The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1886-09-04

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then, if ever, we are full of anxiety and
care. Even in old age we still find that
our days are full Of sorrow, and that if
we look to the outward alone for peace,
it is not there.
But there is peace for our being,
though it may not be found in external
things. tits not of the material, but of
the spiritual-not of the world, but of
Christ. Our Master had attained to
the Christ estate. His being was given
up to God. His life was consciously in
God. His thought was in harmony
with the thought of the eternal Spirit.
His soul was joined to truth. For this
he laid everything else aside; and so
he was filled with Gods peace, and the
peace of God, became his, and TO impart
to others-to impart, not only to his
personal followers, but to all. others
also, who, through his light, would
turn from the material to the spiritual
for soul rest-for peace Of mind.
We, as well as those prosecuted dis
ciples Of the Master, may have peace in
him, for we have the light that he
brought into the world through his
words and through his life. By walk
ing in this light, by doing as he did, by
joining our souls to God, as he joined
his soul to God, the peace of God, which
was his peace, becomes also ours, and
we feel that, though full Of trouble as
to the world, our souls are at rest-that
God dwells in US and we in him, and
that in this union there is life and
peace forever.
When the worst OF woes is upon US
the torment of an accusing conscience
when remorse is gnawing at our
hearts, and We are cast down by the
burden of cur sins-even then the peace
of Christ is for us, so that by fOrsaking
the false and the wrong, turning to the
true and the good, and joining our souls
to God, we outgrow the wicked tend
ency and the woe of spirit, and have
peace-peace of spirit-peace unuttera-
BILE. We rest in God, and not in the world
we believe in his government, in its per-
manency and success, in its efficiency
to establish peace in every soul, in the
working of the Christ-spirit and princi-
pie in all, to bring in peace to all eace
as the end for which we exist, as the
contamination to which our being is
tending, through all the confusion and
woe that at first beset our lives, peace
with God and the whole creation of
God, and peace with our own souls.
Not only is this peace of Christ now
enjoyed through the direct contact Of
our spirits with the God of peace, lin
proportion as our minds are given to
him), but it comes to us also through
the sympathy and kindness of one an
other. In our desolation of heart, in
our helplessness and pain, in all our
sense of lack as to worth, and in all our
humiliation, the fellow feeling which
makes US know that we have friends
indeed, the love which finds its way,
through means of it's own, to our hearts,
reminds us wildly of the reality of
Christ, and helps us to feel anew his
peace. We realize that we are not left
alone in the world we feel that God is
with US, not only by his spirit in our
hearts, but also through his spirit in
our fellow beings, who make common
cause with us in our tribulation, and
who cheer and comfort us in our sorrow.
The principle and the spirit which
the lowly NaZarine taught and lived,
are the principle and the spirit that bring
the soul Of man into perfect peace.
They are the Christ principle and the
Christ spirit and because he taught
and lived them so completely, he is call
ed the Christ-the anointed, the royal
teacher, the Redeemer, the Saviour
By this principle, and by this spirit,
he overcame the world and inherited
the peace of GOD in its fullness. There
fore it was justly said of him, in spirit,
that he assembled on high and led cap
tivity captive. He rose in spirit above
all the tribulations of the world, and i'll
the peace of his mind he promised peace
to his disciples.
They found this peace, too, when
they learned the spirituality of his
reign, and entered into restfulness of
soul and joy of life within, that they
had never known while they thought
their Masters reign was to be over an
outward realm. This peace was theirs
in their tribulation theirs in all the
conflict for his truth through which
they passed theirs through all the
shame and pain of the world which
they bore for the truth; theirs through
the bodily torture in which they finished
their course, and theirs in the pure
realm Of spirit to which they assembled
when the world with its tribulations was
left behind
This peace is for us, too, and for all;
and we now enjoy it in proportion as
our souls are joined to God, and our
hearts are in the pure love of righteous
ness. We feel our Affections, we sor-
row in our troubles, as all must, while