Evening star., 1904-07-16
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HOUR
Conducted by Grace Livingston Hill,
Sunday. July II, 1904.

Topic: THE Worlds Gain Through Universal
Peace Psalms 46: Oil; Isaiah 22-4.
! Psalms 40
o. He mdketh wars to cease unto the ends
| OF the earth; He breaketh the bow, and cut
| teth the spear in sunder; He burneth the
| cnariot in the fire.
10. Be still, and know that 1 am God:
| will be exalted among the heather, l will
| be exalted in the earth.
| il. The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God
| of Jacob is our refuge.
Isaiah 2
2. And it shall come to pass in the last
| days. that the mountain of the Lord $
| house shall be established in the ton of
the mountains, and shall be exalted above
| the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it,
| ). And many people shall go and say,
Come ye and let US go up to the mountain
of the Lord to the house of the God of
Jacob: and He will teach us of His ways
and we will walk in His paths; for out of
Zion shall go forth the law. and the word
! Of the Lord from Jerusalem.
T.. And He shall judge among the nations.
and shall rebuke many people; and they
shall beat their swords into plowshares and
their spears into pruning hooks; nation
shall not lift up sword against nation
neither shall they learn war any more.
Peace was born into the world with
Christ. For the first time in centuries. at
the date Of His BIRTH in Rome. the gates
of the temple of Janus. the god of war,
| in progress that offerings might be made
for the safety and success of the absent
soldiers. were shut and barred. The world
was at peace. That 1t Is true that peace is
the gift of Christianity is proved by a
glance at the condition of human society
before the coming of Christ. Then 1t was
every man for himself. and no man so
much as dreamed OF any obligation upon
him to help another because he was a
hr0 n fa1l Ion h.a,
needed help. Might was right and the
weak went to the wall.
But We hear the echo of the angels
song of peace, and remember the many
prophecies of peace that were to come 1t
seems still long way off. And most of all
it puzzles the Christian today that the
great Christian nations of the race into
whose hands God has committed the power
of the world are not the leaders in showing
the world how to live at peace. For we
find Christian nations foremost in the art
of war. England's motto is not the lamb
but the lion. Americas banner is emblaz-
oned not with the dove. but with the eagle,
with menacing beak and talons while Rus
sia's symbol is still the that it was
before Russia bowed al the feet of Jesus
a rampant bear
A few years ago. after the Geneva award,
there were many writers and statesmen
who declared that the last war had been
fought by the two Christian continents for
ever, and that henceforth to find the
strange and brutal spectacle of men who
haA no Eel S1hdl QudTTcl cuttluS edcD o -ner $
throats one would have to go to the wilds
of Africa or Asia. There was talk of a
great congress or jury that should arbi-
trate all international disputes.
But the last half century has seen some
of the most terrible wars In history, when
the very fury of the pit seems to have
broken through earth's thin crust and pour
ed lurid lava nood over its fair face:
when the whole world has been scorche1
with the blaze of cannon and nothing
avaiied to auench the awful fame until
river Of blood had been poured out Not