Article August 23, 1913 Issue

"PEACEMAKERS"

S. A. BEDDING.

Before the word peacemaker was illumined by the light of Truth as demonstrated in Christian Science, the idea seemed to be that a peacemaker was one who sought to bring about amicable relations between persons, countries, or communities; but on studying, from the standpoint of divine Science, the beatitude in which it is given prominence, the depth of its meaning is more fully and clearly seen and is more far-reaching than at first appears. The text reads: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

The word peace, as defined by Webster, signifies freedom from agitation, disturbance from the passions, as from fear, terror, anger, anxiety, or the like, quietness of mind, tranquillity, calmness, quiet of conscience, heavenly rest, the happiness of heaven, harmony, concord. From this it follows that, in Science, a peacemaker is one who makes peace by the application of divine Love in the destruction of fear, terror, anxiety, worry, etc., and in this way demonstrates normal conditions, the manifestation of tranquillity, calmness of mind, quiet of conscience, etc., and this, primarily, in his own individual consciousness.

In the same way the God is not cognizant of evil, so the Christian Scientist, not being conscious of inharmony, by his very freedom from fear, terror, and anxiety becomes a peacemaker, or a maker of peace in the highest sense of the word; that is, having cleared the belief of any discord from his own consciousness, he knows the unreality of every claim of evil, and thus radiates the spiritual sense of peace into the surrounding atmosphere. He therefore has a right to be called, and indeed is, a member of God's household, a child of God. The true peacemaker is such because, through his consciousness of the power of divine Love and his knowledge of man's relationship to God as His image and likeness, he demonstrates the power of Love, the destruction in his own consciousness of all agitation, fear, anger, etc., and the result is happiness, heavenly rest.

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