Let us set aside this anvil of fire and take up the torch of peace... that mankind may breech the walls of misunderstanding and embrace their common heritage in Christ. Anger and strife forge but hardened minds while understanding and love need no chains nor persuasion, too be at one with their neighbor... the man of strife knows not peace nor rest but the man of love finds both and more in this world and the next. Can two walk together except they agree, then let us agree that peace may rest in the bosom of all men... let strife and division be replaced by love and understanding, by the Word of God made alive in our hearts.
The greatness of man is not measured in the cities he builds nor in the power of his word.... rather it lies in the enduring peace he brings too those around him... great and small, in every quarter and plain... let the greatness of mankind be demonstrated in love for one another. War and strife... the wages of sin, the currency of greatness in the eyes of the world sooner destroys the goodness of man leaving his baseness exposed in the death and poverty of multitudes. For where sin resides so does every evil work under the sun.
Are we not all brethren... the works of our Creator, the children of the Most High? Some fashioned after clay, others of fine gold and still more in the mortal image of imperfect man; that, we may all come to understand, that we each have a place, a part in the whole, that all creation may discern the Truth and choose to obey righteousness, over practicing the sins of the unrighteous. For that which is menial cannot be replaced by that which is glorified and exalted... neither can the hierarchy of order be served without the submission of all men to their calling... in Christ. Let the brethren take up the Sword of Faith and lean not unto their own understanding but in all our ways acknowledge the LOVE of God as our ever present guide... that PEACE may dwell in the heart of all men. Amen.
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