| AND
when the day of
Universal Peace shall arrive, there will be fulfilled the promise of the
Revelation, "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and
there shall be no death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be
any more pain, for the former things are passed away."
Now
your Majesties, there is only one way that this promised day can come, and
that is by the mind of man realizing it as a possibility. Would not
any of you rather have history record that you had made possible
that great day, would it not be a better crown to wear than the crown
Alexander wore? Think of the change. No more war, no more
suffering on the battle-field, no more widows and orphans made by
wholesale murder, no more devastation of cities and fertile country.
No more pensions, except the grateful gifts of a nation to its artists,
its painters and authors and to the people who have lifted it up to
peaceful pursuits. And all this is possible now by the
combined act of you three; all the world will follow, if you will blaze
the way.
That
the God of Peace and not the God of war may be your God from now on, is my
prayer, and that this book may be like the bird that returned to the ark
with the sprig of the tree, telling of the day when the turbulent waters
of hate will subside and the dry land of hope and the rock of peace be
seen, so that the nations may build thereon, instead of upon the shifting
sands of greed, hate, malice and material power.
|
