The World's Unrest

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Excerpt from The World's Unrest: Its Cause and Cure, An Address Delivered Before the Christian Association at Its Annual Meeting, Southport, October 15th, 1890 Nature is fond of a paradox. Almost everywhere we find apparent contradiction. Of course there is no real contradiction, for we have been able to see at least far enough into the laws of the universe to know that in nature's realm "all discord is harmony not understood." But physical nature is not alone in loving a paradox. This is frequently found in both the mental and spiritual realms. A striking illustration is seen in the law of rest. Rest is the one thing for which we constantly sigh, and yet this rest uniformly comes out of agitation, or struggle, as an antecedent condition. What the poet sings of nature is equally true of grace: - "How calm and beautiful comes on The stilly hour when storms are gone." Rest is Change. Rest, then, is not the cessation of nature's forces, but rather the translation of these forces into harmony, which harmony can only be reached through the antecedent condition already mentioned. The same is true of mental or spiritual rest. We must strive or agonise if we would enter into the strait gate of rest for the soul. There is, therefore, no reason why any one should be discouraged because of friction, in either the moral, social, or religious world. Friction is an evidence of life, and where life exists there is always hope of harmony and rest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.