Article October 14, 1911 Issue

PEACE

MYRTLE CLARK HOVEY.

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you : not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." So spake the great Teacher, and these words were given to the world at a time when to mortal sense the very antithesis of peace seemed rampant. Is not this teaching, however, a lesson for us today, as much as it was for the Master's disciples in the days of old?

When error seems to be doing its worst, and by its very insistence would make us believe in its reality, do we not need to ponder often the words of Christ Jesus, as, after describing the mental turmoil of the "last days," he said to his students : "See that ye be not troubled." He never taught that peace was to be won by indolence or inactivity, but he who was the embodiment of ceaseless activity in righteousness (right thinking and doing), promised that those who followed him, doing the works which he did, should have peace. He said, "My peace I give unto you,"

—the peace that cometh from an absolute understanding of the allness of God and the nothingness and powerlessness of evil of every name—excepting the power to destroy itself.

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