TWO PATTERNS

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 5, 1 July 1944, Page 7

TWO PATTERNS

Huniah experience, for so long as human history is known \ appears to prove that the cessation of hostilities m one war foreshadows only a time of peace m which to prepare for the next war. ; Indeed, there are some who maintain that they see m the present course of events the shaping of the evil forces that will carry us into the vortex of a still greater cataclysm. Yet, down the ages men have arisen ' who have announced themselves as mouthpieces of the Master of all Creation— God. They speak with startling unanimity of a Law called Love. This Law is the Law of P^ace. Whether it be Moses or Buddha or Christ or Mahommed, each m substance has maintained that if man will use .this Law to tune into the Infinite, then all the Power transmitted from God to Man--will unite individuals and nations m God, and therefore m Love and therefore m Peace. Yet the secret of. Peace defies mankind. The followers of each revelations divide themselves on the letter of the Law and lose the Spirit; which is the Power which generates Unity. To-day two patterns of Peace are emerging. One is a materialistic geographical pattern, which m effect proposes that the victors m the present war will drawfinal boundaries . for each nation, and raise up an association of nations as an international authority: ■ This international authority will (thereupon unite m punishing any nation which breaks its boundaries as an aggressor. This is Peace based upon political agreement, -ft is the pattern of Statesmen."... .■•■ ••: ■ . ; ' ••■ ■.-."' ; . •'■■ ■ ' The other pattern might be called the pattern of the prophets of God. The idea is that each prophet has given a picture of God's pattern suited to a condition and an age. If, m a spirit of love and tolerance, the pictures are brought into harmony, then the true pattern of Peace

; will emerge. This pattern will then teansceiid all boundaries "and all: questions of colour, crecsd and /race. ■; . 7•. ' [.'y ■•••.•■-' '■.■.■.■ ■'■-. . ■''•. " But the intolerant Christian will say Christ was more than a prophet. Christ was God. We are re-born m Christ. Can we associate with these lesser prophets? Then surely the Great God must reply: "Upon you who claim the greatest gilt, the greatest responsibility lies. You >dp not have to -destroy Buddha or Moses or Mahommed, nor do you have tp destroy the eternal truths they revealed m order to magnify or justify" Christ. I am the Father of all mankind, If you are of Me by the person and revelation of Christ, you are the brother of all My children.. Go then to men of all faiths who worship ME, unite yourselves and go m tolerance and m love and fashion with them the pattern of the world order of God."— "The Lantern." , ■ \