Editorial September 8, 1986 Issue

Peace is possible

BARBARA-JEAN STINSON

It is quite an experience to realize the power and authority of a divine idea from God.

Last night I was reading How Peace Came to the World,^{Earl W. Foell and Richard A. Nenneman, eds., How Peace Came to the World (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 1986) .} a recently published book chat contains excerpts of essays which were submitted to The Christian Science Monitor's "Peace 2010" contest. As I read, I realized more clearly than ever before that peace is not an impossible dream, but a very real demand of God to be demonstrated worldwide.

Something deep within me was stirred because I saw that I had not been giving full acceptance to the song the angels sang at Christ Jesus' birth so many years ago. Were they just lovely sentiments—those words that Luke records: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men"?^{Luke 2:14.} Or did the appearing of Christ, Truth, through Jesus' birth really mean the advent of the idea of peace for all mankind?