p. 8 | The Cry of Peace by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · May 8, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 19.

The Cry of Peace.

By Editor

We love peace. Therefore we long for peace. We sympathize therefore with the noble men and women who are working for the peace of this world. We would be glad to see their dreams come true if there were righteousness with the peace of the world they hope for.

God is a "God of peace." He speaks "peace to His people." His thoughts toward them are "thoughts of peace." But before peace must come righteousness. Before the sinner can have peace with God the sin must be cleansed, the righteousness of God must take possession. Rom. 5:1. It is "first pure, then peaceable." "There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked."

But we truly say that we sympathize with the men who love peace and hate war. Yet overweening, all-absorbing desire for peace will lead to compromise of principle, to building on false foundations to the ignoring of God's methods and truth. And this will lead to dire results. We plead with our readers to study this movement. Read our report of the New York Conference. Weigh it all in the balances of God's truth.