HOW TO ABOLISH WAR.

White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 239, 18 May 1915, Page 11

HOW TO ABOLISH WAR.

(To the Editor). Madam, —Your article on “Criminal Nations” pleads for the abolition of war, which you rightly say, can be done by prayer, a method greatly not believed in and even derided. Nowhave we all considered prayer, what it is, and how we should use it and act ? Judging: by results and observations we do not all appreciate the power of prayer, How it with faith can remove mountains either of ignorance or ro<k. Wo also seem to fail to recognise our powers with prayer, open to us all the time, apart from God’s intervention, that is, that most of our prayers are answerable, or not, by ourselves in our lives. This non-recognition of natural powers we can control, but do not, accounts for the seeming failure of prayer. Prayer is an effort to mould natural forces, and to succeed must follow natural laws, and must be reasonable. All reasonable things are possible with the prayer of faith. Put to succeed we must act on the primal foundations of the universe—love. Love, called in science, chemical action, light, heat, electricity, etc. Perhaps your readers have not observed that science has established the “oneness” of the universe, and the claims of Christ. Science has shown that “matter,” as we usually call it, is an illusion, it is merely a manifestation of motion. Materialism is an il lusion. Spirit is the guiding power, motiou the result —mind and results. The Great Mind has allowed us wonderful powers, which most vif us fail to use. We are really gods, able to perform “miracles” as Jesus did, that is, control natural forces if vc so wish. Natural forces have all one base love, or chemical action, and may develop into any possible thing. Hut we can wander in illusion or train ourselves for exercising powers. Our illusions are men’s follies, greed for seemingly material advantages. Men's follies and greed for seemingly material advantages are the causes of w ar. In training ourselves to do rightly, we not only train ourselves, but others. We move the great law of

mental suggestion. If w< do ill it spreads to others, if we uo good, it influences others. To acquire control of out powers we must “\vear> not in well doing.” learn our lesson determinedly, 1c irn it for and by love in full faith As it were, set the clock of our minds to go steadily, and to strike at the right time “in season and out of season.” “Seek ye first the kingdom of (hamid his righteousness, and all these things sh ill be added unto you.”— Matt. 6:33. To abolish war each one of us needs Us give up all selfish ideas and feelings of personal greed, and trust the (ireat Father. Not set our srlvts a standard of eommerciality, but a standard of righteousness, and set our wills hard, that is, pray fer vently to impress on all th • world the joy and satisfaction of abandoning th** illusions of selfish greed and folly, for ‘he reality of righteousness. Then war cannot be mentioned. Read Matt 6, especially verse 33, and Luke 12, especially verse 31. and trust our Cre ator. { am, etc., SAM. A. BROWNE. Clevedon, Auckland, April 2nd, 1915.