Editorial December 25, 1943 Issue

The Prince of Peace—Our Guide to World Peace

Paul Stark Seeley

Human history includes numerous princes renowned for their prowess in war. It includes but one Prince of Peace. At this Christmas season, when the human race, more than ever before in history, is eager for the establishment of an enduring world peace, it is proper for us to ponder well this nobleman of God, and what he contributed to solve the conditions that confront us.

Today space no longer separates peoples. A plane has flown from North America to England in approximately six hours. No place on earth is more than sixty air-travel hours from any other place. But planes can serve the purposes of peace, or they can be the implements of war. Rapid transport provides facilities for destructive evil, multiplies the imminence of attack, and confronts us with the fact that if men are to live on this planet, they must learn to live in peace. Peace is not optional; it is imperative. Fortunately it is possible and practical. The Prince of Peace charted the way.

Robert M. Hutchins in an article entitled "Toward a Durable Society," in a recent issue of Fortune magazine, says: "Since the important divisions among men are not those of space and time, they are not eliminated by the elimination of space and time. If the ideals of one part of the world are antithetical to those of another part, war must follow." He then avers that a common ideal, or idea, of existence must be found upon which all may agree. This idea has been found. It is here. It is the idea of existence promulgated by the Prince of Peace. Jesus saw the need, as stated by Dr. Hutchins, and he supplied the need. How? With the Christ, or spiritual idea of God, the one Father-Mother Mind, and its universe of ideas, all God-joined in understanding brotherhood. This spiritual idea of cause and effect, the Master said and proved, is not a remote ideal, but the one demonstrable fact as to life and reality.

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