Evening star., 1959-12-06
SPIRES OF THE SPIRIT
Peace By Good Will
By FREDERICK BROWN HARRIS DID,
Chaplain Of the United Senate

Is swept py Lne Danny prSezeS
Of good will. December lies
in the tropics Of the heart.
1t Is the month when hate is
faintest and love is brightest.
and when thoughts Of others
crowd out the monopoly Of
self. In these mystic days
approaching the 25th there
seems written across the
skies, where once was the
choir loft of herald angels.
Peace to men Of good will. !"
That is the ageless Christ
mas formula for the healing
of all human relationships.
Only as we wish well, the
best, to our fellows of the
human family across all lines
and CULTS can there be
genuine peace. Peace is
never our victory. but the
other mans good, which in
the long run will be the best
also for the dispenser Of good
will. There is a profound
insight in the simple asser-
ton, "Give to the world the
best you have and the best
will come back to you"
1t is this fundamental con-
ception which reveals how
spurious is the peace" which
the Soviets are urging the
world to accept. Theirs is a
counterfeit of the real thing.
1t is utterly devoid of good
will. They take that lovely
word, peace, as a synonym
for their victory. Their pur-
pose and goal contains no
good will for others. Khru-
shchev used the word during
his visit to America to con-
note the coronation of all
for which he stands. When
he talks of peace he means
our defeat and destruction.
Smiles or frowns have
nothing to do with the ulti-
mate purpose back of the
false face of THE Bear"
To confuse the golden
peace, which is at the very
heart of Christmas, with the
perverted use of that word
by self-dubbed peace loving
regimes is to be guilty of
blaspheming the peace which
comes through good will,
There can be no peace in
"co-existence" as there is nc
good will in that agreement
1t involves a competition
whose predicted outcome is
I'VE will bury you" DR.. S
Douglas Cornell of the Ma
tional Academy of Sciences
whose Office co-ordinates the
activities of 5000 scientists
throughout America, de-
clares: "Khrushchev is try
ing to bluff America into CO.
existence with threats oi
world war. Coexistence is just
another word for commun-
ism. 1t is a term devised by
the Kremlin to compromise
the non-communist world
into accepting and accom-
modating evil"
Leaders in the Church OF
the Prince of Good Will in
these testing days should
keep before them the Prophet
Ezekiel's warning: IF the
watchman sees the sword
coming and does not blow the
trumpet, and the people are
not warned, and the sword
comes, then their blood ]
will require at the watch
mans hand"
Among those duped by the
Soviet brand of peace are the
successors of the churchmen
who backed a British Prime
Minister as he went to Mu-
Mich with an umbrella, but
with no righteous sword. The
result was that for peace in
our time" a promising democ-
racy in the midst of Europe
was thrown to the wolves of
aggression. That peace of ap-
peasement gave the signal
for World War II. Today, in
many cases, history seems to
be repeating itself. There are
religious magazines viii c h
have had favorable things to
say with regard to Khru-
shchev's bid for peace, but
they make no mention of the
shocking fact that while the
ruthless dictator was prating
about peace here Hungarian
freedom fighters and freedom
lovers were being executed at
his decree. A few months ago
a group of churchmen, en-
deavoring to influence the
attitude of all the denomina-
tions, in the name of peace
urged that we should avoid