-will Take this mortal life as a thing +of seventy years, more or less, to which death puts a final period, and +you have nothing but confusion, chance and futility,--nothing safe, +nothing realized, nothing completed. Evil often triumphs. Virtue often +is defeated. + + "The good die young, + And we whose hearts are dry as summer dust + Burn to the socket." + +But take death, as Christ teaches us, not as a full stop, but as only a +comma in the story of an endless life, and then the whole aspect of our +existence is changed. That which is material, base, evil, drops down. +That which is spiritual, noble, good, rises to lead us on. + +The conviction of immortality, the forward-looking faith in a life +beyond the grave, the spirit of Easter, is essential to peace on earth +for three reasons. + +I. It is the only faith that lifts man's soul, which is immortal, above +his body, which is perishable. It raises him out of the tyranny of the +flesh to the service of his ideals. It makes him sure that there are +things worth fighting and dying for. The fighting and the dying, for the +cause of justice and liberty, are sacrifices on the Divine altar which +shall never be forgotten. + +II. The faith in immortality carries with it the assurance of a Divine +reassessment of earth's inequalities. Those who have suffered unjustly +here will be recompensed in the future. Those who have acted wickedly +and unjustly here will be punished. Whether that punishment will be +final or remedial we do not know. Perhaps it may lead to the extinction +of the soul of evil, perhaps to its purifying and deliverance. On these +questions I fall back on the word of God: "The wages of sin is death, +but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." + +III. The faith in immortality brings with it the sense of order, +tranquillity, steadiness and courage in the present life. It sets us +free from mean and cowardly temptations, makes it easier to resist the +wild animal passions of lust and greed and cruelty, brings us into +eternal relations and fellowships, makes us partners with the wise and +good of all the ages, ennobles our earthly patriotism by giving us a +heavenly citizenship. Yea, it knits us in bonds of love with the coming +generation. It is better than the fountain of youth. We shall know and +see them as they go on their way, long after we have left the path. The +faith in immortality sets a touch of the imperishable on every generous +impulse and unselfish deed. It inspires to sublime and heroic +virtues,--spiritual splendours,--deeds of sacrifice and suffering for +which earth has no adequate recompense, but whose reward is great in +heaven. Here is the patience of the saints, the glorious courage of +patriots, martyrs, and confessors, something more bright and shining +than secular morality can bring forth,--a flashing of the inward light +which fails not, but grows clearer as death draws near. What noble +evidences of this come to us out of the great war. + +"Are you in great distress?" asked a nurse of an American soldier whose +legs had been shot away on the battle-field. "I am in as great peace," +said he, "through Jesus my Lord, as a man can possibly be, out of +Paradise." + +A secretary of the Y.M.C.A., the night before he was killed, wrote to +his father: "I have not been sent here to die: I am to fight: I offer my +life for future generations; I shall not die, I shall merely change my +direction. He who walks before us is so great that we cannot lose Him +from sight." + +A simple French boy, grievously wounded, is dying in the ambulance. He +is a Protestant The nurse who bends over him is a Catholic sister. She +writes down his words as they fall slowly from his lips: "O my God, let +Thy will be done and not mine. O my God, Thou knowest that I never +wished war, but that I have fought because it was Thy will; I offered my +life so that peace might prevail. O my God, I pray for all my dear +ones, ... father, mother, brothers, sisters. Give a hundredfold to +those nurses for all they have done for me. I pray for them one and +all." + +Here, in the midst of carnage and confusion, horror and death, was +perfect peace, the triumph of immortality. + +What then shall we say of the new teachers and masters, the cynical +lords of materialism and misrule, who tell us that they are going to +banish this outworn superstition and all others like it from the mind of +man? They are going to make a new world in which men shall walk by +sight, and not by faith; a world in which universal happiness shall be +produced by the forcible division of material goods, and brotherhood +promoted by the simple expedient of killing those whom they dislike; a +world in which there shall be neither nation, God, nor Church, nor +anywhere a thought of any life but this which ends in the grave. It is a +mad dream of wild and reckless men. But it threatens evil to all the +world. Do you remember what happened when the French Revolution took +that course, abolished the Sabbath, defiled the Churches, broke down the +altars, and enthroned a harlot as the Goddess of Reason? The Reign of +Terror followed. Something like that has happened, recently, in many +parts of Europe. And if these new tyrants of ignorance, unbelief, and +unmorality have their way, the madness and the darkness will spread +until the black cloud charged with death covers the face of the earth +for a season with shame and anguish and destruction. A sane world, an +orderly world, a peaceful world, can never be founded on materialism. +That foundation is a quicksand in which all that is dearest to man goes +down in death. + +Religion is essential to true peace in the soul and to peace on earth +through righteousness. 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