The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-20
THE MESSAGE OF THE PRINCE
 OF PEACE.

and ais name shall be called Non- C .l.I IusCll.I. the Mighty God the Everlasting Father. the Prince Of Peace" isa. 9:6,
 Anctuar Christmas of world-waI has come upon us. What shall Dc tln r.. rage Ter this taJist a3s-tlA which is far the saddest any cen tuy has ever sean2 Fields wthcu crops. business fol SlI@n and ne glected. houses without inhabitants, churches empty and destroyed. homes without husband father or son. Toes t1c future tell us Of the destruction of all that is gpoI ir nan. and the letting loose o every agency of death?
 N many times no, Net far frorl under the horizon of war and rumor of war will soon emerge the dawn ing Of the day of peace. The very utlcranCe Cf the passage under dis cussiCn was given to people whs were in the midst of dire testing and constant turmoil. Sin would bring down upon them the punish mert due to correct the nations but as the storm was passing the rainbow of promise Of better things was seen in vision by the prophet of faithfulness. In our dealing with God We are compelled to distinguish h,Larrr tre mist If this world an the bright light of truth between the darkness of evil and the ever lasting daytime of Tighteousneas. A much difference may be suggested yea vastly more, than is in the path Cf the viper and the heaven Of the eagle one crawls out its craven existence while the othe' is limited only by it's own strengt! t1 mount mp into the heavens, iron whence it can look down on thf IL happy world beneath.
 To understand the times let IL imagine 2 family poor in goods (, r, in circu'astan eeS, but ric! in opportunity. The father is not so well clad as he once was ano his appearance has deprived him Of the possibility of service his wort dem nos: trc mothes has saved an planned until she can make hel meagre means stretch no farther One day a child comes into that home quite unlike other children ill the family As the days pass h" "-oeis in school i9 eel ege. in bu:r ness. Soon his successes brin> prosperity to the family, and father is eascd from drudgery and mothey from excessive anxiety. Joy come into the family for unto us a sou is given: and the government shal be upon his shoulders" As the days pass continued prosperity pre- walls to all these who know th.s grand son." and in time the con, munity changes, and his fame has ti.hen hold of the state. At last he becomes the hamburger of peace all men flock to him. for he k given for al. men. Such was th thought of the prophet as he told the people n the darkest hour ot their turbulent night of the Prince of Peace wno was to come to carr, upon lis own shoulders the gov elnnent of the people.
 1t lS snaH " nder that the nam of such a Prince should be called Wonderful" To the Jew in the day in which this word was spoken and none the less to us now, d!d f it look dark ahead as the eye wa scanning the distant horizon of wal and destruction. But those who aIt ia IT sub are proU to feel that all is trouble, all must be. There mas never been storm in the heavens but, when it passed
 .t. .y C uid sec | C rainbow (, promise. It is a wonderful thing this rainbow. But no more wonderful is t than He WDO S'ndS the bJH And when the storm of war is quiet ed, and the clouds have again passed away He who will bring about the era of peace will likewise be called wonderful May God speed such . day.
 If the nations would listen to the "Counsellor" that day would Ions s,n,- ra,e dJWned upon the eat Some day it will dawn, and just a srsO a. the nations do listen. Tn spreading of the gospel, teaching men to love instead Of hate, vii hasten that day for the nations. At times We forget that nations arc but men, and nations will prOmul gate the thoughts and acts of men Let men then listen to the "Coun S Il .l." that the na'i puS may istel God hasten the day when the thoughts and actions of men may come fron >ontact with the child who is born to mold the thoughts, lead the ac tions of the nations. "He has wait ed long is waiting still"
 Ire god Ct war ha5 long reigroC on the earth. His kingdom to somt is an everlasting kingdom. But he will see the end of his days and then shall the earth be glad and the heavens rejoice. The mighty God" will supplant him and drive him from the earth, After the days of testing, after the days of pun ishment have passed the mighty god" will take up tho government his people and reign in peace and prosperity Oh. how long has II been waiting to take over the gov. ernment of your heart, and rule in yCul life, It is the individual rul, t'ar vii girg Him the netional rulf As He may become mighty" to the individual so shall He become mighty to the nation.
 In times of war and inter national turmoil men are schooled in the real meaning of the 'Everlastins aided to the nations as q universal father and the Fatherhood of God has been proclaimed as applying tc every man and all nations E"
 the rending of the people asunder men get a true conception of the meaning under which He can ap- ply his fathe1hood, and that is the yielding of the will of the people and the nations to recognize Him as ho