"Peace at the Bottom"

A WOUNDED soldier in South Africa said one day to the writer, “I once made a profession, but I never really had ‘peace at the bottom.’”
How was this? He had, poor fellow, like many others, begun at the wrong end for solid satisfaction. In the matter of an ordinary debt, who is it that claims the right to subscribe “settled” on the account? The creditor, of course. Exactly; it would be of no value whatever for the debtor to do it. It would neither give satisfaction to his creditor nor peace to himself.
The debtor’s peace is only the natural consequence of knowing that the creditor is satisfied. In like manner the only true way of getting “peace at the bottom” is to see that the whole sin question has been settled from the top.