PERSONAL PEACE

Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 107, 2 November 1939, Page 18

PERSONAL PEACE

THE FIRST ESSENTIAL

"It is in the moment when things are in bits and pieces around you that you have to start building again," said Mrs. H. Bayldon Ewen when speaking at a meeting of the Women's Social Progress Movement in the Englishspeaking Union rooms on Monday afternoon. The subject of her address was "Women's Contribution to a Righteous Peace." She said that it was not when the war ended that women should start to strive for peace, but now. "And let us build it on the foundations of a greater understanding and a greater humility, remembering always that we have so much," she said. "Without loss of time we must devote our time to gaining knowledge about the peoples of the earth and their problems. We must give our friendship to all who need it and not just to the person who lives next door arid who is just like us."

• Only by making our own personal peace secure could we make our contribution to'the peace of the world, continued B/Irs. Ewen. We must create an atmosphere of peace and bring others into the way of it. The Chinese idea of Heaven was equilibrium, poise, calm. "Only the peace of God in our hearts can bring about perfect harmony, perfect health, and perfect equilibrium," said . Mrs. Ewen, "and we who have charge, of the homes and the moulding of the young people can make our. contribution to the world's peace by bringing them up in an atmosphere of peace and harmony which they will learn to prize mo.« than all else:"

Miss Bicknell led the devotions. A solo was sung by Mrs. Burgess. Mrs. Mclntyre gave an elocutionary item, -tea<vvas served-