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Title: What Peace Means

Author: Henry van Dyke

Release Date: March 5, 2005 [eBook #15266]

Language: English

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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