Norwich bulletin., 1921-01-15
Sunday Morning Talk
THE PATHWAY TO PEACE.

What is it makes a person fretful, wor- ried. tired and hopeless? What is it that is the destroyer of peace?
 It is care, foreboding, anxiety. Ask any doctor and he will tell you that care saps the vitality of the body. Ask any, one who has overcome worrying dispo- sition and he or she will tell you that care destroys the soul as well as the body.
 But what, then, is the cause of care? Why should people worry and fret?
 The answer points the road to peace. People have care because they know themselves weak, because they feel that the forces about them are far too strong for them; such as they cannot resist. There is one way, and only one way, to escape this result of our consciousness of our weakness, and that is to find strength outside of ourselves. We can find strength only in God. We must fol- low the instructions given in Peters epis- tie: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God that He may ! exAlt you in due time; casting all your
 care upon Him; for He careth for you" | q Peter 5: 6. 7)
 There you have the index to the path way to peace. With the mighty hand of God over us to protect us, under us to
 sustain us, and behind us to push us for
 ward, we need not be afraid of anything , that can happen to us. The awful grind | ing of the mllstones of what seems
 chance or fate need have no terror for us. For by faith we may see that God is above all things and in all things, and is really regulating the affairs of the world. We may see that it is quite safe
 to trust ourselves to His keeping and put
 away all anxious thoughts, looking to sec Gods power made perfect in our weak
 ness. q Cor. 12: 9.)
 It was this same trust in God that gave Ipeace to the heart of Jesus. What does
 He say in the verses before us? My Fla
 ther is greater than l." Even Jesus pu
 His faith in God and not in His owI
 power. He was great because God wa!
 great, and because God gave Him power
 You will find that thought in very man! ; of Christs sayings.
 We also are sons of God in Chris Jesus. We are brothers of Christ, ant
 have right to follow His example ant
 put all our trust in Gods power and il His personal care for us and all that con
 cerns us.
 In a passage that has been of grea comfort to many 8 weary, unpeacefu soul, Paul points very clearly and de cisively to the way in which peace may had. He says: Be careful for nothing , but in everything by prayer and suppl cation with thanksgiving let your re , quests be made known unto God, and tn peace of God, which passeth all under = standing, shall keen your hearts an D minds through Christ Jesus" CPhil. 1 :, 6, 7)
 Paul speaks of the peace to be obtaine 2 as passing all understanding. By that = means that 1t such a wonderful thing ths inhpoen can hardly grasp it's extent, and ca
 4y 4y marvel at the transformation makes in their lives. The peace whic e the world cannot give" is naturally m n understood by the world. It is a thin e indeed, so much apart from the wor 7. that the world can scarcely even belie' l. that it is a possibility.
 y Another of the best known of Bible pa 0 sages is that in which Jesus points H 0 followers to the way of peace. It is thi r. Come unto Me all ye that labor and a .o heavy laden, and I will give you rel It Take My yoke upon you, and learn "a Me; for I am meek and lowly in hea d and ye shall find rest unto your sou l. For My yoke is easy. and My burden le light" CMatt II: 28-30.)
 We cannot all at once win this wonde er full promised peace in its full measure ly blessing. but we may day by day form t d, habit of casting all our care upon G " and trusting ever more fully to the scri B. ture's assurance that He will care for to and will do for us exceeding abundant TX above all that we ask or think" And oy persistently cultivating this habit we c of enter more and more into that peg on which is the true secret of happy Ii