We are accustomed to blame the students and the militarists for turning All sorts of Papers in parti r—are criticizing. reign of peace which Jesus came to establish in the world. And every Christmas we hark back to the angel chorus that announced the Messed advent,—"Peace on, earth ind_good will among men, pray that the purpose of coming may be realized; that and strifes and wars may cease; that swords may be beaten into ploughshares and spears into pruning forks; that the Kingdom of Fence and righteousness may come.
Such was the Old Testament, concept of the rule of the Messiah, Israel was wearied with her many wars, She had joined with one, tide and then the other and always, she seemed to get the worst of it, It was no wonder that there were pacificists among 1 One wonders at times that Jeremiah -ampaigas, Toast ing in
learned that neither side brought peace to his country and that th wars to end war were utterly fut We are surprised that he had such a hard time to convince the people of the folly of it all. Yet human nature appears to continue and for all the experiences of the Fast we still refuse to listen to the Eacifist prophets; we cast them into the dungeons or send them ff into exile while we seek some alliance that will Mirough war. Decade after decade that sort of thing went on and the wows got weary of it and looked hopefully forward to the coming of 'a Messiah who would end war and bring peace and good will, 'Thus was Jesus proclaimed, Thus did lie openly declare his own Messi commission in that triumphal entry' into Jerusalem, when discarding all other display and any recourse to rms or political power, he came riding over the brow of the hill on an ass's colt—the recognized symbol peace.
The Warning Note Is it not strange then that more than once he states so plainly of his programme that it will be a disturbing one? We never get used to the apparent contradictions of the paradoxes of the gospel. We are so accustomed to think of Jesus can no longer ply their business Without molestation; that the ante in crowded streets where men with lost, loon got a great deal of useful infor motion regarding the roads and chang on the Yangtze, Thin modification in surroundings cone tinued all of the next day until we Christian movement has killed for eign business, broken up families and. jeopardized the very. existence of peace-loving white men in the Orient." Dudley-Buxton, a British traveller who visited us a few years ago, says in" the introduction to book of travels" inthe Far he visited there was a singular lack that in nearly every count of the feeling of peace. "And that when Christ's 'Goup'l has. been reached for "19. Centuriess=-when thas spread' to. nearly' every country, and when its being. Tead end heeded ax never before. The longer" Christianity stays in the world, the wider its spread and in fluence, the greater the disturbance, the less evident fs the feeling of peace,
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