Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-10-05
THE PEAcEMAKER
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BY Rev. Henry 2. Coz

bleSSeu are the pedcemakerS, Tor
they shall be called the children of
God Matt. SO.
How simple are the gateways that
open into the most sublime moral and
spiritual privileges. The great teacher
says that IL any would be known as
the children of the Eternal they have
but to learn to be peacemakers among
their fellows. The ordinary virtues
commonly are the conditions OF the ex-
traordinary beatitudes.
II the teacher meant by peace quiet
ness, Indifference, ease and sleep there
was time when the people Of the
church might well lay claim to being
called the children of God; they were
at peace with their own selves and
willing to be at peace with the world
IL only they might continue to sleep
undlsturbed.
There are those who conceive OF no
other peacemakers than those who ar
bitrate between warning nations II
these are the only children of God the
family is small and by no means a
homogeneous one. You may have little
to do with the good work of disarma-
ment and still be true peacemaker
as you bring to human conditions and
relations great calm and more perfect
harmony.
They are peacemakers who have the
spirit of the family OF the greater
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together In these divine family ties.
There never will be harmony amongst
men by means of laws or agreements;
one thing only will bring 1.-THE
spread Of the spirit Of brotherhood.
When man begins to order bis life
for the helping of other lives, when he
no longer plans to beat his fellows,
but to bless the race, he becomes the
servant OF divine peace; he catches the
spirit OF the coming kingdom based on
the universal brotherhood.
There are people whose lives breathe
out calm, whose presence is always like
oil on troubled waters. There are 9TH
ers who never fail to stir up strife, who
have faculty for accentuating antag
onisms and for setting folks by the
eyes of love, with desire to help and
promote good feeling; the other with
cupidity and enmity.
We need men and women who by
their bearing and conduct will promote
good feeling and friendliness a good
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banishing of weapons and plans of war
The finest peacemakers in this world
are the plain men and women who help
us to like other folk and live with
them.
Whoever, in any way, succeeds in
taking any of the friction and unrest
out of life is peacemaker. The king
dom of heaven that is coming win be
the kingdom of perfect harmony; it
will come when humanity learns the
great lesson that all this experience Of
pain and Joy should be teaching us,
the lesson of living at peace and in love
with our brothers
Fair words about fraternity easily
are spoken and soon forgotten; 1t is a
good deal easier to preach peace than
It Is to practice It, Its day never win
come so long as the chief concern of
each life is to get ahead of every other
| life. 1t never will come until we fully
see that Jesus meant something more
than a pretty figure of speech when he
talked Of the divine fatherhood and the
Human brotherhood
| Why should there not be the same
harmony amongst all men that there is
In a family? Homes are enriched and
( the chief joys of our lives found by the
process Of eeasing to live for our indi-
| vldual selves and living for the social
group.
some day we will open our eyes to
see the waste. the loss and pain and
dlscord caused by our indlvldualism
We shall see fully what we now but
dimly apprehend-that the real riches
the lasting joys, the enduring prosperi-
ty OF life spring from the things we
have done for others without thought
of ourselves.
So fong as each Is wholly for himself
there will be conflict. dlscord and
! pain; when each shall live for all then
all will be working for one common
end, the race rather than tho man,
then all viii move In harmony, peace
will have her perfect work and all will
be known as one family, the children
/ of God