The Alaska citizen., 1915-12-20
Sermon to the People
 G. C.. BRUCE
BY THE REV. C. c. BRUCE

And so shall the Prince of Peace" one day come into His own. But He can come only when the Spirit
 | the Christ has been dilfused in the earth. As He rose in the little snip Cn the waters of Galilee SC let Him rise in your heart and life and bid the storm be still. He must be the Prince of the Kings of the earth. The enemy will never be conquered by being crushed. Peace must come along the line of respect and good understanding. Lot US pray that he will soon Break the bow and cut the spear asunder, and burn the war chariot in the fire
 The great fault with the nations
 { the cert is tat trey r'ill n
 live as one family together that they may rejoice in the son that is given" One has long claimed the supremacy If the waters of the earth; another has harbored hate for more than a generation. and taught that hate to her sons and daughters; another has persecuted the Israel of God that have dwelled within her borders and made life and living almost intolerable for this despisel people; another has lived on blood and plunder so long that her glory rises to the zenith of it's power In this unusual privi- lege to sat;ate her gory desires; another has felt that she alone is called to instruct the world in her mode of living thought and power, and if the nations will not listen to her logic they must listen to her lead Shame. shame to them all. Their quarrel smacks too much of the devils ways and too little of Gods praise. Unwilling to live to- gether as one great family of the earth they pick quarrel as school boys and fight only as ruffians would fight. Purporting to bear the name of Christ they follow the ways of Satan. Claiming to proclaim the gospel of good news they spread the lie that might is right" and
 tho da-il take thn hinamOet Why should they do this and rob the world of it's treasure of interest that can never be replaced? Why will they destroy the good will of 'ach other and be content only when that destruction has reached around
 he globe7 Why will they murder millions of their choicest sons and
 fthers c satiate their lust for bloc
 md conquest" How long can this be expected to continue? The war nay stop from mere exhaustion of nen and munitions, but 1t will never stay stopped until those who lead in it's destruction learn the way of the carpenters son who lived in the land of Palestine to teach those
 -ho WCu'd i>te. tG His truthS hOv
 O fulfil that truth in all it's fitness,
 Yet We must put the government f the world on the shoulders of he one God has given to bear it
 When men will take up with zeal he overtures of the good news so
 ladly and gloriously given by the angels at the birth of Jesus, jus, 70 soon will the war and their ru- nors be a thing of the past; jus
 soon will men beat taeir WaGp0E. If destruction into implements of agriculture and learn war no more
 ust so soon will the peace that oasseth understanding" be diffused >ver the world and righteousness ,hall reign from sea to sea, from >ole to pole. and in the heart of ev- ny man. That 2 ad time is coming or the prophet saw 1t in his vi
 ion as accomplished, and those who
 re ready when it comes will have the happy joy of knowing they have
 ad d part in bringing it to their '0llow men and the everlasting joy in their own heart that comes to those who prepare themselves for he coming of Him who is to rule the world in righteousness.
 Ii may seem Sh4iCWy and far away
 ifi ult. if mt impossible to reali2
 in our life. But we can take heart md comfort in the assurance that he zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish what wo cannot