The World's Peace a Dream

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 12, 1911

The World's Peace a Dream

REFERRING to a recent speech of the German chancellor in which he states that “disarmament is a dream, an insoluble problem, as long as men are men,” the Christian Workers Magazine for July inquires, “Can any one find a flaw in this statement?”

Admitting, that the statement is correct, the magazine charges that the fault is not with Christianity, even though it has operated in the world for twenty centuries, but that the failure is because “fallen man is a failure, who has corrupted it beyond recognition.” Answering the query as to whether it shall always be so, the magazine continues:—

He is coming whose fan is in His hand, and who will thoroughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner, but burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire. Peace is good, but there is something better than peace, and something that must precede it; namely, truth and righteousness. To God we look for this, and not to man. We will do what we can to legitimately promote peace, but we shall not expect men and nations, but God, to accomplish it. It is not until he judges among the nations and rebukes many peoples that they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning-hooks. Then they shall not learn war any more, for men shall have ceased to be “men,” and have become children of God.