Article May 23, 1936 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: The Way to Peace

[From the Record-Ledger, Tujunga, California]

Peace on earth—the peace that will end armed conflicts between nations, and the peace that will end the no less bitter and deadly strife between individuals—will come whenever we have the will to follow the teaching and example of the Carpenter of Galilee. And it can come in no other way. ... Treaties, alliances, peace pacts between nations, standards of business and professional ethics, codes of fair competition, regulations by governments or associations, individual covenants and agreements are like dikes of sand against the sea when hate and greed and envy and avarice fill the hearts of individuals and nations.

The battle of Armageddon that is to end all strife is no titanic combat between vast armies, nor will it be fought with the flaming sword of righteousness incarnate against the unseen powers of evil. The battle of Armageddon must be fought silently and secretly, but no less desperately, in each individual heart, as the Prince of Peace fought his own battle in his forty days of fasting in the wilderness and in his solitary midnight vigil in the Garden of Gethsemane.

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