Peace is not a feeling, but a condition. Let it be settled forever that God has naught against the sinner. He is for every soul. But man is in rebellion against God. And “there is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.” But when the wicked man comes to Christ, gives up his own way and will, and surrenders all, then there is peace. The poor soul, in darkness for years, may not realize this, yet it is true. Peace has its feeling, and that is blessed rest. He who takes hold of God’s strength, and makes peace with Him, will find the rest which Christ alone can give. It is a blessing that some men are too honest to be diplomats. Blunt old General Adna R. Chaffee is among them. He tells us, according to an Eastern paper, that “whatever the original provocation, “China owes the allies nothing at this time. There “is no justice in imposing an indemnity of more than “$300,000,000.” All that the Boxers have done has been more than offset by the needless “expeditions” of the forces of various powers, by the massacre of whole villages, by the wholesale looting, by the wanton murder of thousands who were innocent, by the impoverishment of whole provinces, the devastation and destruction of cities, and the overturning of all government. The New York World very properly asks: “If the generals of the European powers and “the land agents whom they compel the Chinese to “receive as ministers to Peking could not prevent “these terrible crimes, wherein are the Chinese “rulers worse, who could not restrain the Boxers? “If the generals and the ministers could restrain “their troops and did not, wherein are the Chinese “rulers worse, even if they did connive at Boxer outrages? China owes the powers nothing. The balance against her is canceled.” The books of God may show a different trial-balance than the books of nations.