[From the Escalon Times, California]

If there was ever a brave group of men and women it is that group of Christian preachers who, throughout the land, in season and out of season, face their followers and preach "on earth peace, good will toward men."

In the face of news of hatred, of killing, of war, filling every issue of the daily newspapers; with the blast of the radio telling of death and destruction caused by the acts of man against man; in the very face of what the world calls absolute defeat, this brave band still face their peoples and preach of and pray to the Father of one who brought the message of peace to the world, the Prince of Peace. ...

It takes real stamina, real courage, and a real grace of God to carry on as do the Christian preachers of peace and good will carry on in these days of everything but peace and good will.

[Rt. Hon. W. L. MacKenzie King, as quoted in the League of Nations Society in Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada]

Do not despair that by furthering that which is right and that which is good, you will ultimately overcome that which is wrong and that which is evil. The struggle in the world today is fundamentally a struggle between good and evil. Remember this: the angels of light and the angels of darkness do not preside over different nations; they contend for supremacy within each. What is true of nations is equally true of individuals. The forces of darkness and the forces of light contend in the breast of every human being. Which is ultimately to triumph, will depend upon the extent to which individuals the world over make felt their influence for good in the different directions I have mentioned. "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good."

[Lowell Fillmore, in the Christian Home, Council Bluffs, Iowa]

Remember that peace is powerful because it is constructive and organized. Discord is weak because it is destructive and disorganized. Peace is not the absence of discord. Peace is the true creation of God. ... Discord and war are the creations of unenlightened men.

How shall you find this wonderful thing, peace? It is your divine heritage. Believe in it and accept it as a real power active in your thoughts and affairs, and it will manifest itself to you and will dwell with you like a guardian angel, protecting you from the torture of discordant experiences.

When we become too much interested in the things of the world, especially its troubles, we forget that God is omnipresent, ... and fail to use the rich inheritance of spiritual peace with which He has surrounded us.

God's peace was accepted and used by Jesus Christ. With it he stilled the tempest. His peace surpasses worldly understanding, because worldly understanding comprehends only what it can see, feel, hear, smell, or taste. We need to learn that we are truly spiritual beings. Spiritual things must be spiritually discerned; therefore we need to cultivate our spiritual understanding....

Those who have not devoted much thought to the consideration of spiritual things are often of the opinion that peace means monotony. They feel that if the world and all its people were peaceful, life would lack zest, there would be nothing of interest happening. This attitude indicates an undeveloped, superficial view of life. ...

The peace spoken of by Jesus Christ is a living peace that brings interest, power, growth, beauty, healing, and joy to life here and now. ...

The race at present thinks that it craves excitement to satisfy its soul hunger, but it will learn eventually that this hunger can be satisfied only with the living water of Spirit that Jesus offered the woman at the well. This living water includes peace, love, life, harmony, wisdom, and substance. It is God's will for us that we be satisfied with good things. He has given us His best and His all. We can accept true, satisfying, spiritual food and drink from Him, or we can try to live on the husks of strife and disorder offered us by the world. "When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him."

[Rev. Charles R. Drake, as quoted in the Morning Press, Santa Barbara, California]

Words spoken in kindness bear abundant fruit, both to the one to whom spoken and to that one who speaks in kindness. ...

Seek peace and pursue it.... Peace is one of the inner resources which God has promised to those who look to Him for guidance. Look about you and see those who possess this peace, and you will find those who, regardless of outer circumstances, are truly keeping in love with life.

[Dr. Alfred Grant Walton, as quoted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, New York]

To my mind our first responsibility is to be the voice for peace the world over. We must educate for peace.... It is the responsibility of the church to lift high the torch of faith in this present hour. If we believe in God and in His direction of human affairs, we know that He is still greater than all the hosts of evil... Let the church keep faith with its great ideal; let its voice be forever lifted against war; let its efforts be used unsparingly in pursuit of its deepest convictions, and there is still hope that a world trembling on the brink of disaster may see its danger and turn back.

We can never have peace until there is the will to peace. Let us have a rededication to God. Let us return to the faith of our fathers; let us feel a responsibility to do His sovereign will, and war will go, God's peace will prevail, and civilization will move forward to nobler heights and to greater endeavor.

[Editorial in the Halifax Herald, Nova Scotia, Canada]

We speak of the brotherhood of man and of social justice and righteousness, but we can only have these as they are the expression of a just and brotherly spirit dwelling in the hearts of men. This is what Jesus means when he declares that men must be "born again" before they can see the kingdom of God. It is emphatically true, and the very bigness of our problems today forces this message of the Christ home to all thinking minds.

The solution of our problems lies largely in the sphere of the spiritual and not solely in the material realm, as men often assume.

We need to realize that to prevent the recurrence of war there will be required, besided other things, the birth of a new spirit in men.

To solve our social and industrial problems, just as certainly a new realization of the sin of social injustice will have to be born in the consciences of men.

This is not to assert that the world's ills can be cured by a wash of sentiment or by the waving of some magician's wand. It is rather the recognition that problems so grave and far-reaching require for their solution all the resources of the finest personalities consecrated to the highest and most unselfish ends, and which seek supremely to discover and realize the purpose of God.

[Editorial in the Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah]

There is a great deal of poverty in the world; and this poverty is the source of suffering. Does the teaching of Jesus have anything to do with that? All the poverty of the world, that is of any practical importance, could speedily be wiped out of existence if everybody would simply begin to seek "first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness," to love God and to love their fellow men....

Take the matter of disease. We are more and more getting control of the conditions of health. Pestilences do not stalk the earth as they did five hundred years ago. But the conquering of every disease means finding the laws of God and keeping them. The way, then, to eliminate disease is the way that Jesus has pointed out.

Can war be abolished? Of course it can. When the world is ready to seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, when it is ready to follow the spirit and the teaching of Jesus, ... then wars will cease to exist.

There is no evil on the face of the earth that will not disappear in the presence of this one universal solvent of love for God and love for man. Nothing will cure the ills of the world except bringing the heart and the life into accord with the truth and the life and the love of God. When men do these things the kingdom of God will be here.

[From the Kilburn Times, London, England]

We pass on in our march of progress to a better age, drawing on the storehouse of experience of those who have gone before, reaping where others have sown, building on the knowledge acquired by those who have trod the pilgrims' way.

We rejoice that we are traveling towards the goal of a more kindly toleration than the past ever knew, that we are building a better and brighter civilization in which no man shall complain, with good cause, of injustice and hardship. The age of perfection is not yet, but the vision of it is before the human race. The true brotherhood of man has yet to be achieved, the barriers that keep nations apart have yet to fall, but these things will come to pass, and to those who have eyes to see there is evidence of a happier and kindlier feeling throughout the land.

War has not yet ceased to be, but the evil and futility of warfare is coming home to a people groping towards the light to a way out of the barbarous methods of the past.

Another year, but a moment in time, yet one step nearer to the achievement of the purpose of all Life, a stage nearer to that age to be when

[Ernest H. Jeffs, in the Christian World, London, England]

The world is sick hate and fear. Surely the world is well served when even the smallest spring of love—love that "casteth out fear"—is given freedom to fertilize all the soil about it. A resentment surrendered, a heart emptied of hate and filled with love, is a vote given to God; and none of us is called upon to do more for God than one man can do.