No Place for a Peace Palace.
This is not a world of peace. After the great Peace Congress at The Hague Andrew Carnegie gave the Dutch Government $1,500,000 for a Peace Palace for the permanent court of International Arbitration. Two years have passed, and no choice of a site has been made, nor has the plan of the building been selected. The government can find no place for it in The Hague, and every other site suggested by the commission has been disapproved by the authorities. It is fitting, for men may cry, “Peace; peace; when there is no peace.” In no country of earth is there more than outward peace, which may be broken in a moment by the turbulent passions within. The truest palaces of peace in this world are the hearts where Christ and His righteousness reigns. By-and-by, when the King comes, He will usher us into a kingdom and a city where, and only where, the inhabitants shall “delight themselves in the abundance of peace,” because His “people shall be all righteous.”