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“And they shall beat
their swords into plowshares,
and their spears
into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more
Isaiah 2:4
WORLD CONCORD
Oh, that these happy times were come!
At present
the nations are heavily armed, and are inventing
weapons more and more terrible, as if the chief
end of man could only be answered by destroying
myriads of his fellows.
Yet peace will prevail one day;
yes, and so prevail that the instruments of
destruction shall be beaten into other shapes
and used for better purposes.
How will this come about?
By trade? By civilization? By arbitration?
We
do not believe it.
Past experience forbids
our
trusting to means so feeble.
Peace will be established only by the reign of
the Prince of Peace. He must teach the people by
His Spirit, renew their hearts by His grace, and
reign
over them by His supreme power, and then will
they cease to wound and kill.
Man is a monster when once his blood is up, and
only the Lord Jesus can turn this lion into a
lamb. By changing man’s heart, his blood-thirsty
passions are removed.
Let every reader of this book of promises offer
special prayer today to the Lord and Giver of
Peace, that He would speedily put an end to war,
and establish concord over the whole world.

"Lord
Dictated Them"
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