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    What Peace Means
    What Peace Means
    What Peace Means
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    What Peace Means

    By Henry Van Dyke

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    What Peace Means
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    Henry Van Dyke

    Henry Van Dyke (1928–2011) was born in Allegan, Michigan, and grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, where his parents were professors at Alabama State College. He served in the Army in occupied Germany, playing flute in the 427th Marching Band. There he abandoned his early ambition to become a concert pianist and began to write. In 1958, after attending the University of Michigan on the G.I. Bill and living in Ann Arbor, he moved to New York, where he spent the rest of his life. Henry taught creative writing part-time at Kent State University from 1969 until his retirement in 1993, and was the author of four novels, including Blood of Strawberries, a sequel to Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes.

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      What Peace Means - Henry Van Dyke

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      Title: What Peace Means

      Author: Henry van Dyke

      Release Date: March 5, 2005 [eBook #15266]

      Language: English

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      What Peace Means

      By

      Henry van Dyke

      New York Chicago

      Fleming H. Revell Company

      London and Edinburgh

      Copyright, 1919, by

      FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

      New York: 158 Fifth Avenue

      Chicago: 17 North Wabash Ave.

      London: 21 Paternoster Square

      Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

      To

      My Son in the Faith

      My Brother in the Work

      Tertius van Dyke

      FOREWORD

      his little book contains three plain sermons which were preached in New York in the Easter season of 1919, in the Park Avenue Presbyterian Church, of which my son is minister. I had no thought that they would ever be printed. They were, and are, just daily bread discourses meant to serve the spiritual needs of a congregation of Christian people, seekers after truth, inquirers about duty, strangers and pilgrims, in the great city and the troubled world.

      But if, as friends think, these simple chapters may be of service through the printed page to a larger circle of readers, I willingly and freely let them go.

      May the blessing of Jesus follow them on their humble path. May the Spirit of Truth bring them home to some hearts that want them,—to those who desire to escape from evil and do good,—to those who seek peace and ensue it.

      HENRY VAN DYKE.

      Park Avenue Church Manse, New York City.

      CONTENTS

      I. PEACE IN THE SOUL

      II. PEACE ON EARTH THROUGH RIGHTEOUSNESS

      III. THE POWER OF AN ENDLESS LIFE

      I

      Peace in the Soul

      Peace I leave with you: my peace I give unto you.—ST. JOHN 14:27.

      eace is one of the great words of the Holy Scriptures. It is woven through the Old Testament and the New like a golden thread. It inheres and abides in the character of God,—

            "The central peace subsisting at the heart

            Of endless agitation."

      It is the deepest and most universal desire of man, whose prayer in all ages has been, Grant us Thy Peace, O Lord. It is the reward of the righteous, the blessing of the good, the crown of life's effort, and the glory of eternity.

      The prophets foretell the beauty of its coming and the psalmists sing of the joy which it brings. Jesus Christ is its Divine Messiah, its high priest and its holy prince. The evangelists and prophets proclaim and preach it. From beginning to end the Bible is full

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