Article May 5, 1951 Issue

INNER PEACE AS THE WORLD PROGRESSES

ROBERT DOLLING WELLS

Jesus passed through an angry mob bent on his destruction and was unhurt and unafraid. At another time the surging sea, though it greatly troubled the disciples who were sharing his journey, left him undisturbed and at peace, and able with a word to quiet the waters. When he was faced with evidence of death itself, his equanimity never left him; and he raised the dead, and himself left the confines of the tomb to enjoy man's normal dominion over material elements, It was he who said, as we read in the Gospel of John (14:27): "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."

What was his secret? Not religious creed or theory; not merely a strict morality; not merely faith in Deity; but a simple understanding of the distinction between Truth and error, between the conditions established by divine and infinite Principle and tangible to spiritual sense and the beliefs which parade as material circumstances and facts evident to the five senses. He knew the actuality of being and was not fooled by appearances.

The importance of learning his secret is obvious today. The time is coming—and in many ways now is —when there will be no choice for mankind but to learn the way of Life that Jesus knew, or to suffer the awful consequences of ignorance of that way: continual disturbance, unrest of mind and body, the agony of human fear, the gnawing results of instability of thought, the hell of separation, want, sin, disease, and death.

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