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 twe