The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-06-24
True Peace.

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And the peace Of God which passeth |
all understanding, shall keep your hearts |
and minds.-Philippians w.. Z.
No cry goes up with such passionate |
intensity from the race of men as
that for peace OF mind and heart.
All human peace fails. The peace
of pleasure is carnal The peace of
fame is hollow The peace Of stole
ism is proud and bitter. These are
vain because OF man. There is no
true peace but the peace Of Cod"
the peace that flows down upon the
soul from the eternal sphere. that Of
which the psalmlst says, This is my
rest forever. Here will | dwell be-
cause have desired IT,"
Look at the intensity of this peace.
1T Is the peace which passeth all
understanding. Some truths cannot
be told by words They are too large
for linguistic mouIds. We feel their
impulses surging upon our inner
thought, but shape them into audible
terms we cannot But of this peace
the apostle says that it is not even
thinkable. 1t not only cannot be con-
ceived In thought. It Is the peace
that passeth all understanding.
The serenity Of this peacel 1t Is,
says our text. the peace which shall
keep your hearts and minds"-that Is,
II Is composing. quieting peace. II
keeps" our spirits from the futter
or worry and unrest. It is lake OF
being, tranquil and calm. Human
peace is proved by its ickleness. It
IS transient as the bubble. ftful as
the freely. But the peace Of God" is
Of unbroken serenity He shall COW
er thee with his feathers and under
his wings shalt thou trust"
When We attain this state we lay
our worries and cares on an almighty
bosom. We lose the tumultuous fever
and haste OF other days. Our soul is
poised in God, satisfied with God,
seeks nothing outside of God. The
life loses the babble OF its earlier
course and sweeps onward to the
divine ocean from which 1t derived
its being with a stiffness which be-
speaks it's depth, serenity which
foretells it's destiny. The very face
tells the tale OF the sweet, still life
within which is attuned to the ever
lasting chime Of the land where
storms come not. nor conflict, nor
alarm. Thou shalt keep him in per
feet peace whose mind is stayed on
Thee"
Perhaps the peace here spoken OF
is one OF the least known things in
our day. yet men and women need its
fulness and strength now even more
imperatlvely than ever. The condi-
tions OF life we're never so jarring,
the calls and pressures never SO in
cessant and the tension on heart and
nerve never so severe as In the mod
ern business and domestic world.
Here. then. the chafed and fretted
spirit needs some real solace, some
sure refuge, some true resting place
some arbor OF soul quiet and repose.
To these perturbed hearts our text
brings this message:
Oh. learn that Peace, sweet Peace, Is
In her eternal home. in holy ground.
Unit one, while his feet stand amid
the earthly turmoil, get turns his eye
heavenward and cominunes with the
eternities. he will look for rest in
vain. But he who seeks the peace
Of God will find in 1t the peace
which passeth all understanding.
Gods peace-the overshadowins
presence and benediction OF the Al
mighty Father-who shall break Its
sweet and high enchantment. Who
will dare to say that he who holds
the oceans in the hollow of his hand
and sustains the arch of heaven and
fills the sun with the light OF millen
NUNS cannot keep his beloved from
being overcome with the onrush Of
unholy passion, or from being cast
down by the onset OF adversities and
triels7
He. then, who wishes that price
less boon-true peace, cortent and
fulness OF soul--must seek the peace
of God, the peace of religion, the
peace that comes from walking IN
"the true light that lighteth every
man that cometh into the world
Every other is but the shadow, the
counterfeit. the mockSiy OF It. Bu'
this divine peace will be his stan IN
,!fe and his comfort and stay IN