The Sole Condition Of Permanent Peace Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Peace and Righteousness Shall rule in judgment. He sees the re demption of self-centered and aggressive individualism: A man shall be as a hid ing - place from the Wind and a covert from the tempest He sees the redemp tion of nature: The wilderness shall become a fruitful field and the desert bloom as the rose. Instead of the thorn there shall come up the fir tree and ih stead oi the briar the myrtle tree. And over all the varied and wonderful vision rests the quietness and confidence of a large and permanent peace. What then is this peace, and whence does it come? He tells us that it is a work, an ehect. It is not the beginning of a process, but its end; not a root, 'but a fruit; not the creation of an imperial fiat, but the matured product of a moral or der. You cannot command peace, you can only grow it. If you would have the reaping there must be the sowing; for the reaping of peace there must [be the planting of righteousness. That is the law of the sequence. Observe the right eons order then can be grown the lilies of peace. Now we begin to appreciate the successions of this great chapter. Thefirst bugle peal proclaims not the advent of peace, but the enthronement of right eousness. The herald withholds the word peace until righteousness is established. A king shall reign in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment. That is the voice of the first trumpet, and only when certain great redemptions have been wrought, certain perversities cor rected, certain authorities restored, cer tain pure and moral conditions recovered, is the second trumpet heard: And the work of righteousness shall be peace, and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance forever. That is the expres sion of the divine order as taught in the divine word. You cannot grow peace from unrighteousness, injustice, Oppres sion, cruelty, wrong. Peace does not spring from such roots. Do men gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles P Not so. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. That is the sweet and beautiful fellowship. Peace appears and offers her lovely face when wooed by rectitude and justice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.