HE is “the Prince of Peace,” and peace shall crown His work. Sin has brought discord, strife, unrest; and there is no “peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” It is true men by their schemes of political expediency, and their systems of moral reformations, are uttering the devil’s lullaby, “Peace, peace.” But the blurred and blotted page of history, and the universal unrest of the human heart gives the lie to the flattering word. There can be no peace to the soul till it find “joy and peace in believing”; and there can be no peace to the world till “a king shall reign in righteousness.”
V. J. CHARLESWORTH.
There is a day of universal peace and blessedness yet to dawn upon this oppressed and groaning earth. There is a millennium yet to come; a period of universal righteousness and joy, brighter than any that man’s hopes have pictured, brighter than any that even Christians themselves have anticipated; a period in which men shall indeed, “beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning-hooks”; in which “nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more”; but when “the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together”; when “they shall not hurt nor destroy in all God’s holy mountain.”
W. TROTTER.