Norman B. Harrison, D.D.
W ILL 1947 be a year of peace? Hardly! We hear a chorus of protests: Look at conditions today: China in a sustained state of civil war; India lenting violence; much of Europe on the verge of col lapse through inability of the victors to write a peace treaty and move toward a restored prosperity; the UNO, posing as the guardian of peace, itself the theater of bickering ill-will and distrust; our fair United States almost wrecked by the internal clashes of class inter ests.
Long since the Christian, whom we are addressing in this appeal for peace, living as he does in a world which our Lord warned would be characterized by “wars and rumors of wars,” 'even with the Prince of Peace of fered as the solution of its ills—should have learned to turn from the world’s persisting, unsolved problems to an experience of personal peace of which we only of all human beings hold the secret. When the angels made their announcement of our Saviour’s birth, they drew this distinction (sadly obscured by a false rendering).
torn with factional strife; Palestine the scene of unre
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