Christianity -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
only way to make an end of the swooping vulture is to make an end of
carcases. Unless the world experiences a spiritual and moral renewal,
any league that would secure it peace in the midst of its depravity
would only secure its moral doom. It is manifest then that the only
way to abolish war is to bring the body into subjection to the spirit.
The way of salvation is the way of spiritual renewal. Love does not
kill or poison, and humanity's feet need to be guided into the way of
love. Along that road there is but the one guide: He who said 'I am
the way.... Love as I have loved you.' The measure of that love is
the Cross. And that is why the way to salvation leads through
Calvary.... Peace will only come when the kingdoms of this world shall
submit to that kingdom of the soul whose dominion is from sea to sea.
'I find a hundred little indications to reassure one that God comes,'
writes H. G. Wells. 'The time draws near when mankind will awake ...
and there shall be ... no leader but the one God of mankind.' But
though Mr. Wells writes sentences so vital as that, yet when one asks
him what God is--he is silent. Is He holy and righteous? Though Mr.
Wells' God is but an abstraction, yet the truth remains. The coming of
the Kingdom of God is the one hope of mankind--that Kingdom which Jesus
preached. And the entrance into that Kingdom is by way of repentance
and love and faith. When the soul of the world awakes to that, the day
of deliverance shall have dawned.
III
This, then, must be the goal of human effort, to bring the nations of
the world into such a unity of spirit that war will no longer be
thinkable. But we, as a nation, can only do this if we ourselves bring
our lives into conformity with the laws of righteousness. It is
manifest that no amount of oratory will enable us to raise the world to
any higher level than we have attained ourselves.
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