Dec. 15
WORLD CONCORD
"And they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more Isa. 2:4
Oh, that these happy times were come! At present the nations are
heavily armed, and are inventing weapons more and more terrible, as if
the chief end of man could only be answered by destroying myriads of
his fellows. Yet peace will prevail one day; yes, and so prevail that
the instruments of destruction shall be beaten into other shapes and
used for better purposes.
How will this come about? By trade? By civilization? By
arbitration? We do not believe it. Past experience forbids our
trusting to means so feeble. Peace will be established only by the
reign of the Prince of Peace. He must teach the people by His Spirit,
renew their hears by His grace, and reign over them by His supreme
power, and then will they cease to wound and kill. Man is a monster
when once his blood is up, and only the Lord Jesus can turn this lion
into a lamb. By changing man's heart, his blood-thirsty passions are
removed. Let every reader of this book of promises offer special
prayer today to the Lord and Giver of Peace, that He would speedily
put an end to war, and establish concord over the whole world.