The Mystery of Peace (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Mystery of PeaceFor notwithstanding our disclaimers we men of to-day are not personally hopeful. We come back again to our daily life with a sigh, after walking a cathedral cloister. We grow restive as we think of the confused world we have to live in, and sometimes, God forgive us! We would exchange it for the hard condi tions of feudalism, if we could only be absolved from making our own destiny. Our peace is not delivered to us, it is not even made.On the whole, thoughtful religious people are not excessively happy. More than any they feel the weight of this unintelligible world. And the worst of it is that they think it their duty not to forget this serious pressure. They are likely to speak of the hopeful as shallow optimists. But are there not shal low pessimists? Which is the truer view of life, health or sickness, salvation or sin, life or death? Is life, as a great cynic said, the perpetual possession of being well deceived? Or is Paul right when he says that it hath not entered into the heart of man to conceive its benedictions? The answer, judged by history, is wholly with Paul, for the answer is: life still goes on.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.